There’s an admonition about not poking a bear – which means poking a mama bear whose mate and cub you’ve just killed might be a much worse idea.
Continue reading Peppermint’s Riley North Makes The Punisher Look Like a Wimp!
After a corrupt judge and dirty cops fail her when her husband and daughter are killed in a drive-by shooting, Riley North takes five years to turn herself into a machine and sets out to avenge them.
Peppermint stars Jennifer Garner as Riley North and is directed by Pierre Morel (Taken). It opens on September 7th.
Garner and Morel talk about the film in the featurette below.
Jennifer Garner is Llama Llama’s Mama Llama. Netflix made the announcement today. The series is based on the series of bestselling children’s books by Anne Dewey.
Also today, Netflix announced that tween thriller/mystery series Greenhouse Academy (formerly The Greenhouse) has completed its casting.
Follow the jump for details.
Continue reading Netflix Casts Jennifer Garner inn Llama Llama; Greenhouse Academy Announces Cast!
Danny Collins is a little movie with a big heart. The titular Danny Collins is a 70-something ex-rocker doing arena tours in which he performs his big hits for audiences of screaming middle-aged and senior citizen sufferers of nostalgia – but things might have been so much better if he’d only gotten the letter John Lennon wrote him forty years ago.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is exactly what it says on tin – a movie about a monumentally bad day, not just for Alexander Cooper, but his entire family. It’s a slight film adapted from and expanding on a very slim children’s book, but it is both funnier and more affecting than expected – in the old-fashioned Disney manner.
Disney has released a new clip from Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Let’s call it the ‘before’ photo. Check it out after the jump.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day stars Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner and opens on Ocotober 10th.
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ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
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Genre: Family Comedy
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Cast: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Dylan Minnette, Ed Oxenbould, Kerris Dorsey, Megan Mullally, Jennifer Coolidge, Bella Thorne
Director: Miguel Arteta
Producers: Shawn Levy, Lisa Henson, Dan Levine
Executive Producers: Philip Steuer, Jason Lust
Writer: Rob Lieber
Based on the novel by: Judith Viorst
Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life—a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn’t had one.
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” directed by Independent Spirit Award-winner Miguel Arteta (“The Good Girl,” “Cedar Rapids,” “Youth in Revolt”) from a screenplay by Rob Lieber, is a 21 Laps Entertainment/Jim Henson Company production. The film hits theatres nationwide Oct. 10, 2014.
In theatres Oct. 10, 2014, Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” follows 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life—and soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
NOTES:
· Miguel Arteta won the 2001 Independent Spirit Award for best feature under $500,000 for “Chuck & Buck.”
· “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” published in 1972, was written by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Ray Cruz and inspired by Viorst’s sons Alexander, Anthony and Nicholas. With more than 2 million copies in print, it became an ALA Notable Children’s Book and won a George G. Stone Center Recognition of Merit, a Georgia Children’s Book Award, and distinction as a Reading Rainbow book. The book’s success spawned three sequels: “Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday” (1978), “Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move” (1995), and the brand-new “Alexander, Who’s Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever” (2014).
· The 1972 original, which has never before been the subject of a feature film, was adapted to the small screen in 1990 as an HBO animated musical with music by composer Charles Strouse.. In 1998, Viorst collaborated with composer Shelley Markham on a stage musical of “Alexander” for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” is the first live-action film adaptation of the children’s classic.
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Thanks to ever growing technology, we are more connected to the world than ever before – but we seem to know less and less about the people we know. That’s the subject of Chad Kultgen’s novel, Men, Women & Children, which been adapted for film by Jason Reitman (Up In The Air, Juno). Men, Women & Children’s first trailer has just gone live and it’s both poignant and intriguing.
Check it out after the jump. Men, Women & Children has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Continue reading Exploratory Trailer: Men, Women & Children!
Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is the first live action adaptation of the award-winning children’s book written by Judith Viorst. It details the day that Alexander’s seemingly endless bad luck infects the rest of his hitherto very fortunate family members.
Disney has released two posters that seem to depict the family at the start of the day and and its conclusion. The ‘after’ poster follows the jump. Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day debuts on October 10th.
Kevin Costner has turned in some really good performances lately – in films ranging from forgettable to enjoyable to delightful. His best – and the best of his films in a while – is the beleaguered but savvy general manager of the Cleveland Browns in Draft Day. Like Moneyball, it’s a sports film that’s less about the sport than the behind-the-scenes business. It’s also corn, but really prime corn.
Summit Entertainment had a bit of a no-brainer when they bought ad time for the Super Bowl – a little film called Draft Day. It’s the story of the General Manager of the Cleveland Browns who makes a crucial move on draft day to save his team. Draft Day stars Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner and rushes into theaters on April 11th.
Check out the Super Bowl Spot after the jump.
Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée, and stars Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner analyze the restaurant scene in which Ron Woodruff buys Eve dinner – and gives her something special – in a compelling video (after the jump).
Continue reading Anatomy of a Scene: Dallas Buyers Club Restaurant Scene!