Tag: Theatrical release
Watch This: Trailers for Lay the Favorite & Girls
The best of this week’s trailer offerings cover all media platforms. Director Stephen Frears’ new film, Lay the Favorite, opens in limited release in Los Angeles today, but the rest of us can catch it on demand or download it off iTunes. And Lena Dunham’s critically acclaimed HBO series, Girls, premieres its season two trailer this week [...]
Watch This: Trailers for A Dark Truth, Chasing Ice
Good movies are on the horizon, and so there’s much to be thankful for this Friday before Thanksgiving. From action-thrillers to environmental docs, there’s a trailer to suit every taste this weekend. Here’s the buzz on two of them: From writer/director Damien Lee (Sacrifice, King of Sorrow) comes A Dark Truth. This action packed tale of [...]
Watch This: Trailers for The Flat, Parker
It’s a trailer double feature this week: for foreign film/documentary/indie-film buffs, we’ve got an exclusive look at Israeli film The Flat, and for the Hollywood big-wigs, look out for the action packed Parker. The Flat, directed by filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger, will have its limited U.S. theatrical debut on October 19, 2012, with screenings in New York [...]
Malick’s To The Wonder: U.S. Debut in 2013
Acclaimed director Terrence Malick’s latest film, To The Wonder, has officially been acquired by Magnolia Pictures and is slated to have a U.S. theatrical release next year. The film, starring Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace), had its world premiere at the 2012 Venice International Film Festival (as did other heavyweights like P.T. Anderson’s The [...]
Watch This: Trailer for The Comedy
If you know the names Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, you probably know them from a “quirky” (I don’t think I’m going to find the right word for it) project called Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (2012). Or from their cult-hit, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, an ultra low budget comedy sketch show that aired in 2007. [...]
E.T. Turns 30: Lands Back in Theaters 10/3
The classic Spielberg movie about an alien that just wants to phone home celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), was nominated for nine academy awards and was the number one film in the country for sixteen weeks – to name only a couple of its extraordinary accomplishments. To celebrate, TCM and Fathom [...]
Vamps Brings Heckerling and Silverstone Together Again
The era of Clueless may have come and gone, but the party-girls still have some unfinished business to attend to. Alicia Silverstone – branded forever as Cher “As If!” Horowitz – reunites this fall with the director who made her a household name back in 1995: Amy Heckerling. The writer/director of the classic high school comedy is [...]
Found Footage Friday: New Clip from V/H/S
It’s not October yet, but scary-movie season starts right now. For the last several years, the name-of-the-game in horror has arguably been the “found-footage” film. What took root in the incredibly successful (and then, incredibly unique) The Blair Witch Project (1999), can now be seen routinely in movies like Paranormal Activity (2007), REC (2007), Cloverfield (2008), etc. And even when it’s [...]
Wake in Fright to Reopen in U.S. Theaters
Director Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright is restored, re-mastered and set to reopen in U.S. Theaters this October for the first time in three decades, thanks to Drafthouse Films, and a miraculous discovery of a film once thought totally lost. The infamous thriller was once a star of its nation’s emerging cinema; upheld critically alongside other [...]
Coming Soon: The Inbetweeners
From Wreckin Hill Entertainment comes the British box-office smash The Inbetweeners, set to open in the U.S. in eight markets cross-country on September 7, 2012. The film, based on the popular UK television series of the same name, recently had the biggest opening week ever in the UK for a live action comedy. Already reaching the [...]
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