Here’s fairly non-exciting first look at “Date Night,” the upcoming wacky-sounding Shawn Levy comedy starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey and as a bored married couple who pretend to be a glamorous couple for one night, which leads to mistaken identity (!) and a hilarious chase through New York City with the mob after them! Cue the gut-busting laughs.
Levy is know for his admirable masterworks “Night at the Museum,” and “Cheaper By the Dozen,” but does have one thing going for him. An all-star cast that features Mark Wahlberg, Kirsten Wiig, Mark Ruffalo, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Leighton Meester, Ray Liotta, Taraji P. Henson and more.
People are actually posting this pathetic little image of Seth Rogen as a first look at him in his’ Green Hornet’ costume. Stop the presses, this movie looks amazing.
Here’s the poster for “The Messenger” starring Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster and Jena Malone. The feature-length directorial debut by Oren Moverman, the writer behind “Jesus’ Son” And Todd Haynes’ “I’m Not There,” picture is about the emotional affects of war. Or as IMDB says: An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer. The picture’s gotta have something to it. It’s been added to several smaller film festivals this fall including as the centerpiece of the Woodstock Film Festival and part of the Austin Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Incidentally the Hamptons Film Festival just added, “Up In The Air,” and Mira Nair will present “8,” a collection of U.N.-backed short films on poverty made of eight segments by directors including, Gus Van Sant, Jane Campion, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jan Kounen, Nair, Gaspar Noe, Abderrahmane Sissako, and Wim Wenders. Plus they added Jean-Marc Vallee’s “The Young Victoria,” as well.
Austin announced Cheryl Hine’s “Serious Moonlight,” and “Up In The Air,” as the opening and closing night films of their festival. ‘Moonlight’ stars Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Justin Long and Kirsten Bell.
But speaking of Nair, since her aviatrix film, “Amelia” with Hilary Swank is supposed to be such a big Oscar contender, doesn’t it seem strange that the film was completely absent during the Fall Film Festival? Sure some late-season films avoid that circuit all together, but “Amelia,” felt like it could have used that boost. We’re not sure what the strategy is here, and the picture never really smelled that Oscar worthy to us from the outset and it surely doesn’t now.
Another Oscar hopeful that some have been beating the drum for? The Michelle Monaghan drama called, “Trucker.” Her performance is supposed to be great, but as Anne Thompson said a few weeks ago. The studio is probably way to small to push for any Academy gold? More evidence? There are, so far anyhow, jus two press NY screenings (at fairly inconvenient times) and the theater has been dumped into one very small, New York theater on October 9.
73-year-old actor Dennis Hopper was rushed to a hospitalized yesterday after developing some flu-like symptoms. There’s been no update on his condition, but it sounded rather serious with oxygen masks, tubes and all that kind of scary-sounds stuff.