Moive Mexican Standoff #2 Results

So the results are in: The Book of Eli.

This means TNP is off to the 6:45pm session this Tuesday (11th May) at Reading Cinemas.

Get in touch if you want to pre-buy tickets or meet us there (upstairs) 6:35pm.

Movie Mexican Standoff #2

Our second Movie Mexican Standoff. Vote to have your say on which movie TNP see’s on Tuesday 11th May at Reading Cinemas.
1) The Book Of Eli
2) New York, I Love You (Part of our Vignette series)
3) Hot Tub Time Machine

Voting closes Midnight 6th May.

Screening: The Johnny Depp Series – Week 5

This coming week we are going out to see Public Enemies at Reading Cinema on Courtenay Place –6:15pm Tuesday 4th August.

Check out the trailer:

Encore Screenings, Competitions, Famous Directors

TNP resumes it Thursday night screening at Palliser this week – Movie details will be resleased shortly.

In the meantime three things you might be interested in:

1) I’m arranging for encore screenings of Star Trek and Terminator Salvation for tomorrow night (16/6) at Reading Cinema’s.

Terminator @ 6:00pm; followed by,

Star Trek @ 8:15pm

Now if you are like me, you will be going to both, however if you want to see just one of these films let me know. Tickets are $10.50 each. Cut off time for ticket request is 12pm tomorrow, Tuesday 16th.

2) Have your say and win tickets to Transformers 2. Three tickets up for grabs – check out our website for details: https://tnponline.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/tnp-competition-suggest-films-and-go-to-transformers-2/

3) Director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy 1 & 2, The Hobbit) will be launching his first novel, The Strain, with a book signing at the Weta Cave in Miramar on Wednesday night (17/6) 6pm. I suggest you go along to get up close and personal to one of the more interesting film makers out there.

Where: http://www.wetanz.com/cave/

What: http://www.wellingtonnz.com/event/guillermo_del_toro_book_signing

TNP resumes it Thursday night screening at Palliser this week – Movie details will be resleased shortly.

In the meantime three things you might be interested in:

1) I’m arranging for encore screenings of Star Trek and Terminator Salvation for tomorrow night (16/6) at Reading Cinema’s.

Terminator @ 6:00pm; followed by,

Star Trek @ 8:15pm

Now if you are like me, you will be going to both, however if you want to see just one of these films let me know. Tickets are $10.50 each. Cut off time for ticket request is 12pm tomorrow, Tuesday 16th.

2) Have your say and win tickets to Transformers 2. Three tickets up for grabs – click through for details

3) Director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy 1 & 2, The Hobbit) will be launching his first novel, The Strain, with a book signing at the Weta Cave in Miramar on Wednesday night (17/6) 6pm. I suggest you go along to get up close and personal to one of the more interesting film makers out there.

Where: http://www.wetanz.com/cave/

What: http://www.wellingtonnz.com/event/guillermo_del_toro_book_signing

Our Next Screening: Terminator Salvation (9/6)

This week we are venturing out again to the Embassy Theater to see the latest installment in the Terminator saga, Tuesday 9th June 6:30pm.

Staring Christian “I’m Batman, shhhh!” Bale and directed by McG, Terminator Salvation picks up the story in 2018 as humanity regroups under the leadership of  John Connor (Bale) after nearly being annihilated by nuclear war.  It’s going to be gritty and intense.

Films vitals in short:

Title: Terminator Salvation (2009)
Director: McG
Cast: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington
Genre: Action / Si-Fi / Thriller
1 Sentence Synopsis: After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by John Connor struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job. full summary
Runtime: 115 min
Release: 4 June 2009 (New Zealand

Our Next Screening: Star Trek (12/5)

Star Trek. Now many people I’ve talked to are like “What! Star Trek, I dunno…”, but let me present another angle. JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot Production company. Abrams is one of my favourite storytellers and he has been given the reins to regenerate the Star Trek franchise. His skill lies in the ability to draw the viewer into an outlandish reality and make it seem believable as he unravels the intricacies and mystery of the story (think LOST and Cloverfield). Wired magazine have a great interview with Abrams here.

For me Star Trek is one of the more exciting film projects this year. I believe it will be one of the most buzz-worthy movie watching experiences of the 2009 blockbuster fair (Terminator Salvation being another), and I hope it creates a new appreciation of Si-Fi amongst the general movie-goer (as I hope Moon will do as well as Avatar).

Our next TNP event will be attending a screening of Star Trek on Tuesday 12th of May at the Embassy Theater. Tickets $10 each.
UPDATE: The Embassy is screening Star Trek for one week only – don’t miss out, come with us!

If you want to come, let us know by Thursday 7th of May. The short turn-round period is due to my expectation that Star Trek will have considerable interest and we will need to get in early if we take a big group. (FYI we have 15 17 peeps rearing to go for Wolverine on the 5/5. Should be a fun popcorn-filled evening).

Title: Star Trek (2009)
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cast:Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy,Eric Bana,Karl Urban,Simon Pegg,Winona Ryder,
Bruce Greenwood
Genre: Action/ Si-Fi
1 Sentence Synopsis: A chronicle of the early days of James T. Kirk and his fellow USS Enterprise crew members..
Run Time: 126mins

Our Next Screening: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (5/5)

Well we’re not actually screening this one ourselves, the pro’s will be doing this instead.
This week we will be seeing the 6:35pm screening of X-Men Origins: Wolverine at the Embassy Theater on Tuesday 5th May.
Tickets have been purchased and allocated.  If you missed out and still want to come, visit the Embassy before Tuesday to secure yourself a seat and we’ll see you there.

As we are seeing Wolverine on Tuesday, there will be not TNP this Thursday (7/5). Next week, we will be seeing Star Trek (2009) – stay tuned for details.

Title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Hugh Jackman,Liev Schreiber,Will i Am,Ryan Reynolds,Dominic Monaghan,Taylor Kitsch
Genre: Action/ Thriller
1 Sentence Synopsis: Wolverine lives a mutant life, seeks revenge against Victor Creed (who will later become Sabertooth) for the death of his girlfriend, and ultimately ends up going through the mutant Weapon X program.
Run Time: 107mins