Brawl in Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Marc Blucas, Udo Kier, and Don Johnson has been acquired by RLJE Films for release in the US. RLJE Films plans to release Brawl in Cell Block 99 in theaters on October 6, 2017.
The film will first make its World Premiere at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival and will continue on to screen at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest.
In Brawl in Cell Block 99, a former boxer named Bradley (Vince Vaughn) loses his job as an auto mechanic, and his troubled marriage is about to end. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work for an old buddy as a drug courier. This improves his situation until the terrible day that he finds himself in a gunfight between a group of police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown in prison, where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the place into a savage battleground.
Writer/director S. Craig Zahler is an award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, cinematographer and musician. Zahler’s newest novel Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child is set for publication this fall.Independent Film
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RLJE Films to Release BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 Starring Vince Vaughn
Brawl in Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Marc Blucas, Udo Kier, and Don Johnson has been acquired by RLJE Films for release in the US. RLJE Films plans to release Brawl in Cell Block 99 in theaters on October 6, 2017.
The film will first make its World Premiere at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival and will continue on to screen at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest.
In Brawl in Cell Block 99, a former boxer named Bradley (Vince Vaughn) loses his job as an auto mechanic, and his troubled marriage is about to end. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work for an old buddy as a drug courier. This improves his situation until the terrible day that he finds himself in a gunfight between a group of police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown in prison, where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the place into a savage battleground.
Writer/director S. Craig Zahler is an award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, cinematographer and musician. Zahler’s newest novel Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child is set for publication this fall.
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VIDEO: Watch Robert Redford and Jane Fonda Reunite in Official Trailer for OUR SOULS AT NIGHT
Watch Robert Redford and Jane Fonda Reunite in the official trailer for “Our Souls at Night” based on the best-selling novel written by Kent Haruf. The film will be released on Netflix and in select theaters on September 29.
Fifty years since playing newlyweds in Barefoot in the Park, Academy Award (R) winners Robert Redford and Jane Fonda come together onscreen for the fourth time in Netflix’s Our Souls at Night, this time playing a couple who find love unexpectedly later in life.
Based on the best-selling novel written by Kent Haruf and adapted for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Fault in Our Stars), Our Souls at Night is set in Colorado and begins when Addie Moore (Jane Fonda) pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters (Robert Redford). Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they’d been neighbors for decades, but had little contact. Their children live far away and they are all alone in their big houses. She seeks to establish a connection, and make the most of the rest of the time they have.
In addition to Redford and Fonda, the film stars Bruce Dern, Matthias Schoenaerts, Judy Greer and Iain Armitage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjVzSnkmF2Q
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Sony Pictures Classics Grabs FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL Starring Annette Bening
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool starring Academy Award nominee Annette Bening, BAFTA Award winner Jamie Bell, Academy Award nominee Julie Walters, and Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for release in the US.
The film directed by Paul McGuigan is premiering in Gala Presentations at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.
“Annette Bening in the role of a lifetime as an elusive personality whose dramatic true story defies belief. Supported to perfection by Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Vanessa Redgrave and the rest of the cast, embodied by Paul McGuigan’s precise direction. And then there’s producer Barbara Broccoli whose diligence over many years made it all happen. Independent filmmaking doesn’t come better than this. It is a privilege to be involved in bringing this remarkable film to the public,” said Sony Pictures Classics.
Sony Pictures Classics has also acquired rights for North America, Eastern Europe, Germany and Asia Pay Television.
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VIDEO: Watch Trailer for Summer Gay Romance Drama CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Here is the first official trailer for Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino and adapted from André Aciman’s novel of the same name, about a summer love affair between two young men.
The film which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival starring newcomer Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer will be released in theaters on November 24.
It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows wit h natural delights. While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9AYPxH5NTM
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VIDEO: Watch First Trailer for Religious Drama NOVITIATE Starring Melissa Leo, Margaret Qualley
Check out the first trailer for the Novitiate, written and directed by Maggie Betts, which premiered at earlier this year at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The film starring Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Julianne Nicholson and Dianna Agron will be released in theaters in NY and LA on October 27.
Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, Novitiate is about a young girl’s first experience with love. In this case, her first love is God. Raised by a vehemently non-religious, single mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic school soon finds Cathleen drawn into all the mystery and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and servitude of God. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threatening the course of nuns’ lives. Cathleen finds herself struggling with issues of faith, sexuality, and the changing administration. As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kKexutLfE0
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Watch Trailer + Poster for Kevin Phillips’ SUPER DARK TIMES
The Orchard has released the trailer and poster for Super Dark Times, described as a harrowing but meticulously observed look at teenage lives in the era prior to the Columbine High School massacre. The film marks the feature debut of gifted director Kevin Phillips, whose critically acclaimed 2015 short film “Too Cool For School” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Super Dark Times, starring Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, Amy Hargreaves, will be released in NY, LA and additional markets on September 29th, and on digital and on-demand on October 3rd.
Zach (Owen Phillips) and Josh (Charlie Tahan) are best friends growing up in a leafy Upstate New York suburb in the 1990s, where teenage life revolves around hanging out, looking for kicks, navigating first love and vying for popularity. When a traumatic incident drives a wedge between the previously inseparable pair, their youthful innocence abruptly vanishes. Each young man processes the tragedy in his own way, until circumstances grow increasingly complex and spiral into violence. Phillips dives headlong into the confusion of teenage life, creating evocative atmosphere out of the murky boundaries between adolescence and adulthood, courage and fear, and good and evil.
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Award Winning Indie Film YEAR BY THE SEA, Starring Karen Allen Sets Release Date | Trailer
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The award-winning independent film Year By The Sea is based on the New York Times and international best-selling memoir by Joan Anderson and stars highly acclaimed screen and stage actress Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Animal House). Written, directed and composed by Alexander Janko, the film will open at Lincoln Plaza in New York on September 8 and at Laemmle Royal, Town Center and Playhouse 7 in Los Angeles on September 15. A national release will follow.
After a season of high-powered female super heroes, Year By The Sea settles the pace with a crowd-pleasing journey of self-discovery and friendship featuring three women of the baby-boomer generation.
Winner of 16 festival awards – from Audience Choice to Best Feature/Actress/Music and Screenplay – Year By The Sea chronicles empty-nester Joan Anderson’s (Karen Allen) decision not to follow her relocated husband to Kansas. Instead, she retreats to Cape Cod to rediscover herself and redefine her life. Plagued with guilt, she questions her decision until stumbling upon a spirited mentor, Joan Erikson (Celia Imrie) – author and wife of famed psychologist Erik Erikson, who coined the term “identity crisis.” With a support group that includes her literary agent and a host of locals, Joan learns to embrace the ebb and flow of life – ultimately discovering the balance between self and sacrifice, obligation and desire.
It was Joan Anderson’s honesty and courage to embrace change that attracted filmmaker Alexander Janko (composer, My Big Fat Greek Wedding) to her work nearly nine years ago—and a labor of love that propelled his journey to bring it to the big screen as writer, director and composer.
Karen Allen (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Celia Imrie (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), and S. Epatha Merkerson (Chicago Med) headline this Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning cast alongside Yannick Bisson (Murdock Mysteries) and Michael Cristofer (Mr. Robot).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAlD3YxZCGw
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VIDEO: Watch New Clip from GOOK Featuring Comedian David So
Check out this brand new clip from GOOK, featuring comedian David So. In the scene, a group of female customers flirt with Daniel, played by David So, and receive the special manager discount.
GOOK directed by Justin Chon opens in Los Angeles August 18th and in NY and other cities on August 25th.
The film follows Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers that run their late father’s shoe store in a predominantly African American community of Los Angeles. These two brothers strike up a unique and unlikely friendship with an 11-year-old African American girl, Kamila. As Daniel dreams of becoming a recording artist and Eli struggles to keep the story afloat, racial tensions build to a breaking point in L.A. as the “infamous” L.A. Riots break out.
Gook Official trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_UxfY-wdaw
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VIDEO: Watch Trailer for ELIZABETH BLUE Based on Filmmaker’s Personal Experiences with Schizophrenia
Elizabeth Blue is an indie drama written and directed by first-time filmmaker Vincent Sabella. Sabella is a diagnosed schizophrenic, and the film is loosely based on a time in his life when all of his medications failed.
Global Digital Releasing will release Elizabeth Blue in NY, LA, and an additional 10 markets on September 22.
Recently released from a psychiatric hospital, Elizabeth (Anna Schafer) returns to her Los Angeles apartment where she lives with her fiancé, Grant (Ryan Vincent).
With the guidance of her new psychiatrist, Dr. Bowman (AdewaleAkinnuoye-Agbaje), and the unfaltering support of Grant, Elizabeth works at regaining control of her mental stability and her life as she begins to plan their wedding.
Struggling to navigate daily voices, hallucinations, anxiety, failing medications and her judgmental, unsupportive mother, Carol (Kathleen Quinlan), Elizabeth fears that Grant will leave her as she clings to hope that love will truly conquer all – even mental illness.
The filmmakers and GDR have partnered with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and Elizabeth Blue is scheduled to screen at multiple NAMI Affiliate locations across the country during the film’s opening weekend. NAMI is the largest grass roots mental health organization in the country and works with celebrities and filmmakers as part of their ongoing efforts to raise awareness and combat stigmas associated with mental illness. NAMI will also be receiving a portion of the film’s proceeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faXEc87xsks
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VIDEO: Poster + Watch Official Trailer for Eliza Hittman’s Sundance Award Winning Indie Drama BEACH RATS
Neon has released the official trailer and poster for the Sundance Film Festival award-winning indie drama Beach Rats, from filmmaker Eliza Hittman, a follow-up to her debut It Felt Like Love. The film will be released in select theaters starting August 25th.
Beach Rats premiered earlier this year at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival where the film won the Best Director award for Eliza Hittman.
An aimless teenager (Harris Dickinson) on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df0TQJBkPP4
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VIDEO: Watch Official Trailer for BRAD’S STATUS Starring Ben Stiller
Amazon Studios has released the trailer for the indie film Brad’s Status, written and directed by Mike White, and starring Ben Stiller, Michael Sheen, Luke Wilson. The film which also stars Jemaine Clement, Jenna Fischer and Austin Abrams, will be released in theaters on September 15th, 2017.
When Brad Sloan (Ben Stiller) accompanies his college bound son to the East Coast, the visit triggers a crisis of confidence in Brad’s Status, writer and director Mike White’s bittersweet comedy. Brad has a satisfying career and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento where he lives with his sweet-natured wife, Melanie (Jenna Fischer), and their musical prodigy son, Troy (Austin Abrams), but it’s not quite what he imagined during his college glory days. Showing Troy around Boston, where Brad went to university, he can’t help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends: a Hollywood bigshot (White), a hedge fund founder (Luke Wilson), a tech entrepreneur (Jemaine Clement), and a political pundit and bestselling author (Michael Sheen). As he imagines their wealthy, glamorous lives, he wonders if this is all he will ever amount to. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or is, in some ways at least, the most successful of them all.
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Watch the Trailer + Poster for Award-Winning MARJORIE PRIME Starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis
FilmRise has released the poster and official trailer for the Sundance Film Festival award-winning drama Marjorie Prime, starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins and Lois Smith. The film, written and directed by Michael Almereyda will be released in New York City and Los Angeles on August 18th with national rollout to follow.
Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie’s “Prime” relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history. As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop ever diverging recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to reconstruct the often painful past.
Built around exceptional performances from a veteran cast, Marjorie Prime shines a light on an often-obscured corner in the world of artificial intelligence and its interactions with mortality. Bringing us robustly into the future, Michael Almaryeda’s poetic film forces us to face the question—If we had the opportunity, how would we choose to rebuild the past, and what would we decide to forget?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7PtcOLJDco