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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. Continue Reading…
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.”
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.”
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. Continue Reading…
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.
