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Up in the Air | Review
10 hours ago | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Jason Reitman Writer(s): Walter Kirn (novel) Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner (screenplay) Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Danny McBride Very loosely based on Walter Kim’s 2001 novel Up in the Air, the protagonist of Reitman’s film Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a career transition counselor; in other words, corporations hire him to fire their staff. The position not only requires an emotionless cold as ice personality but it also requires a lot of travel – thus Ryan spends a majority of his life up in the air, and is quickly approaching a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles with American Airlines (a landmark reached by only six others in the history of aviation). Ryan relishes his relationship-free life – estranged from his family and with no friends or significant other to hold him down (the condo he owns, yet rarely frequents, looks more like »
- Don Simpson
Trailer: Leaves of Grass
16 hours ago | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Edward Norton is an actor who is always interesting to watch, and his dual role in Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass looks to be another fine prospect.
Not a Walt Whitman ‘Bright Star’ type biopic, Leaves of Grass sees Norton joined by Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss and Melanie Lynskey for this pharmaceutical comedy which sees Norton play twin brothers whose lives took a divergent turn, one who leaves their hometown for the academic heights of the Ivy League and the other who stays behind to deal drugs. The trailer has found its way online and is available below (please note it contains swearing).
Hoisted back to his hometown by some tragic news the brothers reunite to deal with small town drug lords, the fragmentation of the family and a whole lot of green. What seems an Adaptation inspired movie, Leaves of Grass has a great cast and looks »
- Jon Lyus
New Trailer For Leaves Of Grass
20 hours ago | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
A brand new trailer has been released online for Leaves Of Grass, the pot comedy thriller starring Edward Norton.
The official plot synopsis goes something like this: Norton plays Bill Kincaid, an Ivy League classics professor who returns to rural Oklahoma to bury his dangerously brilliant identical twin brother, only to discover that the brother he believes to have been murdered has lured him home to involve him in a doomed plot against a local drug lord. Before Bill can flee, he's implicated in a murder and his life becomes completely unravelled.
Those savvy among you will have noted the key word in the description is "identical" - yes that's right, Norton will be putting his acting skills to full use by playing dual roles, starring as both brothers. Cue lots of split scenes and classic comedy set-ups.
The film is written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson, who you »
Unrated Promo Trailer for Leaves Of Grass Starring Edward Norton & Edward Norton; Film Opens December 25th
15 November 2009 10:12 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
With some films shouting their Oscar intentions from the rooftops, Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass may be trying to fly in under the radar. For a comedy-thriller starring Edward Norton in dual roles and co-starring Keri Russell, Melanie Lynskey, Susan Sarandon, and Richard Dreyfuss, we’re only now getting a full (albeit non-mpaa approved) trailer, although another flickered online earlier this year.
Norton plays twin brothers, one a respectable college professor and the other a redneck pot dealer. Lured under the false pretense of his brother’s death, the professor returns to his home town only to be entangled in a doomed scheme against a local drug lord (Dreyfuss). It’s described as a stoner-comedy-thriller but don’t start thinking it’s along the lines of Pineapple Express. The film is apparently “a fiercely original work on par with the idiosyncrasies and layers of the Coen Brothers and »
- Matt Goldberg
David Beckham Is Just One of Many Famous U2 Fans
26 October 2009 7:45 AM, PDT | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
The U2 concert in Pasadena last night brought out many of Hollywood's biggest names. After a weekend with family, David Beckham attended with friends, while Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford turned up side-by-side. Paris Hilton came with her boyfriend Doug and sister Nicky, and Ashley Greene left the Gossip Girl gang to watch the show alongside fellow Twilighters Kellan Lutz and Cam Gigandet. Ryan Phillippe had a boys' evening out with Bff Breckin Meyer, as Olivia Wilde chatted with Ginnifer Goodwin. Orlando Bloom tried to go a little incognito as he played with a mask in the VIP lounge before the whole famous gang went to see Bono and the guys do their thing on stage. View 45 Photos › To see more photos, including Demi Moore and AnnaLynne McCord, just read more. View 45 Photos › Images include: Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Ginnifer Goodwin, Joey Kern, Olivia Wilde, Ryan Phillippe, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, »
- PopSugar
Shyam Benegal, Yash Chopra announce line-up for 11th Mumbai Film Festival
22 October 2009 10:09 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
The Mami committee led by Chairman Shyam Benegal and trustees Yash Chopra, Jaya Bachchan, Amit Khanna, Shabana Azmi and Amol Palekar unveiled the line-up for the 11th annual Mumbai Film Festival (Mff), which consists of 200 films from 56 countries. All of the international films to be screened in the main sections of this year's festival will be Indian, Asian or world premieres. Mff is a Reliance Big Entertainment initiative and has the distinction of being the only international film festival in India to be organized by an independent body of practicing film professionals. Information and Broadcasting Minister of India Ambika Soni will be the chief guest at the opening ceremony, to be held at the Fun Cinema, Andheri on October 29. Shashi Kapoor will be honoured with the Indian Lifetime achievement award along with legendary Indian director-producer Yash Chopra who will be felicitated by Fiapf, the international federation of film producers association. »
- Bollywood Hungama News Network
Shyam Benegal, Yash Chopra announce line-up for 11th Mumbai Film Festival
22 October 2009 10:09 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »
The Mami committee led by Chairman Shyam Benegal and trustees Yash Chopra, Jaya Bachchan, Amit Khanna, Shabana Azmi and Amol Palekar unveiled the line-up for the 11th annual Mumbai Film Festival (Mff), which consists of 200 films from 56 countries. All of the international films to be screened in the main sections of this year's festival will be Indian, Asian or world premieres. Mff is a Reliance Big Entertainment initiative and has the distinction of being the only international film festival in India to be organized by an independent body of practicing film professionals. Information and Broadcasting Minister of India Ambika Soni will be the chief guest at the opening ceremony, to be held at the Fun Cinema, Andheri on October 29. Shashi Kapoor will be honoured with the Indian Lifetime achievement award along with legendary Indian director-producer Yash Chopra who will be felicitated by Fiapf, the international federation of film producers association. »
- Bollywood Hungama News Network
Up in the Air - New clip from the Jason Reitman film.
19 October 2009 8:52 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
See a new clip called "Order Five Meals" from Paramount Pictures' "Up in the Air," starring George Clooney, Jason Bateman, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride, Chris Lowell, Tamala Jones, Adam Rose, Lauren Mae Shafer and Steve Eastin. The Jason Reitman-directed film is based based on the novel by Walter Kirn. Daniel Dubiecki, Jeffrey Clifford and Ivan Reitman produce alongside Jason Reitman. Oscar® winner Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. »
BFI Lff Review: Up In The Air
18 October 2009 2:32 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Jason Reitman’s feature follow up to the Oscar Winning Juno is many things. Up In The Air is an indictment of the economic misfortunes and the erosive nature of corporate culture, it is a road movie populated by dysfunctional family members (who are not related), it is a love story in reverse peppered with distant epiphanies and existential pondering, it is not Juno, and it is funny. Very funny.
Ryan Bingham (a nuanced performance from man of the festival, George Clooney) is a corporate downsizer for hire. He spends most of his life in airports, flying to industrial states in America, visiting workplaces and firing the staff. When we meet him he is on the receiving end of abuse, disbelief, emotional fallout from blue collar workers being let go of (firing is not a word he or his company use). He is a man of routine and control and »
- Jon Lyus
Hollywood Film Fest unveils award recipients
14 October 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | BusinessofCinema | See recent BusinessofCinema news »
The Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards has set aside honors for Julianne Moore, Bradley Cooper and Ryan Kavanaugh.The 13th annual fest, which holds its awards ceremony 26 October, also will hand out Hollywood Spotlight Awards to Shohreh Aghdashloo, Melanie Lynskey, Paul Schneider and Zachary Quinto.Moore, who next appears in A Single Man, Chloe and The Kids Are All Right, is set to receive the gala's Supporting Actress Award.Cooper, who appeared this year in The Hangover, All About Steve and He's Just Not That Into You, will receive the ... »
London Film Festival: ‘The Informant!’
13 October 2009 8:32 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
Dir: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey ‘The Informant!’ is the true(ish) story of Mark Whitacre, the highest ranking whistleblower in corporate history. Mark (Damon) is a biochemist who has been promoted to the heady heights of agricultural giant Adm’s corporate infrastructure. But when his division loses money for a record year, he pretends that a Japanese competitor has infected Adm’s corn stock, and before he knows it the FBI is involved. Mark is clearly not a man who thinks his decisions through very carefully – he is one of those polite and hopelessly naïve Americans that we don’t see enough of outside the Us – and so he decides to tell Agent Shepherd (Bakula) about Adm’s involvement in one of the largest global price-fixing scandals in corporate history. What follows is basically what ‘The Insider’ would have looked like if Mel Brooks owned the rights. »
- Nicholas Deigman
Up In The Air | Trailer
8 October 2009 10:08 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Up in the Air is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel, Up in the Air, written by Walter Kirn. The screenplay was penned by Jason Reitman and Sheldon, with Reitman also sitting in the director's chair. Jason Reitman is best known for writing/directing Thank You for Smoking, as well as directing Diablo Cody's into to screen writing, Juno. The story follows career transition counselor Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) who travels around the country terminating corporate employees and delivering motivational speeches while remaining anonymous during his excursions. Living hub to hub and free of a personal/social life, Ryan desensitizes himself with promiscuous sex with women, drugs, and alcohol, but his company has now grounded him in Omaha, Nebraska at the corporate headquarters. Up in the Air also stars Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Danny McBride, Melanie Lynskey, Amy Morton, Sam Elliott, J.K. Simmons, Zach Galifianakis, Tamala Jones, »
- Dave Campbell
Up in the Air - Trailer for the Jason Reitman film starring George Clooney and Vera Farmiga.
3 October 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Catch the trailer for Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" which is now embedded. The film stars George Clooney, Jason Bateman, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride, Chris Lowell, Tamala Jones, Adam Rose, Lauren Mae Shafer and Steve Eastin. Jason Reitman helms as well as adapting the screnplay based on the novel by Walter Kirn. In Association with Cold Spring Pictures. A Montecito Picture Company Production, In Association with Rickshaw Productions, In Association with Hard C. »
Up in the Air - New trailer for the Jason Reitman film.
1 October 2009 10:27 PM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
The Jason Reitman-helmed "Up in the Air" has a second trailer added. Paramount Pictures comedy/drama is frontlined by George Clooney and includes an outstanding cast with Jason Bateman, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey and Danny McBride in the mix. Also in the cast are Chris Lowell, Tamala Jones, Adam Rose, Lauren Mae Shafer and Steve Eastin. Reitman, who produced the recent "Jennifer's Body" flop, has a winner here and adapts the screenplay for the Walter Kim novel as well as directing. He also produces alongside Daniel Dubiecki, Jeffrey Clifford and father Ivan Reitman. »
This Week In DVD: September 29th
29 September 2009 1:26 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working as a server at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater carrying $5 shakes, black-bean burgers, and root-beer flavored cookies to happy, cinema-loving patrons. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. So join us each week as he takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. And don't forget to check out Neil Miller's hilariously titled This Week In Blu-ray column for reviews on the latest high definition Blu-ray releases! 42nd Street Forever Volume 5: Alamo Drafthouse Edition Pitch: A fantastically offensive collection of trailers from some of the craziest »
- Rob Hunter
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Away We Go’ Proves Impossible to Resist
28 September 2009 2:10 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Filmmaker Sam Mendes has always been drawn to telling stories set in a dysfunctional America where the sanctity of marriage is anything but “sanct.” For the past decade, he has specialized in brutally frank social satires about the deterioration of the American family. His work is nearly always riveting, but could never be described as “feel good”…until now. The happily unmarried couple in “Away We Go” sharply contrasts with the unhappily married couple of “Revolutionary Road.” It is a rather marvelous lark, and easily the most optimistic film Mendes has ever made.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0 John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph are two enormously appealing actors, and they finally get the opportunity to prove it onscreen. They perfectly capture the excitement and uncertainty of a couple in their early thirties desperate to prove to themselves that they are not “f—k-ups.” With their first child on the way, Burt (Krasinski »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Movie Review: “The Informant!”
26 September 2009 6:44 PM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »
Seen on: September 19, 2009
The players: Director: Steven Soderbergh, Writer: Scott Z. Burns, Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson
Facts of interest: "The Informant!" is based on the book by Kurt Eichenwald.
The plot: The film follows the misadventures of a white-collar guy who becomes an informant by helping the FBI expose his company's price-fixing conspiracy.
Our thoughts: Steven Soderbergh’s new movie “The Informant!” may not exactly be what you expect, and that’s certainly one of the reasons the film stands out and works on so many levels. This is an awkward little comedy inspired by a true story, and as far as I’m concerned, it’s one heck of an entertaining ride. »
- Franck Tabouring
Tiff ‘09: Up In The Air
24 September 2009 8:27 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Up In The Air Directed by Jason Reitman Obscure alt-culture references are nowhere to be found in Jason Reitman`s follow-up to his sharply divisive runaway smash Juno. Instead, Up In the Air turns sharply towards the dramatic, a move that proved mildly disastrous for fellow comedy dynamo Judd Apatow just a few months ago, but which Reitman manages without sacrificing his film`s cohesiveness, largely by keeping an unswerving focus on his themes and generally keeping the proceedings in the realm of the credible. George Clooney, finally looking slightly weathered in a role that calls for it, stars as Ryan Bingham, a legend in the field of outsourced firing, a field that is experiencing a renaissance thanks to economic downturn. It`s Bingham’s job to break the news to the newly sacked when the higher-ups get too squeamish, a job that he takes with relative seriousness without seeming personally ruffled. »
- Ricky
What did you see this weekend? Weekend Release Round-up
21 September 2009 11:36 AM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
Moviegoers rejoice! Five new movies hit theaters this past Friday featuring something for everyone to enjoy whther you care for Drama, Comedy, Horror, Animation or Romance. What did you see this weekend? Which movie are your co-workers talking about this morning?
Bright Star First up is director Jane Campion’s romantic drama ‘Bright Star‘ based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, played by rising stars Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish.
‘Bright Star‘ takes place in 1818 and chronicles the secret love affair begins between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an out-spoken student of high fashion. This unlikely pair begin at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, while she was unimpressed not only by his poetry but also by literature in general.
However, when Fanny heard that Keats was nursing his seriously ill younger brother, »
- Shannon
The Informant Review
21 September 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
“The Informant” is a true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in Us history, with Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, a rising star at an agri-industry giant who imagined himself to be some kind of secret agent by exposing his company’s price-fixing to the FBI in the 90s. Only Whitacre wasn’t all that he seemed, neglecting to mention to the FBI the $9.5 million he’d siphoned off from the corporate coffers.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, The Informant! stars Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, an employee at Illinois-based Adm (Archer Daniels Midland), a company that produces food additives, among other things. Whitacre, a Ph.D. from an Ivy League school, works in biochemistry, but eventually climbs the corporate ladder and finds himself working behind a desk making a very comfortable living. That is until one day, he finds himself in a mess of trouble when the company’s lysine »
- Allan Ford
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