This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE With his adaptation of the classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are, co-writer/director Spike Jonze took…
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Jared Hess' new film Gentlemen Broncos was the opening night film at Fantastic Fest 2009 in Austin Texas. I attended the premiere at the downtown Paramount theatre. I was hoping to leave two hours later quoting lines and laughing with friends, like I did five years earlier with Hess' debut film Napoleon Dynamite. I really…
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Fox Searchlight has provided /Film with an exclusive first look at Edgar Oliver, who plays the bad guy(s), Duncan/Lord Daysius, in Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess' Gentlemen Broncos. He’s quite a character in real life, as you can see. Watch the clip embedded after the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/EDGAR_INTRO_HD_480p.flv 550 310] Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his…
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I've been looking forward to seeing footage from Gentleman Broncos by Jared Hess, and a trailer is now online at Apple. The film follows a high school kid (Sky High's Michael Angarano) who goes to a fantasy / sci-fi writer's camp, where the most famous sci-fi author in the world (Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine…
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Fox Searchlight has revealed two new posters today: On FirstShowing is the poster for Jarred Hess' Gentlemen Broncos and on People.com is the poster for Mira Nair's Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere. The trailer for Broncos will be online tomorrow. Click on through to the previously linked sites to see…
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Jared Hess broke onto the scene with a small indie comedy at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Napoleon Dynamite quickly took over the world, becoming one of the biggest cult blockbusters of all time. Jess followed the film up with Nacho Libre, which sounded like a sure thing - Jack Black as a masked Mexican…
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The actor with the best perma-squint in showbiz, Choke's Sam Rockwell, has just signed on, alongside Flight of the Conchords Jemaine Clement and youngster Michael Angarano, to star in director Jared Hess's comedy Gentlemen Broncos. Angarano will play a teen attending a writer's convention (what fun those are) where he discovers that his idea has…
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Jared Hess broke onto the scene with a small indie comedy at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Napoleon Dynamite quickly took over the world, becoming one of the biggest cult blockbusters of all time. Jess followed the film up with Nacho Libre, which sounded like a sure thing - Jack Black as a masked Mexican…
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