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Artist, Ashley Longshore coneptualized and painted the artwork for the set of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1″. She painted several pieces for the film set, which are prominently featured in some of most anticipated scenes in the movie. These symbolic paintings are visible in the trailers, TV spots, released stills and clips. Just click on the images above to view the detailed image.

Ashley is based in New Orleans with a studio in the heart of Magazine Street, where the set designers for “Breaking Dawn” first reached her.

“The Twilight Saga: Breakig Dawn Part 1″ opens in wide release Friday, November 18, 2011.

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Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 arrive in theaters world-wide, Friday, November 18 2011 and the long-awaited wedding scene will be the highlight of the movie. The “Midsummer Night’s Dream” themed wedding will feature the Carmona New York Twilight dinnerware. Summit Entertainment and Carmona New york, partnered to create the 100% bone china wedding dinnerware for the wedding reception table scene.

Tammy Polatsek, owner and designer of Carmona New York custom-crafted the white asymmetrical plates, cups, and saucers; she also brought her ability to create and supply the floral arrangements for the wedding.

To commemorate this highly anticipated event, you can buy a set of two place settings of the Twilight by Carmona New York dinnerware used on the tables at Edward and Bella’s wedding reception.

Click here for more details.

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Release date: Wednesday November 9, 2011 (Wide)
Genre: Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Producer(s): Brian Grazer, Robert Lorenz, Clint Eastwood
Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Lea Thompson, Ed Westwick, Dermot Mulroney, Judi Dench
Official Site: jedgarmovie.warnerbros.com
Rated: R
Available film art: J. Edgar movie posters

Synopsis
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role, Clint Eastwood directs this biopic about the controversial FBI director.

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Release date: Friday July 20, 2012 (Wide)
Genre: Action
Director: Christopher Nolan
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Producer(s): Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
Cast: Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Liam Neeson
Official Site: www.thedarkknightrises.com/
Rated: Not Yet Rated
Available film art: The Dark Knight Rises movie posters

Synopsis
Christian Nolan ends his epic trilogy with The Dark Knight Rises. In the final instalment, Christopher Bale repsises his role as Batman and matches wits with the deadly bane (Tom Hardy) and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway). Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and 50/50 etc.) joins the cast.

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Release date: Friday August 19, 2011 (Wide)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Runtime: 1 hr. 52 min.
Director: Marcus Nispel
Studio: Maple Pictures
Producer(s): George Furla, John Baldecchi, Joe Gatta, Les Weldon, Fredrik Malmberg, Danny Lerner, Henry Winterstern, Boaz Davidson
Screenplay: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Sean Hood
Cast: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Rose McGowan, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ron Perlman
Official Site: conanthebarbarianin3d.com
Rated: R for strong bloody violence, some sexuality and nudity
Available film art: Conan the Barbarian movie posters

Synopsis: A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.

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The final installment in the Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″, arrive in theaters worldwide this Friday and the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. This review from canada.com’s, David Yates gives the film an unheard of 5 stars. I am definitely going to see this one.

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon and Maggie Smith

Directed by: David Yates

PG: Intense violence, frightening images

Running time: 130 minutes

Rating: 5 stars

It’s the quality of one’s convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.” Maybe so, Professor Lupin, but Harry Potter has found success on both fronts.

The seven films to date have earned almost a billion dollars each, so it’s obvious their followers are legion. But this is also a series that takes itself seriously, never more so than in this, the deathly finale.

The story starts quietly. Even in the wizarding world, there’s a time for talk and a time for action, as writer Steve Kloves (with the series since the beginning, save The Order of the Phoenix) and director David Yates (bringing the story home with the final four films) have clearly learned.

Thus, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) spends some time interrogating an ancient wand seller (John Hurt) and a wizened bank teller (Warwick Davis) about magical weapons before vaulting into the film’s first big set piece. It’s an underground bank raid that combines elements of the trash compactor from Star Wars, the sorcery scene in Fantasia, and Indiana Jones’ mine car ride. Also, a dragon.

This being the last stop on the line, Harry and his pals Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) are free to leave rubble in their wake, and they do so spectacularly. The demolition of Gringotts bank is just the beginning of the end.

Horcruxes (bits of bad-guy soul) fall like dominoes, and Hogwarts, their alma mater, takes a shellacking -though not before literally defending itself against the evil hordes of Voldemort -whose name, I’ve only just learned, derives from the French for “fly from death.” Someone’s been studying languages along with the dark arts.

The cinematic story stretches back to 2001, when Radcliffe was just a wee lad of 12. Thank heavens he and the rest of the young cast (no worries when it comes to the likes of Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, et al) have also grown as actors.

Despite the fact friends and foes still insist on calling him “boy,” this was the first Potter film in which I fully accepted Harry as an adult. “I trusted the man I knew,” Harry tells Aberforth Dumbledore (played by Ciaran Hinds) of his character’s brother, the late headmaster Albus Dumbledore. It’s spoken with the gravitas of a grown-up.

There was some grumbling from fans when Warner Bros. announced that J.K. Rowling’s seventh and final book, The Deathly Hallows, would be split into two parts. The studio was accused of carrying out its own Gringotts raid.

But the final chapter needs the extra time to breathe, and to allow each character a final, fanthrilling close-up. Harry and Ron doff their shirts. (There was some unmanly squealing at the Canadian premiere when it looked like Hermione might do likewise.) Ron and Hermione get a From Here to Eternity lip-lock. Even the faithful Quidditch brooms have one last flight, although the pitch is in flames.

The plot finds Harry, Ron and Hermione racing against time to destroy He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named-But-We’re-Going-To-Anyway, played by Ralph Fiennes. Voldemort is rallying his followers for a final attack on Harry, while the young wizards collect and destroy the last few Horcruxes in hopes of rendering the Dark Lord vincible.

The quest leads them back to Hogwarts, where one particularly difficult-to-find object is hidden. Harry learns that he has -literally -a ghost of a chance of finding it. The action is backed by an amazingly apposite score from Alexandre Desplat, whose work in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The King’s Speech and now here has made him my new favourite composer. (Sorry, James Horner.) Loud when it needs to be, the score is also frequently as quiet as a tomb. Yet there are moments when one can detect almost infrasonic rumblings, as though kettledrum-playing elephants were riding a subway beneath the cinema floor. It’s shiver-inducing.

The film, like the books, ends with a brief coda set 19 years in the future. Let’s just say of it that Ron has finally tamed that mop of hair. Shorter than the interminable farewells in The Lord of the Rings, this final scene feels, like the rest of the movie, perfectly paced and entirely satisfying.

It is -dare I say? -magical.

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Cars 2 (the sequel to Cars) and Bad Teacher make their way to a theater near you this weekend.

John Lasseter returns to the driver’s seat to direct this follow-up to his 2006 Golden Globe®-winning “Cars.” “Cars 2” is co-directed by Brad Lewis, producer of the Oscar®-winning film “Ratatouille,” and produced by visual effects industry veteran Denise Ream (associate producer, “Up”; visual effects executive producer, “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”). The film hits the track on June 24, 2011, and will be presented in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D in select theaters.

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Release date: Friday August 5, 2011 (Wide)
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Dobkin
Studio: Universal Pictures
Producer(s): Neal H. Moritz, David Dobkin
Screenplay: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, Alan Arkin
Official Site: thechangeupmovie.com
Rated: R
Available film art: The Change-Up movie posters

Synopsis: In director David Dobkin’s, The Change-Up best friends Mitch and Dave wake up in each other’s bodies following a drunken night out together.

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