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We have two trailers and the first clip from Buried, the Ryan-Reynolds-in-a-coffin suspense-thriller, Due Date, a comedic road movie starring A-lister Robert Downey, Jr. and the ubiquitous Zach Galifianakis, and the first clip from Let Me In, Matt Reeves' (Cloverfield) remake of the 2008 Swedish horror film with Chloe Moretz (Hugo Cabret, Kick-Ass, (500)Days of Summer) as a preteen who may not be what she appears to be.
1. Buried: A bidding war erupted this past January at the Sundance Film Festival for this suspense-thriller set entirely inside a coffin. Reynolds plays an American contractor in Iraq who, post-kidnapping by persons unknown, awakens in a coffin with only a cell phone, a lighter, and enough oxygen to last 90 minutes (conveniently the length of an average feature film). Reynolds received kudos at Sundance for his intense performance as the increasingly desperate contractor.
[After the break, the international trailer awaits.]
Earlier this year, Barbara Walters ended an era, deciding to hang up her celebrity interview microphone after a whopping 29 years. Names batted around to replace the icon included James Lipton, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, and Oprah. Each was a logical choice, offering up something new for the audience, from wry cinematic know-how to comedic ridiculousness or massive fandom. But here's another possibility: Martha Stewart.
Yes, the once-imprisoned mega-name behind all things fancy and domestic is itching to join the ranks of celebrity interviewers. While she's not leaving her daytime job as lead of The Martha Stewart Show, she is leading a new interview series called Martha Stewart Presents, which she hopes will fill a void left by Larry King and Barbara Walters.
I have a confession to make: I'm kind of a film festival newbie. As such, I've spent most of my time at the few festivals I've been to almost exclusively watching their feature film programming whilst completely neglecting the short films. Not that I have anything against shorts, I love them, in fact, it was just that in my noob brain the equation was: Me + Finally at a Film Festival = Watch Feature Films Like They're Going Out of Style. I recently realized how stupid that equation is.
Over the summer I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to lend a hand to the Fantastic Fest programmers in going through the legion of short films that were submitted to the fest. Around the second time I finished watching a submission and thought, "Those 14 minutes were better than half of the theatrical films I've seen this year", I realized just how neglectful I had been. Needless to say, it was an eye-opening experience and I can absolutely attest that the slate of short films selected for this year's FF are phenomenal.
In true FF fashion, the selected films range from shocking to weird to hilarious to 'what in God's name am I watching?'. And while there are recognizable filmmakers among the names below, like make-up effects maestro Greg Nictorero and animation genius Don Hertzfeldt, the best part of the shorts slate will of course be discovering new filmmakers for the first time.
I would never associate German director Wim Wenders with 3D. His beautiful film Wings of Desire is deeply emotional visual poetry -- not the words I'd use to describe a 3D film I've seen by any stretch of the imagination. Those in Italy for the 67th Venice Film Festival can hop a train to Lausanne, Switzerland to take in Wenders' 3D film installation, If Buildings Could Talk . The director has combined cutting edge technology, the futuristic design of the Rolex Learning Center, and a lyrical narrative to explore how buildings communicate with their inhabitants.
Sometimes our cinematic heroes are hunted by unstoppable bad guys, and sometimes they're just the prey of large, hungry animals.
It's been three years since we first heard of The Grey, a spec script Joe Carnahan was writing. His friend had written a short story, Carnahan bought the rights and adapted it, and it floated around with the filmmaker's other possible projects, from a remake of Bunny Lake is Missing to a little White Jazz.
Earlier this year, the project finally started to pick up steam with Bradley Cooper, but one A-Team star is getting replaced with another. Faceman is out, and Hannibal is (almost) in.
I saw Outbreak as a wee lad, and for approximately the next 10 years I was convinced that every cough was an early symptom of Ebola. To my over-active imagination, that half-baked Hollywood thriller was just about the most terrifying film conceivable, the invisible microorganisms that bastard monkey brought to the US were infinitely more frightening than the likes of Freddy, Jason, or even the prospect of Freddy vs. Jason.
And now Steven Soderbergh has to come along and stoke my fears all over again with Contagion, a disease thriller (I pray that doesn't become an actual genre) that promises to be grounded and well-researched enough to scare me into replacing my wardrobe with a Hazmat suit. The project has been coalescing for a few months, and now The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Mr. Jules Asner's globe-trotting film will directly confront recent history by shooting in Hong Kong, the epicenter of the 2003 SARS epidemic from which Contagion takes its cues.
Sure Zach Galifianakis is a big star now -- thanks to appearances in films like last year's The Hangover -- but it wasn't always A-list parties for the funny man from North Carolina. Before he hit the bigtime. Galifianakis was a struggling comic who hosted a really hilarious and short lived show on VH1 entitled Late World with Zach.
Late World opened up with Galifianakis performing a monologue that sometimes included musical numbers. From there, the show went on to feature skits and musical guests. It was funny, but unfortunately it never got the chance to really catch on with audiences. Next thing you know, Zach was doing episodes of Tru Calling ...
As proof of how funny the comedian could be, we found this old clip from Late World with Zach. In this one, Galifianakis performs his stand up monologue in front of a group of preschool children. He's a little less beardy, but the comedy stylings are still the same. He has a genuine rapport with the kids, who clearly don't understand half of what he's saying, but do crack up when he makes a joke about pooping on a kid's head. One of the funniest moments comes when he asks the pre-schoolers if they have any jokes for him. One kid comes up and simply says, "You're poop," to which Galifianakis responds with, "Guys, don't work blue on me -- let's work it clean, okay?"
It's a bridge week here at the ol' DVD announcement column. Those expecting word on Inception, Eclipse or even The A-Team will have to wait a little longer. Instead you get a chance to infuse your Netflix queues and Amazon shopping carts with some of the films from the festival circuit that opened quietly and at least one that hasn't even opened yet.
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The choice of the week is, unquestionably, Kino's release of Ben Steinbauer's wonderful documentary Winnebago Manon November 2. Some of you may still have an old bootleg VHS of the Jack Rebney outtakes; the Winnebago salesman whose behind-the-scenes commercial flubs have become legendary. We're in the digital age now so you can revisit it all on YouTube, but Rebney was probably the first guy to deserve a "web redemption" on Tosh.O. Even better though, Steinbauer gave him one in feature film form. He tracked down Rebney, who alternately is very forthcoming and standoff-ish in coming clean about his celebrity status, resulting in a film very much like the terrific Best Worst Movie which gets under the curtain of infamy's fame and how it affects an unwitting subject. Unlike the next release on our list.
At the end of July I wrote a post titled "The Miramax Fight is Over: Tutor Takes the Prize." Oh, what hopeful words. After a long ordeal where the Weinsteins tried to buy back their company, and every rich dude on the block contemplated a movie studio purchase, it seemed like Disney's sale of Miramax was finally complete. No more out-of-left-field twists like Rob Lowe, Studio Head. But not so fast. Yet again, Miramax is facing monetary issues, but this time it's not the Weinsteins losing investors.
Ron Tutor and Colony Capital have lost two big money-givers -- James Robinson of Morgan Creek Productions, and Jerome Swartz, a retired engineer and philanthropist.
Shooting on the fourth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides, is underway and photographers have been busy snapping photos of cast members on the set. So far, we've seen Johnny Depp in his Captain Jack Sparrow regalia and Penélope Cruz as Angelica -- and yesterday we got our first peek at Ian McShane as Blackbeard. This was the one I've been waiting for ...
The pic is a bit fuzzy and from a distance, but you get a real feel for how McShane will look in the costume -- and from this pic, it's pretty impressive. McShane looks like his namesake with his long dark beard and black clothing. He's not particularly huge, but he's still sure to strike fear into the hearts of many a scurvy sea-dog.
We don't know much about the plot of On Stranger Tides at this point -- aside from the fact that Sparrow and Blackbeard are teaming up to find the Fountain of Youth. Angelica, Blackbeard's daughter, isn't the biggest Sparrow fan around -- she's a handful and she's not falling for any of Depp's shenanigans apparently.
This fourth entry in the popular franchise marks something of a new direction for the series. Geoffrey Rush will return and he'll be joined by Stephen Graham, Sam Claflin, Greg Ellis and Gemma Ward. The film sails into theaters on May 20th of next year.
Does this Blackbeard look like a menace of the Seven Seas to you or would you expect to find him hanging out in the marina bar drinking fruity beverages with umbrellas in them? Share your thoughts below.
Music News: App is first of its kind for perf rights org -- The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the performing rights organization made up of approximately 390 members, has announced the launch of ASCAP Mobile, an application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
TV News: 'CSI' maven Zuiker on board to exec produce -- CBS is eyeing a spy drama based on aspects of Robert Ludlum's novels about the spies who work for the secretive Treadstone Corp.
H'w'd and D.C.: Perlman sends missive to members -- With the Screen Actors Guild's election season in full swing, the renewed push for a merger between SAG and AFTRA has become the dominant issue in the guild's upcoming board election.
Film News: '8 Mile' scribe to rewrite Summit actioner -- Summit Entertainment's moving forward on "The Osterman Weekend," tapping Jesse Wigutow ("8 Mile") to rewrite its long-gestating action-thriller, based on Robert Ludlum's novel.
International News: Olivia Williams to rep 'Ghost Writer' -- Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key," toplining Kristin Scott Thomas, will close the 58th San Sebastian Film Festival.
Venice Show Dailies: Filmmaker blurs fact and fiction with latest offering -- For Venice audiences and critics, "In the City of Sylvia," which world preemed there in 2007, established Spaniard Jose Luis Guerin as a talent to track.
Venice Show Dailies: Mazzacurati tackles contempo issues in Venice competition comedy -- There is somewhat of a paradox in Carlo Mazzacurati's comedy "The Passion," which screens today.
International News: Golden Lion winner reflects on "Assassins," China and Hollywood -- John Woo dominated the Lido on Friday when he received the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement just as martial arts epic "Reign of Assassins," which he helmed with Su Chao-Pin, world preemed to warm response.
[Some 34 million Americans are driving somewhere fabulous for the weekend. Actually they're probably stuck in a traffic jam like this one in Oakland. Enjoy the long weekend, folks. Try not to spend it all in the car. Image: Getty] More »
This week we had Emmys, crazies, dog-throwers, and hurricanes. It was not a good week to be a human being. Though, in some ways, it was a great one. Let's take a look back. More »
[Penn Badgley bellows, "Noooo!" as Taylor Momsen threatens to put her panda eye makeup back on. Just kidding, they're filming for Gossip Girl. Taylor would never talk to a boring square like Penn in real life. Image: Pacific Coast News.] More »
Now we know why Miami's airport evacuated last night: Something suspicious was found in the suitcase of a man previously jailed for smuggling the plague. Meet Dr. Thomas Butler, a white guy from Texas who works in Saudi Arabia. More »
There is something inherently awful about all bridesmaid dresses, but they make for amazingly good TV. And with all the contestants hating one "bride" in particular, it made for an exceptionally fraught reception. More »
A New York Times article this morning examines the latest iteration of an age-old problem for the Democratic party: getting young voters to give a shit about politics between presidential elections. Are these kids already bored with the "Democrat" fad? More »
There's a new Judge Dredd film getting underway, and it's possible that this one will be a lot better, or at least far more faithful to the source comic series, than the '90s film starring Sylvester Stallone as the helmeted, law-giving Dredd.
Karl Urban plays Dredd this time out, and now Olivia Thirlby has signed on as Cassandra Anderson, aka Judge Anderson.
Thirlby is a great actress who we've been waiting to see really hit the big time, and she adds a lot to this cast. She'll be able to make Anderson a lot more than just some eye-candy hanger-on.
Variety describes the movie's version of Anderson as "a telepathic rookie who shadows Dredd," so in that case the film is sticking close to the basic comic book vision of the character. I haven't had a chance to read the script yet, so I can't say where things go from there.
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Briefly: Let the Right One In director Tomas Alfredson is putting together a stellar cast for his adaptation of the John Le Carré novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. He's got Gary Oldman in the lead as cold war agent George Smiley, working to uncover a mole in the upper realms of the UK secret service.
Ciaran Hinds, Colin Firth and Jared Harris are all in the cast, and Michael Fassbender was scheduled to appear as well. But he's moved on to X-Men: First Class (which, like Alfredson's film, just started shooting) and so has been replaced by Tom Hardy. That's a pretty good swap, as far as I'm concerned. Would have loved to see Fassbender in the picture, but if we can't have him, Hardy is a great substitute. Oh, and Peter Morgan scripted, so that's yet another good point. But Ralph Fiennes was also supposed to be in the cast, ...More
How does the Los Angeles-based Gallery 1988 top their Crazy4Cult show? By announcing a team-up with The Autumn Society for something they are calling "The 3G Show". A Pop-Culture art show in tribute to Ghostbusters, Goonies, and Gremlins. 3 movies that defined our generation. How cool is that? The show will have their grand opening on Friday September 3rd from 7-10pm, and will run until September 22nd 2010. The show features new art from /Film favorites like Tom Whalen and Dave Perillo, among a variety of other awesome artists.
You may recall that we've posted two previews from the upcoming show the first one with over 25 images, a second preview with another 20 pieces of art, and a third preview with 24 more pieces of artwork. You thought that was it, right? You were wrong. After the jump I have compiled an additional collection of 32 awesome pieces created for ...More
Magnolia Pictures/Magnet have released the new movie poster for Gareth Edwards? new low budget monster movie Monsters. Check it out now after the jump, along with the production notes for the film.
Since screening the film at Cannes, we've been hyping the movie (read my mini review here). We called it Lost in Translation in a world infested by monsters.The movie trailer definitely tries to sell the movie as more of a sci-fi thriller and less of the character piece that it really is. Watch it now, embedded after the jump.
Movie Poster:
Hollywood is already going nuts over the filmmaker, who supposedly made the film for a fraction of a million dollars (maybe even as little as $15,000), and some are touting him as the next Neill Blomkamp. We've posted a featurette showing how director Gareth Edwards was able to achieve what he did with Monsters on such a low budget, and ...More
The first reviews of Sofia Coppola's new film Somewhere are starting to come in from Venice, and they're quite good. Praise for Stephen Dorff's performance is universal so far, as is an appreciation for the quiet tone of Coppola's storytelling.
Let's kick things off with a blockquote from Variety's review, which seems to sum things up pretty well:
Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" is a quiet heartbreaker. Trading "Lost in Translation's" Tokyo hotel for Beverly Hills' Chateau Marmont, the ever-perceptive writer-director further hones her gifts for ruefully funny observation and understated melancholy with this low-key portrait of a burned-out screen actor. Steeped in morning-after regret and centered around a strong performance by Stephen Dorff, the result is sure to frustrate those who require their plots thick and their emotions underlined.
Guy Lodge at In Contention calls the film " wry, shimmery and thoroughly beguiling," and says
It?s an appropriately distanced introduction to a man who doesn?t ...More
Two bits of non-movie Harry Potter news here. Recently there had been word that the massive Leavesden Studios in England, wherein much of the Harry Potter film series was filmed, would be turned into a Potter-themed museum and attraction.
Now Rupert Grint has confirmed that report, albeit without providing too many details of how the conversion would happen, and what sets and environments would be preserved and/or presented. But how would he know all those details? For now, it's interesting enough that the studios could be open to the public at some point in the future; they house magnificent sets which would be a great destination for fans.
After the break, there's a thin report that Universal Orlando's Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction may be growing. But not, sadly, via magic.
Mugglenet has a reader report saying that during a recent tour through the Potter attraction and nearby Islands of Adventure, the ...More
Director Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cite Soleil) suffered a career setback earlier this year when Universal canceled Cartel, the film he was planning to shoot first with Sean Penn, then with Josh Brolin.
But he's picking up steam now with Man on a Ledge, which has had Sam Worthington attached to star for some time. Yesterday the film added Anthony Mackie, and now Jamie Bell is signing on and Amy Adams may be on board soon. A heist picture with Mackie, Bell and Adams? Let's see it.
Deadline explains a bit more about the story. Worthington is a cop, jailed for a crime he didn't commit. "Let out for his father's funeral, he escapes and ends up on a hotel ledge threatening to kill himself. Bell plays his brother, who happens to be planning a heist of a jewelry store across the street while the cop threatens suicide. Mackie would play ...More
Public perception of the M. Night Shyamalan-produced Devil has been pretty low so far. If you've been at a theater that ran the trailer this summer, there's a good chance you heard laughter (or joined in) when the film's trailer culminates with Shyamalan's name. That leaves me wondering how the series of which it is loosely a part, The Night Chronicles, might fare.
But I wonder if some former Shyamalan fans might look differently at the series now that we know that one of the films will be based in part on some of the story the writer/director came up with for Unbreakable 2.
M. Night Shyamalan told MTV that he's asked about a sequel to Unbreakable more than anything else. And he had some ideas for a second film that were based, in part, on a character he created for Unbreakable but cut out and saved for an intended sequel.
But over ...More
We've been getting a lot of casting info about Final Destination 5, which James Cameron protege Steven Quale is soon directing. Emma Bell from Frozen and The Walking Dead is signing on as the female lead.
She'll join P.J. Byrne, Tony Todd, David Koechner, Meghan Ory, Nicholas D'Agosto, Ellen Wroe, Arlen Escarpeta and Miles Fisher when the film shoots in Vancouver later this month. Expect more antics in which death stalks people, who end up expiring in rather extravagent ways. [Arrow in the Head]
After the break, Ted Danson hates whales, and Jon Hamm partners up with his real-life wife.
The Office staffer Ken Kwapis is preparing to direct Everybody Loves Whales, with John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell and Tim Blake Nelson, and the picture has just added Ted Danson and Vinessa Shaw.
The film is based on Freeing the Whales, a non-fiction account by Tom Rose of how "a small-town reporter (John ...More
Briefly: Not anything wildly new here, but there's something seemingly appropriate and neat about the Tron logo rendered in Japanese katakana as part of this poster for Tron Legacy.
And the design of this poster is kind of wonderfully old-school -- it looks like it could easily be a poster for a film made twenty or thirty years ago, minus the obviously current suits and discs held in the foreground. But as we head in to a long, likely news-free weekend and the end of summer 2010, there are worse things to take a look at.
See the full-size image after the break.
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Earlier this year, Barbara Walters ended an era, deciding 
Sometimes our cinematic heroes are hunted by unstoppable bad guys, and sometimes they're just the prey of large, hungry animals.
