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Watch This: Stellan Skarsgård in 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' Trailer
Time to take a quick European break. Strand Releasing recently debuted an official US trailer over on Apple for the upcoming release of Norwegian film A Somewhat Gentle Man, a "dark feel good comedy" starring Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård (Mamma Mia!) as an aging gangster fresh out of jail, reluctant to return to the outside world. This looks like a whole lot of Scandinavian gangster fun, I'm curious to see it. The film played at the Berlin Film Festival and at Fantastic Fest in Austin a few months ago, where FSR's Rob Hunter praised it as being an "unassuming and surprising piece of entertainment." Watch the official trailer below!
⥤ Posted December 15 in Indies, To Watch, Trailers | 10 Comments
Sundance Adds 3 More Films: The Future, Flypaper & Magic Trip
Ohhhh I love late additions, there is always so much intrigue - did they really impress them that much to be added late? What's the story behind them? Sundance just announced that three more films have been added to the line-up at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, which is only 36 days away. The three new films are: Miranda July's latest The Future about a cat that changes lives (photo above↑), Rob Minkoff's Flypaper about a bank robbery gone awry, and Alex Gibney's new documentary Magic Trip, about "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey's LCD-inspired cross-country road trip to the New York World's Fair.
⥤ Posted December 15 in Indies, Movie News, Sundance 11 | No Comments Yet
Must Watch: Filmography 2010 Celebrates This Year in Cinema
As the end of the year looms closer, it's time to look back at this year in cinema with the traditional montage of films from 2010. While retrospective videos from years past have been impressive, this one from YouTube user Genrocks (via The Daily What) might blow them all out of the water. Using clips from blockbusters like Iron Man 2 and Inception, great indies like Howl and Catfish, documentaries like Casino Jack and the United States of Money and Waiting for Superman and hundreds more, Filmography 2010 is phenomenally edited and really makes you want to watch all your favorite movies from 2010 all over again.
⥤ Posted December 14 in Cool Stuff, Hype, Opinions | 23 Comments
Golden Globe Nominee Reactions Show Humility, Hilarity & More
With the nominations for the 2011 Golden Globes now revealed, there's been plenty of interesting buzz, both good and bad, surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's odd choices this year. From dual nominations for Johnny Depp (including one for a film being viciously panned almost across the board) to the complete ignorance of True Grit, people everywhere have plenty to say. But what about the nominees themselves? Thankfully, many of them have been very grateful, humble and even funny in their reactions to the praise from the HFPA and the nomination itself. So what did some of our favorite talents have to say?
⥤ Posted December 14 in Awards News, Editorials, Opinions | 4 Comments
Watch: Fun 'Take Me Home Tonight' Trailer with Topher Grace
You remember Suncoast Video, don't you? Similar to Sam Goody and Media Play and so on. Time for a blast from the past with this trailer! Previously known as Young Americans or Kids in America, Relativity Media has finally debuted a trailer on Apple for what they're now calling Take Me Home Tonight, a rockin' fun new 80's comedy starring Topher Grace as a college grad who tries to hook up with his dream girl, played by the always lovely Teresa Palmer, at a wild Labor Day weekend party. The cast also includes Anna Faris, Michelle Trachtenberg, Lucy Punch, Michael Biehn and Dan Fogler. It looks rather fun. Check it out below!
⥤ Posted December 14 in Opinions, To Watch, Trailers | 30 Comments
'Medallion' Reunites Nicolas Cage & Con-Air Director Simon West
After giving a much younger version of myself quite the theatrical experience in Con-Air, one of my first R-rated movies, Heat Vision reports director Simon West is teaming with Nicolas Cage again over ten years later for the new action thriller Medallion. Not to be confused with that failed Jackie Chan flick of the same name, this is a project we heard about back in October and at one point had Clive Owen and Jason Statham involved. But now it's Cage who will lead the Taken-esque story following a father and former master thief who has only a few hours to find his daughter when she is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a New York medallion taxi cab.
⥤ Posted December 14 in Casting, Movie News, Opinions | 1 Comment
Jon Favreau Tells Marvel Studios He Will Not Direct Iron Man 3!
Though we just heard from the director about some vague plans for the already anticipated Iron Man 3, it looks like that talk may have been only as a producer this time. Vulture reports that Jon Favreau informed Marvel Studios that he will not return to direct the next sequel in the franchise starring Robert Downey Jr. As disappointing as this news may be, it doesn't exactly come entirely out of nowhere considering rumblings a few months ago that difficult negotiations for Favreau's deal to direct Iron Man 2 likely ruined his working relationship with the studio to the point that he ended up missing out on directing The Avengers movie, too.
⥤ Posted December 14 in Movie News, Opinions | 41 Comments
Watch: First 'Fast Five' Trailer with Vin Diesel & Dwayne Johnson
"Next spring, this model is fully loaded." Vin Diesel as a car-stealin' ninja?! Universal has debuted the first trailer for Justin Lin's Fast Five, the fifth movie in their insanely successful Fast and the Furious franchise of high speed, high octane, highly mediocre movies. Vin Diesel premiered the trailer on his own Facebook and it's packed with plenty of TNA, lots of explosions, and more suped up cars than you can throw a stick at, as expected. As we also know, this stars Dwayne Johnson as well as Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris. I'm not really into this franchise at all, but that's just me. Watch and enjoy!
⥤ Posted December 14 in Hype, To Watch, Trailers | 60 Comments
'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits' is Finally Getting Released
It's been two years since we heard about the adaptation of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits starring Natalie Portman and over a year since the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It seemed the film would never see release, but now IFC Films (via The Playlist) has finally set the film for a February 4th theatrical release (though it will likely be a limited engagement). In addition, the adaptation from director Don Roos has bailed on the original title and has since been dubbed The Other Woman, which is probably an attempt to differentiate itself from Love and Other Drugs, another dramatic romance. Read on!
⥤ Posted December 14 in Movie News, Opinions | 4 Comments
Lee Daniels Also Set to Direct Adaptation of 'Anna in the Tropics'
Though I wasn't very pleased with the recent news that the director had lined up a remake of Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, another project for the Lee Daniels sounds less maddening. THR reports the director has signed on to develop and direct an adaptation of the award winning Broadway play Anna in the Tropics. Inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Kernina, the 1920's set story follows a Tampa family of cigar rollers whose lives are changed by the power of literature during a high point in the cigar-making history. Thankfully, the play's writer, Nilo Cruz, is quite pleased with the idea of an adaptation as he says, "I always saw it as a film."
⥤ Posted December 14 in Movie News, Opinions | 1 Comment
Must Watch: Full Theatrical Trailer for 'Rango' with Johnny Depp
Yeehaw! Paramount has debuted the second full theatrical trailer on Yahoo for Gore Verbinski's Rango, the upcoming animated comedy starring Johnny Depp as a chameleon named Rango. As fantastic as that first teaser looked earlier in the summer, this one is so much better and shows us so much more of the story this time around. More actors providing voices in this include: Bill Nighy, Timothy Olyphant, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina and Ray Winstone. This really looks wonderful, the animation, the story, the Fear & Loathing-ness of Depp's character, it all looks great, I truly can't wait to see it. Check out the trailer below!
⥤ Posted December 14 in Hype, To Watch, Trailers | 33 Comments
Casting Tidbits: Jessica Chastain, Neve Campbell & Tim McGraw
"I got it. I got the Turbo Man doll, with the rock-em sock-em jetpack, and the switch that when you flip it goes "It's Casting Tidbits time!" First up, THR has some more casting for John Hillcoat's adaptation of The Wettest County in the World. In addition to confirmation of Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy in the period drama, Jessica Chastain (Tree of Life) has also signed on to star. Chastain will play Hardy's love interest in a story about bootlegging siblings who take the law into their own hands in Virginia during Prohibition. She's a big city woman who may be in a small town, but previously found herself caught up with gangsters.
⥤ Posted December 14 in Casting Tidbits, Movie News | 1 Comment
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