If you're both 1) desperate for some distraction from the holiday hubbub and 2) eager to get a leg up on the rest of your office for the annual Oscar pool, here's a way to kill two birds with one stone. Over thirty screenplays for some of 2013's top films have just been made available,…
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We're very happy to exclusively premiere a special online trailer for director Jason Reitman's latest film Labor Day. The theatrical trailer will premiere later today, but first take a look at this alternate online trailer -- You may remember that Jason also let us premiere that amazing Up in the Air "bag" online-exclusive teaser -- still one of my…
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Jason Reitman's new film, Labor Day, opens on Christmas Day, and it will be promoted via a new trailer on Halloween. That trailer hits at 9am PST tomorrow, and as a precursor we have a new poster. The film features Josh Brolin as an escaped convict who is taken into the home of a reclusive…
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We're very happy to exclusively premiere the poster for director Jason Reitman's latest film Labor Day. Kate Winslet has an award-worthy performance as a depressed single mother, who along with her young teenage son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) regretfully offer a wounded man a ride. The wounded man (played by Josh Brolin) turns out to be…
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If Jason Reitman's first four films -- Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, and Young Adult -- had one thing in common, it was a sharp sense of humor. Even when things got emotional, there was always room for a hamburger phone or a cancer/"can sir" pun. It's surprising, then, that he takes…
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With the actual Labor Day just a few weeks away, the first still from the movie Labor Day has started making the rounds. (In fact, it kinda made the rounds a week or so ago, when TIFF ran it by accident. But now it's official.) Directed by Jason Reitman and based on the novel by…
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One of the most prestigious film festivals in North America, the Toronto Film Festival, has begun to announce its line up for 2013. The event takes place September 5-15 and as usual, the line-up includes pretty much every highly-anticipated awards contender scheduled for release through the end of the year. Just a few examples are…
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Briefly: Good news for anyone anticipating Jason Reitman's latest film, Labor Day. Paramount has enough confidence in it to give the film a date primed for awards consideration. Labor Day will be released Christmas Day, expand on January 10 then go wide January 31. Labor Day Gattlin Griffith as a young boy whose life is turned upside…
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It's that time of year again. We're in Las Vegas at CinemaCon, an industry-only convention (formerly called ShoWest) for movie theater owners and distributors. The Hollywood studios come here each year with their biggest stars and clips from upcoming films, hoping to impress the theater owners into booking their "products" in the coming year. For…
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Not only did Labor Day just pass on the calendar, it got picked up by Paramount. Labor Day is the title of Jason Reitman's next movie, which will star Kate Winslet as a single mother who helps an escaped convict, played by Josh Brolin, and falls in love with him over the holiday weekend. Paramount…
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Jason Reitman has quickly crafted a significant directorial resume -- Thank You For Smoking, Juno (reject the blowback -- it's a sweet, effective movie), and Up in the Air -- and he has already wrapped his fourth movie, the Diablo Cody-scripted Young Adult. Now he is getting ready to work on his fifth, which will…
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When it was announced a few month back that Josh Brolin was circling an upcoming Jason Reitman film, it was assumed that he was referring to Young Adult, the Diablo Cody-scripted, Charlize Theron-starring film that tells the story of "a divorced writer who returns to her hometown and forces herself into the life of her…
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Jason Reitman is this week's guest on ESPN's Bill Simmons podcast, The BS Report (mp3). Amidst all of the discussion of The Golden Globes, how Clooney got involved in Up in the Air, Reitman's second choice casting for the role of Ryan Bingham, and when the director is going to start work on his next…
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While at the Telluride Film Festival, I had the chance to talk to Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman about his new, and much buzzed about film, Up in the Air. I conducted the interview in conjunction with my friend Alex from FirstShowing, filmed "up in the air," (get it?) in a gondola traveling up and…
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Last month we took a look at five film projects that Jason Reitman has been developing, and wondered if any of the projects would be next for the Academy Award-nominated director. Add one more project to the pile, as it has been revealed that Retiman is currently adapting a screenplay for Joyce Maynard's new novel,…
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