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Traveling down the Revolutionary Road
Thursday, November 13, 2008
One film that I’ve been looking forward to watching this year is Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road. I loved his first film, American Beauty, but Road to Perdition and Jarhead didn’t connect with me the same way. However, based on the first trailer for Revolutionary Road and the other things that I’ve read about the movie’s premise, my interest in Mendes latest effort is quite high. Continue reading…
Posted at 2:35PM by Patrick
We’ve got trailers
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Things are moving fast at MovieSet. Not only are we close to raising the curtain on our film crew toolkit that will revolutionize how the production and marketing of a film is done, we’re getting loads of new content on our film sitelets (which now number over 200). And if you want to see new trailers, we’ve got those too:
Charlie Kaufman’s Synchdoche, NY has already been talked about on this blog before and I’m looking forward to seeing what his latest effort is especially since he’s also the film’s director. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a theater director who builds a miniature recreation of New York inside a New York warehouse, complete with actors playing real people going about their everyday lives. Watch the trailer and get a taste of what Kaufman has in store for us.
From the director of American Beauty and Road to Perdition comes Revolutionary Road, an adaptation of Richard Yates bestselling novel. The film reunites Titanic stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio who play a 1950s American couple who seem to have the perfect suburban life — and that’s precisely why they are unhappy with their lives. Click here to watch the trailer.
Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd play two thirtysomething men who refuse to act their age in Role Models. When the two guys run into legal trouble they have to pay back the community by performing community service. Click here to get a taste of the flick.
Nineteen-year-old Casey Bell is being haunted by the soul of her unborn brother. After experiencing nightmarish events Casey decides that the only way to be rid of her haunting is to have an exorcism performed on her. That’s the premise of The Unborn, directed by Batman Begins screenwriter David Goyer. The trailer looks freaky.
Defiance stars current 007 Daniel Craig as one of three Jewish brothers who, while hiding from the Nazis in the Belarussian forest during World War II, begin to assemble a resistance to their oppressors. The trailer is waiting for you right here.
And in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the four former zoo animals from the first film are back in this DreamWorks sequel. Instead of being stuck on an island in the warm latitudes the animals hit Africa and try to learn if they can rejoin their families or if their time spent in civilization has changed them too much. Zany trailer action awaits!
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Ridley Scott talks about Brave New World
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Ridley Scott, director of films such as Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Blade Runner and Alien, is set to make a return to the science fiction genre with his take on the classic Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World. The project, brought to him by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company has Mr. Scott pretty fired up:
“And it’s a big challenge, in fact. Because when you look at the two players or visionaries in the field, at that moment [it] would be Huxley and it would be [George Orwell] and that was 60 or 75 years ago. They were predictions in a way, they weren’t aware at the time, but they were predictions. One could argue that Orwell kind of got there first and Orwell was closer to the notion of ‘big brother,’ [with the] Cold War. But I don’t think that’s it, I think that big brother may be the internet. I don’t know but I think that’s the way it’s going to go. And so the Aldous Huxley’s [novel] literally what is called Brave New World that’s a very hard adaptation. So we’re still dancing with that one, but it’s a challenge.”
[for more check out io9 and firstshowing]
Dystopia - it’s not just for hippies anymore. With the state of politics and the economy of late we’re all looking for a little Soma to help us through the day. The timing couldn’t be better for this film.
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Look at this Body of Lies
Friday, September 05, 2008
Warner Bros. has sent us the final one-sheet for Body of Lies, the new Ridley Scott thriller starring Leonardo (”I’ll always love you Rose, now push me into this frigid water willya?”) DiCaprio and Russell (”I won an Oscar for Gladiator. And what did 300 win?”) Crowe. Want to see what it looks like?
Based on a novel by a Washington Post journalist, Body of Lies is about a U.S. Intelligence agent named Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) who is considered the best in his field. When he’s on assignment in a foreign nation Ferris’ contact back home — and often his lifeline — is veteran CIA officer Ed Hoffman (Crowe). Hoffman is on the trail of a new terrorist leader who’s behind a series of bombings and he wants Ferris to flush him out. But to do that, Ferris is going to have to make a series of increasingly dangerous moves. Can Ferris trust the voice on the other end of the line or is there a higher level to this cat-and-mouse game being played?
Just as that red text says at the bottom of the poster, Body of Lies hits October 10. Watch the trailer for the film on MovieSet.
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