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Academy Awards (Oscars) + Snitch + Dark Skies

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Hello Dayton!  We will be having a Academy Awards watch party where you can come watch the ABC broadcast on the BIG movie screen…FREE!  See below for details.  There are still plenty of options for everyone to have the perfect movie weekend this week.  Lots of things happening at your local Rave Cinemas!

WATCH THE ACADEMY AWARDS LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN! 02/24/13 @ 8pm

You saw the films on the movie screen, now come watch the awards on it!

This is the show that salutes the movies over the last year and awards them with little gold statues.  Seth MacFarlene hosts this year and there will be a James Bond 50th Retrospective in the show as well.  All on a LARGE movie screen!  You could win a night out on us by competing in our show contest!  We will have a host on hand doing trivia and other fun things as well!

Get your FREE tickets now…they are going fast!

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ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS STILL PLAYING AT RAVE CINEMAS

Django Unchained—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing

Lincoln—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Daniel Day Lewis), Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones), Best Supporting Actress (Sally Field), Best Director (Steven Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music—Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing

Zero Dark Thirty—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress (Jessica Chastain), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing

Silver Linings Playbook—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Jacki Weaver), Best Directing (David O. Russell), Best Film Editing (Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers), Best Writing—Adapted Screenplay (David O. Russell)

 

Opening This Week

 

SNITCH – OPENS 02/21/13 @ 10pm!

Inspired by true events, the fast-paced action  thriller “Snitch” stars Dwayne Johnson as a father whose teenage son is wrongly  accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum  prison sentence of 10 years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all  costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. Attorney to work as an undercover informant  and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission- risking everything,  including his family and his own life. The ensemble cast includes Susan  Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt and Barry Pepper.

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DARK SKIES – OPENS 02/22/13

From the producer of “Paranormal Activity,”  “Insidious,” and “Sinister” comes “Dark Skies”: a supernatural thriller that  follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and  Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their  family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels.  When it becomes clear  that the Barret family is being targeted by and unimaginably terrifying and  deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the  mystery of what is after their family.

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RAVE CINEMA CLASSICS – $3 + FREE popcorn & drink! @ Dayton South

02/25/13 @ 1pm brings us a DOUBLE FEATURE…all for one price!

SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH, 1943, 68min

During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there.  Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce

SHERLOCK HOLMES THE PEARL OF DEATH, 1944, 69min

When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.   Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce

 

For showtimes…CLICK HERE!

SHARKS + OSCAR WATCH PARTY + TICKET CONTEST

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Hello Dayton! Academy Award nominations were announced last week and boy are we excited about that!  We will be having a watch party where you can come watch the ABC broadcast on the BIG movie screen…FREE!  See below for details.  There are still plenty of options for everyone to have the perfect movie weekend this week.

SharksMEET AND GREET WITH THE DAYTON SHARKS!

Are you ready for some football?  Come out and meet the Dayton Sharks on Friday and Saturday, January 18th and 19th at Rave Cinemas Dayton South from 630pm to 830pm.  This is your indoor football team, come out and show them you appreciate them!  Stay tuned in February as we will be giving out game tickets!  For more info, head over to daytonsharks.com.

 

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS STILL PLAYING AT RAVE DAYTON SOUTH

Django Unchained—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing

Les Miserables—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway), Best Actor (Hugh Jackman), Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Music—Original Song (“Suddenly”)

Lincoln—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Daniel Day Lewis), Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones), Best Supporting Actress (Sally Field), Best Director (Steven Spielberg), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music—Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing

Zero Dark Thirty—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress (Jessica Chastain), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing

Life of Pi—Nominated for Best Picture, Best irector, Cinematography, Visual Effects, Best Music—Original Score, Best Music—Original Song, Film Editing, Production Design, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing

The Impossible—Nominated for Best Actress (Naomi Watts)

Silver Linings Playbook—Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence), Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Jacki Weaver), Best Directing (David O. Russell), Best Film Editing (Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers), Best Writing—Adapted Screenplay (David O. Russell)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey—Nominated for Makeup/Hair Styling, Production Design, Visual Effects

WATCH THE ACADEMY AWARDS LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN! 02/24/13 @ 8pm

You saw the films on the movie screen, now come watch the awards on it!

This is the show that salutes the movies over the last year and awards them with little gold statues.  Seth MacFarlene hosts this year and there will be a James Bond 50th Retrospective in the show as well.  All on a LARGE movie screen!  You could win a night out on us by competing in our show contest!  We will have a host on hand doing trivia and other fun things as well!

Get your FREE tickets now!

 

BROKEN CITY – OPENS 01/17/13 @ 10pm!

Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) has a promising career as a New York City cop until the night he is involved in a controversial shooting. Stripped of his badge, but kept out of jail by New York’s popular Mayor (Russell Crowe), he re-makes himself as a private investigator.

Times are tough, and when the mayor offers Billy $50,000 to investigate the First Lady’s (Catherine Zeta Jones) extra-marital activities, it seems like a straight forward payday. Unfortunately, it quickly becomes apparent that the Mayor is not at all what he seems, and for Billy to achieve redemption he will have to risk everything — possibly even his freedom.

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THE LAST STAND – OPENS 01/17/13 @ 10pm!

Action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much-anticipated return to the big screen in Korean director Kim Jee-Woon’s hard-hitting U.S. directorial debut, “The Last Stand.”

After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with remorse and regret, Sheriff Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger) moved out of Los Angeles and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere, makes a deadly yet spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy.

With the help of a fierce band of lawless mercenaries led by the icy Burrell (Peter Stormare), Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border at 250 mph in a specially-outfitted Corvette ZR1 with a hostage in tow. Cortez’s path: straight through Summerton Junction, where the whole of the U.S. law enforcement, including Agent John Bannister (Forest Whitaker) will have their final opportunity to intercept him before the violent fugitive slips across the border forever.

At first reluctant to become involved, and then counted out because of the perceived ineptitude of his small town force, Owens ultimately rallies his team and takes the matter into his own hands, setting the stage for a classic showdown.

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MAMA – OPENS 01/17/13 @ 10pm!

Guillermo del Toro presents “Mama,” a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed.  When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

Five years ago, sisters Victoria and Lilly vanished from their suburban neighborhood without a trace.  Since then, their Uncle Lucas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend, Annabel (Jessica Chastain), have been madly searching for them.  But when, incredibly, the kids are found alive in a decrepit cabin, the couple wonders if the girls are the only guests they have welcomed into their home.

As Annabel tries to introduce the children to a normal life, she grows convinced of an evil presence in their house.  Are the sisters experiencing traumatic stress, or is a ghost coming to visit them?  How did the broken girls survive those years all alone?  As she answers these disturbing questions, the new mother will find that the whispers she hears at bedtime are coming from the lips of a deadly presence.

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For showtimes…http://ravecinemas.com/theater.aspx?id=47

 

ENTER TO WIN TWO MOVIE PASSES!

“Like” this post and leave a Facebook comment telling us you want to WIN MOVIE PASSES from RAVE CINEMAS DAYTON SOUTH, we will randomly draw a winner and notify same. Contest closes later this week. Passes awarded will be valid for 30 days from close date at Rave Cinemas Dayton South only and must be used by then or will be forfeited. Valid for any showing, except special events. Please bring ID to verify your name and just ask for a manager when attending informing them you won the Dayton Most Metro contest.

CONTEST CLOSED

Congratulations to this week’s winner: Katherine Gonzalez

Dayton Sharks | Zero Dark Thirty | Gangster Squad | A Haunted House + TICKET CONTEST

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Hello Dayton! What a grand holiday the last few weeks were!  Thank you for your support in 2012 and we welcome you into 2013.  There are still plenty of options for everyone to have the perfect movie weekend.

SharksMEET AND GREET WITH THE DAYTON SHARKS!

Are you ready for some football?  Come out and meet the Dayton Sharks on Friday and Saturday, January 18th and 19th at Rave Cinemas Dayton South from 630pm to 830pm.  This is your indoor football team, come out and show them you appreciate them!  Stay tuned in February as we will be giving out game tickets!  For more info, head over to daytonsharks.com.

 

ZERO DARK THIRTY – OPENS 01/10/13 @ 10pm!

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. “Zero Dark Thirty” reunites the Oscar winning team of director-producer Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Mark Boal (“The Hurt Locker”) for the story of history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man.

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A HAUNTED HOUSE – OPENS 01/10/13 @ 10pm!

From the creators of “Scary Movie” comes another hilarious horror spoof, a parody of the “Paranormal Activity” franchise. When newlyweds Malcolm (Marlon Wayans) and Kisha (Essence Atkins) move into their dream house, they quickly find they’re not alone. But it’s not the house that’s haunted, but his wife that is possessed with spirits or as Malcolm calls it, relationship baggage. Malcolm hires everyone from a priest to modern day ghost busters to rid her of the demon, determined not to let the evil spirit ruin his marriage… or his sex life for that matter.

 

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GANGSTER SQUAD – OPENS 01/10/13 @ 10pm!

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and–if he has his way–every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart. “The Gangster Squad” is a colorful retelling of events surrounding the LAPD’s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all time.

 

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lauraRAVE CINEMA CLASSICS – $3 plus FREE popcorn and drink!

01/14/13 @ 1pm brings us “LAURA” from 1944.  A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating. Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb star.

 

For showtimes…http://ravecinemas.com/theater.aspx?id=47

 

ENTER TO WIN TWO MOVIE PASSES!

“Like” this post and leave a Facebook comment telling us you want to WIN MOVIE PASSES from RAVE CINEMAS DAYTON SOUTH, we will randomly draw a winner and notify same. Contest closes later this week. Passes awarded will be valid for 30 days from close date at Rave Cinemas Dayton South only and must be used by then or will be forfeited. Valid for any showing, except special events. Please bring ID to verify your name and just ask for a manager when attending informing them you won the Dayton Most Metro contest.

CONTEST CLOSED

Congratulations to this week’s winner: James Dickerson

Zero Dark Thirty – TICKET CONTEST

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ZD30_DOM_TEASER_1SHEET(from Sony Pictures)  The hunt for Osama bin Laden preoccupied the world and two American presidential administrations for more than a decade. But in the end, it took a small, dedicated team of CIA operatives to track him down. Every aspect of their mission was shrouded in secrecy. Though some of the details have since been made public, many of the most significant parts of the intelligence operation––including the central role played by that team––are brought to the screen for the first time in a nuanced and gripping new film by the Oscar®-winning creative duo of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal.

Their account of bin Laden’s pursuit and capture, vivid yet faithful to the facts, takes the viewer inside the hubs of power and to the front lines of this historic mission, culminating in the special operations assault on a mysterious, suburban Pakistani compound.

But it is the lead-up to the raid that truly distinguishes Zero Dark Thirty from other accounts. The quest to find bin Laden was fraught with danger from the start, and not every U.S. operative survived. Some intelligence experts came to believe that the assignment was impossible to carry out, but on the ground a determined team of analysts and interrogators defied the odds and proved them wrong. For the first time, their struggle to find Osama bin Laden is told on the screen in electrifying detail.

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Dayton Most Metro Ticket Contest

We’re giving away 30 screening passes for ZERO DARK THIRTY at Rave Cinemas @ The Greene on Thursday January 10, 2013 at 7pm the day before the official release date!  And you have THREE WAYS to win:

  1. Fill out the form below and then leave a comment below the article saying that YOU want to win screening passes for Zero Dark Thirty from Dayton Most Metro (be sure to tag @Dayton Most Metro and check the Post to Facebook box).
  2. Follow our Dayton Most Metro Facebook Page and share the image we post later today.
  3. Follow our Dayton Most Metro Twitter Page and retweet our tweet on Zero Dark Thirty later today.

We’ll pick five random people from each of the methods listed above on Monday January 7 and each will receive a pair of screening passes via email.  Passes must be used on Thursday January 10th 7pm at Rave Cinemas @ The Greene.  There are no reserved seats and since they typically overbook these pre-screening events, we recommend you get there by 5:30 to ensure you get a  seat.

Good luck!

CONTEST CLOSED

Congratulations to our winners!

Form Contest Winners:

Randy Crawford
Jimmie Brytus
Jessica McCann
Steve Strawser
Diane Carter

Facebook Contest Winners:

Paul Fleitz
David Peeples
Will Thorpe
Randy Shields
Markus Montreuil

Twitter Contest Winners:

@dianecarter1
@AmyInStilettos
@pamiam04468