The current season of Amazon original shows offers up another debut series later this month, when Mozart in the Jungle begins streaming on Amazon Prime. The show, from creators Paul Weitz, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Alex Timbers, adapts the memoir by Blair Tindell. The story follows dynamic young conductor Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal) as he shakes up a major New…
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Amazon has greenlit four pilots to series, including new Chris Carter show The After.
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Prada Candy L'eau is a perfume, and in this case Prada Candy L'Eau is also a three-part long-form ad for said fragrance. (Well, "long-form" might be a stretch, as this is three and a half minutes with titles.) But it is one created by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, and one brimming with Anderson's signature fetishes…
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Oscar campaigning used to be so easy. Take out a few trade adds, approach a number of key voters, do a few rounds of dinners and drinks, done. Now there are far more outlets to get out info about a movie. The internet allows distributors to make all manner of materials available to promote their films…
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Roman Coppola's second directorial effort, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, is on VOD now and will be in theaters on February 8. We've seen a couple trailers already for this film, in which Charlie Sheen plays a graphic designer who has a meltdown after being dumped by his girlfriend. But this…
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With just days to go until Oscar nominations are announced, the Writers Guild of America has unveiled its list of nominees for their top screenplay awards. As expected, many of these are films that have picked up plenty of accolades already. It'll surprise no one to see that Zero Dark Thirty, Moonrise Kingdom, and Lincoln are among the…
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The Alamo Drafthouse brand is beloved among moviegoers for their plush theaters, but it's revered for their impeccable taste in movies. Whether programming a film festival or picking up indies for distribution, they've demonstrated an eye for films that aren't just good, but unique. With 2012 on its way out, the company has just released its list…
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A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, the second feature from Roman Coppola, runs a breezy 85 minutes. With the release of its first trailer, we can see just what the regular Wes Anderson collaborator has in store to follow up his feature debut from 2001. That debut film, CQ, was an illustration…
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So far, unless you've been at the Rome Film Festival, your only exposure to Roman Coppola's second feature film A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III has been through a handful of stills. A glimpse, indeed. The film is Coppola's long-awaited follow-up to CQ, which Coppola released over a decade ago, and also comes…
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Roman Coppola's last film -- and his first film -- was CQ, released in 2001. While he has been a creator on several big movies since thanks to work with his father (Tetro, Youth Without Youth) and Wes Anderson (The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom) I've been hoping to see more development from him as a…
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There isn't a lot of new footage from Wes Anderson's new film Moonrise Kingdom in the behind the scenes featurette that arrived today (there is some new stuff) but there are some really lovely shots of the director and crew at work. Various participants in the film, including co-writer Roman Coppola and actors Jason Schwartzman,…
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It's been a decade since Roman Coppola directed a feature film (CQ, released in 2001) but he is preparing his second movie as director, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. The movie is at least partially inspired by the public meltdown of Charlie Sheen, and Sheen will play the title character. Aubrey…
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Ken Jeong has built up a respectable career as a supporting actor, most notably on NBC's Community and the Hangover films, but for his next movie role he'll be moving a little closer to the spotlight. Jeong is set to star in and produce The Chung Factor, which landed on the 2005 Black List back…
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Julia Stiles is set to co-star in David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook, based on Matthew Quick's novel. The story centers around a former high school teacher (Bradley Cooper) who's just been released from a four-year stint at a mental hospital into the care of his mother (Jacki Weaver). Upon his release, he tries to win…
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Classic sayings have that status for a reason. Take 'be careful what you wish for.' Just a few days ago we found that Roman Coppola's new film, the existence of which was teased by his sister Sofia Coppola many months ago, is a picture called A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III. (Or…
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Briefly: It's been nine months since we heard anything about the new film that Roman Coppola is reportedly putting together. He's been busy working on music videos and collaborating on features, often directing second unit, with sister Sofia Coppola, father Francis and friend Wes Anderson. But it has been just over ten years since Coppola's…
Read More[No photo] In early May, Focus Features bought distribution rights to the new Wes Anderson film, Moonrise Kingdom, and issued an announcement of the full cast along with a plot description. Or: almost the full cast. One actor who has been rumored for the film for some time is Harvey Keitel, but he was not…
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Wes Anderson is shooting his next film, Moonrise Kingdom, right now in Rhode Island, and the film now has distribution set: Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights. Some of those rights will be sold off at Cannes, wihle the company will release the film under the Focus banner in the US. Moonrise Kingdom has…
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It has been almost a decade since the release of CQ, the one and only feature film directed by Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford Coppola and brother of Sofia Coppola. CQ is a strange beast, a film within a film that features Jeremy Davies as an editor and hopeful film director who is tapped…
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It’s the eternal debate for all geeks: beer or sex? That's the question posed in a clever commercial for Stella Artois beer that premiered this weekend. A young French man brings a young lady back to his home, which is set up like something out of a James Bond movie. She starts to play with…
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As I watched Fantastic Mr. Fox and gradually sensed the darkness of the theater lose out to the autumn-colored, classy, stop motion shenanigans on screen, I began to accept that every silhouette in the audience---fat and small, rich and me---was dressed in ship-shape, semi-formal attire. I pictured moms silently imagining themselves speaking in snooty English…
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Update: Apparently the poster is just a creation of NataliePortman.com, and is not real. One day after the screenplay mysteriously found its way onto the internet, out friends at FilmIck have a first look at the movie poster for Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. I love the film's tagline "She Almost Definitely Changed The World".…
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Wes Anderson's next movie, The Darjeeling Limited is being screened for test audiences right now (a review on AICN has mysteriously disappeared). The film's screenplay has been leaked onto the internet. We haven't read it, but we're hoping it's better than The Life Aquatic (we enjoyed his last movie but it paled in comparison to…
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