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Family Pack is a French adventure fantasy comedy film directed by François Uzan who also co-wrote the screenplay with Céleste Balin and Hervé Marly. Based on the best-selling game The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow, the Netflix film follows a family who are transported back in time after playing a card game where they have to unmask werewolves if they want to return home. Family Pack stars Franck Dubosc, Jean Reno, Suzanne Clément, Grégory Fitoussi, Bruno Gouery, Jonathan Lambert, and Lisa Do Couto. So, if you loved the fun adventure, hilarious comedy, and compelling characters in Netflix’s Family Pack here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is an adventure comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan from...

Get ready for an adventurous family adventure film starring the guy from Shazam and Chuck, Zachary Levi. Based on a 1955 children’s picture book of the same name by Crockett Johnson, Harold, and the Purple Crayon is directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay co-written by David Guion and Michael Handelman and it follows the story of a grown-up Harold, who can make anything come true by drawing it with his crayon in his book. When he draws himself into real life he goes on numerous comedic adventures but his power soon falls into the wrong hands. If you loved the comedic hijinks, fantastical adventures, and imagination in Harold and the Purple Crayon here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Christopher Robin is a live-action and animated hybrid fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a...

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is a cult classic amongst ‘90s pop culture enthusiasts and Power Rangers fans. Even with its fairly standard ‘90s adventure movie plot, wherein the Rangers lose their powers and have to go on a mystical quest to gain new ones, the film still sticks in the mind. Main baddie Ivan Ooze chews all the scenery, there are some impressive fight scenes, and the Rangers save the day by kneeing a monster in the balls. Yes the CG is dated, the story doesn’t hold up to some of the better episodes of the show, and it’s not in continuity with the series but if you want to have a movie night with friends of a certain age, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is a solid watch.

While many love the film exactly as it is, it didn’t go from script to screen completely unchanged.

Exclusive: Twentieth Century Fox has pre-emptively acquired The Prince’s Guard, an u pcoming novel by screenwriter John Kamps. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce through 21 Laps. The book is the first novel by Kamps, whose screenplay credits include the Jon Favreau-directed Zathura and David Koepp-helmed Ghost Town and Premium Rush. It’s the first of a planned novel trilogy, and the book is in the process of being set with a publisher. Kamps also has been set to write…...

Premium Rush is out on DVD and Blu-ray across the UK right now (order your copy here) and to mark the release, we’ve got two exclusive featurettes to share with you from the making of the movie. If you missed it during it’s theatrical release, it stars man of the moment Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises / Looper) alongside Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Jamie Chung and is directed by David Koepp who co-wrote the movie alongside John Kamps.

Read on for the synopsis or scroll down for the clip.

Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie – super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and...

Two-time Golden Globe® nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper) delivers pulse-pounding excitement in the action-packed thriller Premium Rush, coming onto Blu-ray and DVD with UltraViolet February 25, 2013 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film also stars Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon (Best Supporting Actor, Revolutionary Road, 2008), Jamie Chung (Suckerpunch), and Dania Ramirez (American Reunion).

We have three copies of the Blu-ray to give away to our readers.

Bonus materials include two behind-the-scenes featurettes: “The Starting Line: Meet the Cast,” which highlights the cast and creative development, and “Behind the Wheels: Featurette on the Action, Stunts and Chases,” providing a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to do one of the riskiest jobs around.

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Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie – super lightweight,...

Premium Rush

Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Jamie Chung, Wole Parks, Christopher Place | Written by David Koepp and John Kamps | Directed by David Koepp

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is doing quite well these days, especially following his role in The Dark Knight Rises, and being a young Bruce Willis in the fantastic Looper. Premium Rush was originally sandwiched between the two major releases for the actor, given that and his current popularity, you’d think they would promote the film a little better.

Playing out almost in real time, Premium Rush is the story of Manhattan bike messenger Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). In need of more work, he takes a last minute, end of the day job, getting an envelope from Uptown to Downtown Manhattan in 90 minutes. From the moment he picks up the envelope, things start going wrong, but committed Wilee is determined to get the envelope to its intended destination.

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 21, 2012

Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) is hell on two wheels in the action movie Premium Rush.

Gordon-Levitt plays Wilee, a bike messenger on the brutal New York City streets who’s known for getting his packages across town in record time. But after he’s requested to get a package to its destination by a strict deadline, he’s chased by a corrupt cop (Michael Shannon, TV’s Boardwalk Empire: Season 1) who will stop at nothing to intercept it.

War of the Worlds writer David Koepp co-wrote the screenplay for Premium Rush along with John Kamps (Ghost Town), and Koepp also served as director for the thriller film.

Despite good reviews, PG-13-rated Premium Rush grossed $20 million in theaters, lower than other movies of the same kind. Which is a surprise. The fast-paced film was called “hyper-adrenalized entertainment...

Premium Rush

Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Jamie Chung, Wole Parks, Christopher Place | Written by David Koepp and John Kamps | Directed by David Koepp

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is doing quite well these days, especially following his role in The Dark Knight Rises, and being a young Bruce Willis in the upcoming, fantastic Looper. Premium Rush is sandwiched between two major releases for the actor, so you’d think they would promote it a little better.

Playing out almost in real time, Premium Rush is the story of Manhattan bike messenger Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). In need of more work, he takes a last minute, end of the day job, getting an envelope from Uptown to Downtown Manhattan in 90 minutes. From the moment he picks up the envelope, things start going wrong, but committed Wilee is determined to get the envelope to its intended destination.

The film completely belongs to Jgl,...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt returns to the big screen this month in Premium Rush, coming off the back of the success of one of the biggest and best films this year, The Dark Knight Rises.

The action-thriller hit Us theatres at the end of last month, and its release on our shores is just around the corner next weekend, and we’ve got a new TV spot to prime our anticipation – and if you’re reading this in the States and you’re yet to see it, it should already be playing in a cinema near you.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled...

Premium Rush Directed by: David Koepp Written by: David Koepp and John Kamps Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shanno and Dania Ramirez David Koepp is best known as a writer (Panic Room, Angels and Demons), but he occasionally forays into the world of directing, with mixed receptions from audiences (Stir of Echoes, Ghost Town). Koepp attempts to tackle the tired car chase genre in Premium Rush … aka The Secret Life of Bike Couriers. He manages to infuse his project with some playful, innovative visuals, setting it apart from the standard paint by numbers action flick. I’m not sure the approach completely worked for me, but I’ll give fellow props for trying. Premium Rush tries to sell the ridiculous idea that riding a bike as a courier in New York is a constant game of life or death, even under the best of circumstances. These dedicated adrenaline junkies punch the...

"Fixed-gear, no brakes, can't stop, don't want to either" -- Watching Premium Rush, my first thought was that it seemed somehow familiar. That may be because it brought to mind the short-lived 1995 sitcom Double Rush, which featured an opening-credit sequence shot by Spike Jonze. Watch it at the end of this review and compare it with the Premium Rush trailer. Purely coincidence, no shared DNA here besides the shared bike messenger subject material, but an interesting comparison.

Eighteen years later, David Koepp has directed an exciting flick that unlike its sitcom sister takes place almost entirely on two wheels. Written by Koepp and John Kamps, who previously collaborated on Zathura, the movie Premium Rush takes its name from the highest-priority delivery service (just like Double Rush). The story centers around one particularly important delivery and the efforts Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character Wilee must make to see it through to the destination.

David Koepp’s Premium Rush is a generic, low-ambition summer action flick with a goofy and unique central conceit. We are all too familiar with this story – a young, detached rouge must take an important package from point A to point B while evading villainous pursuit – but we have not, the film assumes, seen it executed on bikes. Fighting crime with the power of pedals? Genius!

Sarcasm aside, the film really does deserve credit for trying something new, even as all non-cycling-related elements reek of rehash. I have never seen a film set in the world of New York City bike messengers, and if nothing else, Premium Rush proves one can stage plenty of decent set pieces by pitting a high-speed bike against congested traffic conditions.

It also proves ‘bike-fu’ – or whatever we wish to call Joseph Gordon Levitt’s cycling superheroics – is impossible to take seriously. Pedaling wildly to...

Box office boredom. Apparition moderate opener in weak field It's a dreary-looking weekend ahead at the box office with two wide openers which look to deliver mediocre results. Open Road Films' comedy actioner Hit and Run scripted by star Dax Shepard, who also directs alongside David Palmer, finds the widest release in 2,870 theaters. Pic opened this Wednesday, with Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Chenoweth and Beau Bridges topping the well-known cast. The film's not impressing Rotten Tomato critics with a 47% positive score. Sony's Premium Rush opens in 2,225 theaters, holding a 70% tomato score with Inception and The Dark Knight Rises' Joseph Gordon-Levitt starring alongside Michael Shannon and Dania Ramirez. David Koepp directs as well as writing with John Kamps. The duo have collaborated previously on Zathura, Ghost Town and War of the Worlds.

Box office boredom. Apparition moderate opener in weak field It's a dreary-looking weekend ahead at the box office with two wide openers which look to deliver mediocre results. Open Road Films' comedy actioner Hit and Run scripted by star Dax Shepard, who also directs alongside David Palmer, finds the widest release in 2,870 theaters. Pic opened this Wednesday, with Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Chenoweth and Beau Bridges topping the well-known cast. The film's not impressing Rotten Tomato critics with a 47% positive score. Sony's Premium Rush opens in 2,225 theaters, holding a 70% tomato score with Inception and The Dark Knight Rises' Joseph Gordon-Levitt starring alongside Michael Shannon and Dania Ramirez. David Koepp directs as well as writing with John Kamps. The duo have collaborated previously on Zathura, Ghost Town and War of the Worlds.

Michael Shannon eats up the scenery in Premium Rush, a film not to be taken the least bit seriously, but instead (mildly) enjoyed for its stupidity. Loaded with a multitude of problems -- most egregious would be its focus on the wrong character -- it's hardly a film you need to rush to see, but with the right mindset and friends at your side you could find yourself having a good time. Premium Rush is essentially bike messenger porn with a Google Maps fetish and the "street" attitude of Step Up. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Wilee, a New York City bike messenger who lives on the edge. Yeah, he's a real daredevil. His bike doesn't have brakes (what?) it it only has one gear (word!), anything else is for sissies. He dropped out of law school because he can't see himself wearing a suit to work each day and the fact...

Despite generally good reviews, Sony's Joseph Gordon-Levitt action film Premium Rush may not be able to scale the box office chart as the late summer doldrums strike. Most box office observers believe holdover The Expendables 2 will win the weekend crown, while Premium Rush will battle it out for No. 2 with The Bourne Legacy. Conservative estimates show Premium Rush earning in the $6 million to $8 million range. The film cost just north of $30 million to produce and is directed by noted screenwriter David Koepp, who co-wrote the script with John Kamps.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises) returns to the big screen in Premium Rush, released in the Us tomorrow.

Joining him will be the stars of one of next summer’s biggest blockbusters, Michael Shannon (Man of Steel), and after catching a recent TV spot for the film last week, Sony have released another short look at the adrenaline-fuelled film.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

But a guy who’s used to putting his life on the line is about to get...

Chicago – We’re looking for cowboy heroes in America, and a new film contends that the urban bike messenger could represent that long lost persona. This unlikely theory is the basis for “Premium Rush,” and it features Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Aasif Mandvi and Dania Ramirez.

Rating: 3.0/5.0

The life of a bike messenger in this film involves a parallel universe of the adrenaline junkie riding the plane, nobly following a code that is unwavering to money, authority and the laws of gravity. “Premium Rush” is riddled with archetypes like the twitchy dispatcher, the over-competitive rival, the wise old messenger and the hates-him-until-she-loves-him relationship. Actor Michael Shannon adds a bit of weirdness to the conventional story, but it’s not enough to overcome the soft narrative veneer that pretends to be high octane. It may be the first high octane film that has the ability to induce sleep.

Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be heading back into theatres in the coming weeks in Premium Rush, coming off the back of a brilliant performance in The Dark Knight Rises, currently still storming box offices across the globe.

After catching a new featurette for the film earlier in the week, we’ve now got a new TV spot to share, showcasing plenty of the awesome action and stunts we have to look forward to.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

But a guy who’s...

Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 30 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the new action/thriller “Premium Rush”! The film, which opens on Aug. 24, 2012, stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“The Dark Knight Rises,” “Inception”) and Michael Shannon!

“Premium Rush” also stars Jamie Chung, Dania Ramirez, Aasif Mandvi, Aaron Tveit, Nick Damici, Jennifer Butler, Ashley Austin Morris, Lauren Ashley Carter, Brian Koppelman, Aija Terauda, Matthew Rauch, Danielle McKee and Hoon Lee from writer and director David Koepp and writer John Kamps.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is currently in theatres with his brilliant performance in The Dark Knight Rises, which continues to excel at box offices around the globe, and in just a few short weeks, he’ll be back on the big screen, this time in a leading capacity, in Premium Rush.

We’ve seen plenty of great things from the film already, giving us a feel for the action and thrills we have coming our way soon, and now Yahoo Movies have debuted a new featurette going behind the scenes, taking a look at the story.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists...

Not only have we recently been treated to the brilliance of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Dark Knight Rises, we also have two more of the actor’s films to look forward to just on the horizon in Premium Rush and Looper.

The former will be released in the Us at the end of the month, and now Sony have debuted a great first actions featurette, along with three TV spots, giving us a look at the fast pace of the action/thriller.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the lead, action-thriller Premium Rush is due out this September and it looks like a lot of fun. Think parkour-esque chase sequences, but on a bike.

We saw the first international poster for the film last month, and now its official Facebook has released the first Us poster bearing the tagline, Ride Like Hell.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

But a guy who’s used to putting his life on the line is about to get more than...

The latest trailer for Premium Rush landed earlier this month, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt looking more awesome than ever.

The actor is set to have another very good year this year, not only starring in the summer blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, but also leading Looper and Premium Rush in the next few months, and starring in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. Not to mention the fact that he’s filming his feature directorial debut, Don Jon’s Addiction.

Following on from the trailers and images we’ve seen already now surfaces the first international poster for the film, as well as a new image from its official website.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight,...

Premium Rush

Written by David Koepp and John Kamps

Directed by David Koepp

USA, 2012

Excited for Looper? Can’t wait for The Dark Knight Rises? Sorry, Jgl fans – all I’ve got for you today is a trailer for a direct to dv…I mean theatrical flick about a bike messenger on a race against time (I think). Now, it’s cool to know that Joseph Gordon Levitt does cardio, but I’d rather not watch it over 90 minutes, especially with a schlock style plot. The title would’ve been better for a surfing movie, Imo.

Synopsis via IMDb:

In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.

Put Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the lead of anything and I’m sold, right off the bat. Put him alongside Michael Shannon, and I’ve got more than I could want. Add to that last year’s brilliant first trailer, and you’ve got one of the coolest-looking films of 2012.

An awesome second trailer has debuted over at Yahoo Movies, along with ten new hi-res images from the film, which sees Gordon-Levitt take the lead alongside the excellent Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Jamie Chung, and Aasif Mandvi.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on...

After getting an awesome first teaser trailer and poster for Looper yesterday, we now have two new images of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the first of his leading roles this year, Premium Rush.

We got the first trailer for the film last September, and with Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, and Jamie Chung co-starring, and David Koepp (Spider-Man, Panic Room) and John Kamps (Ghost Town) co-writing under Koepp’s direction, this action-thriller clearly has the potential to be brilliant.

“Dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors, and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day’s work for Wilee, the best of New York’s agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. It takes a special breed to ride the fixie — super lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

Sony's Columbia Pictures has confirmed to ComingSoon.net that the studio has moved the release date of director David Koepp's Premium Rush back seven months from January 13, 2012 to August 24th, a date it has to itself right now. Written by John Kamps and Keopp, Premium Rush stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez and Jamie Chung. You can watch the first trailer here . This means Sony will have four films next summer, also including Men in Black 3 , The Amazing Spider-Man and Total Recall . The studio's Here Comes the Boom , a comedy starring Kevin James and Salma Hayek, was also previously scheduled for a summer date on July 27 but will now open on October 12, 2012.

Film Fans have been scrutinising Joseph Gordon-Levitt's enigmatic role as cop John Blake in next summer's The Dark Knight Rises and Michael Shannon's portrayal of Zod in 2013 Superman reboot Man of Steel.

Outside the superhero spotlight, both actors will share a screen before then in Premium Rush, released on February 2, 2012. A trailer is embedded below and is also in our video channel on the right-hand side of the page.

In the new action-thriller, dodging speeding cars, crazed cabbies, open doors and eight million cranky pedestrians is all in a day's work for Wilee (Gordon-Levitt), the best of New York's agile and aggressive bicycle messengers. 

It takes a special breed to handle the fixie - super-lightweight, single-gear bikes with no brakes. The riders are equal parts skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

But a guy who's...

If you've ever done corporate time working in an urban business environment, you're no doubt familiar with bicycle messengers — you know, those seemingly suicidal individuals who inhabit an insular world that balances no responsibility with major responsibility. Surely, their ability to dart through traffic with nerves of steel and a pouch full of contracts demands a movie they can call their own.

Apparently, the people at Columbia Pictures think so. How else to explain Premium Rush, the bike messenger thriller hitting theaters on January 13, 2012?

Directed by David Koepp and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon and Dania Ramirez, Premium Rush is the story of a bike messenger (Gordon-Levitt) who gets tangled up with a dirty cop (Shannon). It seems the messenger has an envelope the cop really, really wants. So, rather than give the dirty cop the envelope and save his life, the bike messenger — true to form — does everything he can to get himself killed,...

If you've ever done corporate time working in an urban business environment, you're no doubt familiar with bicycle messengers — you know, those seemingly suicidal individuals who inhabit an insular world that balances no responsibility with major responsibility. Surely, their ability to dart through traffic with nerves of steel and a pouch full of contracts demands a movie they can call their own.

Apparently, the people at Columbia Pictures think so. How else to explain Premium Rush, the bike messenger thriller hitting theaters on January 13, 2012?

Directed by David Koepp and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon and Dania Ramirez, Premium Rush is the story of a bike messenger (Gordon-Levitt) who gets tangled up with a dirty cop (Shannon). It seems the messenger has an envelope the cop really, really wants. So, rather than give the dirty cop the envelope and save his life, the bike messenger — true to form — does everything he can to get himself killed,...

It's been several years since a bicycle messenger movie has been released — 1986's Quicksilver to be exact. Writer-director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes, Secret Window) has used the world of New York bicycle messengers as the setting for his latest thriller, Premium Rush.

Starring the currently ubiquitous Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises), Premium Rush follows a risk-taking bike messenger named Wilee (Gordon-Levitt) whose latest package gains the interest of a crooked cop (Michael Shannon) and starts a dangerous and deadly pursuit that continues throughout the city. The thriller won't come out until next year, so the first trailer is the best peek at the movie until the marketing campaign kicks into gear (get it?) at the end of the year.

Next Showing: Premium Rush opens Jan. 13

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See the trailer for David Koepp's Premium Rush, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon! The action thriller helmed by Koepp from the writing by John Kamps and Koepp, opens January 13th via Columbia Pictures and also stars Dania Ramirez and Jamie Chung. In Premium Rush, the story centers on a New York City bike messenger (Joseph Gordon-Levvit) in his twenties who picks up an envelope at Columbia University. However, he's soon pursued by a dirty cop (Michael Shannon) who is desperate to get the envelope and chases him throughout the city.

See the trailer for David Koepp's Premium Rush, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Shannon! The action thriller helmed by Koepp from the writing by John Kamps and Koepp, opens January 13th via Columbia Pictures and also stars Dania Ramirez and Jamie Chung. In Premium Rush, the story centers on a New York City bike messenger (Joseph Gordon-Levvit) in his twenties who picks up an envelope at Columbia University. However, he's soon pursued by a dirty cop (Michael Shannon) who is desperate to get the envelope and chases him throughout the city.

Columbia Pictures has released the first trailer for David Koepp's chase thriller Premium Rush which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger who somehow gets involved in a chase across New York City. Hit the jump to watch the trailer. Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Trailer thanks to Yahoo [1]: Previously: The film also features Michael Shannon (The Runaways, Jonah Hex) as the villain, "a deceptively affable cop with a violent temper", and Jamie Chung as Levitt's ex-girlfriend, "a fellow daredevil bike messenger who helps him outwit the cop." David Koepp is best known as one of Hollywood's highest paid screenwriters (and one of Spielberg's scribes). His screenwriting credits include everything from Toy Soldiers, Jurassic Park, and Carlito's Way, to Panic Room, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. For the last decade he's been trying to make the transition into feature film directing.

Turns out we've been in the dark about all those awesome "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" posters we've been ogling over the past month.

Paramount Pictures announced today that there is a new app for the movie, TF3: Defend The Earth, that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to scan the posters and convert them into an augmented reality experience. The app allows users to track down their nearest posters and, once they activate the augmented reality, participate in an exciting immersive game. So we'd suggest heading to your nearest IMAX or AMC to find out more!

In the news after the jump, find out which director is planning to reboot "War Games," see the new poster for "Brave" and surprise yourself at what fourth dimension is being implemented for "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World."

Seth Gordon To Reboot "War Games"

Seth Gordon is definitely...

The black spy and white spy of Spy vs. Spy really take “Anything you can do, I can do better” to heart. Spy vs. Spy began as a black and white comic strip in Mad Magazine in 1961 and over the years has become an animated cartoon on MadTV, a Sunday strip, a board game, and has even inspired several video games.

According to Deadline, Spy vs. Spy is now headed to the big screen with Warner Bros and Ron Howard directing. The adaptation is described to be “a physical and highly visual action comedy with two spies going mano a mano in ruthless fashion.”

The script will be penned by John Kamps (Premium Rush, Ghost Town). David Koepp along with Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer will produce.

The Spy Vs. Spy comic strip was created by Antonio Prohías a Cuban political cartoonist, that used the strip to...

As questions arise about Ron Howard’s ambitious adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series, the two-time Oscar-winning director is attached to direct two more potential projects: Spy vs. Spy and a Formula 1 racing film titled Rush.

Deadline reports Warner Bros has Howard on board to shoot a live-action feature based on the Mad magazine comic strip “Spy vs. Spy.” David Koepp (Angels & Demons) will produce and oversee the script writen by John Kamps, who recently partnered with Koepp on the January 2012 thriller Premium Rush. It’s intended to be “a physical and highly visual action comedy” about, what else, two spies going head to head in destructive combat. For the record, the last time Howard went playful it was for 2000’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey.

This as Universal waits patiently for a rewrite from Howard and his producing partners Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman on The Dark Tower.

This is definitely Ron Howard week! At least, when it comes to our reports, because every single day we hear something new about Howard’s future plans.

It was Rush yesterday, and today we’re here to let you know that Howard is also attached to direct live-action project titled Spy vs. Spy, based on the comic strip of the same name that appeared in Mad Magazine and on “MADtv.”

Thanks to Deadline we learned that this live-action bigscreen version is moving forward at Warner Bros and that David Koepp will produce with Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer.

Koepp will oversee the script that will be written by John Kamps, and at this moment we know that Spy vs. Spy will be a physical and highly visual action comedy with two spies going mano a mano in ruthless fashion.

In addition to that, let us remind you Spy vs.

Spy vs. Spy was created by a Cuban exile in the middle of the Cold War, but the appeal of the iconic Mad magazine strip is universal. Two enemies — one dressed all in black, the other all in white — eternally fight each other, using bombs and booby traps. It doesn’t initially seem like film material… but by George, this is Hollywood, and anything is possible! Thus: EW has confirmed that Warner Bros. is currently developing a film adaptation of Spy vs. Spy, to be produced by David Koepp, Brian Grazer, and Ron Howard, with Howard also set to direct.

Ron Howard (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) will direct Spy Vs. Spy, a live-action movie based on Mad Magazine's long-running comic. The comic depicts look-a-like spies, one dressed in black and the other in white, who comically try to foil each other's attempts at espionage and assassination. Howard's Imagine Entertainment will produce for Warner Brothers. Zathura scribe John Kamps is writing the screenplay.

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Ron Howard has committed to directing a live-action adaptation of the comic strip Spy vs Spy. The director is to base the action comedy on a script by Premium Rush writer John Kamps, which is still being developed, according to Deadline. Spy vs Spy has been running in Mad magazine since the 1960s and is about the violent yet silent relationship between two spies, one who dresses in black and the other in white. Howard was this week also linked (more)...

According to Deadline, Warner Bros. has begun development of a live-action version of the classic Mad magazine cartoon strip "Spy vs. Spy."Ron Howard is attached to direct the film and David Koepp will produce with Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer.The site reports that the script that will be written by John Kamps. Kamps just teamed with Koepp to write "Premium Rush," the Sony Pictures movie directed by Koepp, who also just rewrote the Jack Ryan film for Paramount Pictures.Spy vs. Spy is a black and white comic strip that debuted in Mad magazine back in the early 60's, and was originally published by EC Comics. The strip was created by Antonio Prohías. The Spy vs. Spy characters have featured in media such as animated television series, merchandise such as action figures and trading cards, and video games.  The pair are constantly warring with each other,...

Warner Bros. has begun development of a live-action version of classic Mad magazine cartoon strip "Spy vs. Spy" says Deadline.

Antonio Prohias penned the strip over almost three decades in which the spies -- one dressed in white and the other in black -- were constantly battling each other. John Kamps has been tapped to pen the screenplay.

Ron Howard is attached to direct and produce through Imagine Entertainment alongside this regular cohort Brian Grazer. David Koepp will also produce.

There is certainly no shortage of bad ideas floating around out there in Hollywood nowadays, and yet somehow this one is still ridiculous enough to make me shake my head. Ron Howard is apparently in talks to direct a live action movie based on Antonio Prohías' Spy vs. Spy comics that have appeared in Mad Magazine since the 1960s. The comic strip features two spies, one dressed in black and the other dressed in white, who are constantly trying to kill each other using a variety of ridiculous gadgets and booby traps. As far as I know, there was never any real plot aside from that, but I can't wait to see how they totally throw away the simplicity of the comic in favour of some lame, overcomplicated back story. John Kamps (Ghost Town, Zathura) will write the script, with David Koepp and Brian Grazer producing. Spy vs. Spy has...

Director Ron Howard has signed on to adapt black-and-white comic strip Spy Vs Spy for the big screen. The comic strip first debuted in Mad Magazine #60, and starred two spies – one dressed in black, the other in white – who are locked in an explosive game of one-upmanship. Since then, Spy Vs Spy has been an animated TV show and a video game. The film adaptation is being set up at Warner Bros, with Ghost Town scribe John Kamps writing the script. Deadline is calling the film a “highly visual action comedy”,...

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Warner Bros is developing a live-action film based on the "Spy vs Spy" comic strip that appeared in Mad Magazine and on "MADtv." Ron Howard (Da Vinci Code) is on board to direct. The film will be a physical and highly visual action comedy in which two spies constantly battle each other in ruthless fashion. The script will be written by John Kamps (Ghost Town) and overseen by David Koepp (War of the Worlds, Spider-Man). Howard is also attached to direct "Rush," the Formula 1 biopic written by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon). Many believe the helmer is boarding all these projects to put pressure on Universal Pictures to finally greenlit the big screen version of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, which stalled due to budgetary concerns. "Spy vs Spy" from "MADtv":...

And now arrives the day I always knew would happen: When me reading every issue of Mad Magazine for almost six straight years comes in handy.

Ron Howard recently stressed that he’s currently working on The Dark Tower and that a start date of next Spring is still planned, but yesterday also brought the news that he was looking at the Formula One film Rush as a future project. Him taking that on seems kind of normal – don’t forget that a film based on a historical event that’s written by Peter Morgan got him a Best Director nomination. But now Deadline says that he’s looking at a film version of the popular Mad Magazine comic strip Spy vs. Spy.

Jurassic Park and Spider-Man scribe David Koepp is producing with Howard and Brian Grazer through Imagine Entertainment, who will produce for Warner Bros. In addition to that,...

“Spy vs. Spy,” the long-running comic strip featured in Mad Magazine, is being made into a live action film. Now guess who's taking the job behind the camera?

The project is to be directed by the always-busy Ron Howard, and it will be produced by his Imagine Entertainment partner Brain Grazer and friend David Koepp.

According to Deadline, Koepp will be keeping tabs on a script to be written by John Kamps. The film will be a visually stunning action comedy about two spies trying to blow each other up for an hour and half.