“Babycall” releases as “The Monitor” on DVD in the USA

“Babycall” arrives on DVD in the USA July 24th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment, entitled “The Monitor” for the US market. After escaping an abusive husband, Anna (Rapace) and her 8-year-old son move far away to a secret location. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them, she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son’s room at all times, but she soon discovers strange noises echoing through the monitor from elsewhere in the building. The DVD will come with deleted scenes.

Sunday Times: Culture (United Kingdom, May 6, 2012) scans

Many thanks to Mariana for sending in scans from the May 06 issue of the British Sunday Times: Culture magazine – a fantastic new article on “Prometheus”. Scans can be found in the gallery.

First Look: Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace in “Passion”

With cameras rolling this spring on “Passion,” Brian De Palma’s first feature film in six years, there’s no doubt it will be a hot item when it’s repped at the Cannes marketplace, and certainly this first official image from the film will get people talking. Stars Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace go in for an (uneasy, it seems) kiss in the thriller that promises to have a sexual charge. A loose remake of Alain Corneau’s 2010 French film “Love Crime,” which starred Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott-Thomas, that movie told the story of two women involved in a sexy and dangerous power struggle while working at a multinational conglomerate. And while it’s still unclear just what changes to the story have been made in de Palma’s do-over, the official plot synopsis sheds a bit more light on what we can expect:

An erotic thriller in the tradition of “Dressed To Kill” and “Basic Instinct”, Brian de Palma’s PASSION tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business. Christine possesses the natural elegance and casual ease associated with one who has a healthy relationship with money and power. Innocent, lovely and easily exploited, her admiring protĂ©gĂ© Isabelle is full of cutting-edge ideas that Christine has no qualms about stealing. They’re on the same team, after all… Christine takes pleasure in exercising control over the younger woman, leading her one step at a time ever deeper into a game of seduction and manipulation, dominance and humiliation. But when Isabelle falls into bed with one of Christine’s lovers, war breaks out. On the night of the murder, Isabelle is at the ballet, while Christine receives an invitation to seduction. From whom? Christine loves surprises. Naked she goes to meet the mystery lover waiting in her bedroom…

SFX Magazine (United Kingdom, July 2012) scans

With many thanks to Mariana, scans from the July 2012 issue of the British SFX Magazine have been added to the gallery. Besides an article on “Prometheus”, there are interviews with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender. Enjoy the scans.

“Prometheus” Breaks IMAX U.K. Pre-Sales Record

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Prometheus is proving an eye-popping draw for the BFI Imax theater in central London as pre-sales for the movie break records. Scott’s movie has booked 18,287 tickets in hits first full week of presales at the theater. It translates into £293,312 ($474,687) in gross pre-sale tickets, the highest grossing week ever. The standalone flagship IMAX theater also reported its highest grossing first day of pre-sales ever, taking £137,000 ($221,717). The movie opens in IMAX with midnight screenings beginning May 31 in the U.K.