Posted Sep 4th 2008 12:02PM by Jette Kernion
Filed under: Comedy, New Releases, Images
Where else would you expect to see the world premiere of a comedy in which Matthew McConaughey is shirtless for the entire film? It had to be Austin. Instead of the traditional red carpet, the stars of
Surfer, Dude strolled down a green carpet in 90-plus-degree weather last night, as part of a benefit screening for Austin Film Society. McConaughey (who kept his shirt on the entire time, sadly) was joined by a half-dozen of his co-stars, including Woody Harrelson, as well as director/co-writer
S.R. Bindler. Bindler's previous film, the documentary
Hands on a Hardbody, played at the Dobie in Austin for more than a year back in the late 1990s. Even McConaughey's parents were on the green carpet, although I don't think they appear in the R-rated comedy. The only disappointment was that Willie Nelson, who also has a role in
Surfer, Dude, wasn't around.
After the jump, I've included a photo of
Surfer, Dude actresses
Alexie Gilmore and
K.D. Aubert from last night's premiere. Out and About, the
Austin American-Statesman's social/entertainment blog, has posted
more photos from the green-carpet event as well as a short and light-hearted
review.
Surfer, Dude is opening on Friday in limited release -- including Austin -- and then will hit more cities on September 12. The film's distributor is Anchor Bay, primarily a DVD distribution company, but in the past year or so the company's started giving its movies a small theatrical release before the DVD rollout.
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Posted Sep 3rd 2008 7:02PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Toronto International Film Festival, Images
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Cinematical is excited to bring you these brand new exclusive images from
The Brothers Bloom (see gallery below), which will enjoy a premiere at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival this month. The film, which marks writer-director
Rian Johnson's follow-up to the much-beloved
Brick, stars
Adrien Brody and
Mark Ruffalo as "the best con men in the world" who, for their one last job, decide to take a beautiful and eccentric heiress (
Rachel Weisz) on a trip around the world. The delightful
Rinko Kikuchi (pictured in the gallery below) also stars. We here at
Cinematical are big fans of Johnson's
Brick (that kinda sounds weird, huh?), and have been looking forward to
The Brothers Bloom for quite some time now. While those lucky ducks currently in Toronto will get to see the film early (we'll have our review soon), the rest of us will have to wait till it hits theaters on December 19.
Posted Sep 3rd 2008 6:32PM by Elisabeth Rappe
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Warner Brothers, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Images
The
Green Lantern movie seems to be creeping
very slowly to the pre-production line, but at least it isn't dead. You probably remember that we had
a tiny update back in June that it was happily shaping up into a proper origin movie, rather than a slapstick version starring Jack Black. Now, courtesy of illustrator
Brian Murray, comes concept art he created for scriptwriter (and potential director) Greg Berlanti. This art helped seal the deal, and win the franchise for Berlanti Television. A glance through the gallery below tells you why -- it's exciting and cinematic, the kind of thing your mind starts filling in and speeding up. If this is what is floating around at Warner Bros,
Green Lantern could be shaping up to be something on par with
Iron Man. But my desperation to talk about another DC character other than Batman may be showing. The diehard
Lantern fans may have a different take than I -- is this the look of Hal Jordan to you?
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Posted Sep 3rd 2008 3:32PM by Jessica Barnes
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 20th Century Fox, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Images, Posters
I might have been raised on the old maxim: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all -- but even I can't keep my mouth shut on this one. A
new poster and some stills from the live-action
Dragonball have hit the net (along with some
official pics from Fox), and it is not looking any better for the anime update. If you are one of the few
Dragonball fans left out there with hope for this movie, I'm afraid once you get a look at
James Marsters as Lord Piccolo, the dream of a decent flick goes right out the window. Although to be fair, I have to give them credit for trying out a slightly more 'modern' look on the new poster art.
Dragonball stars
Justin Chatwin as the mighty Goku (a casting decision that has yet to ever really make sense), a legendary warrior who is responsible for protecting the awesome powers of the mystical 'Dragonballs'. Jamie Chung also stars as Chi Chi (Goku's love interest), along with Marsters as the evil Lord Piccolo (oh
Spike, where did it all go wrong?),
Chow Yun Fat as Master Roshi, and
Emmy Rossum as Bulma.
Just last week, the rumors were
silenced that Fox would be scrapping the one hundred million dollar film. The current spin from Fox is that they are 100% behind the project -- but honestly, what else could they say? So whatever you may think about
Dragonball, plenty of fans will probably be there on opening day. Who knows? Maybe I'll be one of them. I have been known to enjoy watching a train wreck on screen -- how about you?
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Posted Sep 3rd 2008 1:32PM by Jessica Barnes
Filed under: Comedy, Celebrities and Controversy, Movie Marketing, Toronto International Film Festival, Images, Posters
So if you aren't lucky enough to live in the wondrous nation known as Canada (can you guess where I live?), then look to your right, because this is going to be your one and only chance to see
the first poster for Kevin Smith's
Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Just when you thought Smith's troubles with the censors were over, the one-sheet for the 'adult' comedy has been given a thumbs down by the MPAA, and will not be displayed in the US. That's right, days before the film is set to
premier at the Toronto Film Festival, it turns out the only people who will get to see this poster will be those north of the border.
Zack and Miri follows two childhood friends who are strapped for cash, and come up with the wild idea of making a porn to ease their financial woes. The film stars
Seth Rogen and
Elizabeth Banks, but there are also plenty of familiar faces from Smith's usual stable (along with some of
Judd Apatow's regulars).
It didn't come as a surprise when the film ran into trouble with the MPAA, and luckily Smith managed to
avoid the dreaded NC-17 rating. But in the age of successful 'R' rated comedy, you would have thought the ratings board would move a little more with the times -- for goodness sake,
Good Luck Chuck one-sheets made it stateside. Smith told EW, "When you've got the word 'porno' in the title, naturally, the marketing materials are gonna be scrutinized more closely by the MPAA, I understand they've got a job to do, but c'mon...this image isn't that dirty; they're both fully clad." So even though I am on Smith's side in the argument, you have to love his qualifier of '
that dirty'.
Zack and Miri will premier at TIFF on September 7th, and will arrive in theaters on October 31st.
Posted Aug 30th 2008 2:33PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Drama, Images
On the 21st,
I shared pictures of
Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and others on the set of Richard Linklater's
Me and Orson Welles. Now we can get a peek at his older love interest,
Claire Danes, in the picture above, courtesy of
EW.
In the film, Efron is an aspiring actor who gets a bit part in a Welles production, and then gets sexy with the older, perky production assistant (Danes). According to Richard Linklater: "He's falling for this older woman. She's taking him for a bit of a ride." With that smirk above? No!
We already know that Danes has a pattern with this impressionable young men. Do you remember what she did with Igby? But at least Steve Martin gave her a taste of her own
Shopgirl medicine.
Me and Orson Welles debuts next Friday at TIFF.
Posted Aug 27th 2008 3:33PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Comedy, Romance, Images
While it stars some great names in the world of film, we haven't
heard too much about
Easy Virtue. But now, as it gears up for that spanky Canadian festival known as TIFF, CinEmpire has published a whole slew of pictures -- a retro
Jessica Biel,
Colin Firth,
Ben Barnes,
Kristin Scott Thomas, and more.
The film focuses on an American divorcee (Biel) who has to meet the parents (but hopefully without the cat milking). But unlike Stiller's version, she's already tied the knot with a sexy young Englishman (Barnes), so Mom (Scott Thomas) and Dad (Firth) can't stop the wedding. But I'm sure there'll be lots of dirty looks, and more than one smirk, like the one above.
Virtue is yet another romcom, but at least it heads back in time a little, and originally comes from a Noel Coward play that Alfred Hitchcock adapted years ago as a dramatic silent film. Good or bad, we'll find out soon enough.
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Posted Aug 27th 2008 2:03PM by Scott Weinberg
Filed under: Action, Drama, Disney, Images, War
Spike Lee and Disney might sound like a pretty odd combination, but I don't really see it that way. (Lest we forget that the excellent
25th Hour was a Disney production.) Love the guy or not, Spike Lee has turned into quite the eclectic filmmaker over the last few decades -- and so when I heard that the guy was helming a $50 million WWII drama for Disney, I was intrigued but not surprised. Based on the book by
James McBride -- and adapted for the screen by same --
Miracle at St. Anna tells the tale of four black soldiers who find themselves stuck behind enemy lines in Italy.
Opening September 26, St. Anna stars
Derek Luke,
Michael Ealy,
Laz Alonso, and
Omar Benson Miller. Also on board are
John Turturro,
D.B. Sweeney,
Kerry Washington,
John Leguizamo, and
Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Riding high after his last feature film (the solid and profitable
Inside Man), Mr. Lee looks to be moving into "Oscar-friendly" territory again with
St. Anna -- and I know I'm not the only movie fan who's curious to Lee's first big war movie.
Posted Aug 27th 2008 12:33PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Drama, Images
It's been almost two years since I first wrote about
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond. The forgotten Tennessee Williams screenplay started cooking up in
November 2006, with a stellar cast of Ellen Burstyn, David Strathairn, Ann-Margret, Chris Evans, and ... Lindsay Lohan? This was, however, before her personal demons took center stage and made a complete mess of her career. Bryce Dallas Howard starting circling the project
in 2007, and now, finally, you can get a peek of her in the film above (courtesy of
Rope of Silicon).
Can you imagine Lohan up there? Methinks her struggles will be a blessing for the film, which centers on Fisher Willow (Howard) -- a 1920s debutant who makes waves because of her "distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her." When she falls for a lower-class young man (Evans), she has to trick her family into thinking that he's upper class. But when she loses a diamond (like the title suggests), you can imagine what happens.
The film will finally begin to hit our eager eyes at TIFF next month.
Posted Aug 26th 2008 6:03PM by Jessica Barnes
Filed under: Comedy, Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Movie Marketing, Images
Jim and Ewan sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N..well, you get the idea. Thanks to Jim Carrey Online, we now have our first
official look at the happy couple in the black comedy,
I Love You Phillip Morris. Elisabeth brought us a behind the scenes
photo back in May, but in spite of the thrill of seeing
Jim Carrey and
Rodrigo Santoro dripping with sun-tan oil and Versace, I was a little disappointed that my favorite Scot was nowhere to be seen -- until now.
Morris was written and directed by
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who are also the guys responsible for the raunchy holiday offering
Bad Santa. The script was based on the book by the same name from the Houston Chronicle crime reporter, Steve McVicker. Carrey stars as Steven Russell, a happily married con-man who finds himself falling in love with his cell-mate, Phillip Morris (as played by McGregor). Russell spent years defying the judicial system, and also spent most of his criminal career hopping in and out of prison through a variety of elaborate schemes. Russell even posed as his Morris' lawyer to get him switched to a closer prison. But it all came crashing down when in 1988, Russell was sentenced to 144 years in prison.
Leslie Mann joined the cast back in April as Carrey's abandoned wife, and Santoro also stars as another of Carrey's paramours.
Even though plenty of actors still struggle with playing characters in same-sex relationships, without 'wimping' out all together (yes,
I'm looking at you Will Smith). But like
always, I think that McGregor will pull through just fine. As for Carrey? Now that's another question all together...what do you think?
I Love You Phillip Morris is scheduled to arrive in theaters in Spring, 2009
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Posted Aug 26th 2008 1:03PM by Elisabeth Rappe
Filed under: Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Family Films, Movie Marketing, Harry Potter, Remakes and Sequels, Images
Alejandro Martínez over at
BlogHogwarts has sent us a bunch of images from the just-released
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince calender. I know, it's hard to get excited about anything associated with a movie we won't see until July, but a calender can help alleviate your pain by giving you a little dose of Harry Potter all through 2009. Right? Ok, maybe not. You have to hand it to Warner Bros -- of all the franchises to be delayed, none works so well as Harry Potter. It doesn't matter that we don't know the film incarnations of the characters, because we've been living with the
Half Blood cast for years on the page. When you think of it that way, all this badly timed merchandise doesn't seem so ridiculous. There's some very cool stills here that I wish was bigger, particularly the troubled Draco Malfoy you can glimpse below. I've enlarged it, but at the cost of the quality -- if someone shells the bucks out for this (I'm looking at you, Emma Watson fans), feel free to send big scans along for your
Cinematical friends.
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Posted Aug 25th 2008 12:03PM by Elisabeth Rappe
Filed under: Classics, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Universal, Family Films, Movie Marketing, Remakes and Sequels, Images
The gang over at
Collider got their hands on a new picture from
Land of the Lost -- and as I'd like them to keep their scoop (particularly since the trades like ripping them off), you'll have to click on the bug-eyed lizard to see the whole photo. Devin Faraci has confirmed the photo is the real deal, and that it's the first look at Enik. If you adored the show (which I didn't, the Sleestaks scared the crap out of me), you might remember this kind fellow as the guard of a time portal. He's played by
John Boylan, who's really quite handsome under that make-up.
Enik represents what the Sleestaks once were -- a proud civilization called the Altrusians, a race that could talk and wear clothes, and who eventually devolved into the mean and naked Sleestaks. (Humanity, take note.) I'm not sure how they managed to make Enik look friendlier and less soul-destroying than
the other Sleestaks, but his black eyes don't scare me nearly as much.
Land of the Lost opens July 17th, 2009.
Posted Aug 21st 2008 7:03PM by Jessica Barnes
Filed under: Action, 20th Century Fox, Movie Marketing, Games and Game Movies, Images
It's funny how little things can make a big difference. When
the first poster was released from the big-screen version of
Max Payne, I have to tell you; I was pretty underwhelmed. But my opinion of the design has improved now that I've gotten a gander at the two new posters for the flick (see larger versions of both in the gallery below). Although, I have to ask, who knew that Mr. Payne was such a 'shoe-gazer'? The original Max seemed a bit more thick-skinned than his feature film version; Wahlberg makes the man look downright depressed at times.
Mark Wahlberg stars as Payne, a cop who has lost his family and partner at the hands of a powerful crime syndicate. When he is left to his own devices, our hero sets out on a mission of revenge for his loved ones, and discovering some unnatural secrets along the way. Starring alongside Wahlberg are
Mila Kunis (
Forgetting Sarah Marshall) as Mona Sax,
Beau Bridges as Payne's friend and mentor, and
Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges as an IA agent.
We finally got a look at
the trailer back in July, and if you are fan of the series, you probably noticed that the film has taken it's look from the original game. Payne was directed by
John Moore, who has the dubious credit of being behind the remake of
The Omen back in 2006. But, to be fair, the flick seems like an easy sell. Wahlberg seems suited to the more 'violent' strain of moviemaking. Plus, once you throw in the pre-existing fan base, and
competition-free release date, Fox should be able to rake in some serious dough.
Max Payne will arrive in theaters on October 17th.
Posted Aug 21st 2008 6:03PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Drama, Images
It was a pretty big surprise when
news broke that
Zac Efron was going to star in Richard Linklater's new film,
Me and Orson Welles. The
High School Musical star just didn't seem like the Linklater sort. But the dancing shoes have been put away and Efron has gone back in time. Four pictures from the film have been released over at
Twitch, and you can check out one of them above -- that is Efron as the young aspiring actor Richard, and
Christian McKay as the one and only Welles.
Based on Robert Kaplow's coming-of-age novel, the film focuses on a 17-year-old aspiring actor who is discovered by Orson Welles while walking past the Mercury Theater. He scores a bit part in
Julius Caesar, and is thrust into that world we call show. Now if only we could get a glimpse of Ben Chaplin's George Coulouris and Claire Danes' Sonja Jones...
Posted Aug 21st 2008 2:02PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Action, Fandom, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Images
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An Australian artist by the name of Josh McMahon has created some very cool fan art for the Batman universe. Above, check out an image of
Kristen Bell as Harley Quinn. While I'm not so sure the actress would do wonders with that role, I think this doctored-up photo is damn pretty to look at ... and it kinda puts me in the mood to see Quinn in the next Batman flick. Over on McMahon's gallery (which includes several other fan-inspired images), he says that, originally, he planned to use this image as an April Fools Joke and team with a bunch of websites to trick the world into believing Kristen Bell had a small cameo in
The Dark Knight. All I'll say is that would've been a fun couple of days right there ... We've included three images in the gallery below (larger version of Bell, a sample image from
Batman 3 with
Marion Cotillard as Catwoman and another with
Anne Hathaway as Batgirl), then
head on over to McMahon's page to see a whole bunch more.
Whaddya think? Kristen Bell as Harley Quinn? Marion Cotillard as Catwoman?
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