New Trailer for Coen Brother's INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

October 8, 2013 by Jill Landon Posted in Trailers Tagged Carey Mulligan, Coen Bros, Garrett Hedlund, Inside Llewyn Davis, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac, Trailers

A new trailer has landed for the Coen brother’s film Inside Llewen Davis,a drama focusing on the ailing career of folk-singer Llewen Davis (played by Oscar Isaac who also stared in 2011’s Drive and 2008’s Body of Lies) in the middle of the 1960’s pre-Dylan New York music scene. Inspired in mood by the life of Dave Von Ronk and his notion that this scene was dominated by acts from all over the US to the chagrin of New York native musicians, this new trailer shows Davis’s career, life, and relationships disintegrating as he grasps at straws offered from people still willing to give him a shot. Passed over, neglected and berated at every step of this 3-minute trailer, Llewen remains unvanquished and, with the help of the heartfelt music we’re meant to assume is off Llewen’s titular album, the prospect of hope for the folk singer seems less of impossible than in previous trailers.

Llewen has yet to respond adequately in these trailers to the near constant criticism he gets for his failures from his already-taken and newly-pregnant paramour Jean (Carey Mulligan), other musicians, and various acquaintances. However, this trailer has less barbs directed at him and a quicker pacing. Llewen’s brooding looks are less hopeless then previously shown, and beats shown in previous trailers are fleshed out with more of Llewen’s persistence in the grit in the face of his detractors. The scenes of him traveling what we’re given to understand by sequence is away are grouped closer together and coincide with swells in the soundtrack (an old folk song produced by T-Bone Burnett of O Brother, Where Art Thou? fame along with Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons), making it seem less like a retreat and more of a stand taken against the growing clouds over Llewen’s future. Unlike in previous trailers, Llewen’s charisma is easier to spot, and Isaac’s performance is put center stage instead of just setting the scene. In this trailer, he seems actually likable, which is saying something.

The film, which won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, is debuting on December 6th during the bulk of Oscar season releases. Although not as grave as the Coen’s previous couple of films, the personal tragedy of the artist unable to compromise for personal success that the film revolves around is just as serious and just as moving. At turns funny, downtrodden and uncertainly hopeful, this movie has a lot going for it, both for the Coen brother’s fans and for the upcoming academy awards.

To see the IMDB exclusive trailer, click here.

Inside Llewen Davis is directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and stars Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, and Justin Timberlake. It Hits theaters December 6^th, 2013.

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Will Disney's FROZEN Freeze Up Animated Competition's Oscar Shots?

October 7, 2013 by Matt Oakes Posted in Trailers

Will Disney's FROZEN Freeze Up Animated Competition's Oscar Odds?

October 7, 2013 by Matt Oakes Posted in Trailers Tagged Alan Tudyk, Disney, Frozen, Kristen Bell, Trailers

With Pixar in a bit of a tailspin following their triple-decker slump in quality (Cars 2, Brave, Monsters University), “rival” studios like Disney (who actually owns Pixar, but that’s neither here nor there) and Dreamworks have been given more of a chance to step into the spotlight and try and carve out their own day in the spotlight. It seems clear that Monsters University, Despicable Me 2, and The Croods are shoe-ins for Best Animated Picture nominations but none of them seem primed to take home gold. Considering this largely lackluster spread of animated features (the best of which, in my opinion, has been Turbo), Disney’s Frozen stands a good chance at nabbing the coveted top spot come award’s season.

Directed by Chris Buck (Tarzan, Surf’s Up) and Jennifer Lee (in her first directorial gig), Frozen follows Anna, a fearless optimist, who teams up with Kristoff in an epic journey, encounters Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter.

At this point, what sets Frozen aside from the approach of many other similar budget animated features is the voice talent (or lack their of.) While most animation studios these days spend a pretty penny on well-known celebrity voices, Frozen‘s vocal department is characterized by Hollywood outsiders, but cult-favorites, Kristen Bell and Alan Tudyk.

Frozen is directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and stars Kristen Bell, Alan Tudyk, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, and Josh Gad. It hits theaters on November 27, 2013.

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DiCaprio Replaces RDJ for Iron Man 4!

October 7, 2013 by Jill Landon Posted in Casting News Tagged Iron Man, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downy Jr.

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DiCaprio Replaces RDJ for Iron Man 4

October 7, 2013 by Jill Landon Posted in Casting News Tagged Iron Man, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downy Jr.

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Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor Johnson Confirmed for THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

October 6, 2013 by Matt Oakes Posted in Casting News Tagged Aaron Taylor Johnson, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Casting News, Elizabeth Olsen, Marvel

Elizabeth Olsen (Martha May Marlene) and Aaron Taylor Johnson (Kick-Ass) are slated to play twin superheroes, Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver, in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Samuel L. Jackson announced Elizabeth Olson’s involvement, while promoting Spike Lee’s upcoming adaptation of Oldboy, saying “I know we’re shooting in London, that James Spader is Ultron and going to be the bad guy, and that we added Ms. Olsen, but I don’t know what she’s doing, if she’s on the inside or the outside. I haven’t seen a script.” Deadline’s source confirmed.

The news lends credibility to the long-time rumors of Aaron Taylor Johnson’s involvement in the film, as he seems to be making his career on comic book movies.

Aaron Taylor Johnson’s Kick-Ass co-star, Evan Peters, is also playing Quicksilver in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, due to Fox and Marvel sharing the characters rights, so expect the incessantly obnoxious comparisons to begin, when The Avengers: Age of Ultron opens on May 1, 2015.

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Taylor Swift Cast in THE GIVER to the Excitement of No One

October 6, 2013 by Matt Oakes Posted in Casting News

In a move to delight the singer’s tween audience, enrage readers of books, and generally boost box office returns, Taylor Swift has been cast in the movie adaptation of The Giver, Lois Lowry’s Newberry Medal winning 1993 children’s novel about a frightening dystopian future disguised as a utopia where pain has been eliminated along with emotional depth and memory. Although given that subject matter, Swift’s casting would seem to make sense. Director Phillip Noyce and The Weinstein Company have probably chosen Swift to boost box office returns and slowly chip away at a pillar of your childhood.

The seminal work, heralded ignorantly by Teen Vogue as “the original Hunger Games”, stars Jeff Bridges as the titular character, a community’s living receptacle of all emotion and memory as he trains a precocious youth to take over the role, Jonas (Brenton Thwaites, who will also star in Disney’s upcoming film Malificent in 2014). As you can imagine, things go wrong and the boy and his mentor fight the system in a tale with themes – Contentment vs. Integrity, the Great Society vs. Individual – meaty enough for most middle schools to assign the book to their students. Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush, Alexandar Skarsgard and Cameron Monaghan round out the cast.

Harvey Weinstein said of the production that, “We could not have assembled a more impressive cast for this project behind Lois Lowry’s beautiful novel and the directorial talents of Phil Noyce, and are tremendously excited to commence production,” set to begin on October 7th in Cape Town, South Africa. Neither Weinstein or Noyce, who’s directing credits include Salt and Patriot Games, have commented on whether Swift will show up in the soundtrack as well, although the rumor mill is giving it pretty good odds.

It’s pretty ironic that in a work, which is opposed to sameness and uniform contentment, Noyce and his producers have made no breaks from the norm casting-wise to make this film. Whether it’s contempt for the tween audience The Giver adaptation is marketed to, or the producer’s blatant attempt at raking in the dough at the cost of the source material’s integrity, there are plenty of reasons to dislike this move. Given that it’s part of an increasing trend of pillaging school reading lists for movie ideas, it makes you hope that Weinstein & Co. don’t discover “Animal Farm”, “Lord of the Flies”, or any more childhood favorites to sell to today’s young adults.

The Giver is directed by Phillip Noyce and stars Jeff Bridges, Brenton Thwaites, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush, Alexandar Skarsgard and Cameron Monaghan. It hit theaters August 15, 2014.

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New Teaser Trailer and Poster for ENEMY

October 5, 2013 by Matt Oakes Posted in Trailers

Not much has been released or even said about Enemy, the second work by Denis Villeneuve starring Jake Gyllenhaal since Prisoners, the powerful drama that premiered at TIFF on September 20th, 2013. No US release date has been set, but from the poster and the just-over-a-minute teaser trailer, replete with ennui from the content to the wandering and sorrowful music, we can expect the same moody introspection and desolate spaciousness that characterized Prisoners. Screened as a special presentation at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, the trailer asks more questions then answers, providing just enough information to set the scene without revealing any of the plot.

The teaser is full of disjointed and interconnected beats of Gyllenhaal, giving a lecture at a University where he teaches about dictators and control in some moments, interspersed with Gyllenhaal’s seemingly despondent relationship with his girlfriend, coitus and walk-out included. Gyllenhaal seems disheveled, preoccupied and uninterested; his world is beige, poorly furnished and bleak. That, coupled with the vaguely insidious soundtrack, is all we have to go on so far, and it is definitely enough to get the wheels turning about the emotional undertow of the plot. In text it’s apparent that Gyllenhaal gets double-billing for playing his doppelgänger, but only time and more released information will tell what will come of this meeting outside of scattered hints that the results will be grim.

An adaptation of Nobel-Prize-winning author José Saramago’s novel “The Double”, this work proposes to solidify the brooding, expansive aesthetic that Villeneuve gave glimpses of in Prisoners. The film’s cast also features Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rosselllini, Sara Gadon, Stephen R. Hart and Jane Moffat and has recently been picked up by A24 for US distribution. Set to release in Spain on December 13th, 2013, it’ll be interesting to see how this film compares and measures up to Prisoners for Thrills, aesthetic, and overall artistic merit.

Enemy is directed by Denis Villeneuve and stars Jack Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rosselllini, Sara Gadon, Stephen R. Hart and Jane Moffat. There’s no official release date yet set.

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Second Trailer for OUT OF THE FURNACE is More Exciting, Just as Heartbreaking

October 5, 2013 by Matt Oakes Posted in Trailers

The second trailer for Out of the Furnace, the Scott Cooper film staring Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson, pounds its pulse a little more wildly then the first trailer, but overall still conveys the sense of despair and futility associated with poverty that the first one did. The film, also starring Casey Affleck as Bale’s disillusioned brother, home from the army and in incredible danger, along with Zoe Saldana and Willem Dafoe, is set to release in theaters on December 6, 2013.

While the first trailer focuses more on painting a picture of the rust belt, complete with character portraits and the sprawling industrial landscapes, the second trailer is far more visceral. This one, drawing more from fight/crimes movies and the impoverished alienation capitalized and other Appalachian desperation films, gives you more of an idea of the “whole ‘nother world up in there” which Affleck has gotten himself entangled in. Bale, who’s character Russell has just gotten out of jail, has to decide whether to take his freedom and run or put it all on the line, guns blazing, as he treks into the lawless backwoods of Appalachia to get his brother back from the villain, played by Woody Harrelson.

Taken in aggregate, these trailers shine most in their immaculately crafted interiors, their character designs, and their wide shots of beautiful yet filthy industrial landscapes that sustain and oppress the cast of characters. Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” is covered sorrowfully in the second trailer to emotional impact, and along meticulousness shown in both trailers to the environment and to the performances, the general vibe evokes Winter’s Bone and other horror stories of American poverty. If Scott Cooper pulls performances out of his cast anywhere near as good as the one he got out of Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart, this film will not be one to miss.

Out of the Furnace is directed by Scott Cooper and stars Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Sam Shepard. It hits theaters on December 6, 2013.

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Second Trailer for OUT OF THE FURNACE is More Exciting, Just as Heartbreaking

October 5, 2013 by Matt Oakes Posted in Trailers

The second trailer for Out of the Furnace, the Scott Cooper film staring Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson, pounds its pulse a little more wildly then the first trailer, but overall still conveys the sense of despair and futility associated with poverty that the first one did. The film, also starring Casey Affleck as Bale’s disillusioned brother, home from the army and in incredible danger, along with Zoe Saldana and Willem Dafoe, is set to release in theaters on December 6, 2013.

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