They have so long predicted the end of the world in 2012… though we survived to witness together the very best of Cinematic VIP moments! 2013 shall be no less!

NOT ALL THOSE WHO WANDER ARE LOST……

We last saw Bilbo Baggins as a very old Hobbit in the Lord of the Rings trilogy… The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey teams young Bilbo (Martin Freeman) with Gandalf the wizard (Ian McKellen) and a horde of quarrelsome dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage). Their mission? To travel across Middle-earth to the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon names Smaug has stolen not only the mountain itself but also all the gold within it from the dwarves… They seek revenge!

Another great tale returns to the big screen in grand old style… Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. The hotly anticipated new musical stars Hugh Jackman as a wronged prisoner named Jean Valjean, who is out for justice, with Anne Hathaway as Fantine and Russel Crowe as Javert, offering their vocals as backup…. Not to forget the mesmerizing Amanda Seyfried in the role of Cosette.

Speaking of justice, who can forget the action hero – officer John McClane!? Well he’s back in A Good Day to Die Hard. This time, John travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist!

GREAT MEN ARE NOT BORN GREAT, THEY GROW GREAT...

Here starts SPVIP’s new 3D Films treat, with Lyman Frank Baum’s 1900 classic novel Oz: The Great And Powerful! The 3D-CGI fantasy adventure film stars the talented James Franco as Oscar Diggs, otherwise known as "The Wizard of Oz”… putting his "magical" arts to use through illusion, ingenuity, and even a bit of wizardry.

Blissfully we continue with the 3D computer-animated adventure comedy, family-film, The Croods. Set in the prehistoric era, when a man's position as a "Leader of the Hunt" is threatened by the arrival of a prehistoric genius who comes up with revolutionary new inventions like fire!

A strange idea always pop-up when we think of superheroes… does heroism depends on the suit or the person himself!? Well with Tony Stark we’ll know, when he uses his ingenuity in Iron Man 3 to fight those who destroyed his private world and soon goes up against his most powerful enemy yet: the Mandarin.

You may not be famous, but you definitely are cinematically pampered with VIP!

.................................................................. ELIAS DOUMMAR

Elias.Doummar@ovi.com