Years ago, after the Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock thriller Speed dominated summer box office, jokes quickly spawned about how studio development of films based on the success of a story about a bomb-rigged bus that had to maintain speed in order to avoid detonation. "Speed on a Plane," " Speed in an Elevator," and other gags…
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After a very unrevealing first teaser, we finally got a better look at Buried director Rodrigo Cortés' Red Lights when the full-length international trailer hit last week. Unfortunately, with all the dialogue dubbed over in Spanish and nary a subtitle in sight, it was difficult to get a sense of what was actually going on.…
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Two years ago Rodrigo Cortés brought the one-man thriller Buried to Sundance, and this year he returned with Red Lights, a film in which follows "psychologist Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy) as they study and disprove paranormal activity, parascience and psychics. But can they take down world-renowned psychic Simon…
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Rodrigo Cortés made a name for himself with a film that premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Buried, based on Chris Sparling’s black list script about a man buried alive who has to figure a way out of his coffin before his air supply is used up. The film starred Ryan Reynolds, and was…
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Although director Rodrigo Cortes isn't a household name just yet, last year's gripping, suspenseful Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds, marked him as a talent to watch. So we've been curious about his new project, Red Lights, ever since it was first announced last year. Our anticipation only heightened as we watched Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian…
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Multiple choice question: is this photo of Robert De Niro as he does black and white Twin Peaks cosplay, or a still from his new film Red Lights? Sadly (for those who want to see him dress up as the Little Man From Another Place) it is the latter. The film is from Rodrigo Cortes…
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One of the films getting the best notes so far at Sundance 2011 is the drama/thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene. It's the breakout feature for actress Elizabeth Olsen (yes, younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley) who has now been cast in her next picture. She'll appear opposite Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro and Cillian Murphy…
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Buried proved to be a fascinating filmmaking exercise for Rodrigo Cortés, with the first-time English feature director (pictured above right) impressively overcoming the limitations inherent in the premise through sheer stylistic virtuosity. If that's what he can achieve with just a box, I can't wait to see what he can do with a film like…
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Doesn't it feel like Buried should be out by now? The film premiered at Sundance in January and we've been featuring posters and trailers for the film seemingly every few weeks. Well, the time is finally here. The film, starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by Rodrigo Cortés, opens in limited release this Friday, September 24…
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Fantastic Fest has announced a new Gala Screening for the film Buried, with both star Ryan Reynolds and director Rodrigo Cortes in attendance. And because the Alamo Drafthouse must top themselves with the most unique movie-going experiences known to man, that have announced the first ever "Buried with Buried: Rolling Roadshow of One" where 4…
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Buried director Rodrigo Cortés will next direct Sigourney Weaver in Red Lights, in which she'll play Margaret Matheson, "a para-psychologist who attempts to debunk a very reputable psychic who has just returned to the limelight after 30 years." What are the chances her character is named after author Richard Matheson? Pretty good. Cortés told Bloody…
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I first learned of Buried after the spec screenplay appeared on the Black List, a listing of the top unproduced screenplays of the year. Written by Chris Sparling, the film stars Ryan Reynolds as a U.S. contractor working in Iraq who wakes up to find that he has been buried alive inside a coffin. With…
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We were surprised and interested when word came down that Ryan Reynolds would be the star of what amounts to a one-man show in the movie Buried. As details came out -- Reynolds plays a civilian contractor trapped in a coffin with only a cell phone and a lighter -- the movie got more intriguing.…
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Rodrigo Cortes' Buried will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in the Park City at Midnight category, one of eight films selected from over 3724 titles from all over the world. I've been following this project since it was announced. For those of you who don't know, the story is about a U.S. contractor…
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I'm fascinated by the in-production indie Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds, as evidenced by the fact that I keep writing about it. Now Twitch presents a pair of stills from the film showing a bit of what we can expect to see when Reynolds wakes up buried alive in a shallow grave in Iraq. Buried is…
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