A new poster plus a couple of not-so-hot reviews of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s THE LOVELY BONES.
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I have to admit my interest (such as it was) in Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora starring Rachel Weisz cooled somewhat as the luke warm reviews started to waft in at Cannes, but I was a little surprised it took so long to pick up a US distributor. Now it has one.
Perhaps encouraged by the box office [...]
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From France, here’s another look at one of the last few Oscar unknowns: Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. It’s a more dramatic and ethereal take than the first US trailer and better I think.
Stream it after the jump.
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Alex Billington over at FirstShowing has snagged the new trailer from the official Agora website for your embedding pleasure. I’m using the YouTube version instead because I have better luck rescaling the size of their videos, but I wanted to give credit where credit was due.
You’ll remember that Alejandro Amenabar’s film stars Rachel Weisz as [...]
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The trailer for Peter Jackson’s adaption of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci and Michael Imperioli
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Sunday brought a highly anticipated historical epic screening out of competition, a controversial competition entry drawing comparison’s to Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible and a genre thriller from Hong Kong. Wherever they take place and no matter how prestigious they are, you have to love film festivals.
Catch up with Days 3 and 4 here, Days 1 and [...]
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The Brothers Bloom isn’t just a movie about a con. It is itself a confidence trick. The difference is that the marks are all sitting in the audience instead of on the screen.
Deploying his now trademarked abundance of style and excess of patter, writer/director Rian Johnson (Brick) tries for two hours to distract the audience [...]
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Ok, Rachel Weisz isn’t really going to play Madeleine Stowe, but she is going to play a part that the Short Cuts/Stake Out/Last of the Mohicans actress originally wrote for herself back in the ’90s.
According to Michael Fleming in Variety, Fox offered Stowe $3 million in 1993 for the script Unbound Captive (co-written with husband [...]
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I’m not sure there’s a bad time to be Rachel Weisz, but the last few weeks seem like especially good ones because her name keeps turning up everywhere.
She’ll be seen later this year in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones; Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora with Weisz as fourth century mathematician, philosopher and astronomer Hypatia of [...]
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It’s been kicked around and it’s been delayed, but here are the first 7 minutes to The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson’s anticipated (in some quarters) follow up to his debut film Brick to help you decide for yourself:
You can also check out a different clip over at Apple.
I’ve tried to be optimistic about this one [...]
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