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The revolution will be streamed on Netflix

Criterion’s DVD of Steven Soderbergh’s Che starring Benicio Del Toro won’t be available  until January 19, but the film (not the extras) is already available for streaming on Netflix.
As has been previously noted, Olivier Assayas’ terrific Summer Hours has been available for a few weeks as well.
This isn’t news really, but if  you didn’t catch [...]

Trailer #2: The Wolfman

Trailer number two for Joe Johnston’s THE WOLFMAN starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving kind of sucks.

Trailer: The Wolfman

Emily Blunt in The Wolfman
Thanks to Ryan at AD for reminding me there’s more than one trailer in town this morning.
If not for the cast that includes Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Anthony Hopkins, I wouldn’t be too interested in Universal raiding their archives once again, but this trailer for The Wolfman looks a [...]

‘Green Zone’ and ‘Wolfman’ land in 2010

Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro and Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone starring Matt Damon are getting 2010 release dates.

Trailer: Che

Here’s the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Che starring Benicio Del Toro. I still haven’t made up my mind if it’s great or merely very good, but I look forward to giving it another spin.
Che is set to play (in two parts…I think) for a one-week Oscar qualifying run in Los Angeles and New York beginning [...]

AFI Fest 2008: Day 2

In the interest of making sure I got to the theater on time for an early 6pm screening of Che, I cut my afternoon film schedule off after one film. It turns out the seating was reserved (hence the aisle and seat number on my ticket) so I needn’t have bothered. Oh well. It’s all [...]

‘Wrestler’ and ‘Che’ Tag Team AFI Fest

AFI announced yesterday that two highly anticipated films, Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler and Steven Soderbergh’s Che will be making their West Coast premieres at the 2008 AFI Fest.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke will screen November 1 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Che starring Benicio Del Toro [...]

Spain Digs the First Half of ‘Che’

The Argentine, part one of Steven Soderbergh’s Che Guevara biography starring Benicio Del Toro as the controversial revolutionary pulled in “substantially more than expected” during its public premiere in Spain according to one of the film’s bookers. Variety called the $2.5 million and $7,683 per screen average “non-spectacular but very encouraging.”
The trade notes that Che [...]