How does a “good girl” like Alexa (Emmy Rossum) get “the bad boy” Johnny (Zach Gilford) to notice her??
Wear a short skirt to the party and hit the dance floor to grind on her girlfriend .
How else? Check out a brand new clip below…
In high school, what kind of person did you dare to be: risk-taking and lustful, melancholy and confused or simply safe and over-achieving? Dare follows three teenagers through their last semester of school: Alexa (Rossum, Phantom of the Opera), the smart, good girl who longs to break out of her shell; Ben (Springer, Teeth), the lonely outsider dealing with his sexuality; and Johnny (Gilford, Friday Night Lights), the rich, seemingly perfect bad-boy who has everything. In a last-ditch effort to shake things up before graduating and start living as adults, this unlikely trio take the biggest risks of their lives. In the process, they learn no one is exactly who they appear to be.
A Sundance Film Festival breakout, Dare is produced by Mary Jane Skalski (The Visitor, The Station Agent) and Jason Orans (Goodbye Solo), written by David Brind and directed by Adam Salky. Original music is by Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) & David Poe.
Its good to see Mel back in front of the cameras. Despite a lame title, this movie looks like it has potential, check out the trailer for Edge of Darkness:
Everything Must Go could either be really good, or really bad. Let’s hope we see more of a “Stranger than Fiction” Will as opposed to a “Step Brothers” Will… Read more on this from MovieFone.com:
After starring in blockbuster movies such as ‘Land of the Lost’ and ‘Step Brothers,’ actor/comedian Will Ferrell is going the indie route with ‘Everything Must Go,’ an independent film based on the short story by Raymond Carver.
The movie, set to start shooting next March, marks the directorial debut of Dan Rush, whose previous work has been with humorously themed commercials. The script, Rush’s first screenplay, sees Ferrell as a man who loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. After she throws all his belongings on the front lawn, Ferrell spends the next few days living on the lawn and selling his possessions to make ends meet.
The script was recently featured on The Black List, a list of the most popular unproduced screenplays of the year as ranked by development executives, which led Rush to numerous meetings with leading men before Ferrell signed on. Rush had been offered other development deals, but declined them in lieu of making ‘Go.’
While Ferrell is mostly known for his over-the-top, sophomoric brand of humor, producer Marty Bowen insists the comedian can display the gravitas needed for a more serious role. “Will is one of the best at making an audience sympathize with a character’s ordeal, and the blending and comedy in this script will show a side of him that we haven’t really seen before,” Bowen recently told Variety.
The original story is far from a comedy, and to pull this one off, we’re hoping Ferrell delves in the same emotional waters he used to portray Harold Crick in 2006’s criminally underrated ‘Stranger Than Fiction.’ Despite the role, Ferrell isn’t exactly abandoning his big-budget status anytime soon. The actor is currently shooting ‘The Other Guys,’ an action/comedy with Mark Wahlberg and Michael Keaton, set for release next summer.
DARE to watch the official trailer and join an all-star cast of Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Alan Cumming, Ana Gastayer, Rooney Mara, & Sandra Bernhard for a captivating story of an unlikely high school trio who DARE to push the boundaries of romance and friendship. Adam Salky makes his feature film directorial debut with DARE. Written and co-produced by David Brind.
Dare to watch the trailer:
DARE
Opens In NYC & LA November 13
Opens In Philadelphia December 4
Image Entertainment
www.DAREthemovie.com
This is pretty cool. For Where The Wild Things Are Spike Jonze used a combination of real life-sized puppets with CGI faces that allowed them to show emotions, etc. Read more from Wired.com on how it was accomplished:
Building a lifelike monster is hard enough. But director Spike Jonze needed 14 of them, each with its own unique look and personality, for his film version of Maurice Sendak’s beloved Where the Wild Things Are. “When I read the book as a kid, I wanted to hug them, and I was scared of them at the same time,” Jonze says. To create fearsome physicality with approachable cuddliness, Jonze turned to the Muppet-masters at the Jim Henson Creature Shop, then used CG to make the beasts talk and emote. Sound complicated? That’s probably why the movie took half a decade to make. Here’s a look at the mechanics.
Heads: The heads were heavy and all-encompassing—performers could see, barely, through the creatures’ mouths. To make up for the lack of visibility, a small wireless video monitor mounted just above the performer’s eye level showed the view from Jonze’s camera. Head-mounted speakers played back the scripted dialogue.
Bodies: Some characters (like the horned Carol) had arms that were short enough for the puppet fingers to be slaved to simple tube controllers wrapped around the actor’s hands. Longer-armed monsters had mechanical hands made of a lightweight polymer called Plastazote, covered with carbon fiber for strength. Performers wore a backpack that supported a sort of rib cage and pelvis, over which hung a Lycra and foam “muscle suit” and a flexible fur skin made of custom four-way stretch fabric. “The suits had to be very lightweight, so as not to inhibit the characters, but they also had to look real,” says Peter Brooke, creative supervisor at the Creature Shop. That said, the Carol suit is 9 feet tall and weighs about 60 pounds.
Faces: “Initially I was thinking we would do animatronics in the faces,” Jonze says. “But then David Fincher,” who directed the facial-f/x-heavy Curious Case of Benjamin Button, “told me that was the stupidest thing we could ever do—go hours into the wilderness with a bunch of suits and all these servo motors and remote controls. We were working out of his office in Hollywood and he would leave notes on our door with a little drawing of a wild thing and an arrow that said ’suit’ and another arrow pointing at the face that said ‘CG.’” Heeding Fincher’s advice, animators created CG models of the creatures’ faces in postproduction and tracked them over what Jonze had shot on location. Using videos of the voice actors and of Jonze himself performing every scene, the animators added expressions. One tricky part was calibrating nonhuman mouth movements: Carol has a Kermit the Frog-like line that all but bisects his face; large movements would look cartoony and small movements would be too Muppety. (Turns out there is a such a thing!)
Wait a minute, a movie starring Zac Efron that actually looks good? What is this world coming to… The movie is directed by Richard Linklater(Dazed and Confused, School of Rock) and hits theaters November 25th. Check out the new trailer for Me and Orson Wells:
Well, this is sure to bump up the viewer numbers for Spike!
“The two hour extravaganza will feature the full cast of “Twilight” with a world premiere of footage from “New Moon” as well as the reunited cast of “Battlestar Galactica” and the cast and creators of “True Blood”. ”
New York, NY, October 5, 2009 – As twilight descends upon The Greek Theatre, Spike TV presents “SCREAM 2009,” an evening where galaxies collide and genres unite for the ultimate celebration of all things sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comic book. The 4th annual “SCREAM” is the first and only global event of its kind to honor and celebrate the hottest films, TV shows, comics, actors, creators, icons and pioneers who have influenced and shaped these genres. “SCREAM 2009” will tape on Saturday, October 17 in Los Angeles, CA. The two-hour extravaganza will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT).
Spike TV is proud to partner once again with Comic-Con International, the biggest comic book and pop culture convention in the world, to present real-life super hero Stan Lee with the Comic-Con Icon Award at “SCREAM 2009.” Lee is the creator of such legendary super-heroes as Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man and The Hulk. “Spider-Man’s” Tobey Maguire will lead the tribute to one of the most beloved and influential comic book legends of all time.
“SCREAM 2009” will also honor the godfather of the modern horror film, George Romero with this year’s Scream Mastermind Award. This award is presented to a filmmaker whose unique vision of horror, science fiction and/or fantasy is both critically-acclaimed and culturally significant. Romero, best known for his gruesome and satirical zombie masterpiece “Night Of The Living Dead” and its sequel “Dawn Of The Dead,” as well as the cult classic, “Creepshow,” will receive the honor previously presented to cinematic luminaries Wes Craven, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.
“SCREAM 2009” will celebrate the year of the vampire and the phenomenal popularity of the “Twilight” saga with cast and World Premiere footage from the highly-anticipated “New Moon.” In addition, fans will be treated to appearances from the cast and creators of “True Blood” including Alan Ball, Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgård, Sam Trammell, among others. The celebration continues with a “Battlestar Galactica” cast reunion for a farewell tribute featuring Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, James Callis, Kate Vernon, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Trucco Tahmoh Penikett and executive producer David Eick.
“SCREAM 2009” will present awards in 16 different categories. J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi action-adventure “Star Trek” tops the “SCREAM 2009” list with 17 nominations including the categories of The Ultimate Scream, Best Science Fiction Movie, Best Director, Best Ensemble, Holy Sh*t Scene-of-the-Year and a nod in the all-new Fight Scene-of-the-Year category. Comic book-inspired blockbusters “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and “Watchmen” each nabbed 13 nominations, big screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s best selling novel “Twilight” received 10 nominations, while HBO’s vampire-themed television series “True Blood” garnered nine nominations. Fans can log onto scream.spike.com until Saturday, October 17 to vote for their favorites.
Watch the initial teaser trailer:
I will go see any movie that features Philip Seymour Hoffman, and so should you. Here’s the trailer for a new one called Pirate Radio and it looks awesome:
Pirate Radio is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing Rock n Roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down. The band of rebels is lead by The Count, played by the Academy Award Winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, Quentin the boss of Radio Rock, Gavin the greatest DJ in Britian, Midnight Mark, Doctor Dave and Young Carl who comes of age amidst the chaos of sex, drugs and rock n roll. The film features an unbelievable selection of music including The Beatles, The Stones, Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, David Bowie, Otis Redding, Cat Stevens just to name a few. The film is laugh out loud funny and speaks to the rock n roll rebel in all of us.
Writers/Directors: Richard Curtis (Other films include: Love Actually, Four Weddings and Funeral, Notting Hill)
Cast:
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bill Nighy
Rhys Ifans
Nick Frost
Kenneth Branagh
Tom Sturridge
Talulah Riley
January Jones
George Clooney… Jason Reitman… tons of buzz from Telluride… this movie is looking great. Check out the first teaser for confirmation:
When Heath Ledger died halfway through production of this movie director Terry Gilliam decided to bring on 3 different actors to finish his remaining scenes, Colin Farrell, Jude Law and Johnny Depp. All 4 actors are present in this eye-popping trailer for what promises to be a very unique movie:
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