This will all happen on October 29th, 2011.

For further info or to register your interest please get in touch with Greg here: http://www.meetup.com/Filmmakers-United/events/32411042/

The Brand New Movie Event – A Celebration of Film

Hollywood comes to London for a brand new movie event at The O2. Taking place for 3 days only, with 250 amazing things to do, there really is something for everyone from seeing films first, meeting stars to live performances. Highlights include:
- Special screenings of Cowboys and Aliens
- 2 movie premieres – Fright Night and Conan The Barbarian 3D
- Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making Of Harry Potter
- To Infinity and Beyond: Celebrating 25 Years of Pixar Animation Studios
- The Ultimate Twilight Marathon
- Meet the writers of The Inbetweeners
- Star Wars – go behind the scenes with Industrial Light and Magic
- Meet the creators of Wallace and Gromit

Plus see the first UK screenings of
- Friends With Benefits – romcom starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis
- The Guard – comedy starring Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle
- Terra Nova – pilot screening of Steven Spielberg produced TV series
- Red State – Kevin Smith’s eagerly anticipated horror

And a whole lot more. For full details visit www.empirebigscreen.com

Exclusive Show Film First Offer
2 tickets for the price of one on the £35* BIG SCREEN Day Pass. This ticket allows you to go to as many showings as you like subject to availability**.

For the ultimate up close and personal movie experience featuring directors, A-list stars and sneak peeks of the hottest forthcoming movies book the One Day Diamond Ticket.

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Setting the backdrop for you briefly: Rio is an animated flick coming from the pioneers of “Ice Age”. And yes, your little tots are able to enjoy a brief silly film involving “Scrat” and his nut at the beginning of Rio too. This kind of touching show is the standard fairytale storyline punched out for two rare macaw’s, Blu (tamed companion from Minnesota, ) and Jewel (free, yet captured to mate by scientist Tulio, in Rio de Janeiro). As they are brought together to mate and save their species, Blu and Jewel are stolen by smugglers, are chained alongside one another, then break free and then encounter countless challenges as a way to achieve their desired goals of Blu becoming reunited with his “companion” Linda and Jewel getting set free. Blu and Jewel are completely polar opposites. Having said that, somewhere in the midst of all the escaping the evil bad guys (a trio of brainless smugglers, a menacing cockatoo, along with a crew of crooked monkeys) along with attempting to achieve their primary target : the two macaw’s fall in love. In the end Blu is faced with saving the “damsel in distress” to accomplish his new dream of “living happily ever after” with Jewel. Rio happens to be an inspiring hilarious, yet enchanting flick.

Rio is a must see in 3d! Many other children’s films my spouse and I have seen in 3d simply have minimal special effects incorporating some depth to the flick, typically not enough so that you can feel as though you’re really getting your money’s worth watching it in 3d. However, with “Rio”, the movie director attracts the viewers into the flick right from the start with a beautiful jungle scene of wild birds flying, dancing and singing contemporary Salsa music. You not only feel the beat, you observe it as these vivid exotic birds hover straight from the screen and into the movie theater. The flight of these magnificent birds would be a motif that reoccurred several times through the entire film.

Another moment of “3D nirvana” happened in the middle of the flick as Blu and Jewel are in “flight” (or should i say attempting to make it to the ground safely) above the computer assimilated model of the fascinating city of Rio de Janeiro, South America. During this scene, the director takes you on a impressive ride overlooking the city, with an unbelievable close-up of the “Christ the Redeemer” statue. As they make their route to ground level, the scene finds the audience feeling as if they were the one openly hovering through the air.

Why give this 3D movie review of Rio an “A-” besides the “A”? To be honest, all good things have something that can be refined. Rio has a a small number of chasing scenes, one with Blu along with Jewel being chased by the brainless thieves and another with Linda(Blu’s companion) and Tulio (the researcher from South America) on a sport bike. These moments left us feeling somewhat spun with 3d glasses on. But nevertheless, I immediately recovered, and this may not happen for each person.

The movie again wrapped up in the way it started out…the exotic wild birds dancing, performing and hovering through the air, pulling the viewer back in for just one remaining free spirited instance of excitement in 3d.

If you have a choice between watching the 2D and the 3D version of Rio, I would definitely splurge on the 3D version.

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