Katie Aselton's micro-indie "The Freebie" had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year as part of the new Next section. It stars Dax Shepard and Aselton as a young married couple who give each other one free pass to stray.
Phase 4 Films picked up the film right after the fest and will release it Sept. 17.
Fox Searchlight has suddenly given us a look at Danny Boyle's new one, "127 Hours," which hits the festival circuit in a few weeks and then theaters in November.
Yes, this looks cool, as all of Boyle's films do. It's full of life and unique visuals and thumping music and the mystical in the tragically real. Check it out after the jump:
Documentarian Charles Ferguson, who made the Oscar-nominated 2007 Iraq War doc "No End in Sight," has his new film, "Inside Job," about to screen at the Toronto and New York film fests. Sony Pictures Classics will release the film, which takes a hard look at the beginnings of the economic meltdown in 2008, in mid-October.
There's a trailer out for the Doug Liman-directed "Fair Game," which Summit picked up back in April right before its screening in competition at the Festival de Cannes.
Jez Butterworth and John Butterworth wrote the screenplay for the project, which stars Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband Joseph Wilson. The voiceover is completely overwrought but the political thriller aspects look intriguing. Since almost everyone already knows the story, this one's success rests on the charisma of Watts and Penn.
Check out the trailer for Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, the movie looks very cool.
With its weeping strings and disturbing supernatural undercurrent, "Swan" reminds us of the emotional devastation Aronofsky's "Requiem for a Dream" left in its wake. The film will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month and then open nationally in December.
For those who feel that they didn't get quite enough detail on the "Love & Other Drugs" storyline from last Friday's trailer, Fox has released a new version.
This one is the full three-act smoker, running for two and a half minutes, with every story beat and plot twist mapped out in full-disclosure detail. Enjoy!
I happen to think Paul Haggis made a truly great film with "In the Valley of Elah." It used genre elements to tell an unexpected and devastating story about the disturbing consequences of war on simple human beings.
This trailer, for the Lionsgate thriller "The Next Three Days," comes off like nothing but genre conventions. It also gives away the entire storyline, and the final shot is just plain ludicrous. Sigh ...
Let's hope it's better than it looks. It hits theaters Nov. 19.
So here it is, the teaser for Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix's "I'm Still Here." And it's ...
Well, it's hard to describe. Or understand. Or watch.
But again, maybe that's what they're going for. A look at the credits shows that the production company for this enigmatic enterprise is They Are Going to Kill Us Prods. Is that a prediction about audience reaction? Or are they admitting that they made the film to pay off a mob debt?
Fox has released the first trailer for its fall release "Love & Other Drugs," starring Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Writer-director Ed Zwick is back in the romantic comedy zone for the first time since "About Last Night ...," which was released 24 years ago. And without taking away from films such as "The Siege," "Defiance" and "Glory," it seems clear that this is the genre in which he does his most natural work -- something he's relegated to his television series ("thirtysomething," "Once and Again") since 1986.
IFC Films has put out a trailer for the latest film from French provocateur Gaspar Noé, who made the unforgettable flicks "I Stand Alone" and "Irreversible."
"Enter the Void" has been on the festival circuit since Cannes in 2009, and IFC, which picked up the film in January, is finally giving it a theatrical release next month. The trailer is pretty epic, in that it mixes up jarringly beautiful images, disorienting techno, trippy eye candy and a mysterious and melancholy promise between a brother and sister to "never leave each other."
THR's sadly departed critic Peter Brunette thought it was silly when he saw it at Cannes, but at the very least Noé retains his desire and ability to provoke.
This was my favorite film at this past year's Sundance Film Festival. Wildly surprising, unexpectedly moving and totally riveting.
Relativity Media and Rogue Pictures picked up the doc from Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman after the fest, and they've finally put out a new trailer. It leans heavily on the film's suspense in the last third, which is a little misleading. Not in the suspense itself, which the film has in buckets. But in the nature of it. What you're in for with this film is not "Paranormal Activity" or "The Blair Witch Project," but something much more unusual and startling.
To counter stories they have been losing investors, Ronald Tutor and Colony Capital's Filmyard Holdings issued a statement Thursday that they have the equity in place and the deal to purchase Mir …
Fans of "Gone with the Wind" obviously do give a damn about Scarlett O'Hara's extravagant dresses with a museum appeal for funds to restore gowns from the 1939 movie meeting its ta …
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