Archive for July, 2009
The Road Poster Online!
The poster for John Hillcoat’s feature film adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road” has appeared online.
Synopsis: A father (Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food and each other.
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The post apocalyptic thriller stars Viggo Mortensen (best known for his performances in the Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Film Series and David Cronenberg’sEastern Promises.), Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Gods and Generals, The Apostle), Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Liam Neeson And Antonio Banderas – “The Other Man” Trailer
“The Other Man” based on Bernhard Schlink’s short story about adultery stars Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney and Romola Garai. The trailer for the drama has hit the web. Check it out below.
The movie which had its premiere at last year’s Toronto Film Festival is both written and directed by Richard Eyre (”Notes on a Scandal,” “Iris,” “Stage Beauty”). The script was adapted by Eyre and Charles Wood.
“The Other Man” tells the story of Peter (Liam Neeson) who discovers that his wife Lisa (Laura Linney) has been receiving emails and mobile messages from Ralph (Antonio Banderas), a man he never knew existed.
Peter’s obsession with this unknown rival escalates and, against the advice of his daughter Abigail (Romola Garai), a hurt and vengeful Peter flies to Milan to seek out the mysterious Ralph and the truth about his relationship with Lisa.
“The Other Man” hits theaters in limited release on September 25th, 2009.
More Hi-Res “Gamer” Pics
Lionsgate has sent over a new hi-res pics from their upcoming sci-fi action movie “Gamer,” starring Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta, Alison Lohman, Zoe Bell, Kyra Sedgwick, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges and Milo Ventimiglia.
Official synopsis: “Gamer” is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people…for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game “Slayers,” allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.
Kable (300’s Gerard Butler) is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent “Slayers.” Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle’s ruthless technology.
“Gamer” is directed and written by Crank franchise writer/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor and has earned an R from the MPAA for frenetic sequences of strong brutal violence throughout, sexual content, nudity and language.
Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant!” Poster
Yahoo Movies has premiered a new poster for Matt Damon comedy/thriller “The Informant!,” directed by Oscar winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh. He is best known for directing the films “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”, “Erin Brockovich”, “Traffic”, the Ocean’s Eleven franchise, and biopic “Che.”
Based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 book, “The Informant!” is the tale of Mark Whitacre (played by Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. The bipolar hero wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in US history. Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes over several years to present to the FBI which became one of the largest price fixing cases in history. In the story Whitacre’s good deed dovetails with his own major infractions and struggle with severe bipolar disorder.
Soderbergh’s new film, starring Matt Damon, Frank Welker, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Patton Oswalt, Tony Hale, Thomas F. Wilson, Joel McHale and Eddie Jemison, will hit theaters on October 9th, 2009.
Fantastic Mr. Fox Trailer
Check out the first, official trailer for “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” animated film based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name.
Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep) live an idyllic home life with their son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) and visiting young nephew Kristopherson (Eric Anderson). But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr. Fox’s wild animal instincts and he soon slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief, landing him and his family in a lot of trouble.
The movie features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Jarvis Cocker and Helen McCrory. It is produced by Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin and Allison Abbate.
The film will be made using the same stop motion photography technique used in “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “James and the Giant Peach.”
First “New York, I Love You” Poster
The first poster for “New York, I Love You” has hit the web
The movie is a collection of several short films directed by 10 helmers that will be a cinematic love letter to the Big Apple.
New York City is the main unifying character and the movie will show the city as a living, breathing and loving whole. In the end, the audience will not only understand each individual story, but they will also see the integrated whole of chance encounters through these unique transitions.
Shia LeBeouf with Julie Christie and John Hurt are in a segment “Upper East Side” scripted by the late Anthony Minghella, which he was also set to direct until his death. He is replaced by Shekhar Kapur.
Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Chris Cooper, Anton Yelchin, Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon stars in Brett Ratner – direct segment.
Segment “Chinatown” is directed by Fatih Akin, “Kosher Vegetarian” by Mira Nair and the director of the transitions is Randall Balsmeyer.
Among other directors are Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Scarlett Johansson, Joshua Marston, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Andrei Zvyagintsev.
“New York, I Love You” starring: Christina Ricci, Orlando Bloom, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Kevin Bacon, Justin Bartha, Rachel Bilson, James Caan, Bradley Cooper, Chris Cooper, Julie Christie, Shia LaBeouf, Taylor Geare, Ethan Hawke, Irfan Khan, Cloris Leachman, Drea de Matteo, Emilie Ohana, Maggie Q, Shu Qi, Olivia Thirlby, Eli Wallach, Saul Williams, Robin Wright-Penn, Anton Yelchin, Ugur Yücel, Carlos Acosta, John Hurt…
“New York, I Love You” hits theaters in limited release October 16, 2009.
French “Final Destination” Poster
Today we have a French poster for “The Final Destination” (Final Destination 4).
Synopsis: On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O’Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave… escaping seconds before Nick’s frightening vision becomes a terrible reality.
Thinking they’ve cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one–in increasingly gruesome ways–Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination.
The New Line franchise will be presented for the first time in 3-D! If you have the stomach for it, this could be a very memorable thrill ride.
