Here is the latest news, stills, and teaser trailer for Punisher: War Zone.

Punisher: War Zone Synopsis:
Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the “Punisher Task Force” hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.

Starring Ray Stevenson (HBO’s “Rome”) as Punisher, PUNISHER: WAR ZONE is directed by Lexi Alexander and produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Ari Arad. The film’s executive producers are Kevin Feige, Ogden Gavanski, Oliver Hengst and Jeremy Latcham.

Cast List:

Ray Stevenson (Rome, Outpost) - Frank Castle
Dominic West (300) - Billy Russoti/Jigsaw
Doug Hutchison (The Green Mile) - Loony Bin Jim
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In anticipation for the release of Batman Gotham Knight we are presenting the following widget courtesy of Warner Bros. This new widget will allow you to sign up and experience plenty of fan extras. The widget gives you a chance to check out new images, trailers, movie clips, character information and information and specifics on the DVD. You can also sign up to receive updates.

Own it on DVD, Blu-Ray and On Demand: July 8th and in the meantime visit the Official Batman Gotham Knight Website.

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Want a nice, frank conversation? Corner Greg Rucka and pick a subject. He is anything but restrained, speaking freely and constantly exuding the kind of creative flashpoint from which arises his fascinating array of benchmark characters.

Raised on California’s Central Coast, and schooled at Vassar College and USC, Rucka brings a street sensibility to his work – which has ranged from nearly a dozen novels and several short stories to a daunting list of comics, non-fiction essays and, now, a segment of the highly-anticipated animated film, “Batman Gotham Knight.”

“Batman Gotham Knight,” the third film in the ongoing series of DC Universe animated original PG-13 movies, will arrive July 8, 2008 on DVD and Blu-Ray disc, and will also be available that day On Demand via digital cable and for download through broadband sites. The film is produced as a collaboration between DC Comics, Warner Premiere, Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Animation.

If you want to read a great Greg Rucka biography, or two, go to his website. It’s worth the trip. What you won’t read there is the following Q&A … and if you like that, there’s even more interesting information, images, shout-outs and a brand new widget at the film’s official website.

Question:
As this is your first time writing for animation, how did you feel about the translation of your words to the screen?

Greg Rucka answers:
It was dynamite, especially the final sequences of my segment. It was almost exactly what I was going for. What was really cool was to hear Kevin Conroy say stuff that I typed. I’ve written some screen stuff before, but I haven’t written Batman for the screen before. That’s cool on one level. But I love those Alan Burnett-Bruce Timm-Paul Dini animated series – I thought it was revolutionary – and Kevin was central to that.

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LOGO GREENLIGHTS SEASON TWO OF EXES AND OHS WITH SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM STARS MICHELLE PARADISE AND MARNIE ALTON

Greenlight news comes on heels of release of Exes and Ohs: The Complete First Season DVD
New York, NY – May 21, 2008 – Through a special video message posted by Exes and Ohs stars Michelle Paradise and Marnie Alton at Logo’s AfterEllen.com, Logo today announced the greenlight of season two of Exes and Ohs, the first-ever scripted comedy about lesbian friends and relationships for a basic cable channel. The eight-episode, half-hour scripted series – based on the short film The Ten Rules: A Lesbian Survival Guide –will premiere in early 2009.

The announcement, made by series creator and star Michelle Paradise and co-star Marnie Alton, is now available for viewing at AfterEllen.com, the nation’s top-ranked lesbian-themed website, which helped propel Exes and Ohs’ first season success through video blogs about the show and a powerful community of fans who shared in the show’s experience. The news was announced on the heels of the availability of Exes and Ohs: The Complete First Season DVD at retail stores and at the shop at LOGOonline.com.

Exes and Ohs follows the adventures of Jennifer (Michelle Paradise), a documentary filmmaker and her search for Ms. Right, telling the story of lesbian survival in life and love in Seattle, WA. Jennifer tries to keep up with the high-drama dating world, fulfill her creative ambitions, avoid the danger of professional and romantic complacency and embrace the “rules” of lesbian life, love and community.
Jennifer is surrounded by a group of close and diverse friends: Sam (Marnie Alton), was Jennifer’s first love but is now her fun-loving, commitment-phobic ex-girlfriend; long-time partners in love and business Chris (Megan Cavanagh) and Kris (Angela Featherstone) are trying to run a home-based pet accessory enterprise while overrun by pets with whom they’re too in love to give up for adoption.

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New York firefighter Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) had no idea his seemingly idyllic life was about to go up in smoke – especially as the unwitting, second-hand recipient of advice from famed love expert and radio host Dr. Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman). One day he is a happy, go-lucky guy looking forward to a life with his soon-to-be-bride. The next thing you know, his fiancée Sophia (Justina Machado) is seeking couples counseling on the radio from Dr. Lloyd.

The no-nonsense, ever practical Dr. Lloyd questions Sophia’s concept of romantic love and advises her to break their engagement, which she swiftly does. But when Patrick and his computer-savvy neighbor decide to give Dr. Lloyd a taste of her own medicine and “accidentally” join them in holy matrimony – something that doesn’t go over too well with her fiancée (played by Colin Firth) — it isn’t long before they learn that sometimes even an expert in love needs a second opinion…

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CBS News on Logo to offer behind-the-scenes exclusive of this year’s GLAAD Media Awards
NEW YORK, NY – April 30, 2008– Logo, a division of Viacom Inc.’s (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) MTV Networks, today announced the premiere of CBS News on Logo Special Report: GLAAD Media Awards Backstage Pass on Saturday May 3, 2008 at 9:00 PM ET/PT. The 60 minute special report offers a backstage look at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York and Los Angeles.

British comedian and talk show host Graham Norton emceed the New York GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriot Marquis on Mar. 17, 2008. The ceremony honored the best in film, television and journalism to an audience of 1,600 people. Celebrities such as Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Tim Gunn, Barbara Walters and Alan Cumming were in attendance as Brian Graden, President of MTV Entertainment and President, Logo, was honored with the Vito Russo Award. The Vito Russo award is presented to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for the LGBT community.

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The Life Before her Eyes is set for a April 18, 2008 in NY/LA and nationwide release on April 25th. Until the movie is finally released you can check out the official poster, stills, and synopsis below.

Synopsis:
Imaginative, impetuous and wild Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) can’t wait for her adult life to begin. Whiling away the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and drugs as her more conservative friend Maureen (Eva Amurri) watches with concern. But Diana’s aura of invincibility is shattered when a senseless act of violence erupts at school, forever changing the lives of the two best friends.

Fifteen years later, a grown Diana (Uma Thurman) is still trying to come to terms with the traumatic events of that fateful day.

On the surface, the adult Diana has made a picture perfect life for herself. She’s still living in the sleepy Connecticut suburb she grew up in with her husband Paul, a professor at the local college.

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Bangkok Dangerous stars Nicolas Cage and is being put out by Lionsgate. The film is set to release in late August. Until then you can check out the synopsis, poster, and stills below.

SYNOPSIS

The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok’s intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard …just as Surat decides it’s time to clean house.

Directors Oxide Pang and Danny Pang (The Eye) paint an explosive picture of the Bangkok underworld, illuminated with neon and saturated in violence. Based on the Pang Brothers’ wildly popular Hong Kong action film of the same name BANGKOK DANGEROUS is written by Jason Richman. The adrenaline-powered thriller stars Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, National Treasure), Charlie Young (Seven Swords), Shahkrit Yamnarm (Belly of the Beast) and Dom Hetrakul (Sniper 3). The film is produced by Jason Shuman, William Sherak, Nicolas Cage and Norm Golightly. Andrew Pfeffer, Derek Dauchy, Denis O’Sullivan and Ben Waisbren serve as the executive producers.

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TWO-TIME OSCAR(r) WINNER KEVIN SPACEY LEADS ENSEMBLE CAST OF HBO FILMS’ RECOUNT, REVISITING THE CONTROVERSIAL 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, DIRECTED BY JAY ROACH, DEBUTING MAY 25
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BOB BALABAN, ED BEGLEY, JR., LAURA DERN, JOHN HURT, DENIS LEARY, BRUCE MCGILL AND TOM WILKINSON STAR
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A SPRING CREEK/ MIRAGE PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH TRIGGER STREET PRODUCTIONS AND EVERYMAN PICTURES; EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY PAULA WEINSTEIN, LEN AMATO, SYDNEY POLLACK AND JAY ROACH; SCRIPT BY DANNY STRONG

Two-time Oscar(r) winner Kevin Spacey (”American Beauty,” “The Usual Suspects”) leads the ensemble cast of HBO Films’ RECOUNT, a Spring Creek/Mirage production in association with Trigger Street Productions and Everyman Pictures. Debuting SUNDAY, MAY 25 (9:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO, RECOUNT is directed by Jay Roach (”Meet the Parents”). Emmy(r) winner Paula Weinstein (HBO’s “Truman”), HBO Films senior vice president Len Amato (”Blood Diamond”), Oscar(r) winner Sydney Pollack (”Out of Africa”) and Jay Roach executive produce from a script by Danny Strong. Michael Hausman (”Brokeback Mountain”) produces.

Shot on location in Jacksonville and Tallahassee, RECOUNT revisits one of the most dramatic moments in U.S. history, portraying the turmoil of the 2000 presidential election in Florida. The film also stars Bob Balaban (”For Your Consideration”), Ed Begley, Jr. (”Living with Ed”), Laura Dern (”Year of the Dog”), John Hurt (”The Elephant Man”), Denis Leary (”Rescue Me”), Bruce McGill (”Cinderella Man”) and Tom Wilkinson (”Michael Clayton”).

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SUNDANCE AWARD WINNER HEAR AND NOW, DEBUTING MAY 8 ON HBO, TELLS THE PERSONAL STORY OF TWO PEOPLE WHO JOURNEY INTO A WORLD OF SOUND TOGETHER AFTER SURGERY ENDS 65 YEARS OF SILENCE

A deeply personal memoir by Emmy(r) winner Irene Taylor Brodsky, HEAR AND NOW chronicles her deaf parents’ decision to undergo risky cochlear implant surgery, following their touching journey from a comfortable marriage of silence into a new, complex and challenging world of sound. Winner of an Audience Award at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, the documentary debuts THURSDAY, MAY 8 (8:00-9:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

Other HBO playdates: May 8 (5:25 a.m.), 11 (7:30 p.m.), 15 (9:30 a.m., midnight), 19 (2:30 p.m., 10:15 p.m.), 24 (12:30 p.m.) and 27 (6:30 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: May 10 (6:00 p.m.), 12 (12:30 p.m., 12:10 a.m.) and 18 (11:00 a.m.)

Both age 65 and deaf since birth, husband and wife Paul and Sally Taylor led rich lives filled with jobs, hobbies, passions and the support of a devoted four-generation family, including their own three hearing children. Pioneers in the deaf community, Sally worked as a teacher and a college secretary and lent her expert lip-reading skills to law enforcement investigations, while Paul, an engineer and retired professor, helped develop the TTY, a widely-used telecommunication device for the hearing-impaired.

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