Fandango has your first look at the new trailer for the Lionsgate supernatural thriller Season of the Witch , opening in theaters on March 19. Directed by Dominic Sena, the film stars Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen Graham and Christopher Lee. You can watch the trailer here .

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Warner Bros. Pictures has released this international behind-the-scenes featurette on director Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes , starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan and Kelly Reilly. The film opens in theaters on Christmas Day.

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The “Twilight” fans have done it… The Twilight Saga: New Moon set a new midnight opening record with $26.27 million from 3,514 theaters last night! That surpasses the opening nights of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($22.2 million) and The Dark Knight ($18.4 million). Stay tuned for more box office results as they come in.

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According to SneakPeek.Ca, Mandalay Pictures has acquired feature film rights to the Boom! StudiosÂ’ comic book series Unthinkable, to be produced by Peter “Batman” Guber and Cathy Schulman for Mandalay, with Boom!’s Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby.

Created/written by Mark Sable, Unthinkable follows a man recruited into a government think tank, tasked with dreaming up wild scenarios for ‘possible’ attacks on US soil. Years later, after the project is dismantled, bizarre attacks the man had conceived of previously, begin to occur with some regulaity, with the government convinced the man is behind it all…

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Canadian-based film distributors KINOSMITH, in association with DVD partner Project X Distribution have announced new DVD titles to their extensive film collection.

The Art Star And The Sudanese Twins follows Vanessa BeecroftÂ’s intentions to adopt orphaned twins, and how it affects her art and personal life.

“…Pop star of the art world, Vanessa Beecroft is determined to adopt orphaned twins, an intention that bleeds into her art and reveals her volatile relationship with her husband. Alongside the adoption process Vanessa photographs herself breast feeding the twins, creating her own artwork. Like Angelina and Madonna, Vanessa is a white westerner intent on rescuing third world babies. But at what cost to her personal life?…”

In Ghosts, a 17 year-old girl left on her own, creates an intriguing journey to meet a new companion and reunite with her mother.

“…Nina (Julia Hummer) is a vulnerable 17-year old, alone in the world except for the social workers who run her life. She finds an ally in reckless Toni (Sabine Timoteo), a tough young woman who grabs what she wants to survive. Together they experience a fleeting moment of intimacy, an instant of happiness. Françoise (Marianne Basler) has returned regularly to Berlin where her baby daughter was kidnapped many years previously. In the street she spots Nina and becomes convinced that she has found her long-lost child…”

Mika KaurismäkiÂ’s L.A. Without A Map, a ‘fish-out-of-water’ story shows life in Southern California is far from straightforward.

“…When Scottish undertaker Richard (David Tennant) is smitten with beautiful American tourist Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), he leaves his dull life behind and follows her back to Los Angeles. Thrown in at the deep end (and unable to drive), he discovers that life in Southern California is far from straightforward. A hilarious fish-out-of-water love story with some surprising guest stars including Johnny Depp, Anouk Aimée, Leningrad Cowboys, Amanda Plummer, Jerzy Skolimowski and Monte Hellman…”

RiP! A Remix Manifesto is the controversial feature that introduced the world to mash-up artist ‘Girl Talk’ and the ‘Copyleft’ movement.

“…Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The filmÂ’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, BrazilÂ’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP! A Remix Manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle…”

FLicKeR, director Nik SheehanÂ’s mind-expanding doc about the psychedelic ‘dream machine’, caught the imagination of notable artists including author William Burroughs and singer Iggy Pop.

“…The dream machine looks simple enough: A 100-watt light bulb, a motor, and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Just sit in front of it, close your eyes, and wait for the visions to come. The dream machine offers a drugless high that its creator – poet, artist, calligrapher and mystic Brion Gysin – believed would revolutionize human consciousness. He wasn’t alone. Kurt Cobain had a dream machine. And William S. Burroughs thought it could be used to “storm the citadels of enlightenment.” With a custom-made dream machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes a journey into the life of Brion Gysin – his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the 20th Century’s key counterculture figures. Featuring Burroughs (in archival footage) singer Marianne Faithfull, singer/artist Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, poet John Giorno, rocker Iggy Pop, filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and artist/turntablist DJ Spooky…”

Tkaronto from director Shane Belcourt is an ‘Aboriginal indie’, starring Dwayne Murray, Melanie McLaren and Lorne Cardinal.

“…Tkaronto is a provocative exploration of two Aboriginal thirty-somethings caught in the urban crossroads. Ray (Duane Murray) and Jolene (Melanie McLaren) discover an unexpected connection when their pathsÂ’ cross in Tkaronto (the original Mohawk word for “Toronto”). Ray, a Métis writer, has come to Toronto to pitch his TV series, Indian Jones, which is promising to be the big break Ray needs, especially with a pregnant girlfriend back home. Jolene, a Los Angeles-based Anishnabe painter, is passing through Toronto to conduct an interview with a prominent Elder Max (played by Corner GasÂ’s Lorne Cardinal) and is suddenly taken aback when Max presents her with an eagle feather, an honour that she feels unworthy of. For Jolene and Ray home feels very far away. But through their chance meeting they reveal their hopes, dreams, fears and failures and realize their common struggle: to stake claim to their urban aboriginal identity…”

The State I Am In is a gritty feature directed by Christian Petzold.

“…A couple with a terrorist past (Richy Müller and Barbara Auer) have been living on the run for 20 years and have a 15 year old daughter, Jeanne (Julia Hummer), who has never known a normal childhood. When their money is stolen, they are forced to return secretly from Portugal to their native Germany, undertaking a journey during which JeanneÂ’s teenage development coincides with the disintegration of the family cell…”

Summer 2009, KINOSMITH became the official DVD distribution partner of TorontoÂ’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

The company has now released more than 80 feature films in two years, with its current roster including theatrical releases Unmistaken Child, Delta, Enlighten Up!, Departures, Little Ashes and “Burma VJ.

Other current releases include Australian hit Three Blind Mice, the Alberta Oil Sands documentary H2Oil, Sarah Goodman’s When We Were Boys, the punk rock doc Taqwacore, Paul Saltzman’s Prom Night In Missippi, Matt Bissonnette’s Passenger Side, Sean Garrity’s Zooey & Adam, Denis Delestrac’s Pax Americana and Chris Smith’s Collapse.

KINOSMITH INC. is an independent Canadian film distribution & marketing company founded in February 2007 by distribution veteran Robin Smith. With a mandate to bring critically-acclaimed Canadian/international films to audiences across the country, the company also provides marketing advice to productions in development and in the can, currently acting as Executive Producer on a variety of upcoming Canadian feature films and television projects…

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ShockTillYouDrop.com has posted a behind-the-scenes featurette on Universal Pictures’ The Wolfman , opening in theaters on February 12. Directed by Joe Johnston, the film stars Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Art Malik.

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According to BigGameHunterCa, LucasArts and TT Games have released LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, now available for Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation3, PSP (PlayStationPortable) system and Xbox 360 video game/entertainment systems from Microsoft and Windows.

Developed by the same team at Traveller’s Tales that created the award-winning LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures and the LEGO Star Wars series, LEGO Indiana Jones 2 presents a comedic take on the four ‘Indiana Jones’ features, including the most recent film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Players will get to experience ‘re-tellings’ of the classic movies, with new objectives and levels, fighting evil with Indy’s newly enhanced whip as well as craft individual LEGO adventures with the ‘Build Your Own Adventure’ mode.

Gamers can create unique levels using the same tools TT Games used for the game, complete with a wide array of set pieces, interactive objects and characters, to combine with existing levels, resulting in a personal and customizable way to expand the gameplay experience.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues…

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Throngs of fans braved rainy weather for the Canadian red carpet premiere of Twilight: New Moon, the highly anticipated second instalment in the blockbuster vampire romance franchise.

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We got the international trailer earlier this week, and now the domestic trailer for 20th Century Fox’s Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief is online as well. Directed by Chris Columbus and opening in theaters on February 12, the fantasy-adventure stars Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman and Ray Winstone.

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According to BigGameHunterCa , Panasonic will begin selling ‘plasma’ TVs in 2010, that will be able to display three-dimensional pictures with the use of special glasses.

“It’s going to feature in every aspect of home entertainment”, said Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, chief technology officer for Panasonic North America.

Tsuyuzaki said developers had to wait for the standardization of HDMI cables that connect components like high-def Blu-ray players to HD televisions. Manufacturers needed to agree on adding a special “pipe” to the cable that was reserved for 3D signals, which they did a few months ago with the HDMI 1.4 standardization.

The second event is the standardization of Blu-ray disc formats, which Tsuyuzaki expects to happen in the next few weeks.

Electronic manufacturers, including Sony, expects sales of more than $11 billion in 3D products by 2013, with PlayStation consoles upgrading to three-dimensional video games…

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