Watch Netflix's first Criminal trailer, teasing the series that takes place in four countries with a dozen criminal stories from four different directors.
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On day two of the 38th annual Telluride Film Festival and I caught the amazing new Pixar film LA Luna, Wim Wenders 3D documentary Pina about the famous modern dance choreographer, and the first surprise premiere screening of the festival, Jim Field Smith's dark dramedy Butter, a top Black List screenplay about a midwest butter…
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If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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We've talked a lot about the casting for Butter, the Black List script by Jason Micallef that Jim Field Smith directed starring Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Ty Burrell, Rob Corddry, Ashley Greene, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone and Yara Shahidi. The film takes place in Iowa among an interrelated group of people, with championship butter carving…
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It's about time we got some really overt (and good) satire about the political events of the last couple years. The Jason Miscallef script Butter, which placed high on the 2008 Black List, may be the ticket. It tells the story of the contestants of an Iowa butter-carving competition, but as an allegory for recent…
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British sketch comedian and lauded short film director Jim Field Smith has just seen his debut feature She's Out of My League open to a respectable $9 million or so. Meanwhile, he's already at work on his follow up, the Black List approved Butter. It might be a spoiler - though also, very possibly not…
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