By Mike Lee •
January 24, 2012 •
Sundance isn’t home to just a collection of films, it is also a place where film distributors acquire the rights to distribute the movie itself. Fox Searchlight Pictures was among the first of the big name studios to make a purchase this year starting off with the John Hawkes & Helen Hunt film, The…[ more ]
By Mike Lee •
November 29, 2011 •
Fox Searchlight delivered on its promise and has debuted a new red-band trailer exclusively on the Shame Facebook page. We will see the latest Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender collaboration when the film opens in limited release on December 2, and this new trailer is doing nothing but driving interest towards Shame’s direction. …[ more ]
By Mike Lee •
November 17, 2011 •
Michael Fassbender is a ferocious actor and he shows it all in the new trailer for Steve McQueen’s Shame. The NC-17 drama has Fassbender as a New Yorker (hence Carey Mulligan singing a cover of Frank Sintra’s New York, New York) whose intimacy issues are swept away by his addiction to sex. Shame beautifully displays…[ more ]
By Mike Lee •
November 1, 2011 •
A few weeks ago we got a look at the UK trailer for Steve McQueen’s Shame, starring Michael Fassbender as a man with an uncontrollable sex drive. Now the US has its own trailer, but it is essentially the same trailer. While the NC-17 rating might not do any favors at the box…[ more ]
By Mike Lee •
October 26, 2011 •
It was inevitable, the MPAA has given Steve McQueen’s Shame, starring Michael Fassbender and Cary Mulligan, the prestigious NC-17 rating. Quite an honor really thanks in part to the raw but explicit sex scenes will only be seen by adult eyes only and no one under the age of 17 will be allowed to…[ more ]
By Mike Lee •
October 18, 2011 •
We learned a lot about George Clooney’s character in the first trailer for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants. In that trailer we learned that Clooney plays a disconnected father who has to take care of his two daughters after his wife suffers an accident and learns some secrets about his wife he didn’t know. …[ more ]
By Mike Lee •
October 14, 2011 •
The highly erotic and stunning trailer for Steve McQueen’s Shame, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan, has been released. It is really quite an amazing trailer and only makes me want to see it more. So here is the trailer for Shame, embedded via The Guardian:
From the beginning you hear Brandon breathing heavily…[ more ]
By Mike Lee •
May 4, 2011 •
Danny Boyle doesn’t seem to want to take a break. In a report from Deadline, the 127 Hours director will return to his homeland of London to direct a thriller titled Trance later this year. The project has been described as an “art heist gone wrong” thriller and is even a throwback to the “dark,…[ more ]
By Kevin Coll •
December 23, 2010 •
Fox Searchlight has debuted the official trailer on Apple for Miguel Arteta’s Cedar Rapids, the next big potential indie comedy starring The Office and The Hangover star Ed Helms as a hometown insurance agent who has never left the town he grew up in until he goes on a trip to the biggest city he’s ever been to – Cedar…[ more ]
By Kevin Coll •
January 7, 2010 •
A few months ago we posted that Danny Boyle’s next project after his award winning Slumdog Millionaire was going to be the tale about the American mountain climber who was forced to cut off his own arm after it was crushed on a mountain.
Now Boyle has cast his leading man for this epic tale of…[ more ]
By Kevin Coll •
November 5, 2009 •
Fox Searchlight and Danny Boyle are teaming up to make 127 Hours. The film willÂ
tell the tale of mountaineer Aron Ralston.
Boyle will be directing this film which should go into production in late 2010. At present the director has written a treatment, and writer Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is in talks to write the script.
Part…[ more ]
By Kevin Coll •
June 23, 2009 •
Universal Pictures has picked up screen rights to Larry Doyle’s novel Go Mutants!, with Imagine Entertainment head Brian Grazer to produce. Doyle will also be writing the script. Go Mutants! is a teen comedy/adventure set in a high school where all of the tropes from classic 1950s alien invasion movies came true. Years later, the…[ more ]
By Kevin Coll •
March 9, 2009 •
Slumdog Millionaire, this year’s critical darling about the young boy from the slums of Mumbai who stole our heart by discovering love and fortune through the world of a game show, arrives on Blu-ray Disc With Digital Copy and DVD March 31st from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Garnering top honors at the 2009 Academy Awards…[ more ]