New image from "Hercules the Thracian Wars"

Courtesy of star Dwayne Johnson, this image from director Brett Ratner’s mythological musing is extremely easy on the eye in an otherworldly way. That alone puts this project on the map for me.

Look for "Hercules the Thracian Wars" next July.

The top 10 movies for the weekend of September 27 - September 29, 2013

1) Cloudy w/a chance of Meatballs 2	$34 Million
2) Prisoners	$10.8 Million
3) Rush	$10 Million
4) Baggage Claim	$9 Million
5) Don Jon	$8.6 Million
6) Insidious Chapter 2	$6.5 Million
7) The Family	$3.7 Million
8) Instructions Not Included	$3.4 Million
9) We're the Millers	$2.8 Million
10) The Butler	$2.4 Million

The number one movie a year ago this week was Sony's "Hotel Transylvania" which debuted at number 1 with $42.5 million in box office receipts.

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Off the beaten track trailer of the day: "Clay Pot Curry Killers"

I'll never look at curry quite the same way again.

A note for our visitors

We've been a little slow with the updates lately because we're helping our good friends at Shadow Productions put together their first feature film entitled "The Shadow Sea". Once principal photography wraps things will get back to normal here at 21st Century Films.

In the meantime take a minute and visit the movie's facebook page and drop a like on it.
www.facebook.com/theshadowsea

Thanks,
Gigi and Chris

Featurette for Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity"

In this roughly 4 minute feature the director makes the case for seeing his latest effort in 3D. And it's a pretty good case. Check it out.


"Gravity" hits theaters October 4th.

Comic-Con teaser for "The Avengers: Age of Ultron"

A few thousand people who were on hand a couple of months ago at Comic-Con got to see it and now you can too. Admittedly it's a bunch of audio snippets from A1 married to a fancy-pants new graphic but hey, we'll take what we can get. Have a look.


As the teaser says look for "The Avengers: Age of Ultron" in the summer of 2015.

New TV spot for "Thor: The Dark World"

This one has a few snippets not seen in the trailers and is free of the trailer's semi-comical ending.


"Thor: The Dark World" opens November 8th. Can't wait.

"Dom Hemingway" - trailer

Jude Law stars as a gangster recently released from prison who receives a nice cash bonus for keeping his mouth shut and doing the time only to somehow misplace all the cash. Is it a spoiler to say he's not happy about that?


"Dom Hemingway" opens stateside in April 2014.

The top 10 movies for the weekend of September 20 - September 22, 2013

1) Prisoners	$20.8 Million
2) Insidious Chapter 2	$13.8 Million
3) The Family	$7 Million
4) Instructions Not Included	$5.3 Million
5) Battle of the Year	$4.6 Million
6) We're the Millers	$4.5 Million
7) The Butler	$4.1 Million
8) Riddick	$3.6 Million
9) The Wizard of Oz 3D	$3 Million
10) Planes	$2.7 Million

The number one movie a year ago this week was Open Road's "End of Watch" which debuted at number 1 with a $13.1 million haul.

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Ahnuld the Avatarator?

A strange little rumor popped up a few days ago that had Ahnuld being cast in "Avatar 2" as one of those evil humans who enjoy making such a mess out of Pandora. It made a certain kind of sense I suppose as Schwarzenegger and Cameron are such good buddies. Still, it was a disturbing thought (for me anyway) on more levels than I care to mention.

Now, however, Fox has come out and in no uncertain terms put the kibosh on the rumor with a studio rep stating in no uncertain terms: “No truth to this”. Whew! For the record "Avatar 2" is currently in the casting stage with production set to start next year with release set for 2016.