The Hollywood Reporter has posted their one hour long discussion between 2010 Oscar contenders Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours), Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3), John Wells (The Company Men), Todd Phillips (Due Date) and David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole). Wait a second, is Due Date really an Awards contender? I guess maybe…
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The Wenstein Co has released the first full length movie trailer for The Company Men , John Wells' feature directorial debut. Wells is best known for writing and producing hundreds of episodes of both ER and The West Wing. The movie tells the story of "three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing…
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A couple months back, John Wells' film The Company Men premiered at Sundance. At the time, as evidenced by this interview conducted by David Chen, Wells didn't seem fully confident that the film would get picked up. But the film found a home, as The Weinstein Company has picked up US distribution rights to the…
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When I hear the name John Wells, I think of paramedics hurriedly rushing onto the scene of an accident, arriving just in time to barely save someone's life. I fondly recall verbose walk-and-talks in the halls of the Bartlett White House. And I remember following the romantic lives of skilled doctors in a Chicago E.R.…
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I was a huge fan of John Wells’ work in E.R. and The West Wing, so when I heard that he would making his film directorial debut at Sundance with The Company Men, I was pretty excited. Add to that an all-star cast featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, and Rosemary DeWitt and…
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Since I'm in Park City, a day before the 2010 Sundance Film Festival officially begins, I thought I'd do a round-up of the films I'm most looking forward to this year at the festival. Attending Sundance, you have to put a list together of the movies you want to see the most. Sometimes you're lucky…
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A teaser trailer/musical montage/sizzle reel for John Wells' The Company Men has been discovered on vimeo (via this article on AICN). The film, which will screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Premieres category, tells the story of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major…
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John Wells' The Company Men will screen at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Premieres category. The film tells the story of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company, and how that affects them, their families and communities over the course of one year. The…
Read More[No photo] Maria Bello and Craig T Nelson have joined the independent drama The Company Men. I haven't written about this film on /Film yet, so I thought I'd take the opportunity with this last minute casting news. Written and directed by John Wells, the film tells the story of three men trying to survive…
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