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This Week in Trailers: The Good, The Bad, and Sarah Jessica Parker
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Maybe it's the holidays, but this was the biggest week for trailers in a long, long time. It's not just the
sheer number, although that, too, is a consideration, but there were also a lot of big ticket items that were unveiled this week. We
have two trailers for Kick-Ass, swiftly moving to the top of 2010's must-see list, plus films with actual movie stars,
although 2009 provided strong evidence that they weren't all that necessary.
Of course, the law of averages tells us we're bound to have a bad trailer in the mix as well, so welcome to the Kevin Smith buddy
picture Cop Out with Tracy Morgan and Bruce Willis, which has all the markings of a giant disappointment. Also, Sex and
the City 2 looks like shit. Conversely, the Karate Kid actually looks pretty decent, so you never can tell.
Cruise and Diaz in Knight and Day
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Chilling Trailer for ‘Frozen’
26 December 2009 11:40 AM, PST
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When the trailer for the new Adam Green thriller Frozen hit the web the other day, I thought, “Great someone finally made a movie about my first girlfriend from high school.” I was slightly disappointed to find out that wasn’t the case. However, that doesn’t mean I can’t keep my fingers crossed that somebody will one day write about her…but I digress.
Frozen is a actually new single-setting thriller in the style of Open Water and this year’s grossly under-appreciated The Canyon.
Shawn Ashmore (X2), Emma Bell (Gracie) and Kevin Zegers (Fifty Dead Men Walking) star as three college students out for a good time on the slopes, skiing and snowboarding. With the day winding down, they decide to take one last run at the mountain and as they are riding the chair lift it stops about halfway up and then the mountain goes dark as the resort closes,
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'Frozen' movie trailer: There will be no blood, because it has solidified
22 December 2009 10:34 AM, PST
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In Frozen, out February 5, three college students get stuck on a chairlift as creatures and possibly sparkly teenage vampires howl at them from the forest. Based on the just-released trailer, below, the film is like 2003's Open Water re-imagined as Precarious Suspended Bench. Or, as the trailer boasts, it'll "do for skiing what Jaws did for swimming." Wait, what? People want that? PopWatchers, press play and tell me if you want that.
The basic message I got from that trailer is that that pink lady should probably have considered gloves. Also: If you were thinking about going skiing this winter,
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- Annie Barrett
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Trailer - Vacation Gone Wrong in 'Frozen'
22 December 2009 7:50 AM, PST
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That would suuuuuuuck. Could you imagine getting stuck on a ski lift not just overnight but stranded dozens of feet in the air for a week? That's the premise for Frozen, which I have to admit seems to be a winter sports version of Open Water.
The trailer for the low-budget suspense flick has debuted on the ol' internet and, you know, I can see how it might induce a little fright in a packed theater. But again, it's not a new concept so the filmmakers have to really be up to something in acts two and three, which may or may not be hinted at here in the trailer.
You'll notice that Shawn Ashmore is in the trailer, and he's Iceman from the X-Men movies. I dunno...seems like stunt casting to have Iceman trapped in the snow with no way out, doesn't it?
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Frozen Gets A Chilling Trailer
21 December 2009 6:56 PM, PST
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Last week we told you about Frozen.s unsettling poster and now we.ve got the trailer for the latest from director Adam Green. Perhaps it.s just because I have a major hatred for the cold, but this looks really freaky. In last week.s article, Will really hits the nail on the head likening Frozen to Open Water.
It shows you what happens when three skiers (Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell and Kevin Zegers) are forgotten and left dangling in their chairlift seats. No big deal. Someone will realize they.re there, right? Nope and on top of that, the ski resort isn.t set to reopen until the following weekend. It.s time to take some drastic measures or risk frostbite, hypothermia and eventually freezing to death.
Wrap yourself in a blanket, sweatshirt, Snuggie or whatever you have that.s warm and head over to Apple to check
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Review: Adam Green's Frozen
19 December 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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Adam Green's Frozen scored a midnight slot at Sundance in 2010,
but attendees of Butt-Numb-a-Thon in Austin, Texas got an advance
sneak preview in mid-December. This intense horror film is done in the
style of Open Water, but shifts the scenario from the shark-infested sea to the snow-capped mountains. Open Water comparisons are easy, but Frozen is simply a better movie that takes a similar situation to another level.
Parker
(Kevin Zegers), Sue (Emma Bell), and Lynch (Shawn Paker) are college
students on a quick Sunday ski-trip in New England. Instead of paying
for lift tickets, the trio successfully bribe the lift operator (using
Parker's girlfriend Sue as bait) so they can get on the lift without
passes. After a series of shift changes and communication lapses, the
lift stops and the lights go out before lift gets to the top of the
mountain. Faced with an impending snow storm
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Three
17 December 2009 11:42 PM, PST
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Dinner for Schmucks
Opens: July 23rd 2010
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams
Director: Jay Roach
Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.
Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".
The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can
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- Garth Franklin
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Sundance '10: Low Quality Look at the Official One Sheet for 'Frozen'
14 December 2009 10:20 PM, PST
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Bd reader Joey M. tipped us off to the official website for Ariescope that features a tiny look at the official festival one sheet for Anchor Bay's Sundance Film Festival 2010 selection, Frozen, the forthcoming chiller from writer/director Adam Green (Hatchet).
The one sheet is very reminiscent of the beautiful poster for Open Water and features a look at the stranded skiers in peril.
Frozen stars Kevin Zegers, Emma Bell and Shawn Ashmore as three skiers that are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death. Anchor Bay will release it in theaters February 5th following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
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Sundance '10: Impressive Park City at Midnight Full Line-Up!
3 December 2009 12:58 PM, PST
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Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen at Park City at Midnight category of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, which runs January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. every year we cover the event, and every year I have to cram it down your throats; this is the single most important film festival alongside Tiff! Saw premiered at Sundance, as did High Tension, Open Water, The Blair Witch Project, The Signal and many, many more. Pay Attention. Beyond the break you'll find a list of films playing the Midnight category and they're really, really good this year.
Films include: Splice, The Killer Inside Me, Frozen, The Violent Kind, 7 Days, Buried, Tucker & Dale Vs Evil, High School, The Perfect Host and All My Friends Are Funeral Singers.
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Peli 'aimed to match Blair Witch success'
24 November 2009 3:00 AM, PST
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Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli has admitted that he wanted to replicate the success of The Blair Witch Project with his debut feature. The low-budget horror, which Peli shot in his own home for $$15,000, recently crossed the $$100 million box office barrier in the Us to become the most profitable film in Paramount's history. "I was hoping that after seeing the success of movies like The Blair Witch Project and Open Water, if the movie turned out well maybe it would have some future in theatres," Peli told Digital Spy. "I didn't really know until I started playing the movie in test (more)
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How Paranormal Activity became a frightening success
20 November 2009 4:10 PM, PST
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Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fame
There is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-key interview with Oren Peli, who's in London for less than 24 hours to promote his smash-hit low-budget horror flick Paranormal Activity, there's a loud creak in the corner of the room and I find myself leaping out of the armchair. Peli sits deep in the sofa. He doesn't move. I think I've been hearing things. Peli simply smiles. He nods; he heard it too.
Weeks after watching Paranormal Activity it's easy to be spooked by every creak, even in the middle of the day. Filmed over seven days and nights in Peli's suburban San Diego house in 2006, Paranormal Activity is a mock documentary in the style of The Blair Witch Project; we watch a
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Will shark movie, The Reef, help or hinder Australia's tourist trade?
4 November 2009 3:17 AM, PST
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It’s 34 years since Jaws first put sharks on cinema’s scare-o-meter and since then we’ve spilt our popcorn over other predators of the deep in the likes of Deep Blue Sea and Open Water. And it looks like we could once again be giving the sea a miss thanks to The Reef, a new Australian thriller scheduled for release in 2010. The low-budget movie, which is being touted as a true story and is supported by the country’s State Government, follows a group of youngsters who find themselves fighting for their lives when their sailboat capsizes along the Great Barrier Reef and a great white takes a dislike to them. It’s classic disaster movie fodder and yet there are concerns that it might damage tourism in the Queensland area, where it’s being filmed.
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The Blair Witch Project: Ten Years On – Part 2
30 October 2009 5:01 PM, PDT
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It’s the ten year anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, which was released in the UK to coincide with Halloween a decade ago. On Thursday, i looked at the impact it’s release had at the time in The Blair Witch Project: Ten Years On – Part 1, and yesterday reviewed the movie itself in Did you ever see… The Blair Witch Project. Now, on Halloween night, we’ll see how Blair Witch still impacts the movie industry even now.
Blair Witch immediately set small independent filmmakers off attempting to recreate/replicate the success of the movie. Indeed, a sequel, Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows was also produced. Inevitably, no success was found in any of these endeavours. Blair Witch had come at the end of the nineties low budget independent film boom. Perhaps more surprisingly, Hollywood executives wisely resisted the temptation to commission a raft of imitations. Common sense
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Richard Harrah Takes Us Deep Into The Canyon
21 October 2009 7:34 AM, PDT
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Yvonne Strahovski and Eion Baily team up with Will Patton for a terrifying honeymoon nightmare this Halloween season
With The Canyon, Richard Harrah has crafted a sly little thriller that comes at you like a donkey kick in the kidneys. Starring Yvonne Strahovski and Eion Baily as recently married lovebirds headed deep into to the Gran Canyon, Harrah's Halloween treat is an intense, cautionary travelogue that offers up the best kind of nightmare scenario for any honeymooning couple. When you throw Will Patton into the mix as Henry Theodore Roosevelt Pritchard, a wily old coot with a pick-ax and a couple of spare donkeys, you know this trip isn't going to end well. The couple gets lost, they run out of food, coyotes attack them, and nothing is more dangerous than trying to find a cell phone signal. We recently caught up with Harrah to chat about this exciting new project.
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Vampires, "Antichrist"...and It's Not Even Halloween Yet
19 October 2009 8:48 AM, PDT
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This week finds early awards season contenders lining up alongside a queer cinema double bill, a troupe of unorthodox vampires and a horror movie franchise that's become torturous in more ways than one.
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"Amelia"
Awards season takes flight with celebrated director Mira Nair's biopic charting the early life and rise to prominence of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Hilary Swank produced and stars as the elusive Kansas-born pilot as she perilously navigates the skies, the trappings of fame and her romances with publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere) and Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). Christopher Eccleston, Cherry Jones and Mia Wasikowska join the heavyweight cast in this pic whose Oscar-friendly subject matter may allow it to fly under the Academy's expanded Best Picture tent.
Opens in limited release.
"Antichrist"
Controversial from the word go, Danish
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Oren Peli’s Paranormal Chronicles
13 October 2009 12:22 PM, PDT
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Recent film history is littered with exciting and ambitious genre films that wound up bypassing theaters and going straight to video instead; Michael Dougherty’s Trick ’R Treat and Thomas Jane’s would-be 3-D Dark Country are just two of the more recent examples. And for a couple of years after chilling audiences at festivals, Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity seemed destined for the same fate. DreamWorks snapped up the $11,000 production following a Slamdance Film Fest screening in January 2008—and then announced its intentions to remake Activity on a bigger budget, consigning the original to be seen only on DVD, if at all.
All that changed in the last couple of months. After previewing the movie to enthusiastic audience response, Paramount (which had taken over handling Activity) decided to send the movie into high-profile midnight bookings and give the public the chance to Demand It! for their areas via the official website.
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'Twilight' Producers Close To Casting Halle Berry For Thriller 'Dark Tide'
9 September 2009 3:00 PM, PDT
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By choice or not, Halle Berry has stayed on the outskirts of Hollywood's radar in the last few years, appearing in just two relatively low-profile films, with a third indie still awaiting release. The folks behind the "Twilight" franchise, conversely, are at the epicenter of the pop culture zeitgeist.
Variety is reporting that the thriller "Dark Tide" will have Berry and two "Twilight" producers, Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, joining forces. Nothing's set yet — the Oscar-winner is still in those mysterious "advance talks" — but if everything works out, Berry will sign on to play a diving instructor who suffers a near-fatal accident with a great white shark and then decides — screw it! — to head back to the ocean.
The script comes from newbie Amy Sorlie, a screenwriter and journalist who — if her Twitter account is an accurate representation — is a committed beach bum based in Los Angeles. Clark Johnson, a
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Frightfest 09: Review of Christopher Smith's labyrinthine yachting horror Triangle
27 August 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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Year: 2009
Directors: Christopher Smith
Writers: Christopher Smith
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
[Editor's note: And so begins our Frightfest coverage thanks to our awesome London correspondent Ben!]
Christopher Smith is one of the rising stars of British Horror, his so-so debut “Creep” knocked into a hat by the success of his second feature, the very funny horror comedy “Severance”. They're very different films, but have in common a brazen, magpie attitude to their influences and a trashy, ironic feel. Triangle similarly flies its influences with no apology, but swaps the gore and laughs for tightly plotted thriller tension and a complicated, twisting storyline that could annoy if it wasn't so bizarre. The lengths it goes to to confound and confuse make this a very exciting film and a big step forward for Christopher Smith, despite an empty feel familiar in films that rely solely on plot mechanics.
I'd like to coin the term Yachting Horror to explain Triangle's set up,
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6 Films to Celebrate Shark Week
6 August 2009 4:11 PM, PDT
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A wise man once said, "Live every week like it's Shark Week," and we've adhered to that rule religiously for 51 weeks. Now, we're lucky enough to live like it's Shark Week during Shark Week. In fact, we're so crazy for the Discovery Channel feature that we're DVRing most of it in order to watch its programming throughout the year. And to throw a massive shark-themed party.
That's a massive party with a shark theme, not a party with a theme of massive sharks.
Actually, I guess it could go either way.
Since we are celebrating this week in a big way, we've decided to throw together a list of movies that you might want to check out when you're not watching wall-to-wall shark footage on television. Because you know what goes great with sharks? More sharks.
Shark! (1969)
The Pitch: This is by no means a good movie. It's not even close to being a good movie. But
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- Dr. Cole Abaius
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'Surviving Crooked Lake' trailer - 4 Girls, 2 Canoes, 1 Body
18 July 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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Another female-empowered, coming-of-age terror/thriller (think All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) is here: Surviving Crooked Lake in U.S. theaters July 24th.
In this sensual, intense, indie feature, a quartet of teenage girls embark on a canoe-and-camping trip with a slightly older male guide in the endless wilderness of the Canadian Shield. His younger sister Steph – who is desperately afraid of the water – is one of the campers. Once the group is underway, romantic tensions erupt and disaster strikes, forcing the girls to face a grueling and desperate trip back to civilization...
Shot in tight close-ups with a fluid camera that sees the landscape first as an embodiment of desire and second as a distortion of reality, Surviving Crooked Lake crackles with suspense and intrigue. It will leave you wondering about the mysteries of the adolescent heart and mind, the bonds of family, and to the looming influence of nature and landscape.
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