'Clown' Trailer: Everybody Loves A Clown, So Why Don't You?
Dimension Films has released a new Clown trailer, giving us another look at Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watt's first movie.
Read MoreDimension Films has released a new Clown trailer, giving us another look at Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watt's first movie.
Read MoreFans of horror movies about evil clowns will be pleased to know that Rob Zombie's 31 and Jon Watts' Clown now have official release dates.
Read More"Clowns are scary" is a well-loved idea in horror. One man who isn't scared, however, is producer Eli Roth. He saw a trailer for a fake film called Clown and helped develop it into a feature. The full trailer for that feature, also called Clown, is now out. A father (Andy Powers) puts on a clown…
Read MoreA movie that debuted right here on /Film just make it big. Aftershock, directed by Nicolás López, starring and produced by Eli Roth, was just acquired by Bob Weinstein's Dimension Films at the Toronto International Film Festival. Based on Lopez's experiences during the Chilean earthquake of 2010, the film centers on a group of friends who strive to survive…
Read MoreWhile the foreign comedy Klown has often been likened to a Danish version of The Hangover, if half of what we've heard about it is true, it's far darker and raunchy than any adventure we've ever seen the wolf pack engage in. A feature film sequel of a hit TV series, the Mikkel Nørgaard-directed film…
Read MoreRevealed to US audiences at Fantastic Fest 2011, the Danish comedy Klown (aka Klovn, or Clown) quickly made a name for itself as a confrontational, explicit comedy. Based on a Danish TV comedy series, Mikkel Nørgaard's film stars Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen as two friends on a “Tour De Pussy” getaway trip. Just in…
Read MoreHBO's Eastbound and Down will conclude its third and final season this weekend, but star Danny McBride's love affair with dark comedy lives on. McBride is set to write, produce, and star in Clown, Warner Bros.' remake of the Danish film Klovn. Todd Phillips is lined up to produce, which seems all too appropriate given…
Read MoreOne is an Oscar-hopeful about a steroid-pumping, hormone-selling gangster. The other an over-the-top cringe comedy about an 11-year-old joining two men on a trip to a whorehouse. And, in some weird way, it makes total sense that you'll get to see both on the big screen thanks to Drafthouse Films. The Alamo Drafthouse's distribution arm…
Read MoreThough Fantastic Fest still has three days left packed with movies, the best of the best have been revealed. Monday night, the awards for the best films, actors, writers and directors of the festival were announced in several different categories. Some of the winners are films I've already reviewed and loved. The Audience Award went…
Read MoreThere's almost too much that's good about Fantastic Fest: experiencing the Alamo Drafthouse for a week straight; the small, friendly, film fan atmosphere; the parties. Oh yeah, then there's the insane films. Every year Fantastic Fest is filled with a ton of wild genre flicks that either you've never heard of yet or already have…
Read MoreThis story will be a lesson for anyone who has ever scoffed at the idea at spending time and money on a fake movie trailer. In mid-October Jon Watts and Christopher D. Ford dropped the trailer for Clown onto YouTube. The trailer purported to be for an Eli Roth movie about a killer clown, and…
Read MoreTrailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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