Plus, ‘Parade’s End,’ ‘We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,’ ‘Homeland: The Complete Second Season’ and more. Star Trek Into Darkness
TORONTO — Two movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival will be leaving audiences hungry once they open their theatrical runs later this year.
Check out this week’s new movies and see what the critics had to say.
During the final four months of 2013, Hollywood studios will release films that stand the greatest chance at winning year-end glory from critics and awards groups. Which movies, however, from the first two-thirds of the year have had the biggest impact among the cognoscenti? Not, as it turns out, “Iron Man 3,” “Despicable Me 2” or “Man of Steel,” 2013’s top three box office hits to date.
The computer-animated fantasy film “Epic” was the best-selling DVD and Blu-ray title in its first week in release, passing the action movies that dominated the previous week’s rankings.
‘The Story of Film: An Odyssey,’ which will air on Turner Classic Movies, focuses on international cinema. Hollywood is not the center of the cinema universe in film critic-historian Mark Cousins’ acclaimed 15-hour documentary, “The Story of Film: An Odyssey,” which has its U.S. television premiere Monday evening on Turner Classic Movies.
For the fourth time in eight movies, Pixar replaces a director midstream, this time taking Bob Peterson off ‘The Good Dinosaur.’ Pixar Animation has removed the director of its 2014 film, “The Good Dinosaur,” and not named a replacement, marking the fourth time in eight movies that the Emeryville studio has made a director change midstream. Â Â Â Â
New releases: ‘Kon-Tiki,’ ‘Elementary: The First Season,’ ‘Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder’ and more. The Great Gatsby    Â
To celebrate the release of The Hardy Bucks Movie onto DVD, we have ten copies to giveaway.
The movie about teens who face an army of aliens with help from vampires and zombies is among the few projects to receive a 20% film tax credit from California. Movies starring Vanessa Hudgens, Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner have begun filming in Los Angeles, adding some celebrity sizzle to brisk feature film activity this quarter. Â Â Â Â