Big Miracle

Big Miracle is an upcoming romantic drama film starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. The film, directed by Ken Kwapis, is based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales by Tom Rose, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska. The film is scheduled to be released on February 3, 2012.

Synopsis

Main article: Operation Breakthrough

A nonprofit aid worker and a government worker spark romantically as they work together in the effort to free three California gray whales who have become trapped in a hole in the ice of the Arctic Circle.

Cast

John Krasinski as Adam Carlson
Drew Barrymore as Rachel Kramer
Kristen Bell as Jill Jerard, a news reporter
Vinessa Shaw as Bonnie Mersinger
Stephen Root as Gov. Haskell
Ted Danson as Liam Peterson
Dermot Mulroney as Tom Carroll
Rob Riggle as Dean Glowacki
Michael Gaston as Porter Beckford
Megan Angela Smith as Sheena
Tim Blake Nelson as Umizoomi
James LeGros as Karl Hootkin
Mark Ivanir as Dimitri
Andrew Daly as Don Davis
Jonathan Slavin as Roger Notch
Gregory Jbara as General Stanton
Tom Clark as Morton Heavey

Production

Big Miracle is based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event by Tom Rose, and an episode of Untamed and Uncut which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska. The film is directed by Ken Kwapis based on a screenplay by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler. Warner Bros. bought the screenplay by Amiel and Begler in April 2009, and in the following June, Kwapis was attached to direct. In September 2010, with Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski cast in the starring roles, filming began in Alaska. It had a production budget of $30 million. The crew constructed sets in Anchorage to resemble places in Barrow during the 1988 whale rescue. Filming lasted for 10 weeks.

Post-production

Visual effects on Big Miracle were created by Rhythm and Hues Studios and Modus FX.

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The MPAA has rated this film PG for language.

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Man on a Ledge

Man on a Ledge is an upcoming 2012 thriller film directed by Asger Leth, starring Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell and Ed Harris. Filming took place in New York.

Plot

A fugitive claiming his innocence feigns an attempt to commit suicide by jumping off a ledge, while his brother carries out a massive diamond heist to prove that he was set up

Cast
Sam Worthington as Nick Cassidy
Elizabeth Banks as Lydia Anderson
Jamie Bell as Joey Cassidy
Anthony Mackie
Génesis Rodríguez
Ed Harris
Kyra Sedgwick
Edward Burns
Titus Welliver
Frank Pando

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Beauty and the Beast 3D

Beauty and the Beast is the thirtieth full-length animated feature film in the Disney canon. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is based on the fairy tale La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and uses some ideas from the 1946 film of the same name. The film centers around a prince who is transformed into a Beast and a young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in his castle. To become a prince again, the Beast must love Belle and win her love in return, or he will remain a Beast forever.

The film's animation screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton with story written by Roger Allers, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders, Burny Mattinson, Kevin Harkey, Brian Pimental, Bruce Woodside, Joe Ranft, Tom Ellery, Kelly Ashbury, and Robert Lence, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, and produced by Don Hahn. The music of the film was composed by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, both of whom had written the music and songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid.

Beauty and the Beast was released on November 13, 1991. The film was a significant commercial and critical success, earning $403 million in box office earnings throughout the world. Beauty and the Beast was also nominated for several awards, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, with two other awards for its music. Famously, Beauty and the Beast was the first ever animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and was the only animated film to hold this honor until 2009, when the Academy Awards switched from 5 Best Picture nominations to 10, and Pixar's animated film Up was nominated. Beauty and the Beast received a total of six nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and three nominations for its song. It ended up winning two, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for the songs "Beauty and the Beast".

A direct-to-video midquel called Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas was released in 1997. It was followed in 1998 by another midquel, Belle's Magical World, and later by a stage production of the same name and a television spin-off series, Sing Me a Story with Belle. An IMAX special edition version of the original film was released in 2002, with a new five-minute musical sequence included. After the success of the 3D re-release of The Lion King in 2011, Disney announced the film will return to theaters for a limited time in 3-D on January 13, 2012

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