'Ten Thousand Saints' Trailer: Ethan Hawke Is Back In Cool Dad Mode
This first Ten Thousand Saints trailer shows off the film's great cast, including Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Emile Hirsch.
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'Girl Most Likely' Trailer: Kristen Wiig Has A Quirky Indie Meltdown
It would've been easy for Kristen Wiig to keep riding the Bridesmaids train with a sequel. Lord knows Universal would've been happy if she did. But instead, the Saturday Night Live alum took the road less traveled with a string of indies, including her passion project Girl Most Likely (formerly Imogene). Directed by American Splendor's Shari…
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Poster And First Look: Annette Bening And Kristen Wiig As Mother And Daughter In 'Imogene'
Kristen Wiig has been trying to get the dark comedy Imogene off the ground for a few years now, but it wasn't until she found huge success in this spring's Bridesmaids that things really started to pick up with her passion project. Now Imogene is shooting in various locations throughout the U.S. with American Splendor…
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Casting Bits: Matt Dillon In 'Imogene;' Mireille Enos In 'Gangster Squad;' Stephanie Szostak In 'RIPD'
Here's a lovers and spouses collection of casting news, leading off with a nice change of pace report of an actor being cast as the 'love interest' for a major actress, rather than the other way around. After the break you'll find: Matt Dillon will woo Anette Bening in Imogene, The Killing actress Mireille Enos…
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Casting Bits: Brit Marling Likely For 'The Company You Keep;' Gerard Butler In 'The Bricklayer;' Natasha Lyonne In 'Imogene'
We've got a diverse set of projects on which to report in this latest casting break: a political prestige project, a more routine-sounding thriller, and a dark comedy with quite a good pedigree. After the break, you'll find: Brit Marling seems to have settled on Robert Redford's The Company You Keep as her next big…
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Casting Bits: Darren Criss In 'Imogene', Frank Grillo In 'Gangster Squad' And 'End Of Watch', Patricia Clarkson In 'Parks & Recreation'
Glee star Darren Criss has landed a part in Imogene, a dark comedy by American Splendor directors Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini. The Michelle Morgan-penned script revolves around a New York playwright (Kristen Wiig) who fakes a suicide in order to get her ex-boyfriend's attention. Instead of winning him back, however, she winds up…
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Casting Bits: Jennifer Lawrence In 'Silver Linings Playbook', Annette Bening In 'Imogene', Rhys Ifans NOT In 'Bond 23'
Jennifer Lawrence is reportedly leading the pack of actresses vying for David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook, ahead of the likes of seemingly every rising (or recently risen) starlet in town. Elizabeth Banks, Kirsten Dunst, Blake Lively, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams, Andrea Riseborough, and Olivia Wilde were all among Lawrence's competitors for the part. If…
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Kristen Wiig Starring In Dark Comedy 'Imogene' From 'American Splendor' Directors
Kristen Wiig is on the verge of being able to shoot a film she's been wanting to make for the past couple years. Imogene, written by Michelle Morgan and to be directed by Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini (American Splendor, Cinema Verite), . The project isn't new, with reports of it having surfaced last…
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'Cinema Verite' Trailer #3
These days, reality television may be considered by some to be a blight on our cultural landscape, but there was a time when it offered a more honest counterpoint to the idealized families being portrayed on American sitcoms. Back in the early '70s, filmmaker Craig Gilbert conceived of a documentary series about a California household as…
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'Cinema Verite' Trailer #2
Long before The Real World, Survivor or Jersey Shore, producer Craig Gilbert created An American Family. The PBS documentary special that aired in 1973 was unlike anything ever put on television. It chronicled the real life, daily struggles of the Louds, a seemingly perfect California family who were not only catapulted to fame by the…
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'Cinema Verite' Trailer
Reality stars are a dime a dozen these days, but HBO Films' Cinema Verite takes us back to a time when that wasn't the case. The film dramatizes the behind-the-scenes action surrounding PBS' 1973 documentary series An American Family, which HBO's marketing team is referring to the first reality show. The series followed a Santa…
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This Week In Trailers: Mutant Girls Squad, The Extra Man, 5 Huajai Hero (Force Of Five), Gone With The Pope
Trailers 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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Casting Notes: Tim Robbins And James Gandolfini In Cinema Verite; Toni Collette In Mental; Jamie Foxx And More In Horrible Bosses
What is it with HBO and dramatic recreations of classic documentaries? Last year there was Grey Gardens, and now the network is lining up Cinema Verite, which will be a dramatized behind the scenes take on the 1973 PBS doc An American Family. The original series was a big deal; it frankly portrayed family troubles…
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Sundance Photo Preview: The Extra Man, From The Writer/Directors Of American Splendor
American Splendor directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini return to Sundance with The Extra Man, a comedy which will screen in the Premieres section. Based on a novel by Jonathan Ames (Bored to Death), the film tells the story of a down-and-out playwright who escorts wealthy widows in Manhattan's Upper East Side takes a…
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See Dan Fogler's Best Sam Kinison
The upcoming Sam Kinison biopic Brother Sam has been written by American Splendor's Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, and stars Dan Fogler in the lead role. Judging from Fogler's turns in Balls of Fury, Good Luck Chuck and School for Scoundrels, that's a two steps forward, one step backward scenario by my reckoning. Factor in…
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Dan Fogler Is Sam Kinison
HBO has announced that Evan Almighty director Tom Shadyac will helm television movie about comic Sam Kinison. And who will play the great manic comic? Dan Fogler. You probably know him as the annoying fat guy they hire when they can't afford Jack Black or Jonah Hill. That said, he has an uncanny resemblance to…
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The Nanny Diaries PUSHED BACK For Award Consideration?
The Weinstein Company is moving the big screen adaptation of The Nanny Diaries (trailer) back FIVE MONTHS. The new Scarlett Johansson chick flick was scheduled to hit theaters on April 20th, but will now bow on September 7th 2007. While a last minute release move is usually a bad sign, Harvey Weinstein claims the movie…
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The Nanny Diaries Movie Trailer
The first movie trailer for The Nanny Diaries is now online. Starring Scarlett Johansson as Annie Braddock, a recent college graduate with no place to go who is hired to care for the young son of a wealthy Upper East Side couple, setting off a series of trials and tribulation as she attempts to adjust…
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