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The Final Destination – Trailer

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Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David R. Ellis
Produced by	Craig Perry Warren Zide
Written by	Screenplay: Eric Bress Characters: Jeffrey Reddick
Starring	Bobby Campo Shantel VanSanten Haley Webb Mykelti Williamson Nick Zano Krista Allen
Music by	Brian Tyler Theme: Shirley Walker
Cinematography	Glen MacPherson
Editing by	Mark Stevens
Studio	Zide/Perry Productions LivePlanet
Distributed by	New Line Cinema (Warner Bros.)
Release date(s)	August 28, 2009
Running time	81 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million
Gross revenue	$178.99 (worldwide)[1]
Preceded by	Final Destination 3

The Final Destination (also known as Final Destination 4) is a 2009 3-D supernatural horror thriller written by Eric Bress and directed by David R. Ellis, both of whom also worked on Final Destination 2. Released on August 28, 2009, it is the fourth installment to the Final Destination film series, and the first of which to be shot in HD 3-D.

Plot

The film is set 10 years after the explosion of Flight 180, 9 years after the highway pile-up in Route 23, and 4 years after the roller coaster derailment in McKinley, Pennsylvania. While watching a race at McKinley Speedway for a break from studying, college student Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition of a car crash which sends debris into the audience, crushing some spectators and resulting in the stadium collapsing, which would have killed everyone present in the 180 section. In a panic Nick manages to convince his girlfriend Lori Milligan (Shantel VanSanten), and friends Hunt Wynorski (Nick Zano) and Janet Cunningham (Haley Webb) to leave. The quartet is followed out by a security guard named George Lanter (Mykelti Williamson), spectator Andy Kewzer (Andrew Fiscella), his girlfriend Nadia Monroy (Stephanie Honore), and racist Carter Daniels (Justin Welborn), who have become angry with Nick (except for Janet, who was scared to leave the race track in the first place, and George) after he pushes past them to escape. Cynthia Daniels (Lara Grice), wants to follow her husband, but was ordered by Carter not to. Also, mother Samantha Lane (Krista Allen) follows her family outside. George intervenes when everyone begins to argue outside, just as the catastrophe Nick had foreseen occurs. A tire flies over the arena and splatters Nadia (shortly after Nadia dies, Cynthia probably was sliced in half like in the premonition). After a memorial service at McKinley Speedway, Carter and Samantha died violently in freak accidents: Carter is blown up with his tow truck after trying to burn a cross on George’s lawn as revenge for “killing his wife” and Samantha is killed by a flying rock propelled by a lawnmower – the rock being thrown on the lawn by her obnoxious kids, which goes right through her eye. Right before their deaths, Nick had seen omens of how they would die.

After hearing about Carter and Samantha’s deaths on the news, Nick and Lori begin doing research, and learn about the disasters that occurred in the previous three films (Flight 180 in Final Destination, Route 23 in Final Destination 2, and roller coaster Devil’s Flight in Final Destination 3) and discover that the survivors (who were saved by premonitions) began dying in a series of improbable accidents shortly afterwards. While Hunt and Janet refuse to believe them, Nick and Lori manage to convince George that Death is after them. The trio begins trying to warn Andy, only to see him killed when a CO² canister flings him backwards to a chain-link fence which dices his torso. As they learn Hunt and Janet are next, they split up to save both of them in time. Lori and George go to save Janet, which is successful, as they find Janet in a carwash, having her head stuck through her sunroof after escaping being drowned from the amount of water pouring into her car. They save her right before her head gets crushed by a huge pipe in the carwash. Meanwhile, Nick goes to a pool to look for Hunt, who dies after he unintentionally switches the lever for draining the pool into ON and after he dives to look for his lucky coin his intestines are sucked down the pool drain violently.

Later on, Nick, Lori & George celebrate as they think it’s all over, since George was trying to kill himself all day and didn’t succeed – he threw up the sleeping pills, then he tried to gas himself in his garage, but his car stalled and finally he tried to hang himself, but the rope couldn’t support his weight. As Lori and Janet are going to the movies, Nick realizes George wasn’t meant to die then, it wasn’t his turn, for there was another survivor confined to a hospital named Jonathan Grove (Jackson Walker). As he and George arrive at Jonathan’s room, Jonathan is crushed by a bathtub overflowed with water from the room above him. As the two go outside the hospital, George is abruptly killed by a speeding ambulance, just before Nick has a second premonition showing him that Lori and Janet will die while in the movie theater when an explosion occurs in a room under construction behind the screen. Nick rushes to reach them, while Lori begins spotting omens warning her that the danger is not over. Once Nick arrives, he and Lori attempt to convince Janet to leave, but are unsuccessful in their efforts. Janet is killed in the theater when the screen explodes (though the explosion had released a lots of piece of metal and gone through everyone, and for Janet, the piece of metal gone through her face and a big shard had impaled her stomach) though the viewers can see that Janet coughing up blood when Lori and Nick return to the theater. Lori is also killed while escaping by being crushed by the escalator conveyor belt. Nick then realizes that the event hasn’t happened yet, and is able to save his friends by extinguishing the fire that would have caused the initial explosion.

Two weeks later, Janet, Lori and Nick, thinking they have conquered Death’s plan, celebrate surviving in a cafe. Nick notices a loose leg on a scaffold outside the cafe, and he tells a construction worker to fix it. Once inside he drifts off into thought after seeing omens around him, and realizes that his premonitions and signs, along with all the disasters and deaths that had occurred since the speedway incident, are red herrings from Death used to manipulate them into where and when it would really come for them. While Nick realizes this, the scaffold falls, and in order to avoid it, a truck swerves, crashes through the cafe window, and kills the group (It is shown as if they were skeletons: Janet is crushed by the truck’s tires, Lori is forced against the wall where her neck breaks, and Nick is smashed to the café wall where his jaw shatters), thus leaving all connected to the McKinley Speedway disaster dead. The end credits show previous deaths from the last three films.

Cast

• Bobby Campo as Nick O’Bannon
• Shantel VanSanten as Lori Milligan
• Haley Webb as Janet Cunnigham
• Mykelti Williamson as George Lanter
• Nick Zano as Hunt Wynorski
• Andrew Fiscella as Andy Kewzer
• Krista Allen as Samantha Lane
• Jackson Walker as Jonathan Grove
• Justin Welborn as Carter Daniels
• Stephanie Honore as Nadia Monroy
• Lara Grice as Cynthia Daniels
• Phil Austin as Edward Lane
• William Aguillard as Daniel Lane
• Brendan Aguillard as Ryan Lane

Production

Development

After the success of Final Destination 3, which was initially planned to be in 3-D,^[2] Eric Bress wrote a script, which impressed producer Craig Perry and New Line Cinema enough to green-light a fourth installment. James Wong was on board to direct, but because of scheduling conflicts, he decided to drop out. Consequently, the studio executives opted for David R. Ellis to return because of his work on Final Destination 2, who personally accepted because of the 3-D.^[3] For the 3-D, Perry said that he wanted it to add depth to the film instead of just “something pop[ping] out at the audience every four minutes.”^[4]

Filming

Although shooting was to be done in Vancouver, which was where the previous three films were shot, David R. Ellis convinced the producers to shoot in New Orleans instead to bring business in the city, and because the budget was already big.^[5] The opening crash sequence at “McKinley Speedway” was filmed at Mobile International Speedway in Irvington, Alabama. Filming began in March 2008 and ended late May in the same year.^[4] Reshoots were done in April 2009 at Universal Studios Florida.^[6]

Promotion

Producer Craig Perry presented clips of the film at San Diego Comic Con. Additionally, a number of video games feature The Final Destination posters: Saints Row 2 has posters around the city taped to walls and poles, Skate 2 features billboards with posters on them, and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames added billboards with the movie’s logo in a content update. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 also features the promotional posters hidden around certain maps with the main goal to find all of the posters for a chance to win $1,300.^[7]

Release

The film was released in 3-D as well as in conventional theaters on August 28, 2009. It was initially planned for an August 14 release.^[8] It is also the first 3-D film to feature D-BOX motion feedback technology in select theaters.^[9]

Box office

According to USA Today and Newsday, The Final Destination debuted as the top of the North American box office, beating Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, by earning $28.3 million during its first weekend.^[10][11] It is also topped the box office in the UK.^[12] The film remained #1 at the box office in North America for two weeks; on September 11, 2009, it gained a little more than a million dollars and dropped to #7.^[13] As of November 8, 2009, the film has grossed $66.4 million domestically, $116.8 million in foreign sales, and $183.2 million worldwide.^[14]

Critical reception

The film received mostly negative reviews by critics, with a 29% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes; the general consensus is that “The Final Destination is predictable, disposable horror fare”.^[15] Likewise, based on the 14 reviews collected, Metacritic awards the film an average score of 30/100, which denotes “generally unfavorable reviews”.^[16]

Many critics opined that “the series has clearly run out of ideas”.^[17] “The biggest sin of The Final Destination is its general lack of imagination,” said one.^[18] “It’s death porn, pure and simple,” said another.^[19] “Whatever hints of originality lay in the series’ previous editions have been all but sucked out of this one,” spoke Jordan Mintzer of Variety.^[20]

Some positive reviews referenced its “OK sense of humor”,”swift [progression]” and “effective opening sequence of racetrack destruction that puts its Fusion 3-D technology to good use”.^[21] “The Final Destination has some surprising sparks of life to it yet,” said Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.^[22]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album was released on the 25th of August in 2009, three days before the film’s theatrical release, under independent label Varése Sarabande. The album consists of 23 scores composed and mixed by Brian Tyler, composer of the Eagle Eye, Fast and Furious and Constantine soundtracks. He took over scoring the series after the untimely death of the composer for the first three films, Shirley Walker.

[edit] Track listing

The CD only features composed score by Brian Tyler. However in the film, commercially released songs were also featured. The soundtrack includes 23 scores from Tyler.

U.S. edition^[23]

1. “The Final Destination” – 2:56
2. “The Raceway” – 3:07
3. “Memorial” – 2:46
4. “Nailed” – 3:22
5. “Nick’s Google Theory” – 1:30
6. “Revelations” – 2:28
7. “Raceway Trespass” – 1:39
8. “Stay Away from Water” – 2:38
9. “Flame On” – 1:43
10. “Moment of Joy” – 1:17
11. “Signs and Signals” – 2:51
12. “George Is Next” – 1:12
13. “Car Washicide” – 3:05
14. “Newspaper Clues” – 1:57
15. “Premonition” – 1:50
16. “The Salon” – 3:53
17. “Questioning” – 1:04
18. “Death of a Cowboy” – 2:08
19. “Gearhead” – 1:56
20. “Sushi for Everyone” – 2:53
21. “The Movie Theater” – 3:03
22. “You Can’t Dodge Fate” – 1:28
23. “The Final Destination Suite” – 13:29

Commercial songs from film, but not on soundtrack ^[24]

• “Devour” – by Shinedown
• “How the Day Sounds” – by Greg Laswell
• “Burning Bridges” – by Anvil
• “Why Can’t We Be Friends” – by War
• “Don’t You Know” – by Ali Dee and the Dekompressors
• “Faraway” – by Dana Schindler
• “Dream of Me” – by Perfect
• “The Stoop” – by Little Jackie
• “Sweet Music” – by Garrison Hawk
• “Corona and Lime” – by Shwayze
• “Make You Crazy” – by Brett Dennen

Crews

• Produced by Brian Tyler
• Executive producer: Robert Townson
• Executive in charge of music for New Line Cinema: Erin Scully
• Music supervisor: Dana Sano
• Performed by The Czech Philharmonic
• Orchestrated by Brian Tyler, Dana Niu, Robert Elhai, Brad Warnaar, Andrew Kinney, and Pakk Hui
• Additional arrangement and programming by Keith Power, Tony Morales, Stuart Thomas, and Pakk Hui
• Original Final Destination Theme composed by Shirley Walker
• Score mixed by Brian Tyler
• Music editing by Gary L. Krause
• Music preparation by Eric Stonerook
• Mastered by Patrica Sullivan Fourstar

Reception

The soundtrack attracted generally favorable reviews. Based on 11 editorial reviews, FilmTracks awards the film with an average score of 3.3 / 5. Composer Tyler was called “capable to further explore new stylistic territory while making substantial use of the structures and tone of [predecessor composer, Shirley Walker's] music.” His approach to the scores were called “intelligent”, and provides “adequate if not strikingly overachieving recordings is testimony to his immense talents.”

The reviewers were also impressed with the extension of the sound used by Walker in Final Destination 3. “It relates to an affection for Walker’s contribution to the industry,” says an unnamed critic. ^[25]

A SoundNotes reviewer grades the film with an impressive score of 7.5 / 10, remarking “Brian Tyler slugs his way through the inadequacies of The Final Destination and produces a score with reasonable entertainment value and enough of an appeal to make it function well apart from the woeful film.” ^[26]

Public reception on the soundtrack was mediocre-to-positive. 143 readers of FilmTracks agreed on a 2.87 / 5 score. 2 Amazon visitors rate the film 3.5 / 5. “Dull and repetitive,” commented reader J. Hart: “The action cues are lifeless (no pun intended) and don’t match the surprising complexity of Walker’s.”

Home media

The Final Destination was initially scheduled for a DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on December 21, 2009, along with a boxset containing all four films. The film and the boxset have now been pushed back slightly to new release dates, January 5, 2010 in the US and January 2010 in the UK. It has been rumored that since the film has a short running time, it will include an extended cut and eventually a “Choose Their Fate” as it did in Final Destination 3. To date, all Final Destination films have passed uncut as 15 certificate ratings in the UK; the release of The Final Destination is expected to follow the same trend. Both the DVD and Blu-ray will include two pairs of 3D glasses in each cover and will also have a 2D version on the menu. It will also include alternate endings and deleted scenes.^[27]

Future of franchise

Producer Craig Perry confirmed that there are no plans to go ahead with a new Final Destination film, likely making The Final Destination the last installment in the series.^[28] He said that combined with a now 3D installment, the film series started to look “cheesy in name alone” and like “another one of those” films a part of a dying or discontinued franchise, such as Leprechaun 4.^[28] He added that the word “The” in the title was to signify this as the last film in the series and that it is difficult to come up with “a fresh spin” for these types of franchises:

These things are hard to figure out, they’re getting more and more expensive to do. This is kind of the intersection that makes everything come to bear. It has a healthy budget, the special FX is great, a great marketing department and it has a really nice franchise loyalty to build from and to deliver to, why push it any further than this?^[28]

Despite Perry feeling that the Final Destination franchise may be better left at The Final Destination, he said that he does have an idea for a sequel. “Of course, Freddy had a Final Nightmare too, and that didn’t last very long,” he stated. “I do have an idea which would make it less expensive, but make it more interesting, [assuming] we’re fortunate enough to even have the conversation about what a fifth one would even be. I think that the fans in particular will appreciate the spin it puts on the notions.”^[28]

References

A Perfect Getaway – Trailer

Om du er av typen som plukker opp haikere langs veien så slutter du kanskje med det etter å ha sett denne filmen. Den handler om et par på bryllupsreise på Hawaii. De reiser til en avsides del av øya. Der plukker de opp et haikende par som virker veldig hyggelige. Men det er noe som ikke stemmer, og magefølelsen viser seg å være riktig.

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A Perfect Getaway
Theatrical poster
Directed by	David Twohy
Written by	David Twohy
Starring	Timothy Olyphant Milla Jovovich Kiele Sanchez Chris Hemsworth Marley Shelton and Steve Zahn
Music by	Boris Elkis
Distributed by	Rogue Pictures
Release date(s)	United States August 7, 2009 United Kingdom August 12, 2009
Running time	97 min.
Language	English
Budget	$14,000,000 [1]
Gross revenue	$20,038,945 [2]

A Perfect Getaway is a 2009 thriller film written and directed by David Twohy, and stars Chris Hemsworth, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez, Timothy Olyphant, Steve Zahn and Marley Shelton. The film was shot in Puerto Rico and Hawaii, and was released on August 7, 2009 in the US, and on August 12 in the UK. The film received mixed to positive critical reaction^[3] and was a minor financial success.

Plot summary

An young American couple, Cliff and Cydney are celebrating their honeymoon by hiking to a remote beach in Hawaii. The couple comes across two hitchhikers, Cleo and Kale, and a group of frightened hikers discussing a double murder in Honolulu of another newlywed couple on the island, with the victims having their teeth pulled out, and they begin to question whether they should turn back.

Unsure whether to stay or flee, Cliff and Cydney join up with another couple, Nick, who claims to have a titanium plate in his head and be a former special forces operative, and his longtime girlfriend, Gina, a former butcher. Far from civilization or rescue, everyone begins to look like a threat and nobody knows whom to trust. Gina and Cydney swap personal stories, and Cydney tells Gina about Rocky, a former lover who murdered a neighbor’s dog and displayed the corpse while the two were having sex and threatened to kill her if she ever told. Eventually the two couples spy a police helicopter arresting Cleo and Kale, and a search of Kale’s bag reveals a Dentyne Ice box full of human teeth. Gina and Cydney reveal that each thought that the others were the killers, and the group continues to the beach.

After Cliff and Nick go kayaking to a nearby cove, Gina begins to video tape the men leaving. As she checks the footage, she notices that the camera’s SD card, where still the photos are stored is in its slot. Gina inserts the memory card with and looks through what she thinks is the Vliff and Cydney’s wedding photos. At the end she sees the wedding couple in a shot that reveals that the two people she has been travelling with are not the real Cliff and Cydney. They are impostors. A series of flashbacks reveal that Cliff and Cydney are the killers, and have been killing people and then stealing their identities by ingratiating themselves with other couples while on vacation to learn their personal histories, mannerisms, and speech patterns. They killed the newlyweds from the wedding video and changed their appearances to look like them. We learn Cliff, revealed to be Rocky from Cydney’s story, has been killing newlywed couples ever since he murdered the dog. Cydney, who was forced and eventually enjoyed participating in the murders, and Cliff learned more about their victims from all their friends and family talking about them in the wedding video. Earlier, Cliff planted the teeth in Cleo’s bag to frame both her and Kale.

Gina winds up on the top of the cave and sees Nick & Cliff below. Cliff shoots Nick in the back of the head, causing him to capsize. Cliff shoots at Gina but misses. Cydney fights Gina, but Cydney is thrown down and lands in the water. Gina runs and tries to call for help, but fails, and is nearly caught by Rocky before stabbing him through the hand with Cydney’s knife. Gina runs, encountering another group of hikers looking for the stolen kayaks. Rocky attempts to convince the group that Gina is a crystal meth addict, and is having a delusional episode. His act seems convincing until one of the hikers, an EMT, points out that Rocky, not Gina, appears stoned, and Rocky shoots the entire group.

Meanwhile, Nick, having been saved by his titanium skull plate and hiding in the air pocket under the kayak, wakes up in the cave and goes to save Gina. Nick attacks Rocky, splitting his hand in half with a hatchet. Meanwhile, Cydney flags down a police helicopter. After nearly killing Rocky with the killer’s .45 pistol, Gina jumps in the way of a police sniper and convinces Nick to drop the weapon, and the two embrace. Cydney sees Nick and Gina together and decides she will not go to prison for Rocky. She realizes how much she has changed for the worse, calling him, “The guy that fucked up my life.” Cyndey informs the cops that the real killer is Cliff, and points out that he’s going for the gun while Nick and Gina have their backs to him. A sniper sees this and shoots Cliff in the forehead, killing him. It is unknown whether Cydney herself was arrested.

Gina and Nick are in the helicopter, and Nick proposes to Gina. After accepting, both suggest in unison to have no honeymoon.

Cast

• Steve Zahn as Cliff
• Timothy Olyphant as Nick
• Milla Jovovich as Cydney
• Kiele Sanchez as Gina
• Marley Shelton as Cleo
• Chris Hemsworth as Kale

Soundtrack

1. Hey, Hey, Hey by Tracy Adams
2. Paradise by RooHub
3. Need Your Love by The High Tide Spirits
4. Boom Chic Boom by Chic by Tracy Adams
5. Red Dress Baby by Doll by Tracy Adams
6. Ghetto Chronic by Tracy Adams
7. The Wretched by Nine Inch Nails
8. I’m Yours by Jason Mraz

Reception

The film has achieved mixed to positive reviews from critics. Based on an average of 22 reviews, Metacritic gave the film 63 out of 100.^[4] A Perfect Getaway also averages 58% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 115 reviews.

The New York Times gave the film 80% and referred to it as a “genuinely satisfying cheap thrill”.^[5] More mixed reviews include the Times Online which gave the film 3/5 stars, adding that it is a “smart” thriller but is a “little too tricky for its own good”.^[6] Additionally, The Guardian only rated the film 60% saying that the film is a “flawed but entertaining thriller”.^[7]

The film grossed $5,948,555 in its opening weekend within America.^[8] Furthermore, its first week in the UK saw the film make £418,703 and reach number 10 at the UK box office.

Release

The release in the US Cinemas was on 07 August 2009. The unrated directors cut DVD and Blu-Ray is coming out on 29 December 2009.^[9]

References

The Twilight Saga – New Moon Teaser

Premiere kino: 20.11.2009

Mange har ventet lenge på den andre filmen i denne sagaen. Blodtørste vampyrer er i skuddet som aldri før takket være Twilight, den første filmen.
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Promotional poster
Directed by	Chris Weitz
Produced by	Mark Morgan Wyck Godfrey
Written by	Novel: Stephenie Meyer Screenplay: Melissa Rosenberg
Starring	Kristen Stewart Robert Pattinson Taylor Lautner
Music by	Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography	Javier Aguirresarobe
Editing by	Peter Lambert
Distributed by	Summit Entertainment
Release date(s)	November 20, 2009
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	US$50 – 70 million[1]
Preceded by	Twilight
Followed by	Eclipse

New Moon (marketed as The Twilight Saga: New Moon and also known as Twilight 2) is an upcoming 2009 American romantic fantasy film scheduled for release on November 20, 2009.^[2] It is based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer and is the sequel to 2008’s Twilight, which is based on Meyer’s previous novel. Summit Entertainment greenlit the sequel in late November 2008, following the early success of Twilight.^[3] Directed by Chris Weitz, the film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner,^[4] reprising their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black, respectively. Melissa Rosenberg returns as the screenwriter for the film. She handed in a draft of the film script during the opening weekend of Twilight.^[5]

Plot

When asked about the sequel, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke stated, “It’s got werewolves, it’s got visual effects that turn people into werewolves, it’s got motorcycle stunts, you go to Italy. It’s probably twice as much as [Twilight to film].”^[6]

On December 13, 2008, Summit Entertainment released a synopsis of New Moon, which states: “Bella Swan is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.”^[7]

Production

Development

In early November 2008, Summit announced that they had obtained the rights to the remaining books in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series: New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.^[8] On November 22, 2008, one day after the theatrical release of Twilight, Summit confirmed that they would begin working on New Moon. “I don’t think any other author has had a more positive experience with the makers of her movie adaptation than I have had with Summit Entertainment,” said Meyer.^[9] Melissa Rosenberg had been working on adapting the novel prior to Twilight’s release^[10] and handed in the draft for New Moon during Twilight’s opening weekend in November 2008.^[5]

In early December 2008, it was announced that Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke would not be returning to direct the sequel. Hardwicke cited time restrictions as the reason behind her leaving the project.^[12] On December 13, 2008, it was announced that Chris Weitz, director of The Golden Compass and co-director of American Pie, had been hired to direct New Moon.^[13]

Casting

Due to major physical changes that occur in the character of Jacob Black between Twilight and New Moon, Weitz considered replacing Taylor Lautner in the sequel with an actor who could more accurately portray “the new, larger Jacob Black.”^[14] In an attempt to keep the role, Lautner weight-trained extensively and gained approximately 30 pounds.^[15] In January 2009, Weitz and Summit Entertainment announced that Lautner would continue to play the role of Jacob in New Moon.^[4] In an interview, fellow cast member Kristen Stewart talked about Lautner’s transformation saying, “He’s an entirely different person physically.”^[16]

In late March 2009, Summit Entertainment released a list of the actors who would be portraying the “wolf pack” alongside Lautner. The casting for the rest of the Quileute tribe was headed by casting director Rene Haynes, who has worked on films with large American Indian casts, such as Dances with Wolves and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.^[17] A casting call was also held in Vancouver in February 2009, specifically asking for “any first nations/aboriginal actors and actresses between the ages of 15 and 25″.^[18]

Talking about the casting of Michael Sheen as Aro, director Chris Weitz claims to have “‘aggressively’ pursued the actor”, and describes the character as “on the surface, a very gracious and friendly vampire, but beneath that he is a tremendous threat.”^[19]

Filming and post-production

Pre-production for New Moon started in December 2008.^[20] Filming was scheduled to begin on March 23, 2009 in Vancouver,^[21][22] but began a few days early.^[23] David Thompson Secondary School served as the location for the high school scenes in the movie.^[24] Filming in Montepulciano, Italy occurred in late May 2009^[25][26] and ended on the 29th.^{[citation needed]} The film received a rating of PG-13 from the Motion Picture Association of America for “some violence and action”.^[27]

Music

The score for New Moon is being composed by Alexandre Desplat^[28] while the rest of the soundtrack was chosen by music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas, who also produced the Twilight soundtrack.^[29] The New Moon: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album was released on October 16, 2009^[30] by Patsavas’ Chop Shop label, in conjunction with Atlantic Records.^[29] It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart,^[31] and climbed to number one a week later after selling 153,000 copies in its first full week of release.^[32]

Cast

From left to right: Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson, the stars of New Moon.

The Cullens and the Swans

• Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, a teenage girl who has fallen in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire. She is heartbroken when Edward abruptly leaves her, but is raised out of her depression through her friendship with family friend Jacob Black.^[4]
• Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, Bella’s vampire love who abruptly leaves town to protect her.^[4][33] For much of the film, Edward only appears as a figment of Bella’s imagination.^[34]
• Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen, a member of the Cullen family who can see “subjective” visions of the future and who becomes best friends with Bella. Greene explained that she would like to boost her strength and stamina for the sequel and said, “Compared to the first film it’s a much larger part for me.”^[35]
• Billy Burke as Charlie Swan, Bella’s father^[36] and Forks’ Chief of Police.
• Peter Facinelli as Carlisle Cullen, leader and father figure of the Cullen family.^[37]
• Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen, Carlisle’s wife and the mother figure of the Cullen family.^[38][39]
• Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen, a member of the Cullen family. In an interview, Lutz said, “I’ve talked to the producers, and they say I have a lot of funny lines.”^[40]
• Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale, a member of the Cullen family who “feels really strongly about her hatred for Bella.”^[41] Reed, a brunette, stated that she will not dye her hair blonde to film the sequel. “It took 36 hours initially to make me blonde, and every other day, I was bleaching my head and my skin,” recalled Reed. “This time around, we are testing out different wigs and stuff.”^[42]
• Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale, a member of the Cullen family who thirsts for Bella’s blood after she gives herself a paper cut. This particular scene is Rathbone’s favorite, and he stated that he is “very excited to film [it].”^[43] Jasper also has the ability to sense and control the emotions of others.^[44]

Quileute tribe

• Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black,^[4] Bella’s old childhood friend and a member of the Quileute tribe. He becomes close to Bella after Edward leaves,^[7] and transforms into a werewolf.^[45] Lautner says of the role, “[Jacob] transforms mid-story—in the first half, he’s Twilight Jacob. I’m wearing a wig. My character’s very clumsy, outgoing, and friendly. When he transforms into a werewolf, he becomes something very different.”^[46]
• Chaske Spencer as Sam Uley, the leader of a werewolf pack that protects humans against predatory vampires.^[47]
• Tinsel Korey as Emily Young, Sam’s fiancée and a mother figure to the wolf pack.^[48][49]
• Tyson Houseman as Quil Ateara, one of Jacob’s best friends and the last to learn of his wolf heritage.^[50]
• Alex Meraz as Paul, a volatile member of the wolf pack.^[51]
• Kiowa Gordon as Embry Call, one of Jacob’s best friends.^[47] Gordon describes the character as “Jake’s right hand man, tall, skinny, shy and the fourth to turn into a werewolf.”^[52]
• Bronson Pelletier as Jared, the joker of the wolf pack.^[47]
• Graham Greene as Harry Clearwater, a Quileute elder and friend of Bella’s father, Charlie.^[49]
• Gil Birmingham as Billy Black, Jacob’s father and a Quileute chief.^[53]

Nomadic vampires

• Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria, a vampire who wants to kill Bella to avenge her lover, James.^[54]
• Edi Gathegi as Laurent,^[55] a vampire who also tries to kill Bella.^[56]

The Volturi

• Michael Sheen as Aro, the leader of an ancient Italian vampire coven known as the Volturi.^[19]
• Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius, one of the leaders of the Volturi and a key character in the plot of the film.^[57]
• Christopher Heyerdahl as Marcus,^[49] one of the leaders of the Volturi.
• Dakota Fanning as Jane, a guard of the Volturi who has the ability to torture people with illusions of pain.^[58][59]
• Cameron Bright as Alec, Jane’s brother.^[49]
• Charlie Bewley as Demetri, a member of the Volturi.^[49] When asked about the character, Bewley said, “He has unparalleled tracking abilities together with insane strength, speed and classiness”.^[60]
• Daniel Cudmore as Felix, a Volturi enforcer.^[49]
• Noot Seear as Heidi, a vampire who brings humans to the Volturi to eat.^[49][61]
• Justine Wachsberger as Gianna,^[62] a human who works for the Volturi.^[63]

Humans

• Anna Kendrick as Jessica Stanley, Bella’s self-involved friend.^[64][65]
• Justin Chon as Eric Yorkie, Bella’s friend.^[64]
• Christian Serratos as Angela Weber, Bella’s friend.^[64]
• Michael Welch as Mike Newton, Bella’s friend who has a crush on her. He joins her on a date with Jacob.^[66]

Marketing

The first promotional poster from New Moon was released on May 19, 2009.^[67] On May 31, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner revealed the film’s first trailer at the MTV Movie Awards.^[68] Two scenes from the film were presented at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con.^[69] A 14-second preview of the second trailer was released online on August 12, 2009, and the full-length trailer was featured before theater showings of the film Bandslam.^[70] A third trailer was shown at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, 2009.^[71] Spike TV aired a new trailer at the 2009 Scream Awards on October 27.^[72]

Release

Many theater showings sold out as early as two months prior to the film’s November 20, 2009 release date.^[73]

Sequel

Summit greenlit a film adaptation of Eclipse, the third novel in the Twilight series, in February 2009. The film is tentatively scheduled for release on June 30, 2010.^[74] It was announced that Chris Weitz will not be directing the third film.^[75] Instead, Eclipse will be directed by David Slade.^[76]

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Zombieland – Official Trailer

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Zombieland
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ruben Fleischer
Produced by	Gavin Polone
Written by	Paul Wernick Rhett Reese
Narrated by	Jesse Eisenberg
Starring	Woody Harrelson Jesse Eisenberg Emma Stone Abigail Breslin
Music by	David Sardy
Cinematography	Michael Bonvillain
Editing by	Peter Amundson Alan Baumgarten
Studio	Relativity Media Pariah Films
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	United States: October 2, 2009 (2009-10-02)
Running time	81 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$23.6 million[1]
Gross revenue	$83,536,321[1]

Zombieland is a 2009 American zombie comedy/action film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Together they take an extended road trip in an attempt to find a sanctuary free from zombies, following a set of “rules” designed to keep them alive where others have failed, all the while trying to “enjoy the little things”, killing zombies in a variety of creative ways.

The film received positive critical reviews and was a commercial success: it grossed more than $60.8 million in 17 days, surpassing the Dawn of the Dead remake to become the top-grossing zombie film in history.^[2]

Plot

The film takes place within a post-apocalyptic America, wherein a zombie apocalypse has occurred triggered by a virulent form of human adapted mad cow disease.

College student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is on his way to Columbus, Ohio to see if his parents are alive. He loses his car in an accident and encounters Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson). They travel together and when they stop at a grocery store, they meet two sisters, Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin). Through a con, the sisters manage to steal their weapons and truck. The two men walk and soon find a Hummer H2 truck loaded with weapons. They then meet the girls again, who attempt to take the Hummer, but Columbus proposes a truce.

Columbus tells Wichita he is heading home to Columbus, Ohio but she blurts out that it has been burned to the ground and is overrun by zombies. He decides instead to stay with the group. Wichita tells Columbus that she is taking Little Rock to “Pacific Playland” in Los Angeles, an amusement park rumored to be zombie-free.

On the way to the park, they pass through Hollywood and Tallahassee decides to take them to Bill Murray’s mansion. Tallahassee and Wichita meet Murray himself, uninfected but disguised as a zombie with make-up so that he can walk safely among the infected. In Murray’s home movie theater Columbus shows Little Rock Ghostbusters; when Murray enters in order to scare Columbus and Little Rock as a practical joke, Columbus shoots and kills him, thinking he is a zombie.

After a makeshift funeral, Tallahassee reveals he lost his son to the zombies; Wichita begins developing feelings for Columbus. Fearing attachment, Wichita leaves with Little Rock for Pacific Playland. Columbus decides to go after Wichita, and he and Tallahassee pursue the sisters in one of Murray’s vehicles.

Wichita and Little Rock arrive at Pacific Playland and turn on all the rides and lights, attracting nearby zombies. A battle ensues, leaving the sisters trapped on a drop tower ride and running low on ammunition. Tallahassee and Columbus arrive just as the sisters’ ammunition is depleted. Tallahassee manages to lure the majority away, then intentionally locks himself in a game booth while Columbus goes after the sisters. Columbus saves the girls and in thanks, Wichita reveals her real name (Krysta) to him. The two share their first kiss. Tallahassee eliminates the remaining zombies single-handedly. Columbus comes to the realization that this is the only family he needs, and the four leave Pacific Playland together.

Cast

This section requires expansion.

Woody Harrelson was brought on as Tallahassee. He accepted the role on four conditions, two of which were about casting and crew. The third condition required the film to have an environmentally conscious set. The fourth condition required the director to not eat any dairy products for a week, a task which Fleischer described was “like for an alcoholic not to drink”. He succeeded and maintained a vegetarian diet for eleven months.^[3]

Completing the cast are:

• Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus Ohio
• Emma Stone as Wichita
• Abigail Breslin as Little Rock
• Amber Heard as 406, Columbus’s hot neighbor
• Mike White as Gas Station Owner
• Bill Murray makes a cameo appearance as himself ^[4]

Themes

The rules

A running gag, and a central plot theme throughout the film, is the list of rules Columbus comes up with for surviving in the zombie-infested world. By the end of the film, his list has thirty-three rules; only some of them are mentioned. A series of non-canonical promotional videos starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg have expanded on the list.^[5] Also, in pre-release trailers for the film, some of the rules were presented in a different order, and some rules were named differently.^[6][7][8][9]

1. Cardio^[10]
2. Double tap^[10][11]
3. Wear seatbelts^[10]
4. Beware of bathrooms^[10][12]
5. No Attachments
6. Cast iron skillet^[5]
7. Travel light
12. Bounty paper towels^[5]
15. Bowling ball^[5]
17. (Don’t) Be a hero^[13]
18. Limber up
22. When in doubt, know your way out
29. The buddy system^[5]
31. Check the back seat^[14]
32. Enjoy the little things^[15]
33. Swiss Army knife^[5]

At the end of the film, Columbus makes a few parting words reminding viewers of the rules and adding “a little sunscreen never hurt anybody”.

Character names

The characters do not use each others’ real names. Instead, they identify themselves using place name (Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, Little Rock) that relates to them. This includes Columbus’s neighbor, named 406 after her room, and Columbus’s fictional sexual conquest: Beverly Hills. The one exception is Bill Murray, and at the end of the film Wichita tells Columbus her real name is Krysta.

Production

Writing

Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick stated that idea for Zombieland had “lived in [their] heads” for four-and-a-half years. The story was originally developed in 2005 as a spec script for television TV pilot in the summer of 2005. Wernick stated “We’ve got a long brainstorming document that still to this day gets updated on a near-weekly basis with ideas.”^[16] Director Ruben Fleischer helped develop the script from a series into a self contained feature by providing a specific destination to the road story, the amusement park.^[3]

Earlier versions of the script called the protagonists Flagstaff and Albuquerque, rather than Columbus and Tallahassee, and the female characters were called Wichita and Stillwater.^[17][18] The celebrity who would cameo as himself was written as a zombified, dancing Patrick Swayze, including references to highlights of Swayze’s career, even including a recreation of the “potter’s wheel” scene from Ghost.^[19][17] Later versions of the script considered Sylvester Stallone as the celebrity, but the Bill Murray eventually played the part, most of which was improvised according to Harrelson.^[20]

Filming and design

Principal photography began February 2009 in Valdosta, Georgia with scenes being shot at Wild Adventures Water & Theme Park and other locations.^[21] Filming continued in March in Atlanta, Hapeville, Morrow,^[22] Decatur,^[23] Newnan and Powder Springs, Georgia, where actress Abigail Breslin celebrated her 13^th birthday by adopting a shelter puppy.^[24] Zombieland was filmed in digital, using the Panavision Genesis digital camera^[25] and had a 41 day shooting schedule.^[3]

Zombie design for Zombieland, in a scene from the film’s climax. Characterized by tousled hair, blood markings on the face, and ragged clothing, the makeup was used to maintain a balance between comedy and horror.

Special effects makeup designer Tony Gardner, who helped create the signature look of Michael Jackson’s music video “Thriller” and has contributed to other Hollywood films, was brought on to design the look of the film’s zombies.^[26] Michael Bonvillain, who was Cloverfield‘s cinematographer, was brought on for the “lively” hand-held camerawork.^[27] “Basically, it’s the end of the world; the entire nation is zombies,” stated Gardner. “And [the humans] are trying to get from the east coast to the west coast.” For one shooting scene, Gardner said, “There were 160 zombies, in prosthetics, on set in an amusement park.” He said it is “how you present yourself as a zombie that determines how people will react to you” and that “[o]nce the contact lenses go in”, he thinks “all bets are off”.^[26]

Gardner said he was excited about working on the film with first-time filmmaker Ruben Fleischer, who gave him free reign in his zombie design. “[We] are just trying to be real extreme with it,” stated Gardner, “and trying to balance the scares out with the comedy.”^[26] He described having to makeover physically attractive actors who usually benefit from their looks as “a little off-putting” after seeing some of them in their character makeup for the first time.^[26]

The zombies in Zombieland have been described by the casting director as:

Ferocious, infected people that move erratically. They are diseased, as opposed to undead. These are not the lumbering walking dead of Romero’s zombie movies, but instead the super jacked up 28 Days Later/Dawn of the Dead zombies. They are scary and gnarly and gross.^[28]

Harrelson personally chose the wardrobe for his character, Tallahassee. “I never worked so long and hard on an outfit in my life,” stated Harrelson. “What this guy wears is who he is. You want to get a sense of this guy as soon as you see him. So I pick out the necklaces, the sunglasses. But the hat? The minute you see that on Tallahassee, you buy him. He’s real. And he’s got a real cool hat.”^[29]

Shortly after finishing the filming of Zombieland, Harrelson had an altercation with a TMZ photographer at New York City’s La Guardia Airport. His defense was that he was still in character and thought the cameraman was a zombie.^[30]

Effects

The special effects team worked to help create a few visual elements never seen in comedy horrors. One of these elements are the rules for survival, which appear on-screen as they are related by Columbus: Do cardio (“The first ones to go were the fatties,” Columbus says), beware of bathrooms, check the back seat, and so forth. “When a previously stated rule becomes relevant—when nature calls, for instance—the relevant text pops up, occasionally getting splattered with blood.”^[31] Slate‘s Josh Levin said, “The pop-up bit works precisely because Zombieland unspools like a game—how can you survive a zombie horde armed with a shotgun, an SUV, and a smart mouth?”^[31]

Release

Distributed by Columbia Pictures, Zombieland was released on October 2, 2009, a week earlier than originally advertised.^[32] The film was given an R rating for horror violence/gore and language in the US^[33] and in Canada, Zombieland was given a 18A rating in provinces but Ontario, which received a 14A rating for gory scenes and coarse language (both apply to ratings).^[34]

Reception

Critical response

The film has received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports 88% of critics gave the film positive write-ups based on 179 reviews, with a rating of 7.3/10, and a generally positive 89% approval rating from “top” critics based on 28 reviews. The site’s general consensus summarizes the film as “[w]ickedly funny and featuring plenty of gore” and that it “is proof that the zombie subgenre is far from dead”.^[35] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film holds a “generally favorable” score of 73 based on 31 reviews.^[36]

Film critic Roger Ebert was surprised by Zombieland’s ability to be significantly humorous while zombies remained the focus of the film and felt that “[a]ll of this could have been dreary, but not here. The filmmakers show invention and well-tuned comic timing”. He credited Bill Murray’s cameo appearance as receiving the “single biggest laugh” heard of the year, and gave the film 3 out of 4 stars.^[37] Murray’s cameo was called out for attention by other reviewers: Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle credited it as “the single most outrageously entertaining unexpected celebrity cameo of any film — genre or otherwise” he had seen in a “long, long time” and that while the film did little to advance the genre its smart script and high action made it very enjoyable.^[38] He categorized Zombieland as being “dead set against being dead serious” with its tonal pallor “ha[ving] more in common with a foreshortened It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World than with 28 Days or Weeks Later“.^[38]

The film’s witty use of dialogue and popular culture was also praised by Ty Burr of the The Boston Globe, who said the film “makes no claims to greatness” but what it “has instead — in spades — is deliciously weary end-of-the-world banter”;^[39] Michael Ordona of Los Angeles Times praised director Fleischer for “bring[ing] impeccable timing and bloodthirsty wit to the proceedings”.^[40]

Some reviewers saw deeper levels in the plot and cinematography: cinematographer Michael Bonvillain was praised for capturing “some interesting images amid the post-apocalyptic carnival of carnage, as when he transforms the destruction of a souvenir shop into a rough ballet”,^[40] while Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com said “[t]he picture is beautifully paced” and highlighted “a halcyon middle section where, in what could be viewed as a sideways homage to Rebel Without a Cause, our rootless wanderers share a brief respite in an empty, lavish mansion”.^[41]

Claudia Puig of USA Today said that “underlying the carnage in Zombieland is a sweetly beating heart”, and that “This road movie/horror flick/dark comedy/earnest romance/action film hybrid laces a gentle drollness through all the bloody mayhem”.^[42] Entertainment Weekly’s Lisa Schwarzbaum concluded, “At the bone, Zombieland is a polished, very funny road picture shaped by wisenheimer cable-TV sensibilities and starring four likable actors, each with an influential following.”^[43]

Josh Levin of Slate draws parallels with Adventureland: in both films Jesse Eisenberg tries to win over his dream girl, a girl who has been hardened by life, and both feature a theme park. He goes so far as to call the film “an undead Adventureland—a Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for the Facebook generation”.^[31]

Time magazine’s Richard Corliss described the film as “[a]n exhilarating ride, start to finish” and reasoned “Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg set a high bar for this subgenre with Shaun of the Dead, but Reese, Werner and Fleischer may have trumped them”. “This isn’t just a good zombie comedy. It’s a damn fine movie, period. And that’s high praise, coming from a vampire guy,” he stated.^[44]

Not all comparisons with Shaun of the Dead were favorable: Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out New York characterized the “extra injection of pop-culture neuroticism” as “the one innovation” of the film,^[45] declaring that while Zombieland was funny it wasn’t particularly scary and stated that it “simply isn’t as witty as Shaun of the Dead, forever the yuks-meet-yucks standard.”^[45] Similarly, The Globe and Mail‘s Rick Groen said “it’s far more charming than chilling and way more funny than frightening”, though he suggested that Rule No. 32 to ‘enjoy the little things’ was worth observing for a light comedy.^[46] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times classified the film as “[a] minor diversion dripping in splatter and groaning with self-amusement” and lamented the lack of a real plot more concrete than a series of comedy takes on zombie-slaying.^[47]

Box office

The film debuted at #1 at the box office in North America, with ticket sales of $24,733,155 on the opening weekend.^[48] As of October 29, 2009, the film grossed $71,710,224 domestically and $81,740,438 worldwide.^[1] It is credited as having the second highest-grossing start on record for a zombie film behind the Dawn of the Dead remake and as “the first [American] horror comedy in recent memory to find significant theatrical success”.^[49] The film grossed $60.8 million in 17 days, becoming the top-grossing zombie film in history; the title was previously held by the Dawn of the Dead remake.^[2]

Awards

Zombieland won the Audience award at the 2009 Sitges Film Festival.^[50]

Sequel

Due to the film’s success, writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have already planned a possible sequel. “We would love it, and everybody involved creatively wants to do another one,” said Wernick.^[51] “Woody Harrelson came up to us after the final cut of the last scene and gave us a hug and said, ‘I’ve never wanted to do a sequel in the previous movies I’ve done until this one.’” Wernick said he plans to have Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin to star again with Ruben Fleischer returning as the director and that the writers have “tons of new ideas swimming in [their heads]“. Additionally, they want to make the comedy into an enduring franchise. “We would love to do several sequels,” stated Wernick. “We would love to also see it on television. It would make a wonderful TV series.”^[16]

Though intent on making a sequel for the film, Reese and Wernick have not yet started to work on its script and do not want to reveal any potential Zombieland sequel plot points. They are not planning on an immediate sequel, due to being heavily involved with other writing projects; they have recently handed Sony Pictures a draft of Venom, their screen adaptation for the Marvel comic book character, and are also working on a sci-fi film called Earth vs. Moon, “which they hope will become a Will Smith-starring tentpole film”.^[16]

References

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Zombieland

• Official promotional site
• Official release site
• Zombieland at the Internet Movie Database
• Zombieland at Box Office Mojo
• Zombieland at Rotten Tomatoes

The Informant! – Trailer

“The Informant!” er basert på en sann historie, og har også Melanie Lynskey (“Two and A Half Men”) og Scott Bakula på rollelisten. Regissør er Steven Soderbergh.

Gleder meg til å se Matt Damon i denne filmen. Han bør spille bra da han måtte legge på seg 15 kilo for å passe i rollen. Ikke at jeg synes det er en prestasjon i seg selv.
Soderbergh og Damon har jobbet sammen tidligere med stor suksess i Ocean’s filmene.

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The Informant!
Promotional poster
Directed by	Steven Soderbergh
Produced by	Gregory Jacobs Jennifer Fox Michael Jaffe Howard Braunstein Kurt Eichenwald
Written by	Screenplay: Scott Z. Burns Novel: Kurt Eichenwald
Narrated by	Matt Damon
Starring	Matt Damon Scott Bakula Joel McHale Melanie Lynskey
Music by	Marvin Hamlisch
Cinematography	Stephen Soderbergh
Editing by	Stephen Mirrione
Studio	Participant Media Groundswell Productions Section Eight
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	September 18, 2009
Running time	108 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$22,000,000
Gross revenue	$31,031,459 (10/13/09)[1] (Worldwide)

The Informant! is a 2009 political dark comedy film, directed by Steven Soderbergh,^[2] and based on true events and the 2000 nonfiction book about Mark Whitacre, The Informant, by journalist Kurt Eichenwald.^[3] The script was written by Scott Z. Burns and the film stars Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale and Melanie Lynskey.

Plot summary

The Informant! is about Mark Whitacre (Damon), a rising star at Decatur, Illinois based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s who wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics, only after his wife forced him to.^[4][5] Matt Damon portrays the bipolar whistleblower dubbed “The wacky little brother of Erin Brockovich“.^[6] In the film, Whitacre displays bizarre behavior including recklessness and grandiosity.

One night in early November 1992, the high-ranking ADM executive confessed to FBI agent Brian Shepard (Bakula), present only to install a wire tap on Whitacre’s phone, that ADM executives—including Whitacre himself—had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, an additive used in the commercial livestock industry. As the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in US history, Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI.^[4][7][8] He assisted in gathering evidence by clandestinely taping the company’s activity in business meetings at various locations around the globe such as Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City, and Hong Kong, eventually collecting enough evidence of collaboration and conspiracy to warrant a raid.

Whitacre’s good deed dovetails with his own major infractions and struggle with bipolar disorder.^[4][9] The film focuses on Whitacre’s meltdown resulting from the pressures of wearing a wire and organizing surveillance for the FBI for three years, instigated by Whitacre’s reaction, in increasingly manic overlays, to various trivial magazine articles he reads. In a stunning turn of events immediately following the covert portion of the case, headlines around the world reported that the whistleblower defrauded $9 million from his own company at the same period of time he was secretly working for the FBI and taping his co-workers, while simultaneously hoping to be elected as CEO following the arrest and conviction of the remaining upper management members.^[4] After being confronted with evidence of his fraud, Whitacre’s claims in his defense begin to spiral out of control, including an accusation of assault and battery against Agent Shepard. Because of this major infraction and Whitacre’s bizarre behavior, he was sentenced to a prison term three times longer than the white-collar criminals he helped to nab.^[4] Agent Herndon (Joel McHale) visits Whitacre while in prison in order to support him for a presidential pardon.

Cast

• Matt Damon portrays Archer Daniels Midland executive Mark Whitacre.
• Scott Bakula portrays FBI agent Brian Shepard.
• Joel McHale portrays FBI agent Robert Herndon.
• Melanie Lynskey portrays Mark’s wife Ginger Whitacre.
• Thomas F. Wilson portrays Mark Cheviron.
• Allan Havey portrays FBI Supervisor Dean Paisley.
• Jimmy Pardo and Paul F. Tompkins announced on episode 309 of the Never Not Funny comedy podcast that they both have unannounced parts in the film.
• Patton Oswalt portrays Ed Herbst.
• Scott Adsit portrays Sid Hulse.
• Eddie Jemison portrays Kirk Schmidt.
• Clancy Brown portrays ADM’s attorney Aubrey Daniel
• Tony Hale portrays Mark’s attorney James Epstein
• Andrew Daly portrays ADM vice-president Marty Allison
• Frank Welker portrays Mark Whitacre’s Father

Production

In 2002, after completing Ocean’s Eleven, Soderbergh announced his intent to adapt the book The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald, a former journalist for The New York Times. Scott Z. Burns wrote the script based on the book.^[5]

Production began in May 2008 in Decatur, Illinois. Filming was also done at the former Whitacre mansion in Moweaqua, Illinois, a small town about 25 miles from Decatur. Some exterior shots were done in Mesa, Arizona, in November 2008. The film was released on September 18, 2009. Damon gained 20-30 pounds for the role in order to look like the doughy Whitacre.

Reception

Critical

The film received generally favorable reviews from critics.^[10] Rotten Tomatoes reported that 75% of critics gave positive reviews based on 122 reviews with an average score of 6.8/10.^[11] Another review aggretator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating from reviews from mainstream critics, reported a score of 66 out of 100 based on 35 reviews.^[10] Film critic Roger Ebert awarded the film 4 stars out of 4 claiming “The Informant! is fascinating in the way it reveals two levels of events, not always visible to each other or to the audience.”^[12]

Box office

The film opened at #2 behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with $10,545,000. ^[13] As of October 13, 2009 the film had grossed $30,388,780 domestically and $32,478,930 worldwide.^[14]

References

External links

• Official website
• The Informant! at the Internet Movie Database
• The Informant! at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Informant! Review
• CBS Fresno interview of Mark and Ginger Whitacre July 23, 2008
• This American Life #168: The Fix Is In (RealAudio)—interview with Mark Whitacre and the book’s author, Kurt Eichenwald, from This American Life
• Video Segment Showing True Story of ADM Case + Actual FBI Undercover Footage Shot by Mark Whitacre—from film Fair Fight in the Marketplace

The Road – Trailer

Viggo Mortensen og Charlize Theron spiller hovedrollene i denne drama/thrilleren som er basert på novellen av samme navn av Cormac McCarthy.

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Directed by	John Hillcoat
Produced by	Nick Wechsler Steve Schwartz Paula Mae Schwartz
Written by	Novel: Cormac McCarthy Screenplay: Joe Penhall
Starring	Viggo Mortensen Kodi Smit-McPhee Robert Duvall Guy Pearce Charlize Theron
Music by	Nick Cave Warren Ellis
Cinematography	Javier Aguirresarobe
Editing by	Jon Gregory
Studio	2929 Productions
Distributed by	Dimension Films The Weinstein Company
Release date(s)	November 25, 2009
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[citation needed]

The Road is an upcoming film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall. Based on the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Filming took place in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Oregon. The film is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2009.^[1]

Premise

The Road follows the premise from the book of the same name. An unnamed father (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) struggle to survive after an unspecified apocalypse and make their way toward the coast for possible food, shelter, safety, or to potentially find other survivors of the cataclysmic events. Along the way, they encounter grave struggles and hardships across the barren landscapes, with scarce shelter and resources available to them, and having to avoid bands of cannibals and other desperate gangs looking to pillage valuables and food. Various flashback sequences occur where the Man remembers events prior to the catastrophe, many involving his deceased wife, who has a much more expanded role in the film than in the original book.

Cast

• Viggo Mortensen as the Man.^[2] Mortensen explained the interaction of the father with his son, “They’re on this difficult journey, and the father is basically learning from the son.”^[3]
• Kodi Smit-McPhee as the Boy.^[2]. At the London Film Festival, Mortensen explained that Smit-McPhee was one of four finalists for the part, all of whom then read with him. Smit-McPhee was unanimously chosen, in particular because he seemed youthful, innocent and yet wise beyond his years.
• Charlize Theron as the Wife, who appears in flashback. Theron joined the film because she was a fan of the book and had previously worked with producer Nick Wechsler on the 2000 film The Yards.^[4] The character will have a larger role in the film than she did in the book. Hillcoat said of the expanded role, “I think it’s fine to depart from the book as long as you maintain the spirit of it.”^[5]
• Michael K. Williams as a thief.^[3]
• Guy Pearce as a father wandering with his family.^[3]
• Robert Duvall as an old, dying man.^[3]

Production

Filmmakers sought to implement bleak scenery as the backdrop of post-apocalyptic America for the characters’ journey

In November 2006, producer Nick Wechsler used independent financing to acquire film rights to adapt the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy. When Wechsler had watched John Hillcoat’s 2005 film The Proposition after reading The Road, the producer decided to pursue Hillcoat to direct the film adaptation. Wechsler described Hillcoat’s style: “There was something beautiful in the way John captured the stark primitive humanity of the West in that movie.”^[6] In April 2007, Joe Penhall was hired to script the adapted screenplay. Wechsler and his fellow producers Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz planned to have a script and an actor cast to portray the father before pursuing a distributor for the film.^[7] By the following November, actor Viggo Mortensen had entered negotiations with the filmmakers to portray the father, though he was occupied with filming Appaloosa in New Mexico.^[8]

With a budget of $20 million,^[9] filming began in southwestern Pennsylvania in late February 2008 for eight weeks and moved on to Louisiana and Oregon.^[10] Pennsylvania, where most of the filming took place, was chosen for its tax breaks and its abundance of locations that looked post-apocalyptic: coalfields, dunes, and run-down parts of Pittsburgh.^[3] Filming was also done at the 1892 Amusement park (Conneaut Lake Park) after one of the parks buildings (the Dreamland Ballroom) was destroyed in a fire in February 2008. Hillcoat also said of using Pittsburgh as a practical location, “It’s a beautiful place in fall with the colors changing, but in winter, it can be very bleak. There are city blocks that are abandoned. The woods can be brutal. We didn’t want to go the CGI world.” Filmmakers also shot scenes in parts of New Orleans that had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and on Mount St. Helens in Washington.^[11]

Hillcoat sought to make the film faithful to the spirit of the book, creating “a world in severe trauma“, although never explaining the circumstances of the apocalyptic event. According to Hillcoat, “That’s what makes it more realistic, then it immediately becomes about survival and how you get through each day as opposed to what actually happened.”^[2] Filmmakers took advantage of days with bad weather to portray the post-apocalyptic environment. Mark Forker, the director of special effects for the film, sought to make the landscape convincing, handling sky replacement and digitally removing greenery from scenes.^[3]

The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike was used for much of production,^[5] with evidence shown at the eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel. The exterior of the tunnel was somewhat restored for filming, with the doors to the ventilation shaft repainted as well as the white paint near the base of the tunnel entrance being painted tan to match the rest of the exterior of the tunnels. (When the property was still owned by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, vandalism took place on the abandoned tunnels sometime in the 1980s, with the white paint used to cover up graffiti.) The same was done with the western portal to Sideling Hill as well as the eastern portal of the Rays Hill Tunnel. Filming did not take place on the western portal of the Rays Hill Tunnel towards Breezewood, Pennsylvania, as well as the Laurel Hill Tunnel further west due to the latter having been used by Chip Ganassi Racing for wind tunnel testing since 2004.

The eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel in 2006, before filming commenced.

The eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel in 2009 after filming of the movie shows evidence of the tunnel being mildly restored.

Release

Actors Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, screenwriter Joe Penhall, director John Hillcoat and producer Steve Schwartz at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.

The Road was originally scheduled to be released in November 2008. It was pushed back to be released in December, and then pushed back a second time to sometime in 2009. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio decided that the film would benefit from a longer post-production process and a less crowded release calendar.^[12] A new release date was scheduled for October 16, 2009.^[13] However, according to reports from Screen Rant and /Film, the Weinsteins have decided at the last minute to delay the film to November 25, 2009^[1]

The film had its world premiere in September 2009 at the Venice International Film Festival where it was in competition for the Golden Lion and Silver Lion prizes, and then at the Telluride Film Festival. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

[edit] Reception

The film currently holds a 93% ‘Fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews.^[14] Esquire’s Tom Chiarella screened the film before it was released and called it “a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically loving look at the immodest and brutish end of us all. You want them to get there, you want them to get there, you want them to get there — and yet you do not want it, any of it, to end.” He also referred to it as “the most important movie of the year”.^[15] In an early review the Guardian film critic Xan Brooks described The Road as “a haunting, harrowing, powerful film” ^[16] with Mortensen “perfectly cast” as the Man. Brooks awarded the film four stars out of five.

References

External links

• Official website
• The Road at the Internet Movie Database
• The Road at Allmovie
• Photo gallery at USA Today

Despicable Me – Teaser

Skaperne av Istid filmene har en ny film på gang. Har kun denne teaseren å by på i denne omgang. Så vi må smøre oss med tålmodighet.

Steve Carrel er med på laget med stemmen til Gru.

Premiere kino: 24.09.2010

Answer Man – Trailer

Alle ønsker å møte Arlen Faber, den verdensberømte forfatteren av den bestselgende spirituelle boken “Me and God”, men gretne, misfornøyde Arlen bare ønsker å være alene – og så langt har han lykkes i å holde sin identitet hemmelig. Men alt endres når forvirret bokhandel eieren Kris Lucas oppdager hans hjemmeadresse og gransker hans bøker for visdomsord. En ryggskade leder den tilbaketrukne forfatteren til å date en kiropraktor og overbeskyttende alenemor, Elizabeth. Som Arlen’s forhold til sin nye dominerende venner begynner å vokse, må han avfinne seg med sin fortid og realisering at han ikke har alle svarene.

Vi møter Jeff Daniels i rollen som Arlen Faber. Kanskje mest kjent som Jim Carrey’s makker i Dum Dummere.

I rollen som Elizabeth møter vi Lauren Graham som “alle” kjenner fra Gilmore Girls

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Orphan – Trailer

There’s something wrong with Esther

You’ll never guess her secret…

Med omtaler som ender med terningkast fra 2 til 5 så er det ikke greit å vite om dette er en bra film eller ikke. Jeg tror at dette er en en film som vil falle i smak hos de som liker grøsser sjangeren. Gåsehuden vil komme med deilige grøss flere ganger. Og du sovner sikkert ikke før filmen er ferdig, om du får sove da…

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Promotional poster
Directed by	Jaume Collet-Serra
Produced by	Joel Silver Susan Downey Leonardo DiCaprio Jennifer Davisson Killoran
Written by	Story: Alex Mace Screenplay: David Leslie Johnson
Starring	Vera Farmiga Peter Sarsgaard Isabelle Fuhrman CCH Pounder Jimmy Bennett
Music by	John Ottman
Cinematography	Jeff Cutter
Editing by	Timothy Alverson
Studio	Dark Castle Entertainment Appian Way Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	July 24, 2009 (2009-07-24)
Running time	122 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$35,938,193[1]

Orphan is a 2009 American horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard and Isabelle Fuhrman. The film centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a young girl who is hiding a dark secret behind her sweet façade. Orphan was produced by Joel Silver and Susan Downey of Dark Castle Entertainment and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran of Appian Way Productions.^[2] The film was released theatrically in the United States on July 24, 2009.^[3]

Plot

Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John Coleman (Peter Sarsgaard) are experiencing strains in their marriage after Kate’s third child was stillborn. The loss is particularly hard on Kate, who is still recovering from a drinking habit that cost her her job. While visiting the local orphanage, they decide to adopt Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), a 9-year-old Russian girl. While Kate and John’s daughter Max (Aryana Engineer), who is deaf-mute and communicates with sign language, embraces Esther almost immediately, their son Daniel (Jimmy Bennett) is somewhat less welcoming.

At dinner Daniel is mad and annoyed at Esther even saying “she’s not his fucking sister.” raging Esther hardly.

Kate grows suspicious when Esther, who watched Kate and John have sex, expresses far more knowledge of sex and its slang than would be expected for a child her age. Not long after Esther arrives, she pushes a schoolmate who had picked on her off a playground slide, breaking her ankle. Max saw Esther shove the girl, but covers for Esther by saying that the girl slipped. However, Kate is further alarmed when Sister Abigail (CCH Pounder), the head of the orphanage, warns her and John about Esther’s tendency to be around when things go wrong. Esther overhears this and later kills Sister Abigail with a hammer to the head. She forces Max to help her hide the body and the hammer. Daniel sees Esther and Max descending from his treehouse from behind a rock, not knowing they hid the hammer there. Later that night, Esther threatens Daniel with genital mutilation if he tells anyone what he saw(to the result of Daniel wetting himself).

Kate is told that the Russian orphanage Esther came from has no record of her ever being there. However, John does not believe her, despite continued ominous behavior by Esther. At one point, Esther breaks her own arm in John’s vise and convinces John that Kate broke it. On Esther’s first day back at school, she slips Kate’s SUV into neutral, nearly killing Max. Badly shaken, Kate buys two bottles of wine, but at the last minute pours one of them down the drain and leaves the other full.

Kate learns that Esther was housed at a mental institution in Estonia called the Saarne Institute, but when she expresses misgivings to John, he and her counselor think that Kate is relapsing into her drinking habit. After John produces the other bottle Kate bought the night before, he threatens to leave her unless she gets help.

Daniel learns of the hammer from Max and decides to get it and go to the police. However, Esther sets the treehouse on fire, intending to get rid of the evidence and kill Daniel. Daniel escapes by falling out of the tree, severely injuring his neck and knocking him unconscious. Esther tries to finish him off by smashing a brick over his head, but Max shoves her out of the way just in time. Esther again tries to kill him at the hospital by smothering him with a pillow. As doctors rush to save Daniel, Kate angrily knocks Esther down, and is sedated by doctors.

That night, Esther tries to seduce a drunk John. John realizes Kate was telling the truth all along and threatens to call the orphanage, but Esther stabs him to death. Max witnesses this and hides in her laundry hamper.

As Kate is coming out of sedation, she gets a call from the Saarne Institute’s director, Dr. Värava (Karel Roden), who reveals that Esther isn’t a 9-year-old girl at all, but a 33-year-old woman named Leena Klammer. She has hypopituitarism, a disorder that stunted her physical growth, scars can be seen on her neck and wrists(this explains why she was wearing collars) and has spent most of her life posing as a little girl, but can be seen with breasts and a large butt. The doctor tells Kate that Leena is dangerously psychotic, and warns her to protect her family. Kate rushes home, where Leena shoots her in the arm before searching for Max.

Their chase takes them outside to a frozen pond, where Kate and Leena struggle before falling through a hole in the ice. Kate crawls out of the hole, followed by Leena, who begs for her life, addressing Kate as “Mommy” while hiding a knife behind her back. Kate angrily responds that she is not her mother, and kicks Leena in the face, breaking her neck and sending her flying back into the pond to drown.

Cast

• Vera Farmiga as Kate Coleman
• Peter Sarsgaard as John Coleman
• Isabelle Fuhrman as Esther/Leena Klammer
• CCH Pounder as Sister Abigail
• Jimmy Bennett as Daniel Coleman
• Aryana Engineer as Max Coleman
• Margo Martindale as Dr. Browning
• Karel Roden as Dr. Värava
• Rosemary Dunsmore as Grandma Barbara
• Genelle Williams as Sister Judith

Production

The real life Alma College (St. Thomas), which served as as the Saarne Institute in the movie.

The film was mostly shot in Canada, in the cities of Toronto, Port Hope and Montreal.^[2]

Release

Controversy

The film’s content, depicting a murderous adopted child, has not been well received by the adoption community.^[4] The controversy has already caused filmmakers to change a line in one of their trailers from “It must be difficult to love an adopted child as much as your own,” to “I don’t think Mommy likes me very much.”^[5] Melissa Fay Greene of The Daily Beast commented:

“The movie Orphan comes directly from this unexamined place in popular culture. Esther’s shadowy past includes Eastern Europe; she appears normal and sweet, but quickly turns violent and cruel, especially toward her mother. These are clichés. This is the baggage with which we saddle abandoned, orphaned, or disabled children given a fresh start at family life.”^[6]

Reception

Critical reaction to Orphan has been mixed to negative, with the film earning a rating of 56% (43% among the Top Critics) on Rotten Tomatoes,^[7] where the consensus is: “While it has moments of dark humor and the requisite scares, Orphan fails to build on its interesting premise and degenerates into a formulaic, sleazy horror/thriller”. It also earned a 42 out of 100 on Metacritic.^[8] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Orphan 3½ stars out of 4, writing: “You want a good horror film about a child from hell, you got one.”^[9] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle also gave a positive review, saying: “Orphan provides everything you might expect in a psycho-child thriller, but with such excess and exuberance that it still has the power to surprise.”^[10]

Todd McCarthy, of Variety, was less impressed, writing: “Teasingly enjoyable rubbish through the first hour, Orphan becomes genuine trash during its protracted second half.”^[11] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote, “Actors have to eat like the rest of us, if evidently not as much, but you still have to wonder how the independent film mainstays Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard ended up wading through Orphan and, for the most part, not laughing.”^[12] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a D+ score, saying, “Orphan isn’t scary — it’s garish and plodding.”^[13]

Openly (and at times vehemently) negative reviews are abundant: from “galling, distasteful trash” (Eric D. Snider)^[14] to “old-fashioned and trashy horror flick” (Emanuel Levy)^[15] and “relentlessly bad”, albeit “entertaining” (Rob Vaux).^[16] According to Dennis Schwartz of Ozus’ World Movie Reviews, “The problem with Orphan isn’t merely that the film is idiotic–it’s that it’s also sleazy, formulaic and repellant.”^[17] And according to Keith Phipps from The A.V. Club, “If director Jaume Collet-Serra set out to make a parody of horror-film clichés, he succeeded brilliantly.”^[18]

Although the film received mixed reviews, Isabelle Fuhrman’s performance was acclaimed and positively received. Emanuel Levy said of Fuhrman “acquites herself with a strong performance, affecting a rather convincing Russian accent and executing sheer evil with an admirable degree of calm and earnestness.”^[19] Todd McCarthy proclaims that Fuhrman (as well as Bennett and Engineer) is terrific and that she “makes Esther calmly beyond reproach even when faced with monumental evidence against her, and has the requisite great evil eye.”^[20] Mick LaSalle continues in that Fuhrman “steals the show” and that she “injects nuance into this portrayal, as well as an arch spirit.”^[21] And as said by Roger Ebert, she “is not going to be convincing as a nice child for a long, long time.”^[22]

The film was the #4 film at the box office for its opening weekend, making $12.77 million total, behind G-Force, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Ugly Truth respectively. As of September 9, 2009 the film has grossed a total of $47,886,036.^[23]

References

External links

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• Official site
• Orphan at the Internet Movie Database
• Orphan at Box Office Mojo
• Orphan trailer at YouTube (Adobe Flash video)
• Orphan Review at Buzzine
• Orphan at FEARnet
• Children Make for the Scariest Hollywood Monsters
• Audiences Scream for Isabelle Fuhrman’s Orphan by Jamie Portman, Montreal Gazette, July 20 2009

Year One – Trailer

Jack Black is back! Dette er en film jeg virkelig gleder meg til å se. Lattermusklene mine er godt trent, men trenger ei skikkelig økt innimellom. Dessverre kan det se ut til at vi må vente til den kommer på DVD.

Filmen får ikke kjemperating på imdb.com, men det gjør ikke komedier i denne kategorien.

Kos dere med denne smakebiten så lenge.