Somers Town film trailer
Somers Town follows Tommo, who just turned sixteen and gets released from social care, then runs away to London from a lonely, difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and ….
Get a new MAC from Oliver Stone
The makers of the upcoming George W. Bush Biopic, filmmaker Oliver Stone and YouTube, have teamed up for a Film Mashup contest. It’s simple really. Just use the online tools over at Youtube to create a trailer mashup from W., with a maximum length of 10 minutes, and you could win The Ultimate Filmmaker Prize ….
Breakfast With Scot trailer and film details
Eric (Tom Cavanagh) lives for all things hockey. Now in his thirties, he’s managed to turn his stint as an ex-professional hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leaf into a full-time gig as commentator for sports TV. He’s living the dream! But when Eric’s boyfriend, Sam (Ben Shenkman), announces they’re to become temporary guardians of ….
The Soloist film trailer
Robert Downey Jr. plays Steve Lopez, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, who stumbles upon Nathaniel Ayers, played by Jamie Foxx, a gifted and schizophrenic, homeless musician that lives in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, who was a child prodigy, and still dreams of playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Joe Wright, who directed last ….
25th Anniversary Edition Risky Business out next week
The cult classic comedy Risky Business is coming to DVD next week, in a special 25th Anniversary collector’s item not to be missed, from Warner Home Video. Tom Cruise plays a high school senior tired of being Mr. All-American and facing such traumatic decisions as which Ivy League college to attend. His life gets turned ….
Watch full length features from Austin’s Fantastic Fest for free online
Place this one on your calendars. As I was posting my story about the Conquest of the Planet of the Apes screening at Fantastic Fest, I read one of their releases that stated festival sponsors are placing five feature films and six shorts from this year’s festival online for free streaming, starting on September 14, ….
Gus Van Sant’s Milk trailer
Below is the trailer for the new Gus Van Sant film, Milk, which looks like a moving biography of the life of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk (played by Sean Penn), who was assassinated, along with Mayor George Moscone, by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White (played by Josh Brolin). Milk will be ….
Flash of Genius film trailer
Below is the trailer for the new Greg Kinnear film Flash of Genius. Kinnear plays Robert Kearns, who took on the Ford Motor Company, who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Flash of Genius will be in theaters on October 3, 2008.
Microsoft co-founder developing film based on life of George Washington
Vulcan Productions, a indie film company founded by Paul G. Allen (who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates), has signed writer Nicholas Meyer (Elegy, The Human Stain) to write a screenplay about the life of George Washington. Nick Wechsler (We Own the Night, Reservation Road) is attached as a producer, as are Richard Hutton and Michael ….
SnagFilms to commemorates 9/11 with online film retrospective
SnagFilms, which brings nonfiction films to the web and promotes viral web distribution through virtual movie theater widgets, recently announced its first annual September 11th Remembrance in Film, with a slate of five documentary films, featuring the critically acclaimed 7 Days in September. The films will be available in their entirety, without commercial interruption, at ….
McG, MySpace and Warner Bros. launching new streaming TV series
MySpace announced that a content partnership to bring the new original digital series Sorority Forever, created by McG (director of Terminator Salvation) and the producers of the hit Internet series Prom Queen, from TheWB.com to MySpaceTV. Sorority Forever will be hosted on its own custom hub on MySpaceTV, with episodes of the series premiering at ….
Trailer for the Russian film 12
Below is the trailer for 12, which follows 12 jurors who must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather. Nikita Mikhalkov (Quiet Flows the Don) directed the 2007 film. The film is loosely based on the 1957 classic 12 Angry Men.
The Crash TV series widget
The Crash TV series premieres exclusively on Starz, on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Starring an ensemble cast led by film icon Dennis Hopper, the series looks at the way different lives intersect and collide in the melting pot of LA, and will be quite different from the movie portrayal. From the ….
Italian crime thriller Gomorra film trailer
Gomorrah won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Fest in May, and IFC Films soon after scooped up the rights to US distribution of the film. The film is an inside look at Italy’s modern-day crime families, as seen through the eyes of rising lieutenants in the global criminal organization. The film is based ….
The Pool official website
The Pool is the story of Venkatesh, a “room boy” working at a hotel in Panjim, Goa, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the ….
