New Posters: “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and “Take”
We added some new and interesting posters in our FF gallery: “Journey to the Center of the Earth“ and “Take“
“Journey to the Center of the Earth” story revolves around a scientist (Brendan Fraser), his nephew (Josh Hutcherson) and their mountain guide (Anita Briem), who discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
The new film marks the first live-action production to be projected on Real D’s digital 3-D screens, which by summer should total more than 1,500 domestically. “Journey” is helmed by Eric Brevig, who will be making his feature film directorial debut.
It is scheduled to hit theaters on July 11th, 2008. Read the rest of this entry
Brand New ‘Meet Dave’ and ‘The Wackness’ Posters
Today, we have a two brand new poster: first one for the upcoming Eddie Murphy comedy “Meet Dave,” which is basically a zoomed out look of what was going on in the previous poster. The tagline states: “There’s a whole other world going on inside of him.”
Second poster is for “The Wackness“, which just enjoyed its New York premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival earlier this week. “The Wackness” is written and directed by Jonathan Levine, who is also the man behind “All the Boys Love Mandy Lane.” His new movie has already appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
Cusack Aims To Offend With War Satire Film ‘War, Inc’
John Cusack is outraged over the Iraq war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget political satire — complete with a chorus line of scantily clad female amputees - that he hopes will offend.
Inspired by anger about the war and questions about the political power held by global corporations, “War, Inc” is set in Turaqistan, a fictional nation occupied by a private U.S. company called Tamerlane and run by a former American vice president.
Cusack helped write the screenplay and also stars with Sir Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei and Hilary Duff in the film, which premiered this week at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival alongside several more serious documentaries on Iraq and other conflicts.
“I think the movie should be kind of offensive,” Cusack told Reuters about the film, which will be released in New York and Los Angeles theaters on May 23. “I’m shocked at how much good reaction we’re getting.”“Sometimes with a serious, somber movie, even though they’re great and well intentioned, it just doesn’t allow you to be outraged because you just get depressed,” he said. “This allows you to actually feel like, ‘Let’s do something subversive.”
In the movie, Cusack plays a hit man hired by Tamerlane to assassinate a Middle Eastern oil minister who plans to lay an oil pipeline through Turaqistan, thwarting the company’s plan for sole proprietorship of the country.
“‘War, Inc’ was just a reaction to the war and all the insanity behind using the 9/11 attacks to make an imperial land grab in the Middle East,” he said. “We really wanted to channel our outrage a little bit into something creative.”
Cusack said he was also inspired by the late director Robert Altman, who made a satirical movie about U.S. medical personnel during the Korean War, based on the book “MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.”
2008 Tribeca Film Festival to Open With World Premiere of Universal Pictures’ Comedy ‘Baby Mama’
Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal was joined on Wednesday by New York Governor David Paterson, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and many others to kickoff the seventh annual Tribeca Film Festival.
Festival organizers were joined by filmmakers participating in this year’s festival at the press conference, which took place at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in lower Manhattan.
The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival will run from April 23 to May 4 and will include 121 feature films and 79 short films representing41 different countries. The film slate features 53 world premieres,6 international premieres, and 30 North American premieres.
In addition to the line-up of films, this year’s festival highlights include an array of panel discussions, gala premieres of major studio releases — including Universal’s Baby Mama and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Speed Racer — and the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. There are also free events, including drive-in outdoor movies, the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair and the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day. Read the rest of this entry
How to Buy Tickets for the Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off its seventh year on Wednesday. Here’s a a quick guide to buying tickets:
- Single-ticket sales begin for downtown residents tomorrow (Sunday for the general public).
- Tickets can be purchased at www.tribecafilmfestival.org or 1-866-941-FEST. Box offices are at 890 Broadway and 15 Laight St.
- Tickets are $15 evenings and weekends, $8 daytime weekday and late night. Last-minute “rush tickets” will be available at the door on a first-come basis. Day-of-show tickets can be purchased online.
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Ticket discounts are available; go online for more information.
Tribeca Film Festival…Nine to Watch
The Tribeca Film Festival is back-and slowly learning from its many mistakes. After raising ticket prices to $18 last year, the fest will settle for a slightly better $15 (and less). After spreading itself too thin, it will cluster most of its screenings in Tribeca and around Union Square. Most important, the bloated festival has once again trimmed its often-spotty lineup, from its peak of almost 200 features to a mere 120. But are they any good? Well, we’ve seen more than half of the festival’s films and found at least nine sure bets. Tickets go on sale April 19.
Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot
Filmmaker Adam Yauch’s first non-Beastie Boys project is a funked-up, fast-paced doc that uses 2006’s “Elite 24″ all-star game at Harlem’s Rucker Park to highlight eight high-school superstars (likely lottery picks Michael Beasley and Kevin Love, and top Brooklyn prospect Lance Stephenson, among them). It’s as much a snapshot of the contemporary basketball scene as it is a love letter to the famed uptown court. The soundtrack is, predictably, killer.
Kassim the Dream
Kief Davidson’s gorgeously shot documentary gives us horror mixed with hope: Ugandan boxer Kassim Ouma was kidnapped and forced into guerrilla warfare as a child, deserted the Ugandan Army as a young man, and then came to America, where he battled his way toward becoming a boxing champion. Kassim is both relentlessly upbeat and totally unable to shake his murderous past. The film provides no easy judgments-just the conflicted, charismatic figure at its center.
‘Speed Racer’ International Movie Trailer
Few directors have ever pushed the envelope of visual filmmaking quite like The Wachowski Brothers. In 1999, they showed the world bullet-time in The Matrix and continued to wow us all the way through the trilogy. Say what you want about the last two films, but there is no denying that they looked sweet.
The same can be said for their upcoming film Speed Racer, which will be thrust into theaters on May 9th after making its world premiere on opening night at the Tribeca Film Festival. You may not dig actor Emile Hirsch (and I do not), you may think that the film looks goofy and cartoony (as many people do) and you may think that The Wachowskis have lost their marbles (we question whether they had any to begin with), but one thing is for sure: Speed Racer is going to be unlike anything we’ve seen in a long time.
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Watch the trailer in High Definition at SpeedRacerTheMovie.com
