The writer-director of The Squid and the Whale as well as the unmentioned, less successful follow-up Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach [NBAUM] is back with a dramedy, Greenberg [GBERG] starring Ben Stiller [BSTIL] as a man going through a mid-life crisis. The New York native looks to have set his first film in Los Angeles. The first trailer has debuted on Apple along with the official synopsis:
Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is at a crossroads in his life. Out of a job and none too...
CBS Films has debut a 23-second teaser for the romance Beastly [BSTLY]. Alex Pettyfer [APETT] and Vanessa Hudgens [VHUDG] star in a modern retelling of The Beauty and the Beast. Unfortunately, the brevity makes the film look and feel more like a remake of Darkman, Sam Raimi's dark superhero action film.
The second film in the Stephenie Meyer romance series, Twilight Saga: New Moon [TWLI2] opened with an estimated $140.7 million, more than doubled Twilight's $69.6 million. The opening is the third highest ever behind The Dark Knight's $158.4 million and Spider-Man 3 $151.1 million. New Moon set the record for biggest opening day ever at $72.7 million, and the new midnight sales record at $26.3 million. Women made up 80% of the audience.
Warner Bros.' The Blind Side [BLDSD] debuted...
Knowing they have a captive target audience, Summit is putting trailers for seemingly all its upcoming releases in front of The Twilight Saga: New Moon [TWLI2]. Proving no exception to the typical romantic comedy, Letters to Juliet [LJULT] gives away the whole movie in the trailer. Amanda Seyfried [ASEYF] finds a 50-year-old love letter and sets out to reunite the author with her lost love in Italy. And it just so happens the woman has a grandson for her to fall in love with during the...
Twilight fanatics have gone into pandemonium in anticipation for the sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon [TWLI2]. Even thought Twilight open to $69.6 million last year, its mostly female fanbase has reached the level of the Harry Potter series. The PG-13 rated romance has sold the most advance ticket sales ever for Movietickets.com and Fandango, topping the previous number one Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Summit brought on new director Chris Weitz [CWEIT] to expand the...
Before you get settled in to experience The Twilight Saga: New Moon [TWLI2], Summit Entertainment would like you to see the trailer for Remember Me [REMBR], their next romance starring Edward Cullen, I mean Robert Pattinson [RPATT]. The teen heartthrob looks to demonstrate his acting chops playing a brooding college student dealing with a personal tragedy. Pattinson gets to act angry while rebelling against his father, played by Pierce Brosnan [PBROS], and be sensitive while bonding with...
Even as throngs of morose, heavy-eyelinered female teenagers haunt the night camping out for the vampire event known as The Twilight Saga: New Moon [TWIL2], there are actually other new offerings in theaters this weekend. Some say the second tale in the Twilight series will be the movie event of the year, but that doesn’t mean other films can’t have a day as well.
The weekend also caters to parents of young kids who will have a new animated film to appreciate. Planet 51 [PLT51]...
Moviegoers will be getting a double dose of Greek mythology and Perseus in 2010. A new trailer has appeared online for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief [PJALT], which is going by the shorter title Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief for international markets. The trailer expands on the story, basically Harry Potter meets Clash of the Titans [CLASH], ironically opening just a month after The Lightning Thief.
If you are a fan of movies based on Nicholas Sparks novels and Miley Cyrus [MCYRU], then you will love the new trailer for The Last Song [LSONG]. The Disney film stars Cyrus as a rebellious teenager from New York who has to spend the summer down south with her estranged father, a concert pianist played by Greg Kinnear [GKINN]. But if you are not a fan of Nicholas Sparks movies or Miley Cyrus, then you kill two birds with one stone by avoiding The Last Song.
The Last Song will actually ...
Fox Searchlight has unveiled the trailer for their last minute awards contender Crazy Heart [CRZHT] online at Apple. Jeff Bridges [JBRID] plays a hard-living, down on his luck country singer in a feature role that many are already calling this year's The Wrestler. The drama was given its December 16th release date just last week. Without a Slumdog Millionaire or The Wrestler this year, Fox Searchlight looks to put their Oscar push behind Crazy Heart.
