So, here we are guys… the first episode of FILM FIEND to stream on WAMG. For those of you that don’t know… I, your fellow Movie Geek Melissa, co-host a local St. Louis television show about films with independent filmmaker Gary C. Warren. WAMG’s own Tom Stockman makes an appearance on this episode. If you are in the St. Louis area, you can catch FILM FIEND every Sunday morning at 10:30am on channel MY46.
In the 3rd segment, you can catch my interview, via satellite, with ELIZABETH BANKS about her film THE NEXT THREE DAYS. The show is getting way better, since I was really nervous to be on film. Each episode gets better, so stick with me here! In the first segment from the 6th episode of Film Fiend, Gary and Melissa introduce the show and Gary sits down with Tom Stockman to discuss the upcoming Super 8 Movie Madness.
Gary sits down to talk to Bowls MacLean and Rachel Chapman from the indie film Love Stalker, Movie Matthew brings you Movie Matt News and Gary and Melissa discuss The Warriors Way.
Melissa from WAMG (ME) interviews Elizabeth Banks in this final segment.
Thanks for checking it out!
You can catch FILM FIEND every Sunday morning at 10:30am on channel MY46 in ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.
Lionsgaterecently released their film schedule for the upcoming holiday season. Earlier in September, Lionsgate announced that it has acquired the North American distribution rights to RABBIT HOLE starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart & directed by John Cameron Mitchell (HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH). RABBIT HOLE made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 13. The film is the first release from Kidman’s Blossom Films. For more on all of Lionsgate’s upcoming films, check ’em out on Facebook here.
Starring: Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg, Macy Gracy, Khalil Kain, Richard Lawson
Directed by: Tyler Perry
Screenplay by: Tyler Perry
Based on the stage play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” by: Ntozake Shange.
In 1974, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” made its stage debut, combining poetry, dance and music, and most significantly, placing the black female experience center stage. In lyrical, honest, angry, funny and tender language, Shange’s “colored girl” evoked the feelings woven into the fabric of black female life in America. Within two years, the play became a Broadway sensation, won an Obie and Tony Award, and would eventually be produced in regional theaters throughout the country. Now, thirty six years later, filmmaker Tyler Perry adapts this landmark work for the big screen, integrating the vivid language of Shange’s poems into a contemporary narrative that explores what it means to be a woman of color – and a woman of any color – in this world.
FOR COLORED GIRLS weaves together the stories of nine different women – Joanna, Tangie, Crystal, Gilda, Kelly, Juanita, Yasmine, Nyla and Alice – as they move into and out of one another’s existences; some are well known to one another, others are as yet strangers. Crises, heartbreaks and crimes will ultimately bring these nine women fully into the same orbit where they will find commonality and understanding. Each will speak her truth as never before. And each will know that she is complete as a human being, glorious and divine in all her colors.
Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios present A 34th Street Films / Lionsgate production. FOR COLORED GIRLS stars Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Michael Ealy, Kimberly Elise, Omari Hardwick, Hill Harper, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, Kerry Washington and Whoopi Goldberg. FOR COLORED GIRLS is written for the screen and directed by Tyler Perry, and based on the stage play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf” written by Ntozake Shange. The film is produced by Tyler Perry, Paul Hall and Roger M. Bobb.
Click here to see WAMG’s story including posters from the film.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson
Directed by: Paul Haggis
Screenplay by: Paul Haggis
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.
Lionsgate presents a Highway 61 Films / Lionsgate production. THE NEXT THREE DAYS is directed by Paul Haggis from a screenplay by Paul Haggis.
Click here to see WAMG’s story on the newest poster for THE NEXT THREE DAYS. Check out the film’s official site here and on Facebook here.
Release Date: December 17, 2010 (limited); December 25, 2010 (expansion); January 14, 2011 (expansion)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Tammy Blanchard, Miles Teller, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Tenney and Sandra Oh
Directed by: John Cameron Mitchell
Screenplay by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Based on his play “Rabbit Hole”
The screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, RABBIT HOLE is about a husband and wife who fight to save their marriage after the deepest form of loss. The film is a vivid, honest and unexpectedly funny portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.
Lionsgate presents an Olympus Pictures, Blossom Films, Oddlot Entertainment production.
At the beginning of September we showed you the teaser poster for Paul Haggis’ film, THE NEXT THREE DAYS. Lionsgate has released this new poster via FirstShowing.net. Let’s all take a moment to breathe in the Russell Crowe air, shall we? … and out.
In case you missed it, here’s the trailer.
Synopsis:
Life seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks), is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.
From Highway 61 Films and Lionsgate, along with a screenplay from producer-director Paul Haggis, THE NEXT THREE DAYS will be in theaters on November 19, 2010.
Check out the film’s official site here and on Facebook here.
Here’s the extraordinary new poster for THE NEXT THREE DAYS – a remake of the 2007 French film “Pour Elle” (Anything For Her) by Fred Cavaye. It’s on my ‘most anticipated films of the year’ list, so I think the look of it is just brilliant. In case you missed it, have another look at the trailer from Lionsgate. I’m so glad that director Paul Haggis (CRASH) is at the helm again with another film.
Synopsis:
Life seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks), is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.
From Highway 61 Films and Lionsgate, along with a screenplay from producer-director Paul Haggis, THE NEXT THREE DAYS will be in theaters on November 19, 2010.
This….looks…FABULOUS!! Crowe and Neeson together – good night nurse!! As you can tell, I’m more than a little thrilled about this remake of the 2007 French film “Pour Elle” (Anything For Her) by Fred Cavaye’.
Synopsis:
Life seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks), is arrested for a gruesome murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience, John devises an elaborate escape plot and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world, ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.
From Highway 61 Films and Lionsgate, along with a screenplay from producer-director Paul Haggis, THE NEXT THREE DAYS will be in theaters on November 19, 2010.
Russell Crowe will next star in the Paul Haggis-directed drama, ‘The Next Three Days.’ Crowe will be playing a school teacher whose wife is arrested for a murder she claims she did not commit. The teacher devises a plan to help free her.
The film is based on the 2008 French film ‘Pour Elle,’ which starred Diane Kruger. Haggis told Daily Variety that he needed an actor in the lead spot who could embody the everyman who rises when faced with extraordinary circumstances.
We’ve seen him as the gladiator, but he has embodied the Everyman in so many pictures.
The deeper theme here is, would you save the woman you loved if you knew that by doing so, you would turn into a man that woman could no longer love?
Haggis plans to begin production in September in Pittsburgh.
The show is getting way better, since I was really nervous to be on film. Each episode gets better, so stick with me here! In the first segment from the 6th episode of Film Fiend, Gary and Melissa introduce the show and Gary sits down with Tom Stockman to discuss the upcoming Super 8 Movie Madness. 
