'Long Shot' Director Jonathan Levine On The Soundtracks To His Movies And Life [Interview]
In our Jonathan Levine interview, the director of Long Shot talks about how he selects songs for his movies and what he values in a soundtrack.
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Jonathan Levine Wants To Make 'The Wackness' Sequel
Almost a decade after the original hit theaters, Jonathan Levine wants to write and direct The Wackness sequel and revisit his characters in present day.
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Interview: 'The Night Before' Director Jonathan Levine Wants To Speak To An Audience Through Music
At the junket for The Night Before, we decided to discuss with director Jonathan Levine his love for music. Here's our Jonathan Levine interview.
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Interview: Jonathan Levine And Josh Peck
Back in May, I had the opportunity to sit down with director Jonathan Levine and star Josh Peck to talk about their new film The Wackness. I fell in love with this indie coming-of-age drama at Sundance. I have since seen the film three more times. You’ve probably read my gushing posts. It seems like…
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The Wackness Beats Hancock At The Box Office; See It In July At A Theater Near You
The headline might be just a little deceiving... Okay, a lot. Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness was released on just six screens in New York and Los Angeles this past weekend. And while the film’s $145,000 gross might not seem like much, this little indie gem was able to make $24,166 per screen, which is about…
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The Wackness Teaser Trailer: "Dealing"
Sony Pictures Classics has released another new teaser trailer for The Wackness on Rotten Tomatoes. Watch the trailer below.
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The Wackness Red Band Movie Trailer
The Wackness is one of those movies which is almost impossible to market in a PG world. It’s about a teenager drug dealer’s last summer before he heads off to college. And while that’s the one sentence breakdown, I’m sure you can already tell, it’s much more than that. I’ve given this movie rave after…
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The Wackness Official Movie Trailer
Sony Pictures Classics has released a new trailer for one of my favorite films of the year - The Wackness. They're calling it the "official trailer", and I actually like it much more than the the previously released teasers. It plays equal attention the relationships between Peck, Thirlby, and Kingsley, the 1990's nostalgia, and the…
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An E-Mail From Luke Shapiro
I just got an e-mail from Luke Shapiro. I only mention this because Luke Shapiro is a fictional character in a movie (one of my favorite movies of the year - The Wackness). And by that, I don't mean that someone who liked the movie adopted the name of their favorite character for their online…
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The Wackness Movie Trailer #3
When I first saw The Wackness in January at Sundance, I proclaimed that it was one of my favorite films of the year so far. It's very easy to make such claims in the first couple weeks of a new year, especially when you're in Park City. I've seen the film now four times, in…
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Must Watch: Six Video Clips From The Wackness
I had the chance to interview The Wackness writer/director Jonathan Levine and star Josh Peck over the weekend, after having seen the film for a fourth time. The Wackness is one of my favorite movies of the year so far, and if you read the site daily than you know I've been pushing the hell…
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The Wackness Movie Poster
Previously, Slashfilm lashed into Sony Pictures Classics for releasing a full-length trailer for The Wackness, a fave upcoming flick of the site, that shamefully sold the film as just another navel-ring piece of garbage starring an Olsen twin. Knowing full well who was in the movie, I still anticipated a cornrowed Bijou Phillips popping up…
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The Wackness Teaser Trailer #2 OR Sony Pictures Classics Proves Once Again They Don't Know How To Market A Good Movie
It must be really hard to cut a good movie trailer, especially for a bad movie. But it always amazes me when great films sometimes have such horrible movie trailers. I've now seen Jonathan Levine 's The Wackness three times. And since January the film has held strong on the list of my favorite films…
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The Wackness Teaser Movie Trailer
I've now seen Jonathan Levine's The Wackness three times - twice at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Dramatic Audience Award (which explains why I screened the film a second time during award day), and again at a secret screening during the South By South West Film Festival in Austin Texas. You may…
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The Wackness: Nine Photos
Cinematical has premiered two new images from Jonathan Levine's The Wackness, one of our favorite films os 2008 so far. Which reminded me that we've never posted the production photos which were released at the Sundance Film Festival. You can check out those photos after the jump. The Wackness won the audience award at the…
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The Wackness In July 2008?!
At Sundance, a bunch of the movie journalists covering the festival and myself were extremely shocked and disappointed to learn that one of our favorite films of the festival, Jonathan Levine's The Wackness, had been sold to Sony Pictures Classics. We really love this film and want to see it succeed, but Sony Pictures Classics…
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First 10 Minutes From All The Boys Love Mandy Lane Now Online
Well, it came and it gave without takin', and two years later we're still waiting for All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, the highly regarded teen slasher from director Jonathan Levine. You've seen his name around because Levine followed up Mandy with The Wackness, one of the most buzzed-about films at this year's Sundance Film…
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Sony Pictures Classics To Buy/Bury The Wackness?!
Please someone tell me this isn't true. THR is reporting that Sony Pictures Classics has closed a deal for Jonathan Levine's The Wackness. The deal is said to be in the low seven figures. The Wackness is one of my favorite films of the festival. The buzz around Park City on shuttles and in lines,…
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Sundance Movie Review: The Wackness
Every year at Sundance I see a film during the first weekend that I absolutely fall in love with. Because it's only the opening weekend, I try not to claim that a film is the best of this year's festival. But usually my emotions win out and I make such a claim in a non-direct…
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Sundance Movie Posters: American Teen, Goliath, Bottle Shock, The Wackness
Here is the first batch of movie posters for films premiering at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Check them out after the jump. Enjoy. American Teen Starring: Â Â Â Hannah Bailey, Colin Clemens, Megan Krizmanich, Mitch Reinholt and Jake Tusing Screenplay By: Nanette Burstein Directed By: Nanette Burstein Plot Outline: American Teen intimately captures the lives…
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Sundance 2008 Photo Preview: Part 2 - US Dramatic Competition
The line-up for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival was announced earlier this week. I just got my hands on a boat load of photos from the films in this year's festival. We actually have too many photos to feature in just one posting, so we have divided this feature into a few parts. Our second…
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Sundance Film Festival 2008 Competition Films Announced
Sundance Institute announced today the line-up of films selected for the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. This will be my fifth year attending the festival, and I think it's safe to say that this year's festival is the most mysterious. Most of the films announced today…
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