The first new movie production to be filmed in North Carolina in 2017 is now confirmed, as the independent drama American Animals will be shot in Charlotte and surrounding towns beginning in February! American Horror Story breakout star Evan Peters, who also played Quicksilver in this summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse and 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, was announced last month as the lead in the film. A heist thriller from writer-director Bart Layton (The Imposter), American Animals will tell the unbelievable but mostly true story of four young men who mistook their lives…
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Open ‘The Disappointments Room’ on DVD in December
After a limited theatrical release in September, the horror thriller The Disappointments Room, filmed in Greensoboro, North Carolina back in 2014, comes home on Digital HD and DVD this month, starring Kate Beckinsale (Underworld: Blood Wars). Base on true events, the plot follows Dana (Beckinsale) and David (Max Raido) as they move from Brooklyn to a once-grand southern mansion with their 5-year-old son looking for a fresh start. But Dana’s discovery of a secret room unleashes unexplainable events that test her sanity and slowly reveal the home’s terrifying past.. Lucas…
Read More‘Max Steel’ Official Trailer Is Here!
Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina way back in 2014, the live action adaptation of the popular Mattel toy franchise Max Steel is finally coming to theaters this October, and the official U.S. trailer finally arrived online yesterday. Read on for the official synopsis and then scroll down to watch the official trailer for Max Steel! Max Steel is an in-depth origin story packed with captivating characters and fast-paced action. The plot chronicles the adventures of 16-year-old Max McGrath and his mother, who have just moved back to Copper Canyon, the town in…
Read More‘The Disappointments Room’ Trailer Revealed!
After numerous theatrical release delays, it looks like the horror thriller The Disappointments Room, filmed in Greensoboro, North Carolina back in 2014, will finally be released in theaters this September, and our first look at the movie, starring Kate Beckinsale (Underworld), has just arrived in the spooky official trailer, as well as two TV spots and a batch of photos! Base on true events, the plot follows Dana (Beckinsale) and David (Max Raido) as they move from Brooklyn to a once-grand southern mansion with their 5-year-old son looking for a…
Read MoreNew ‘Max Steel’ International Trailer Revealed
Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina way back in 2014, the live action adaptation of the popular Mattel toy franchise Max Steel is finally coming to theaters this October, and a new international trailer has arrived online. Read on for the official synopsis and then scroll down to watch the first trailer for Max Steel! Max Steel is an in-depth origin story packed with captivating characters and fast-paced action. The plot chronicles the adventures of 16-year-old Max McGrath and his mother, who have just moved back to Copper Canyon, the town in which…
Read MoreFirst Look At ‘Max Steel’ Trailer Lands Online
Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina way back in 2014, the live action adaptation of the popular Mattel toy franchise Max Steel has been delayed more times than I can remember, and we now have yet another release date set for this October, but this time we also have some actual footage in a new trailer. Max Steel will now arrive in theaters on Friday, October 21, and a Spanish trailer presented in English has made its way online. Read on for the official synopsis and then scroll down to watch the…
Read More‘Masterminds’ Get Stupid Rich In New Trailer
The much-delayed, renamed, and rescheduled comedy filmed in and based on a true story that actually happened in Charlotte, North Carolina, Relativity Studios, slowly recovering from bankruptcy, has released a new trailer for Masterminds, starring Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Ken Marino, Kristen Wiig, and Wiig’s Ghostbusters co-stars Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. Formerly titled Loomis Fargo the film tells the story of a real life robbery that took place in Charlotte, North Carolina  in 1997, when David Scott Ghantt, the driver of a Loomis Fargo & Company armored car…
Read More‘Careful What You Wish For’ Gets New Trailer and Release Date
Filmed in Charlotte, North Carolina, a new official trailer arrived online today along with a new release date for the erotic thriller Careful What You Wish For, starring Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) and former Disney star Nick Jonas (Scream Queens). Directed by Elizabeth Allen, Jonas plays a character who has an affair with a married woman played by Lucas. Dermot Mulroney (Young Guns) is cast as her husband. When the town erupts after a suspicious death, the young lovers become embroiled in scandal, forcing Doug (Jonas) to…
Read More‘Masterminds’, ‘Disappointments Room’ Get New Release Dates (Again)
After apparently emerging from its recent bankruptcy troubles, Relativity Media has announced new release dates for four of its on-the-shelf movies, including the Zach Galifianakis comedy Masterminds and the Kate Beckinsale horror thriller The Disappointments Room, both of which were filmed in North Carolina and are now set to (hopefully) finally arrive in theaters later this year. Following numerous postponed dates, the current schedule as of today has Masterminds hitting theaters on Sept. 30 (as we previously reported) and The Disappointments Room opening on Nov. 18. Filmed in and around Asheville…
Read More‘Game of Thrones’ star Peter Dinklage Joins ‘Three Billboards’
Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage has joined the all star cast of writer/director Martin McDonagh’s drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, about to start filming in western North Carolina. The film tells the story of a mother, played by Frances McDormand (Fargo), whose daughter was murdered, after which she goes to war with the police, thinking that they are not interested in pursuing justice. Infuriated because the sheriffs in her hometown are more interested in persecuting black people than finding the killer, she then pays for three local billboards…
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