New Year’s Day Movies (CPs Thurs., 1/1/15)

Happy New Year to you from all of us at Entertainment Central Pittsburgh! We wish you the best in 2015 and look forward to bringing  you more fun entertainment options!

If you’re not into all the College Foot ball games this day is known for, then head out to you local movie house or cineplex to catch the latest flicks. Here’s a few big movies now screening:

1) Into the Woods—The movie event of the season. Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-winning musical mash-up of Little Red Riding Hood, Jack & The Beanstalk, Cinderella, and Rapunzel finally makes it to the big screen with an all-star cast that includes Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, and Meryl Streep. Check Fandango for screens and times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6IDBxKbsZU

2) Annie—An update of the Broadway musical, which was itself an adaptation of the Depression-era comic strip, the movie has opened in theaters. This time Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) is living with evil foster parent Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). Daddy Warbucks is now called Will Stacks, and he’s a tycoon/mayoral candidate played by Jamie Foxx. Sight unseen, it’s got to be better than the legendarily dreadful 1982 version directed by John Huston. Check Fandango for screens and times.

3) The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a movie from the concluding chapter of the Tolkien novel. Bilbo and the gang are battling Smaug the Dragon and a whole slew of armies. Director Peter Jackson has announced that the film ends with a 45-minute battle scene … so much for Peace on (Middle) Earth, Goodwill T’ward Men. Check Fandango for the nearest movie house where it’s screening.

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