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Today is Tuesday January 17th, 2012 and Taylor Lautner’s movie ‘Abduction’ is now available for you to purchase on DVD and Blu-Ray. Make sure to support Taylor Lautner and purchase your copy (copies) of the movie today!

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‘Abduction’ is heading to Video on Demand starting on December 22 through to January 4th. After that, it’s hitting DVD shelves!

As a special holiday bonus, all VOD platforms will also feature a free On Demand featurette that includes a special behind-the-scenes look at the film and interviews with the cast and crew.

The Bluray/DVD — out January 17th — will have the Abduction Chronicle (a production journal with Taylor), plus two bonus features: “Initiation of an Action Hero” and “The Fight For The Truth: Making Abduction Pulled Punches” gag reel.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($29.95) and Blu-ray ($39.99) releases of Abduction which stars Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, and Alfred Molina. Each will be available to own from January 17th. Extras will include featurettes (“Abduction Chronicle: On-Camera Production Journal”, “Initiation of an Action Hero: Taylor’s Amazing Stunts”, “The Fight for The Truth: Making Abduction”), and a gag reel. The Blu-ray release will also include an exclusive In-Film Experience with in-picture documentaries and exclusive behind the scenes interviews with cast and crew.

Synopsis

Headlined by breakout star Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga), the film is a fast-paced ride as Nathan (Lautner) searches for the truth about his identity. For as long as he can remember, he had an unsettling feeling about his life – one that is confirmed when he stumbles upon a photograph of himself as a child on a missing person’s website. Just as Nathan begins to uncover the truth about his identity, he finds himself having to run for his life.

The “Twilight” hunk’s turn as a Jason Bourne-like mover and shaker in Lionsgate’s “Abduction” opened to just $11.2 million — enough probably for the studio to make its money back, but not enough to launch Lautner into action-hero stardom.

“If ‘Abduction’ works, he’s a movie star,” an individual with ties to the Lautner camp told TheWrap Friday, before the movie’s box office numbers came in.

And if it didn’t have a big opening? “Studios are certainly not going to greenlight a $50 million movie with him in the lead.”

With Lautner’s name leading the development of several studio tentpole projects — notably Universal’s “Stretch Armstrong” — that sentiment could become an issue.

Certainly, with Lionsgate winning a bidding war for the “Abduction” script, and producing the film itself on a budget of around $35 million, the movie was a gamble for Lautner, too. Although he was a proven commodity in the “Twilight” movies, he had never carried a film on his own.

Lautner’s gamble illustrates how tricky it is to manage the career of a young actor who wants to be a movie star — like now.

“If you’re 20 years-old, there’s no rush to be the only guy in the movie, because you’re the only guy it gets pinned on when it fails,” said an agent who handles young actors. “And I don’t think at 20, whether you’re an actor or a student, anyone is ready for that pressure.”

Contrast Lautner’s career choices to those of his “Twilight” co-star, Robert Pattinson.

Sure, Pattinson has made some questionable decisions, including last year’s critical miss, low-budget romantic drama “Remember Me” for Summit.

But Pattinson also starred in the acclaimed drama “Water for Elephants,” surrounding himself with Oscar winners Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, and nominees Hal Holbrook and writer Richard LaGravenese.

“Pattinson seems to be making choices that are based on artistic merit,” a high-profile film producer told TheWrap. “Taylor is making choices on commercial merit.”

Artistic merit aside, the presence of all those other actors insulated Pattinson. If the movie failed — and with a worldwide gross of $117 million on a $38 million budget, it certainly didn’t — Pattinson wouldn’t be blamed.

Likewise, in a $16 million romantic drama like “Remember Me” that was lightly promoted and targeted to teen girls, the stakes weren’t as high.

As for Lautner, the weekend wasn’t a total bust. Among teen girls — his core audience — “Abduction” drew an “A-minus” grade from Cinemascore, a company that takes surveys from moviegoers after they’ve seen a film.

Critics are another matter. They collectively gave “Abduction” a 3 percent grade on Rotten Tomatoes.

For now, Lautner’s two upcoming “Twilight” movies should keep him busy; and in addition to Universal’s “Stretch Armstrong,” some pretty serious producers were still looking at him for some major roles as of Friday afternoon.

Lautner is still attached to “Incarceron,” Fox 2000′s adaptation of Catherine Fisher’s young adult novel.

“He clearly has a built-in audience and is a very charismatic leading man,” one producer told TheWrap.

Lautner had been a child star, with roles in “Shadow Fury” when he was 9 and “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3D” and “Cheaper by the Dozen 2″ when he was 13.

Then the character of Twilight werewolf Edward Black came along, and that transformed his career. Lautner was only 16 years-old when the first Twilight film came out.

His role was almost recast because he was perceived as too small — something he clearly worked on for films two and three of the series.

Team Lautner made hay while the sun was shining.

Paramount offered him the title role in “Max Steel,” based on the Mattel action figure. He ended up dropping out of that. Three months later, in February 2010, Universal offered him $7.5 million to make “Stretch Armstrong,” based on the Hasbro toy.

“Stretch” remains in development, and so does Lautner.

The individual with Lautner-camp ties put “Abduction’s” opening in perspective: “If it doesn’t work and it bombs, he’s 19 years-old.”

Source: Reuters

1. Abduction
2. Production year: 2011
3. Country: USA
4. Cert (UK): 12A
5. Runtime: 105 mins
6. Directors: John Singleton
7. Cast: Alfred Molina, Jason Isaacs, Lily Collins, Maria Bello, Michael Nyqvist, Sigourney Weaver, Taylor Lautner
8. More on this film

The boy in question here is a Pittsburgh high school senior (the likable Taylor Lautner, best known as a friendly Native American werewolf in the Twilight Saga series), and he and his girlfriend go on the run in Virginia, Washington and Pennsylvania from an untrustworthy CIA agent (Alfred Molina) and a Serbian gangster. His pursuers have inexhaustible backup, and they’ll stop at nothing to acquire a McGuffin in the form of a microchip bearing the names of numerous tinkers, tailors, soldiers and spies. For an entertainment centring on teenagers the violence is, I think, excessive.

SOURCE: The Guardian