Movies playing this week at the Jones Theatres.
The 34-year-old actor and "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi will not be returning to the superhero franchise next year. Instead, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced Monday that a new "Spider-Man" film based on a script by James Vanderbilt that focuses on Peter Parker in high school would debut in the summer of 2012 with a new cast and filmmaking team.
The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle has named "The Hurt Locker" as the best motion picture of 2009.
Children, come out of the freezing winter weather and into the warmth of the
Shawnee library, 101 N. Philadelphia, during winter break.
A Shawnee holiday tradition will reach another milestone when Jones Theatres presents its 88th annual free Children’s Christmas Show at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22 at the Hornbeck Theatre, 125 N. Bell.
Jones Theatres, Inc. and Kool Gold KGFF Radio, AM-1450, are joining forces again to present the annual “Cans Film Festival,” a special movie showing to collect canned goods for the Salvation Army holiday food baskets.
Longtime Shawnee motion picture exhibitor Jones Theatres, Inc., said the company has signed a lease to operate a movie theatre at Shawnee Mall, owned by the Lightstone Group.
You'd be justified in thinking you've visited "Zombieland" before.
After all, there has been no shortage of zombies at the movies in recent years, just as there has been no shortage of vampires. And within that genre, a crop of zombie comedies has arisen, from "Shaun of the Dead" to "Zombie Strippers" to "Dead Snow."
"Couples Retreat" suggests what life might have been like if the guys from "Swingers" had grown up, moved to the suburbs and turned into lame, sitcommy cliches.
Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn team up again, on screen and on the script (along with Dana Fox), for this broad comedy about four couples who go on a tropical vacation together.
St. Gregory’s University alumnus Jess W. Speaker, III was elected this year to the Council of Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Speaker was elected to serve for five years in a stage manager seat in the Eastern region.
“Deadland,” a sci-fi action movie set in a post-apocalyptic world complete with a worldwide plague and nuclear fallout, will be the opening-night film at the third annual Southern Winds Film Festival, which will again be hosted in Shawnee.
The Southern Winds Film Festival in Shawnee will show the documentary “Pappy Boyington Field,” created by Seminole-born Kevin Gonzalez on Sept. 11 in the Hornbeck Theater. The film starts at 1 p.m.
Enduring the soul-sucking process of buying a used car is bad enough. Watching a movie about soulless used-car salesmen is even worse — especially when it's a comedy that strains desperately for raunchy, politically incorrect laughs.
Nearly 150 elders from three local tribes left Oklahoma Wednesday on their way to Tama, Iowa, to take part in the filming of a documentary about legendary Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his legacy, the Shawnee Dance.
Reality and fiction share the screen in "Paper Heart," a fictional tale of fledgling romance wrapped inside a documentary about whether love exists.
"Paper Heart," conceived by 23-year-old comedian Charlyne Yi, who also stars in the film, introduces viewers to biologists, bikers, a romance novelist, a couple married for 50 years and others who talk about love and how to recognize it.
For a few days, a portion of downtown Oklahoma City has been transformed into 1950s Texas for the filming of an independent movie.
The way the original 1974 film's title has been condensed tells you everything you need to know about the direction "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" is headed. In these fast-paced, mixed-up times, it simply takes too long to spell out the numbers.
A film based on the life of prison reformer Jack Black is to begin filming in Guthrie in July.
The first week of filming in Guthrie for the film "The Killer Inside Me" is finished, with more scenes set to be shot in the coming days.
Some movie franchises never die; they just start over.
This summer brings new versions of "X-Men," ''Terminator" and "Star Trek" — each revitalized with a tested Tinseltown technique: the origin story.
