Opening in theaters on February 10th is the new crime drama from director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) called Rampart. The film features an extremely talented cast of actors including Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt), Ice Cube (Boyz n the Hood), Robin Wright (Forest Gump), Ben Foster (The Mechanic), Anne Heche (Wag the Dog), Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City 2), Sigourney Weaver (The Ice Storm), Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs), and Ned Beatty (Network). 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down with director Oren Moverman, actresses Anne Heche, and Brie Larson, and actor/producer Ben Foster to discuss their work on Rampart. They discussed the new film, the real-life events that it was loosely based on, the decision to tell the story fictionally, Moverman's vision for the project, Woody Harrelson's powerhouse performance, Heche's character's odd family situation, and Foster's choice to produce the movie in addition to acting in it. 

When Alien arrived in theaters back in 1979, not only were audiences wholly and deliciously unprepared for the chestburster scene, but they also weren't expecting Sigourney Weaver's Ripley to end up being the character who escaped the Nostromo, as a then-unknown Weaver was surrounded by far more recognizable faces.  Of course, Ripley went on to become something of an icon, and for his return to the science fiction universe of Alien, director Ridley Scott has created another strong female leading role.  Noomi Rapace, the actress who first played Lisbeth Salander in the original Swedish The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, stars in Prometheus as Elizabeth Shaw, and while the 3D science fiction-horor film remains oh-so mysterious, Rapace has revealed some key elements of Shaw's character, and she sounds familiar in some crucial respects.

Last week, we heard news – vague at first then more solid a day later – that the classic supernatural comedy Ghostbusters would be returning to theaters for a seasonally-appropriate Halloween re-release across this nation of ours, which should prompt plenty of revealing Ghostbusters costumes, since there is no costume that cannot be converted into a sexy variation.  Now, Sony Pictures has revealed full details on what is likely an attempt to make some cash while gauging public interest in Ghostbusters 3, the hypothetical sequel that Bill Murray has been holding up for some time.

Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson will once again strap on their proton packs and trap some ghouls at a theater near you not on Halloween itself, but on three consecutive Thursdays beginning on October 13th and extending through the 27th.  It'll be just one showing every day at approximately 500 theaters.

Opening in theaters on September 23rd is the new action thriller from Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton called Abduction. The film features actor Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga: New Moon) in his first post-Twilight starring role, along with Lily Collins (Priest), Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Maria Bello (A History of Violence), Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Freema Agyerman (Doctor Who), Michael Nyqvist (The Girl Who Played with Fire), and Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2). 

IAR's managing editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down and speak with editor H. Dwight Raymond IV (Marmaduke) about his work on Abduction. Raymond discussed the film, collaborating with director John Singleton, the movie's action filled sequences, Taylor Lautner's performance, and keeping the actor's shirt on.

Halloween is a holiday that anyone, aside from religious fundamentalists afraid of occult hokum, can enjoy fully.  Kids get pillowcases full of free candy, adolescents get to egg and teepee houses, adults get to drink and enjoy revealing costumes.  It's all good.  A new rumor suggests that this year, there will be even greater incentive for attention-getting women to add "sexy Ghostbuster" to their repertoire of arbitrarily salacious costumes, since word on the interwebs is that Ghostbusters will be returning to theaters for a theatrical re-release on All Hallows' Eve.

The unknown and mysterious is, pretty much without exception, way scarier than the known and explicit.  This makes it somewhat odd that the trailers for so, so many thrillers and horror films rely on heaping helpings of exposition, would-be jump scares, and an excess of assaultive quick-cuts.  By comparison, the first teaser trailer for Red Lights is refreshingly simple and ominous.  It consists of a few title cards and one creeping shot crawling towards the back of Robert De Niro, then finishes with a clean, intriguing little surprise regarding his character. 

It's a simple trailer that creates an aura of mystery around De Niro as Simon Silver, a world-famous psychic who may be a fraud but also might just be the real deal, with his finger on some serious goings-on.  The film is written and directed by Rodrigo Cortes, the Spanish director who made an impressive debut last year with Buried, which took place almost exclusively in a simple box underground as Ryan Reynolds' character was, as the title suggests, buried alive.

The first trailer for Abduction did the conceptual heavy lifting, showing how Taylor Lautner's perfect high school movie existence turns into a perfect action movie existence upon his discovery of his picture on a missing persons website.  In short order, his parents are mowed down, he's pursued by government spy-types, and he beats up many, many people.  A second Abduction trailer puts John Singleton's action direction front and center, focusing mainly on the running and the Bourne-style beatings.  It also includes at least two instance of piss-poor marksmanship from highly-trained operatives with giant sniper rifles.

Two months ago, Lionsgate released the first poster for the action-thriller Abduction, and that simple black-and-white one sheet informed curious audiences of just two crucial pieces of primary information: first, that Taylor Lautner is in the film, and second, that the film is called Abduction.  A brand new poster for the film includes those two essential facts, while also introducing some spatial confusion, as Lautner, gun in hand, slides down the sheer face of a building that exists at an angle not quite compatible with the physical universe surrounding it.

Synopsis: Taylor Lautner stars as a young man unwittingly thrust into a deadly world of covert espionage in Lionsgate's action-thriller, ABDUCTION, directed by John Singleton.

If simplicity is perfection, then the new poster for Abduction will be the highlight of your week.  This one-sheet, unveiled at JustJared, aims to tell you one thing and one thing only: Taylor Lautner is in this movie.  So if you were wondering whether or not Taylor Lautner is in Abduction, then this poster will answer that question and do very little else.  Check it out.