In this edition, learn about the history of product placement in movies and TV, watch a recap of all the Fast and Furious movies, and more.
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A new Zach Braff movie is in the works called A Good Person, and it's slated to star both Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman.
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Zach Braff & Gabrielle Union are set to play the parents in the Disney+ Cheaper by the Dozen reboot.
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In a new independent comedy called The Comeback Trail, Robert De Niro and his pals try to murder Tommy Lee Jones in order to cash in on the insurance money.
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In this edition, Vulture Festival hosted a Scrubs reunion with the entire cast, learn lessons from The Devil Wears Prada script and more.
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The first Going In Style trailer teases a comedy where Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin decide to rob a bank in their old age.
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Zach Braff (Scrubs) is returning to television. Braff will star in Start Up, a series based on a podcast. Learn more about the Zach Braff ABC comedy.
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Read about the Zach Braff Bump movie. The Garden State director will next helm a black comedy that landed on the 2015 Black List.
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Edge of Tomorrow team Doug Liman and Tom Cruise have a new film, and the Mena release date has been set, along with dates for Keanu and Going in Style.
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Zach Braff is in talks to direct Going in Style, a remake of the 1979 caper starring George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg.
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Filmmaker/actor Zach Braff commissioned an art poster for Wish I was Here. Check out Joshua Budich's Wish I Was Here Poster Print now available.
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The full Wish I Was Here trailer uses much of the same footage seen in the teaser, but also lets us know a lot more about the film's story.
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Actor/director Zach Braff's follow-up to Garden State is a comedy about a thirtysomething man at a crossroads. Watch the Wish I Was Here Teaser Trailer.
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A decade after he made waves at Sundance with his feature directing debut Garden State, Zach Braff is back at the festival this year with his sophomore effort Wish I Was Here. And although it's received mixed reviews so far, it has at least one big fan: Focus Features. The distributor has just closed a…
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Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here is now infamous because of the controversy surrounding Braff's Kickstarter campaign. But let's not allow that to cloud the real picture --Braff's fans coughed up $3.1 million for his second feature film because they loved his first movie. Garden State connected with teens and college-aged twenty somethings in a…
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Zach Braff has released the poster for his second directorial effort Wish I Was Here, which like Garden State is premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Braff stars in the film alongside Josh Gad, Mandy Patinkin, Ashley Greene, Donald Faison, Jim Parsons and others. The movie is set to premiere this weekend. The LA /Film…
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In an entirely appropriate twist, Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway is now itself headed to Broadway. At the helm of the new show is Susan Stroman, who just so happens to have previous experience directing Broadway plays about Broadway plays -- she previously directed and choreographed The Producers and picked up a couple of Tonys for her trouble.…
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The omnibus film Tar is based on the life and work of poet C.K. Williams, but the real attraction of the film is the cast. Jessica Chastain, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Zach Braff, and Bruce Campbell are among the actors who worked with twelve new directors from NYU to create a film that acts as…
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Hating on Zach Braff has become the cool thing to do. The reason being the actor/director took to Kickstarter in April to fund his next movie, Wish I Was Here. It was a polarizing move because many people felt Braff had enough clout to get traditional funding. He agreed, but decided he'd rather make the…
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Devindra weighs in on The Place Beyond the Pines, Joanna praises Orphan Black, and Dave describes what a film festival q&a meltdown looks like. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: SHOWNOTES What We've Been Watching Dave…
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Update: Variety has a new report on this financing deal which changes the equation. In short, it says the funds from Worldview are gap financing, which is not at all what was reported earlier. To sum up, the production is doing foreign rights sales in Cannes, which we knew, and which Braff had disclosed weeks…
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Dave, Devindra, and Laremy chat about the improvements in VHS 2, the inanity of ATM, the backlash against the Zach Braff Kickstarter. You can buy Laremy's book, Film Critic, at Amazon, or read up on the differences between Pain & Gain and real life. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave…
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Creators of brilliant-but-cancelled TV series aren't the only ones who've been inspired by Veronica Mars' Kickstarter success. Zach Braff has taken note, and now he's taking a similar route to fund his next movie. Braff made quite a splash with his 2004 feature directing debut Garden State, but as he explains it, the difficulty of…
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Sam Raimi was faced with a predicament. Two of the characters in his upcoming film Oz The Great and Powerful are completely fantastical (a flying talking monkey and a foot tall talking/walking breakable china ceramic doll) but he didn't want to have the characters to be completely created and performed in post production, and he also didn't want to…
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In October 2011, I got to visit the wonderful world of Oz and watch director Sam Raimi direct his preboot (prequel/reboot) of the classic L. Frank Baum book series. I learned much on the set of Oz: The Great and Powerful. Most fascinating to me was some of the things Disney had to do satisfy legal concerns over possibly…
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Today's TV Bits is all great news if you like Garden State, or just mostly great news if you don't. After the jump: Oz and Willow will reunite on CBS' How I Met Your Mother Arrested Development adds Andy Richter and Conan O'Brien Zach Braff develops the Garden State-esque Garage Bar for ABC Steve Carell produces a…
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Briefly: The latest addition to Sam Raimi's soon-to-shoot Oz: The Great and Powerful is a slightly unexpected one. Zach Braff is finishing up his negotiations to join the film. He'll play Frank, "the loyal but under-appreciated assistant to Oz (James Franco)." Oz is transported to the land of Oz (some name confusion there) when his…
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