The official trailer dropped for the indie comedy Bernard and Huey, directed by Dan Mirvish, co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival. Freestyle will release Bernard and Huey in select theaters starting June 8th.
Bernard and Huey is the story of roguish Huey (David Koechner) and nebbishy Bernard (Jim Rash), who are unlikely friends in late 1980s New York. Years later, a bedraggled Huey crashes at Bernard’s upscale bachelor pad. As the two reconnect, Bernard starts a relationship with Huey’s estranged daughter Zelda (Mae Whitman), an aspiring graphic novelist. Huey slowly gets his mojo back and tries to seduce various women in Bernard’s life, while reconnecting with his family. As the two friends return to their old ways, at least one of them finds himself in danger of marrying a woman old enough to be his wife. Bernard and Huey is directed by American filmmaker Dan Mirvish, co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival, and director of the films Omaha (The Movie), Stamp and Deliver, Open House, and Between Us previously. The screenplay is written by Oscar/Pulitzer-winner Jules Feiffer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1AIDBQR1lg
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Watch Official Trailer for Indie Comedy BERNARD AND HUEY
The official trailer dropped for the indie comedy Bernard and Huey, directed by Dan Mirvish, co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival. Freestyle will release Bernard and Huey in select theaters starting June 8th.
Bernard and Huey is the story of roguish Huey (David Koechner) and nebbishy Bernard (Jim Rash), who are unlikely friends in late 1980s New York. Years later, a bedraggled Huey crashes at Bernard’s upscale bachelor pad. As the two reconnect, Bernard starts a relationship with Huey’s estranged daughter Zelda (Mae Whitman), an aspiring graphic novelist. Huey slowly gets his mojo back and tries to seduce various women in Bernard’s life, while reconnecting with his family. As the two friends return to their old ways, at least one of them finds himself in danger of marrying a woman old enough to be his wife. Bernard and Huey is directed by American filmmaker Dan Mirvish, co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival, and director of the films Omaha (The Movie), Stamp and Deliver, Open House, and Between Us previously. The screenplay is written by Oscar/Pulitzer-winner Jules Feiffer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1AIDBQR1lg
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Watch First Trailer For Highly Anticipated Feature Film Adaptation Of REGIONRAT
A new trailer for the forthcoming Regionrat, the highly anticipated film adaptation of Richard Laskowski’s coming-of-age novel, has been released. Starring Connor Williams, of the upcoming Valley Girl, the film tells the story of a young man who returns to his depressed hometown to finish his final year of school.
Prolific Pictures are representing the film at Cannes.
Regionrat is a darkly comedic coming-of-age drama about Ray, academic misfit and slacker extraordinaire, who tries to keep his head down to finish his last year of high school, but can’t catch a break. Ray lives in the Region, an industrial wasteland in Northwestern Indiana. The residents there are known as “regionrats,” because they’ll eat anything and are hard to kill. Ray is hard to kill, but the Region will try. He’s Ferris Bueller on a losing streak, learning lessons he didn’t need to learn, the hard way. In the end, Ray finds his way out, but he’ll go through hell to get there.
Javier Reyna directs Regionrat, also starring Natassia Halabi and Nova Gaver, which is due for release later this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mduHIdVVnCU&feature=youtu.be
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Tiffany Haddish and Brian Hooks Star in Relationship Comedy/Drama ALL BETWEEN US [Trailer]
All Between Us, is the new comedy/drama starring comic sensation Tiffany Haddish, Brian Hooks, and Darien Smith, that explores the relationship imperfections among family and friends in the most entertaining of ways. Jamie Jones’ filmmaking debut takes us on a wild roller-coaster ride over one fateful night that changes the lives of a crazy and flawed, but entirely relatable and endearing group of family and friends
Starring Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip, Keanu), Denyce Lawton (Castle, House of Payne), Brian Hooks (Fool’s Gold, 3 Strikes), Christian Levatino (The Last Godfather, LA Apocalypse), Jay Phillips (Semi-Pro, Dear John), Tabitha Brown (I Am Still Here, Caution to the Wind) and Esau McGraw (Idlewild, What My Husband Doesn’t Know), All Between Us will be available for the first time on DVD and Digital on June 5, 2018.
Clara (Denyce Lawton) and Ray (Brian Hooks) are newly engaged. As they gather family and friends together for a dinner party to make an announcement, what begins as a celebratory evening turns into disaster as secrets and skeletons surface. One night, one mistake, one dinner changes the lives of four people forever.
“It is truly an honor to be collaborating with such talented, like minded individuals. Darien Smith, Mike Mosley and Marvin Adams are an amazing team and looking forward to creating our next project together” says CEO and Founder of Samera Entertainment, Sharry Flaherty .
“ The cast of All About Us was amazing. We had such a great time on set and everyone got along with each other very well, even through those late AM hours the laughs just kept coming” says CEO and Founder of Lakeside Pictures LLC., Darien Smith .
“Now when Marvin and I sat down with the writer of All Between Us, Ev Duran and hashed out the concept, we all knew that we would need a great cast to pull off this film. So I reach out to my good friend Brian Hooks to see if he would come on board, which he did and along with him he brought Denyce Lawton , who is an amazing actress in this film by the way. Then the rest of the cast followed”
“We had everyone cast but the leads best friend, Meshawn, who’s character is sassy and very outspoken. We needed someone who could bring her to life”, Smith continues. “So I spoke with my childhood friend and director of All Between Us about the role and he made a call to Jay Phillips , who suggested we hire the amazingly talented and funny Tiffany Haddish . From the first moment she stepped on set, she was Meshawn and Meshawn was her. She was perfect, she was extremely great to work with, really down to earth and always on”.
Produced by Multi – Platinum Mike Mosley , the original motion picture soundtrack from All Between Us will also be released on June 5, coinciding with the film’s release. The All Between Us soundtrack will be available through Itunes – Lakeside Pictures / I produce Muzic / Ingrooves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0h7R8s-mtA
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Comedy Film ‘The Breaker Upperers’ by Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami to Open 2018 Sydney Film Festival [Trailer]
The Breaker Upperers, by New Zealand directors Jackie van Beek, Madeleine Sami will open the 2018 Sydney Film Festival on June 6. In this side-splittingly funny film, Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami star as best friends who run an unconventional business breaking up couples for cash.
Directors Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami star as Jen and Mel, who 15 years ago discovered that they were being two-timed by the same man. From heartbreak, a friendship blossomed, alongside a hearty cynicism about love and relationships. And so The Breaker Upperers was born, a business helping people who lack the courage to end their relationships. Faking deaths, impersonating cops and strippers, and feigning pregnancies are all part of their extensive repertoire. But when consciences resurface and the prospect of romance rears up, the unbreakable friendship between the two starts to show its first cracks. The Breaker Upperers is refreshingly candid about modern sexuality and beautifully captures a multicultural community. Executive produced by Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows, SFF 2014), The Breaker Upperers is a joyous, hilarious film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkhYyW1pd18
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VIDEO: Watch Trailer for HUMOR ME, Sam Hoffman’s Heartfelt Father-Son Comedy
Here is the trailer for Humor Me, Sam Hoffman’s heartfelt father-son comedy inspired by his acclaimed web series, off-Broadway play, and book series “Old Jews Telling Jokes” that tells the story of a struggling playwright who is forced to move in with his dad in a retirement community.
The film opens on Friday, January 12th in New York at the Village East Cinema and Los Angeles on January 19th with rollout to follow.
Humor Me is a heartfelt father-son comedy about a struggling playwright who is forced to move in with his joke-telling dad in a New Jersey retirement community and learns, as his father often says, “life’s going to happen, whether you smile or not.” Written and directed by Sam Hoffman, producer of Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, John Carney’s Begin Again and Richard Loncraine’s 5 Flights Up, the film stars Jemaine Clement, Legion, Moana, What We Do In The Shadows, People, Places, Things, Flight of the Conchords, and Elliot Gould, The Ocean’s Series, M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye, Bugsy. Currently, Hoffman produces and directs CBS’ critically acclaimed series “Madam Secretary” & also writing a screen adaptation of Michael Pollan’s best-seller The Omnivore’s Dilemma with producing partner Frances McDormand!
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Watch Trailer for THE HEYDAY OF THE INSENSITIVE BASTARDS Starring James Franco, Natalie Portman
Here is the funny trailer for The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a series of vignettes ranging from comical to bittersweet to poignant.
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards stars James Franco (This is the End), Kate Mara (The Martian), Natalie Portman (Jackie), Rico Rodriguez (Modern Family), Abigail Spencer (Mad Men), Amber Tamblyn (Django Unchained), Thomas Mann (Kong: Skull Island) and Kristen Wiig (Ghostbusters).
Based on short stories from Robert Boswell’s critically acclaimed book of the same name, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards explores the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition, through seven tales.
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards has a theatrical release date of October 27, 2017. Also releasing on Digital & On Demand on the same day.
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FilmRise to Release Sophie Brooks’ Comedy THE BOY DOWNSTAIRS in Early 2018
Sophie Brooks’ debut feature film The Boy Downstairs which had its world premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival will be released in early 2018 by FilmRise.
Aspiring writer Diana (Mamet in her first film role since the end of HBO’s hit “Girls”) returns to New York City after a few years living in London and finds what seems to be the perfect Brooklyn apartment to start fresh. However, on the first night in her new home she discovers that her ex-boyfriend Ben (Matthew Shear, Mistress America) lives in the apartment downstairs. With support from her affable landlady Amy (Deirdre O’Connell) and her best friend Gabby (Diana Irvine), Diana proclaims her intentions for a cordial friendship, but as the story progresses and old wounds are reopened, she is forced to confront the true nature of her feelings.
The Boy Downstairs was written and directed by Sophie Brooks. It was produced by Dan Clifton, David Brooks, and Leon Clarance; and executive produced by Paul Brooks.
“I am beyond excited to team up with FilmRise,” said filmmaker Sophie Brooks. “The Boy Downstairs was an incredibly special experience for me and I cannot wait for audiences to see it next year.”
“We are thrilled to share Sophie Brooks’ charming feature debut with the world,” said Danny Fisher, CEO of FilmRise. “The Boy Downstairs is a fresh, sincere comedy that we believe audiences everywhere will enjoy.”
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Final Robin Williams Film, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, to Be Released in U.S. | Trailer
Robin Williams final film, Absolutely Anything, in which he is featured as the voice of a dog, and starring alongside Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale, will be released in the US on May 12, 2017.
Absolutely Anything centers on a disillusioned school teacher, Neil, who suddenly finds he has the ability to do anything he wishes — a power bestowed upon him by a distant alien race. Unbeknownst to Neil, how he employs his newfound powers will dictate the fate of mankind — one wrong move and the aliens will destroy Earth.
“It’s a great honor for us to have the opportunity to distribute Absolutely Anything in the United States,” said Atlas Distribution President Harmon Kaslow, “The talent in the film is exceptional, and we’re certain many Robin Williams fans are anxious to see his final performance.”
Absolutely Anything was originally released in the UK in 2015, but is only now being released in the United States. The film stars Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek), Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, Mrs. Doubtfire) and Kate Beckinsale (Underworld film series), and was written and directed by Terry Jones (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Labyrinth).
Absolutely Anything is set for limited release on May 12, 2017 by by Atlas Distribution Company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODcycOZlAP0
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Nuns Gone Wild in Red Band Trailer for Sundance Hit THE LITTLE HOURS
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Alison Brie, Kate Micucci and Aubrey Plaza appear in The Little Hours by Jeff Baena, an official selection of the Midnight program at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. © 2016 Sundance Institute.[/caption]
The Little Hours directed by Jeff Baena has released the red band trailer, and immediately you will see why Bill Donohue, of the Catholic League proclaimed “It is trash. Pure trash.” Good funny trash, that is. The film which premiered earlier this year at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival will be release in select cities on June 30th, followed by a national rollout.
In The Little Hours, medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry.
The film also stars Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Jemima Kirke, Adam Pally and Nick Offerman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYycHr4RsJw
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Watch Alex Karpovsky as a Struggling Stand-up Comic in Trailer for FOLK HERO & FUNNY GUY
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Here is the new trailer and poster for Jeff Grace‘s upcoming comedy Folk Hero & Funny Guy starring Alex Karpovsky as a struggling stand-up comic.
The film which also stars Wyatt Russell, Meredith Hagner, Michael Ian Black, Hannah Simone, Heather Morris, Melanie Lynskey, and David Cross, will be released in select cities and on digital/VOD on May 12th, 2017.
Recently dumped by his fiancée and with a stagnating standup routine, aspiring comedian-slash-copywriter Paul (Alex Karpovsky) is stuck. The manager of the club where he performs suggests he take some time off to update his comedy material, and in waltzes his childhood friend Jason Black (Wyatt Russell), an acclaimed folk-rock musician about to embark on a solo acoustic tour of the east coast. Jason suggests Paul needs to get his mojo back—and he should start by opening for Jason on tour. They set off on the road together, picking up a new act (folk singer Bryn, played by Meredith Hagner) on the way. But when Jason reveals an ulterior motive behind the tour, rifts are exposed in their otherwise affable camaraderie. Folk Hero & Funny Guy is a music-infused spin on the road-trip buddy comedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBCp60TpN0
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Watch First Official Trailer for Irish Coming of Age Comedy HANDSOME DEVIL
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Here is the first official trailer for Handsome Devil, an Irish funny, music-drenched coming-of-age story set in an elite Dublin rugby school from writer-director John Butler. Handsome Devil which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival stars Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Spectre) alongside rising stars Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine.
Heading up a cast of bright new talent is Fionn O’Shea as gawky, sixteen year-old Ned, a bright, artistic lad who faces his own hell on earth when he is sent to an all-boys Irish boarding school where the manly pursuit of rugby is virtually a religion. He steels himself for the loneliness, ridicule and constant insinuations about his sexuality. Everything changes with the arrival of his new roommate Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a star player in the rugby team, and inspirational English teacher Dan Sherry (Sherlock and Spectre star Andrew Scott). Ned and Conor bond over a mutual appreciation of cool music and an unlikely friendship blossoms and faces unbearable pressures from a school grimly attached to its narrow macho values.
A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate, in this funny and observant coming-of-age tale from Irish novelist and filmmaker John Butler.
This tender look at the travails of teenage life is the story of the worst thing Ned (Fionn O’Shea) ever did. It’s also the story of the best thing that ever happened to Ned. With his dyed hair, willowy build, and penchant for sexually ambivalent pop and rock from generations past, 16-year-old Ned has never fit in at the rugby-mad boarding school his father insists he attend. Determined to simply keep his nose down and weather another year of loneliness and bullying, Ned is pleasantly surprised when he develops a friendship with his dashing new roommate, Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a rugby virtuoso with issues of his own. The boys bond over music and start to practice guitar together. At the encouragement of their English teacher (Andrew Scott), Ned and Conor enter a talent show at a local girls’ school. As both talent show and rugby season loom, however, the pressure on Conor to choose between manly athletic discipline and more artistic pursuits threatens to tear him apart — while Ned is increasingly tempted to betray Conor’s trust in order to save his own skin. Toronto International Film Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j1i94L8PMk
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Netflix Making Series Based on Indie Film DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
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Netflix is creating / re-creating Dear White People, a comedy series based on writer/director/producer Justin Simien’s critically-acclaimed, Sundance award-winning satirical indie film released in 2014.
The 10-episode, 30-minute series will go into production later this year and will premiere on Netflix around the world in 2017.
Set among a diverse group of students of color as they navigate a predominantly white Ivy League college where racial tensions are often swept under the rug, Dear White People is a send up of “post-racial” America that also weaves a universal story about forging one’s own unique path.
The series will be written by Simien (Dear White People), who will also direct the first episode. Devon Shepard (House of Lies, Weeds), Stephanie Allain Bray (Hustle & Flow, Dear White People) and Julia Lebedev (The Dinner, Dear White People) serve as executive producers.
The original film first gained traction in 2012 with a concept trailer, underwritten by director Simien’s tax refund. By 2014, the crowd funded movie made a splash at film festivals, earning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
“Justin is a gifted storyteller whose bold, unique vision is perfectly suited to Netflix,” said Cindy Holland, Vice President of Original Content at Netflix. “His original film Dear White People announced the arrival of a fresh, creative voice that had everyone talking, and we’re excited to have Justin create this new series for our members worldwide.”
Writer/director/producer Simien said, “During the film’s release, I had the pleasure to speak with hundreds of students and faculty across a variety of college campuses dealing with these very issues in real time. I’m so grateful to have this platform – not only to give a voice to those too often unheard in our culture, but to also tell great stories from new points of views. From day one, Lionsgate has been remarkably supportive of the vision for the show, and working with Netflix is every bit as harmonious as I’d imagined it would be. Bringing this show to such a vibrant platform is an honor I don’t take lightly.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uag2G0J6iqw