Rise of the Planet of the Apes (John Lithgow, James Franco) (DVD)

Set in present-day San Francisco RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES reveals the origins of a war that ultimately let to a global apocalypse — and to Earth becoming the Planet of the Apes. The Oscar-wining visual effects team that brought to life the worlds of Avatar and Lord of the Rings is breaking new ground, and taking on its most ambitious challenge, creating, for the first time, a non-human CGI character that delivers a dramatic performance of unprecedented emotion and intelligence, and the epic battle on which rest the upended destinies of man and primate.