Wednesday
Feb202013

"No Place On Earth" Poster

In October 1942, Esther Stermer, the matriarch of a Jewish family in the Ukraine, leads her family underground to hide from the pursuing Nazis – and stays nearly a year and a half. Their harrowing story of survival living in near total darkness in two cold, damp caves is one like no other ever told. It was life...like NO PLACE ON EARTH.

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Wednesday
Feb202013

New Trailer and Poster "Hunky Dory" Starring Minnie Driver

Relive the summer of 1976 in this heartwarming British musical from the producer of Billy Elliot.  Minnie Driver plays Viv, a fiery high school drama teacher determined to fire up her hormonal, apathetic students by putting on the best end-of-the-year show the school has ever seen… a glam rock-infused musical version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  But as the Welsh summer begins to heat up, can she compete with the typical teenage distractions of sex and drugs with some great rock and roll? Find out in this fantastic, rousing film- but remove all fears of the typical teen-pop covered high school musicals from your minds, as the songs in this film are from legendary artists like David Bowie, The Beach Boys, ELO, and The Byrds.

Tuesday
Feb192013

"Kiss Of The Damned" Red Band Trailer

Beautiful vampire Djuna (Josephine de La Baume) tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia), but eventually gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida) unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna's love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered...

Tuesday
Feb192013

The ABCs Of Death - Live Reddit.com Chat - Tomorrow 2/20 From 11am-2pm PST

Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die. Get your questions answered.

17 directors and producers from film THE ABCs OF DEATH will be answering your questions live on Reddit.com tomorrow! Tune-in for a chance to get your questions answered.

When: Tomorrow, February 20, 2013 from 11:00am PST – 2:00pm PST

Who: The following Directors and Producers are participating in the Reddit AMA Live Chat:

Nacho Vigalondo - A is for Apocalypse

Adrían Garcia Bogliano - B is for Bigfoot

Ernesto Díaz Espinoza - C is for Cycle

Marcel Sarmiento - D is for Dogfight

Thomas Malling - H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion

Jorge Michel Grau- I is for Ingrown

Simon Rumley - P is for Pressure

Adam Wingard - Q is for Quack

Srdjan Spasojevic- R is for Removed

Lee Hardcastle - T is for Toilet

Ben Wheatley - U is for Unearthed

Kaare Andrews - V is for Vagitus

Jon Schnepp – W is for WTF

Xavier Gens - X is for XXL

Jason Eisener - Y is for Youngbuck

Ant Timpson – Co Producer

Tim League – Co Producer

Where: http://www.reddit.com/

To join the chat, you’ll need to login on to Reddit.com and leave a comment. The Directors and Producers will be answering fan questions in real time!

Tuesday
Feb192013

"6 Souls" Poster & Trailer

After the death of her husband, Dr. Cara Harding's (Julianne Moore) faith in God has been shaken, but not her belief in science. In an attempt to open her up to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam, a patient with multiple personalities who takes on some of the physical characteristics of his other personalities. Cara quickly discovers that Adam’s other personalities are murder victims and the more she finds out about him and his past, the closer she and her loved ones are to becoming murder victims themselves.


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Tuesday
Feb192013

US Distributor Magnolia Acquires Norwegian Action-Adventure "Ragnorak"

US distributor Magnolia has acquired the Norwegian action-adventure film RAGNAROK from TrustNordisk.

Magnolia concluded the deal based on a 3-minute promo shown during the European Film Market in Berlin. The deal was negotiated between SVP of Acquisitions Dori Begley and Director of Acquisitions Peter van Steemburg from Magnolia and CEO Rikke Ennis and Head of Sales Susan Wendt from TrustNordisk.

"We are very excited about RAGNAROK, which has all the makings of a terrific action adventure. We are especially pleased to be working with our friends at TrustNordisk again to bring more great Scandinavian cinema to US audiences”, says President of Magnolia Pictures, Eamonn Bowles.

“I can’t recall having seen an action adventure film of this standard and production value coming out of Scandinavia. I am thrilled to have a partner like Magnolia aboard and can’t wait to present the film to the American audiences”, says Rikke Ennis, CEO at TrustNordisk.

Magnolia has previously released successful Norwegian films such as the thriller HEADHUNTERS (2011), based on the book by Jo Nesbø and TROLL HUNTER (2010). Lately Magnolia also acquired the rights for the upcoming Norwegian thriller PIONEER from TrustNordisk.

Norwegian Production Company Fantefilm which also produced THE COLD PREY-trilogy (2006, 2008, 2010) and ESCAPE (2012) is behind the upcoming large scale action-adventure film which stars actor Pål Sverre Hagen (KON-TIKI, 2012) as an archeologist obsessed with the Oseberg Viking ship. Convinced that the Oseberg ship contains the answer to the mystery of Ragnarok, the end of days in Norse mythology he mounts an expedition to “No Man’s Land” between Norway and Russia, which holds a secret more terrifying than he could possibly imagine.

Directed by Mikkel Sandemose (COLD PREY – THE BEGINNING, 2010) RAGNAROK is produced by Martin Sundland and Are Heidenstrøm for Fantefilm Fiksjon in co-production with Film i Väst, H. Aschehoug & Co, Ghost VFX and Tre Vänner with support from The Norwegian Film Institute, Nordic Film & TV Fund, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, The Swedish Film Institute, the MEDIA programme of the European Union and i2i Audiovisual.

Domestic distribution is handled by Nordisk Film with domestic release set for October 2013. TrustNordisk handles international sales.

Tuesday
Feb192013

"The Silence" Official Trailer

The Silence begins 23 years ago on a hot summer day, when a young girl named Pia is brutally murdered in a field of wheat.  Now, on the exact same date in the present, 13-year-old Sinikka is missing, her bicycle abandoned in the same spot.  As Krischan, the retired investigator of the unresolved case, and his younger colleague David struggle to solve the mystery of these parallel crimes, Sinikka’s distraught parents are trapped in an agonizing period of waiting and uncertainty.  Meanwhile, their daughter’s fate rips open old wounds in the heart of Pia’s mother, who is visited by an unexpected guest with an eerie connection to her daughter.  The unrelenting summer heat lies over the quaint family homes like a bell jar and behind closed doors, worlds begin to fall apart.

In his strikingly commanding debut feature The Silence, Swiss-born Baran bo Odar adapts Jan Costin Wagner’s bestselling novel with his own unmistakable signature. Mesmerizing performances by top European actors - headed by Ulrich Thomsen (The Celebration, Brothers), Sebastian Blomberg (The Baader Meinhof Complex), Katrin Sass (Good Bye, Lenin!) and Burghart Klaussner (The White Ribbon, The Edukators) - enrich this intense drama far beyond the crime genre.

Tuesday
Feb192013

CBS FILMS ACQUIRES THE COEN BROTHERS’ "INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS"

CBS Films announced today it has acquired US rights to INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS.  Written and directed by Academy Award©-winners Joel and Ethan Coen and produced by Scott Rudin and Joel and Ethan Coen, the film stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham and Justin Timberlake.    

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows an aspiring singer-songwriter (Isaac) as he navigates the 1960s folk-music scene in New York City’s Greenwich Village.  Grammy®-winner T Bone Burnett produced the film’s soundtrack which includes music performed by, among others, Oscar Isaac, Marcus Mumford and Justin Timberlake.  Robert Graf served as executive producer, T Bone Burnett served as executive music producer and Marcus Mumford as associate music producer.

Previous collaborations between the Coen Brothers and Rudin include the Academy Award©-winning Best Picture of 2007 No Country For Old Men and the multiple-Academy Award©-nominated True Grit.

Studio Canal is handling international distribution for the film as well as foreign sales.  UTA negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers. 

Tuesday
Feb192013

Dubious Report Alert - Toy Story 4 Coming 2015?

Ten years ago, we balked at the notion of Pixar whoring out beloved properties like Toy Story with a third sequel following, what was made and sworn on the Holy Bible by John Lasseter, the 2010 finale.

Finding Nemo is getting a sequel and we're months away from a Monsters Inc. prequel. Them ringing the cash registers with "Fuck you!" money for Toy Story 4 is not only inevitable, it's guaranteed.

But will it be for November 2015 as Terra (spotted by Bleeding Cool) claim?

Disney's slate for that year is pretty full before getting Woody and Buzz Lightyear into the equation. Star Wars: Episode VII, The Avengers 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 5, Pixar's The Inside Out and Ant-Man (also set for November '15). There is an untitled Pixar feature penciled in for November 25, but would they slot such a heavy-hitter as Toy Story 4? You tell me.

I don't buy it personally.

Tuesday
Feb192013

Dr. No: IMAX 3D?

Not too sure if this one makes any sense.

Apparently, Dr. No (the first James Bond film) might be getting an official IMAX 3D re-release.  Obviously whoever makes these decisions seems to think because the most recent Bond film, Skyfall, was released in IMAX and has made over $1 billion at the worldwide box office, a 50 year-old plus film should now be given the same treatment with 3D conversion to go with it because, you know, everyone loves 3D.

The website, Bleeding Cool, stumbled upon a new Taiwanese (?) Blu-ray release of the first James Bond film that apparently includes a 3D conversion as well as Moviefone listing an IMAX 3D release of the film, yet, without an official release date.

More information on this story as it becomes available though I hope there isn't an underlying plan to release all the James Bond films in this format as Star Wars fans can attest, that didn't quite work out for them now, did it?

Source: Bleeding Cool, Moviefone