Released : 2011Genre : Mystery SciFi ThrillerStarcast : Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck..Desc :Writerdirector J.J. Abrams teams with producer Steven Spielberg for this period scifi thriller set in the late 70s, and centering on a mysterious train crash in a small Ohio town. Summer, 1979: a group of young friends are filming a Super8 movie when a pickup truck derails a speeding train. When the locals start to disappear and even the inquisitive deputy cant come up with answers, suspicions emerge that the incident was anything but an accident. As the truth finally begins emerge, no one is prepared to learn what now stalks the unsuspecting citizens of this once quiet community. Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning star. Duration : 1h 41 minRead In the summer of 1979, Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), a 14yearold boy living in the fictional town of Lillian, Ohio, has lost his mother in a factory accident. Louis Dainard (Ron Eldard) comes to the wake, but Joes father, Deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler), takes Dainard away in handcuffs. It is later revealed that Jackson blames Louis for his wifes death because he was absent during his shift and she had to fill in for him.Four months later, Joes friend Charles Kaznyk (Riley Griffiths) convinces Dainards daughter Alice (Elle Fanning), who both he and Joe secretly have crushes on, to be the protagonists wife in his low budget zombie movie on Super 8 film. Alice steals her fathers car and takes Joe, Charles, Preston (Zach Mills), Martin (Gabriel Basso), and Cary (Ryan Lee) to an old train depot where the group plans to film a scene. During the shoot, Joe watches a pickup truck drive onto the tracks and place itself in the path of an oncoming train, causing a massive derailment. Something breaks open one of the train cars doors and escapes. In the aftermath of the accident, the kids find the wreck littered with strange white cubes. They approach the truck and discover Dr. Woodward (Glynn Turman), their biology teacher, behind the wheel of the truck, who purposefully sabotaged the train. He instructs them to never talk about what they saw; otherwise, they and their parents will be killed. Moments afterwards, the U.S. Air Force, led by Colonel Nelec (Noah Emmerich), arrives to secure the crash site while the kids flee the scene.Over the next couple of days, strange phenomena occur: numerous town dogs run away; kitchen appliances, car engines, and power lines vanish, and people begin to disappear. The Air Force deliberately starts a wildfire (Operation Walking Distance) outside of town, giving them a pretext to evacuate the entire town to a nearby base. Upon arriving at the base, Joe finds Louis Dainard, who tells him that a creature abducted Alice. Joe, Charles, Cary, and Martin sneak back into town and head to their school, where they break into Woodwards stash of confiscated items, thinking he may have hidden documentation about the creature that might help them save Alice. In the papers, film, and audio recordings, they discover that the government imprisoned an extraterrestrial (played by Bruce Greenwood in motion capture sequences) who crashed on Earth in 1958. The alien only wished to rebuild its ship, using the shapeshifting white cubes and return home, but it was instead imprisoned and tortured by the Air Force, who sought to seize its technology. One film shows Woodward, a researcher at the time, being attacked by the alien. This physical contact caused him to form a telepathic bond with the alien, through which he learned that it only wanted to go home. Woodward derailed the train to free it from captivity.Colonel Nelec and his men storm the school and capture the boys. They place the children on a security bus and head back to the Air Force base, but the alien attacks the bus on the way. Nelec and his men are killed, while Joe and his friends escape. The kids head through the town, which is now under heavy fire from malfunctioning military equipment as the military attempts to battle the alien. They find the aliens subterranean lair near the cemetery where Joes mother is buried, along with several missing people who have been trapped there by the alien, which has apparently kept them for food. The towns missing electronics are there too, formed together to create a giant electromagnet underneath the base of the water tower. Joe manages to rescue Alice, but, as they escape, the alien grabs Joe, who tells the creature that it can still live on even after painful events. The alien understands Joes meaning through their tactile telepathic connection and lets go of him, allowing him and his friends to escape.Shortly after, all the cubes (which break free from Air Force transport trucks) as well as loose metal from around the town are attracted to the towns water tower. The cubes begin to align and a ship begins to take form around the water tower, which the alien then enters. Joes metal locket, which contains a picture of him as a baby with his mother, is also drawn towards the tower, and, after a moment, he decides to let it go, finally putting the past behind him. Everyone watches as the ship takes off toward space.During the end credits, the full movie that Charles and his friends were working on, titled The Case, is shown, with an epilogue in which Charles asks the film festival judges to select his movie, before he is assaulted by a zombie played by Alice.Abrams and Spielberg collaborated in a storytelling committee to come up with the story for the film.[6] The film was initially reported to be either a sequel or prequel to the 2008 film Cloverfield,[7] but this was quickly denied by Abrams.[8] Primary photography began in fall 2010. The teaser itself was filmed separately in April.[9] Super 8 is the first original J. J. Abrams film project, produced by Amblin Entertainment, Bad Robot Productions, and Paramount Pictures.[10] Filming took place in Weirton, West Virginia, from September to October 2010.[11] To promote the film, Valve Corporation created a short video game segment and released it alongside the PC version of Portal 2.Abrams original plan was to film all of the sequences for the filmwithinafilm The Case in Super8 using Pro8mm stock and cameras. This approach, however, proved unsuccessful, as visual effects house Industrial Light and Magic found it impossible to integrate CGI into the footage due to the formats graininess. For sequences involving CGI, cinematographer Larry Fong used Super16 instead.[12]

Releshed Date  2 - August - 2011