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Toronto Adds Premieres for 'Che', 'Porno', 'Bloom', 'Synecdoche', Others
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Romance, Thrillers, New Line, Sony Classics, Warner Brothers, The Weinstein Co., Toronto International Film Festival  On the heels of some high-profile NYFF announcements, the Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its fair share of titles scheduled to premiere there next month. According to Variety, the list includes:
- The North American premieres of Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York (pictured), which has been picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics since we last heard of (still) possible trims, and Steven Soderbergh's epic Che,...
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'The Lucky Ones': Rachel McAdams Found Under Iraq
Filed under: Drama, Lionsgate Films, New Line, Trailers and Clips, Roadside Attractions  After making a fair impression in 2004 with Mean Girls and The Notebook, and then pulling a hat trick the following year with Wedding Crashers, Red Eye, and The Family Stone, it seemed to me that Canadian cutie Rachel McAdams was primed to take off in the years to come... and yet, here we are in 2008, with her one release since having been in the not-bad period drama Married Life (which grossed a not-great $1.5 million this past spring).
However, it looks her profile is about to rise...
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Westward Ho with the 'Appaloosa' Trailer
Filed under: Action, Drama, New Line, Movie Marketing, Toronto International Film Festival, Western, Trailers and Clips  I don't necessarily have a soft spot for westerns -- although 3:10 to Yuma, Seraphim Falls, and The Proposition certainly didn't hurt that cause -- but because we as moviegoers aren't exactly inundated with them, it always feels like they tend to have more effort and care put into them than most other genre fare.
Judging from the MSN exclusive trailer for the upcoming Appaloosa, this looks to follow suit as Ed Harris (who also directed and co-wrote the film) and
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From 'Cape Fear' to 'Elm Street': Reboot Writer Hired
Filed under: Horror, Deals, New Line, Remakes and Sequels  Frankly, the news that a screenwriter had been hired to pen the latest installment in a horror franchise would not normally merit much attention.(Other than from the writer's agent and immediate family.) But when we're talking Wesley Strick and A Nightmare on Elm Street, my curiosity soared.
New Line Cinema has hired Strick to create their new version of Nightmare, according to The Hollywood Reporter. One of his first credits was as co-writer of Arachnophobia, Frank Marshall's clever creature feature, followed by Martin Scorsese's heavy-handed remake of Cape Fear, and later Mike Nichols' post-modern Wolf. His...
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Discuss: Should 'Hellboy II' Serve as Del Toro's Audition Tape?
Filed under: Action, Classics, Drama, Foreign Language, Horror, Casting, New Releases, New Line, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, New in Theaters, Family Films, Comic/Superhero/Geek  "While waiting in line for the screening of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, I overhead someone say that Guillermo del Toro's latest is being seen as his audition tape for The Hobbit," observed Jonathan Pacheco in his review for The House Next Door. Of course, Del Toro already had the directing gigs for the...
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Review: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Filed under: Action, New Releases, New Line, Theatrical Reviews, Family Films 
If you thought the latest Indiana Jones adventure was implausible, wait till you see Journey to the Center of the Earth! It makes Kingdom of the Crystal Skull look like a documentary. It's fun, though, and a perfectly good way for a family to spend a Saturday afternoon, particularly if that family has a lot of 8-to-12-year-old boys. I have friends with kids in that demographic, and watching the movie I thought, "Those guys will LOVE this."
It was shot in digital 3D and is being exhibited that way in select theaters....
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From Page to Screen: 'The Golden Compass'
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Line, From Page to Screen 
Fantasy may have the most rabid and obsessive fans, but it also has the staunchest detractors of any mainstream genre. We all know people who simply refuse to watch fantasy films or read fantasy books of their own volition. They may have sat through The Fellowship of the Ring grudgingly, but didn't bother with the rest of the series. They probably associate the genre with asocial nerds, fan conventions, and Dungeons & Dragons. They can only shrug at the exuberance of the devotees. Fantasy is "not their thing."
Why are fantasy movies (and the genre in...
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Sony Snags Animated Comedy 'Planet 51'
Filed under: Animation, Comedy, Deals, New Line, Sony, Warner Brothers, Distribution, Family Films  Imagine you're a green alien living happily among other green aliens on a tiny planet somewhere. Then one day an astronaut from Earth shows up and starts terrifying everyone. And he has the voice of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson! Except maybe contractual stipulations demand that he not be called "The Rock" anymore. Still! Scary!
That's the premise of Planet 51, a computer-animated comedy that has finally, after some shuffling, been acquired by Sony and scheduled for a Thanksgiving 2009 release. The voice cast includes Johnson, Gary...
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The Exhibitionist: Journey to the Cinema for an Astonishing 3-D Experience
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New Releases, New Line, Tech Stuff, Exhibition, Family Films, Columns 
I don't know the last time I felt like a kid at the movies, but while watching Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D this past week, I honestly reverted to my 8-year-old self. That isn't to say the movie is necessarily as good as the movies that astonished me as a kid -- because of the subject matter, I'd think about comparing it to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies, both of which came out...
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Review: Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Filed under: New Releases, New Line, Theatrical Reviews, New in Theaters, Family Films, Picturehouse 
If you have a girl between the ages of 4 and 12 in your life, chances are pretty good you've heard of American Girl. The wildly successful franchise has spawned a whole series of high-end dolls, doll clothes, doll furniture and accessories, books, cookbooks ... and, of course, movies. American Girls are enormously popular with both girls and parents seeking a wholesome alternative to the freakishly-thin Barbie doll image or the hooker-in-training look of those wretched Bratz dolls. As an added bonus, they encourage girls to learn a little history, without even...
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