Drama

The Weinsteins Get Blueberry Nights

The Weinstein Company is proud to announce that it has acquired all U.S., Australian and New Zealand rights to the romantic comedy My Blueberry Nights from award-winning director Wong Kar Wai, (In the Mood for Love, Happy Together and Chungking Express) who was this years jury president of the Cannes Film Festival. This film marks Wong’s English-language feature film ….

Exclusive Daddy’s Little Girls Trailer Premiere

Director Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea’s Family Reunion) brings us another heart-felt slice of life, this time starring Gabrielle Union (Running With Scissors, Bad Boys II, Deliver Us From Eva) and Idris Elba (HBO’s The Wire). Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls revolves around a single dad (played by Elba), who is a blue collar garage mechanic and an Ivy-League-educated ….

My Enemy’s Enemy Gets a Deal

The Weinstein Company announced today that they have acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to the controversial documentary My Enemy’s Enemy. Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland)directed the film which is being produced by Rita Dagher (Fahrenheit 9/11) through her production company Yalla Films. The announcement was made today by Maeva Gatineau, Executive Vice President of Acquisitions for The Weinstein ….

Notes on a Scandal Trailer

Talk about drama. Notes on a Scandal has enough to go around for years. And this stuff is not for U.S. soaps, noooooo. This is primetime cable, or European TV. You will watch this trailer with eyes wide open. Synopsis: When Sheba Hart (played by Cate Blanchett) joins the St. George’s School as an art teacher, Barbara (played Judi Dench) senses a ….

USA Film Fest to Screen Catch a Fire, Queen & Little Children

This month, USA Film Festival/Dallas will present screenings of three of this year’s most critically-acclaimed films. CATCH A FIRE With special guests director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, The Quiet American, Rabbit-Proof Fence) and other guests of the film in attendance; a Q&A session will follow the film. Starring Tim Robbins, Derek Luke and Bonnie Henna, director Phillip Noyce brings the riveting true story ….

Exclusive Babel Clips

Moviefone has just posted some exclusive clips from Babel. The Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed drama stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal and Koji Yakusho, among others. In Babel, four disparate groups of people head towards a shared destiny of isolation and grief, as they each experience their own disasters and tragedies. In the course of just a few days, they will all face ….

Tomorrow Is Today Delivers Big Budget Look With HDV Prosumer Cam

Filmmaker Frederic Lumiere’s TOMORROW IS TODAY, which has already received the Directorial Discovery Award at the 2006 Rhode Island International Film Festival, as well as both the Best Feature Film Audience Award and Best of Festival Award at the Trimedia Festival, will make its West Coast premiere at the Majestic Crest Theater in Westwood, CA at 4:30pm ….

The Last King of Scotland Co-Stars Interview Each Other

The last film (which has always stayed with me) I remember watching about Idi Amin, was 1981’s Amin: The Rise and Fall. It was a brutal portrait of Amin, containing rapes, mass murder and the utter degradation of his own people. Sharad Patel directed the film almost as a B movie horror, but with a better script. Some of the incidents ….

Home of the Brave Trailer

Jessica Biel even looks great in army fatigues. And Home of the Brave looks touching and very relevant. The film tells the story of an American Army unit nearing the end of their tours of duty in Iraq, but are sent on one final humanitarian mission to bring medical supplies to a remote village. The unit is ambushed ….

Angelina Jolie to be in Atlas Shrugged

According to Variety, Angelina Jolie is going to star in a film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged for Lionsgate films. The novel is a three part story, with the two sections following Dagny Taggart (to be played by Jolie), a no-nonsense railroad executive, and her attempt to keep her company alive despite repeated encroachment by a society falling toward collectivism, ….

A New Stranger Than Fction Trailer and Casino Royale in Another Format

Below are links to the NEW trailer for Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrell’s upcoming comedy about an IRS auditor (Ferrell) who suddenly finds himself the subject of narration that only he can hear. Narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work, to his love life. See the trailer for Stranger Than Fiction, at the links below. ….

Bobby Trailer

Check out the star-studded cast, including Lindsay Lohan, Joy Bryant, Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Heather Graham, Laurence Fishburne, Harry Belafonte, Nick Cannon, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy and many, many more, in the trailer for Bobby, profiling the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, on June 6th, 1968, which centers around 22 people who were at the Ambassador Hotel where ….

Previews for Bobby, Shut Up and Sing, Breaking and Entering & Arthur

SHUT UP AND SING will be released limited October 20, 2006 by The Weinstein Company  SHUT UP AND SING travels with the Dixie Chicks, from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the group’s lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003. ….

All The King’s Men Preview

Steven Zaillian directs Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Patricia Clarkson, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins, and Kathy Baker in All The King’s Men, based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren. Find out all about the film, view the trailer, read the synopsis and much more, in the Film Library. All The King’s Men will be in theaters on September 22, 2006. Find out ….