Screen Media nabs 'Inkubus'

Screen Media Films has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to Chad A. Verdi's "Inkubus" starring horror film specialist Robert Englund.Woodhaven Production Co. announced the deal Friday and said the pic would open on Oct. 28, the pre-Halloween weekend at locations in Rhode Island,Massachusetts, Connecticut, NY, New Jersey, Ohio, Florida and California.Englund, who starred as the original Freddy Krueger in eight films, tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift of a closing police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when a demon calmly walks in with the severed head of a murdered girl, allows himself to be restrained and begins to confess his litany of crimes. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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'Dolphin Tale' Director Dishes On Coping With Its Real-Existence Star, Winter

For a lot of filmmakers, the idea of coping with children and animals -- along with the whole family film genre, for the matter -- is certainly an abhorrent proposition. But 'Dolphin Tale' director Charlies Martin Cruz states he learned within the best -- in the type of George Lucas and Carroll Ballard. Due to people influences and Smith's understanding of animal-centered tales (he directed Disney's franchise-setting 'Air Bud'), 'Dolphin Tale' is probably the rare live-action PG films gain rare reviews. Moviefone spoken for the multi-gifted Cruz (he's an actress, film author, producer and director exceeding 95 film and tv credits) about coping with his inspiring 'Dolphin Take,' the film's unique leading star and whether his musical star Harry Connick Junior. jammed round the set. What got you interested in creating this story? The producers at Alcon saw something about Winter around the morning show. They done [the story] for any couple of many the project had postponed they weren't sure what direction to go. Fortunately personally, I used to be triggered to accomplish rewrites and direct the film. They introduced it in my opinion, and i'm really glad they did. Could it happen to be strange obtaining a pet star? Real animals doing whatever they do, that's what's interesting in my opinion also to not need them become once they understand every word of British. To capture the way a animal is actually. As well as the actual Winter plays Winter the dolphin inside the movie, right? Yes, I understood Winter was basically an crazy animal. The initial factor I did so once i started writing was go sit watching Winter. I preferred to understand what she did, how she were living. She likes to access it her little blue mattress bed mattress and float around and he or she loves to get this Tweety bird appear all day long lengthy extended. I understood she'd you have to be herself, therefore i needed an extremely, really strong kid actor who could endure may be just like real as Winter is. Perform the critiques to 'Free Willy' bother you? It's not the identical movie whatsoever. People just hear dolphin and kid and compare it to another movie getting a marine mammal. There is however not that numerous parallels -- besides 'Free Willy' will be a very very long time ago, although I guess there has been all people sequels. Watch a clip for 'Dolphin Tale' How difficult is results with child stars? I have labored with child stars and non-stars -- new stars -- on numerous occasions. I developed a movie referred to as 'The Snow Walker' and our female lead will be a 19-year-old Inuit girl who'd never socialized before. Which Used to do the initial, two-hour TV movie that launched the series 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' because of my understanding about youthful stars. Precisely how perhaps you have uncover the 2 youthful stars, who've a great deal chemistry? The Two kid figures were my primary objective, because Sawyer is usually the central character inside the movie. I auditioned hundreds of youngsters and situated Nathan Gamble, nobody is wonderful. And little Cozi Zuehlsdorff has not done anything before, however i have labored with plenty of kids to recognize these youngsters are really special. I appreciated there wasn't any contrived romance between Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Junior. There's discussion of the a little, however was adament which i didn't might like to do that. That is not just what the movie is among the love story here's between every one of these caring marine hospital employees and Winter. With Harry Connick Junior. on set, was there any impromptu jam periods? Harry plays the saxophone inside the movie however couldn't consider anything for him to see. Inside the nights I used to be hearing numerous Chet Baker, which i acquired his song 'Everything Occurs Me' stuck throughout my thoughts. Meanwhile through the occasions I used to be hearing other tunes racking your brains on what he should play, and finally I believed, "how about the song that's stuck within your mind?" Who're a couple of of the influences just like a director? Most likely probably the most valued films that I've ever done is 'Never Cry Wolf.' I used to be about 26, as well as the director was Carroll Ballard, whom I understood through George Lucas, since I'd experienced 'American Graffiti.' There's this complete San Fran connection of people filmmakers, as well as I learned a great deal from George, now when was 18 in 'Graffiti.' 'Never Cry Wolf' was Ballard's film after 'The Black Stallion.' I wasn't only the star but ended up being one of the authors on that film too. I done that film for just about any year-and-a-half cautiously with Carroll and learned filmmaking from him. What's your chosen family movie? Personally, I don't think there's are you currently a far greater movie that focuses on a dog than 'The Black Stallion,' That whole opening sequence while using kid as well as the equine as well as the island is just magical! 'Dolphin Tale' is rated PG and contains an average Sense Media age-rating of seven or even more. (Banner image because of Warner Bros.)

Kino Lorber Picks Up Toronto Title Elles

Kino Lorber has acquired the U.S. rights to the Juliette Binoche-starrerElles, which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this month. The deal for the taboo-challengingfilm from Polish directorMalgoska Szumowskawas negotiated by Kino Lorber president and CEO Richard Lorber andTanja Meissner, who heads international sales and acquisitions at Memento Films International. The film stars Binoche as a wealthy, Paris-based investigative journalist for Elle magazine who begins to question her own life and beliefs while interviewing two students for an article about university prostitution.Kino Lorber is eyeing an early 2012 release.

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'Miss Bala' Crowned Mexico's Foreign-Language Oscar Submission

Mexico City -- Mexico has selected Gerardo Naranjo's action-packed Miss Bala as its foreign-language Oscar contender for the 84th Academy Awards.our editor recommendsMiss Bala: Cannes Review'Miss Bala' Gearing Up for Fall Release in MexicoTwentieth Century Fox Nabs Mexico Distribution Rights for 'Miss Bala' Directed and co-written by up-and-comer Naranjo (I'm Gonna Explode), Miss Bala revolves around a beauty pageant contestant who involuntarily gets caught in the middle of a drug war in Baja California. The Mexican film academy said on Thursday that it also has chosen Miss Bala as Mexico's foreign-picture submission for Spain's 26th Goya Awards. The Canana Films-Fox International co-production premiered in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section and it has screened at film fests in Toronto and San Sebastian. At the recent edition of the Tokyo Film Festival, it won best director for Naranjo and best actress for newcomer Stephanie Sigman. Canana Films, the production company owned by actors Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and producer Pablo Cruz, has produced three of Naranjo's feature films. Should he get the nomination, Naranjo will be looking to become the first Mexican director to bring home an Oscar for best foreign-language picture; eight Mexican features have received nominations in the category since 1957, yet none have won the coveted award. Related Topics Oscars International Oscars 2012 Miss Bala

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Liberty Media Anticipates A Premium Tier For Online Video

It’s “more likely than not”that new online video streaming providers such as Amazon will offer some programming on a premium tier — a contrast with Netflix’s single-pricepackage –Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei said this morning at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia conference. He broadly hinted that his company’s desire to charge extra for Starzwas a big reason why the premium channel recently ended negotiations to extend its carriage deal with Netflix. The current arrangement, he says,is “inconsistent” with theway consumers receive Starz on pay TV. More broadly, Maffei says that Liberty is on track to split off its Liberty Capital and Liberty Starz tracking stocks by tomorrow now that it has beat back a court challenge by bondholders.The dealtransfers some assets to the spun-off companies, violating some bond agreements. But the Delaware Supreme Court yesterday upheld a lower court decision that said the split-off is OK because it isn’t part of what it called an “overall scheme” to hurt bondholders. That likely won’t change the overall strategy for the company that’s controlled by the famously tax-averse former cable titan John Malone — and that some analysts say is little more than a portfolio of stock holdings. “Finding things to buy at attractive prices is the biggest chalenge we have today,” Maffei says. In addition to repurchasing Liberty shares, the company has “looked at things that are downtrodden,” he says. That’s how Liberty came to own major stakes in Sirius XM and Barnes & Noble.Liberty tried to buy the book store chain because it likes the potential of e-book sales for it Nook e-reader and “we think the retail business is likely to decline at a slower rate than people anticipate.” Talks fell apart when B&N wanted a higher price just as “the financial markets were moving away from us.” Maffei says that at QVC “we are doing surprisingly well in the U.S. given what consumer confidence is.” The company’s focusing more on consumer electronics than jewelry, but still wants to target women. It also wants toavoid comparisons with Amazon, which Maffei calls “a fearsome, strong competitor.” Liberty might consider going after HSN, but “not at today’s price.”

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RAINN shields within the storm

Network's Berit Francis with Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg .Amy Brenneman and KaDee Strickland The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network situated an intimate fund-raiser at WeHo's Soho House that presented the close pals of Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jason Behr, KaDee Strickland and Carol Robinson Peete.Though Julie Andrews was unable to produce the Sept. 15 RAINN event, Katzenberg recognized to her cordially as "most likely the most wonderful lady...there is no better individual on the planet!InchSo when Strickland needed for the mic, she switched through her printed speech and reminded party site visitors, "A girl's gotta have a very piece of paper when she's wearing tall rearfoot footwear."

'Human Centipede II' Director Doesn't Mind Torture Porn Label

The already controversial 'Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)' debuts at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on Thursday before hitting theaters via IFC on Oct. 7, and director Tom Six is ready for the coming barbs about his disgusting horror sequel being the latest in a long line of much-criticized torture porn. "I don't have any problem with that, because I actually like the term," Six told Dave Itzkoff in a new interview with the NY Times blog ArtsBeat. "I see porno films, of course, and I like them, I have no problem with that at all. And there have been so many horror films, and that's all torture and misery. That's the genre. I kind of like that they combine it. I think my film is a torture porn with European art sauce or something." Yum? [NYT/ArtsBeat]

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'Captain America' DVD Trailer Has Sneak Peek at 'Avengers'

As if you weren't excited enough for the DVD release of 'Captain America: The First Avenger' two extras make the package look even more attractive: a new peek at 'The Avengers' set with director Joss Whedon and a short film about Clark Gregg's surprisingly badass Agent Coulson from S.H.I.E.L.D. See the DVD trailer ahead. [via EW] photo courtesy of Paramount

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Murdoch seeks cope with Dowler family

LONDON -- Rupert Murdoch could make an individual donation to charitable organisation of just one million ($1.57 million) included in funds being agreed with your family of among the sufferers of phone hacking through the News around the globe. The household of killed British teen Milly Dowler, whose phone was compromised with a private eye utilized by the U.K. tabloid, means near to saying yes an offer with News Worldwide. The settlement will apparently also involve the Dowlers receiving around $3.14 million, an amount that dwarfs other amounts compensated to sufferers of phone hacking. News Worldwide told the BBC it was "in advanced discussions using the Dowler family." It had been the thought on This summer 4 that Dowler's mobile was compromised which messages around the device have been erased, giving the household false hope that Milly was still being alive following her disappearance in 2002, which was the tipping reason for the hacking and police corruption scandal. The thought unleashed a wave of public anger within the U.K. and overseas. Within days, News Worldwide closed this news around the globe. Public opinion am hostile that News Corp. was instructed to abandon its bid to possess British paybox BSkyB outright. How much money on offer to Milly's household is thought to become a record for this type of situation. Murdoch has apologized frequently for that News around the globe intercepting messages left on Milly's phone. In other pay outs made to date within the scandal, the actress Sienna Burns was compensated $157,000, while PR consultant Max Clifford pocketed $1.57 million. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

ABC News Change: Longtime World News Air Jon Banner Moves Up, Michael Corn Replaces Him

Jon Banner, that has been the executive producer of ABC’s World News for eight years, is shifting to some senior executive producer role to supervise special larger initiatives at ABC News, division leader Ben Sherwood introduced today. He'll be changed as Air of World News Tonight With Diane Sawyer by senior producer Michael Corn. Sherwood revealed this news within an email, saying of Banner, “Given Jons deep associations across the organization, his formidable understanding from the news business and the can-do spirit, he'll be a bulldozer within our drive to unite this organization having a common voice and mission. Jon will even continue like a leader for the 2012 political coverage and special occasions.” Corn and Sherwood labored together on Hello America.

Bucky Larson Achieves Monumental 0% Rotten Tomatoes Rating

At the risk of piling on, today we need to recognize the rare cultural milestone achieved by Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star. No, not its approval from a leader in the porn community, and not its status as one of the biggest mainstream flops in years. Nope. The Adam Sandler-produced, Nick Swardson-starring comedy has managed that ever-rare zero-percent approval rating among the critics of Rotten Tomatoes. Just when we thought The Undefeated was going to have a nice, long term as the site’s reigning stinker and Waiting For Forever might pull it out as the year’s most roundly loathed narrative film, along comes Bucky to change all that. Its ignominy grew into sharper relief over the weekend, as critics like our own Alison Willmore filed their reactions from public screenings (Sony declined to pre-screen the film) around the country. And wow did people hate this movie: · “There are movie atrocities, there are I-just-don’t-get-it comedies and then there’s Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star. This god-awful, unfunny, stinkingly putrid sketch-comic movie has exactly one snicker-worthy moment, involving Kevin Nealon and a stolen grape. […] That snicker is the loneliest sound throughout all of Bucky Larson, which stands alone as the most moronic comedy in ages.” — Joe Neumaier, NY Daily News · “This is cinema only insofar as Taco Bell can be called a healthy snack, cobbled together with broken parts from Hollywood’s junk drawer and enough song cues and big names (Don Johnson, sadly par for the course in his post-Miami Vice career) to create the illusion of entertainment. If you’re of the opinion that Napoleon Dynamite wasn’t cruel enough to its characters, Bucky Larson’s for you. You may or may not laugh, but at least you’ll be closer to death and no better for it.” —Rob Humanick, Slant · “It occurs to me that Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star may have been made […] to console every actor who has ever been in a movie that is a little less bad than this one. Let me put the matter another way: this may be the worst movie Pauly Shore has ever been in. Think about that. If you dare, go on Netflix and test the hypothesis.” — A.O. Scott, The New York Times Ouch. At least there’s always a DVD pullquote from Joanna Angel. We did what we could, Sony. · Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star [Rotten Tomatoes]

Why There Is not a Definitive 9/11 Movie Yet ... and What Approaching Film Might Be That

ten years later, can it be still too soon? Numerous films have addressed the occasions of September 11, 2001, from various angles, but not one of them have accomplished true landmark status, culturally or cinematically. There is no work yet that may be referred to as 'The 9/11 Story.' With an industry that didn't even delay until our previous leader was from office before showing his existence on-screen, that seems being an awful very very long time to attend prior to taking within the most broadly recorded incident ever, possibly the most important event in the last generation. A few possible explanations stand out. First, audiences have proven no inclination to reward 9/11-designed films within the box office, so art galleries are naturally less inclined to produce them. Second, Hollywood still seems just a little reluctant of handling a subject so very sensitive both politically and psychologically. And third, possibly first and foremost, there's no easy story to see. If there's one factor movies prefer (both filmmakers and audiences, that's), it's a tale getting a newbie, a middle plus an finish -- by now, there really isn't any finish to 'The 9/11 Story.' (Note: This article stick with commercial film. An entire recounting of 'The 9/11 Story' has, somewhat, lately been done -- not by Hollywood. The Country's Geographic Channel's 'Inside 9/11' can be a clinical, documentary-style breakdown in the occasions just before tomorrow, your entire day itself as well as the aftermath. It's as comprehensive as you could want. Maybe, so far, this is the simplest approach to tell 'The 9/11 Story,' for this doesn't are stricken through the financial, political or artistic problems we'll discuss below. So when 'Inside 9/11' isn't enough, you can read 'The 9/11 Commission Report,' our government's official undertake what went lower.) When Paul Greengrass's 'United 93' and Oliver Stone's 'World Trade Center' were released in 2006, it made an appearance likely that they're this is actually the to start many film efforts to handle the occasions of 9/11. However, five years later, and 10 years since the attacks, people two films remain really the only films to directly illustrate the occasions of the day. Despite critical acclaim for 'United 93' -- Greengrass received a Best Director Oscar nomination, as well as the film received a lot of additional award recognition -- together with a sigh of relief that Stone, recognized for outright political texting within the films, shipped an psychologically resonant, apolitical undertake the initial responders to start in the Twin Towers, the movies barely handled to destroy $100 million combined within the box office. That is not peanuts, however it doesn't indicate an audience thirsting for further, either. Developing a comprehensive, "definitive" 9/11 movie would probably need a significant hefty budget. Pricey effects might be needed to recreate the completely new You'll be able to skyline as well as the hi-jacked jetliners that attacked it. The cast and locations could be also extensive, with action happening no less than in New You'll be able to, Washington, eastern Pennsylvania along with other designs within the center East that could show both al-Qaida's pre-attack planning as well as the American military reaction in Afghanistan (and, likely, Iraq). The attack attracted the eye of the world, something filmmakers will need to include to properly show the whole scope from the products happened. And additionally, any studio gutsy enough to proceed together with your a production will need to hire top-line talent both before and behind the digital camera -- no small line concerning the ledger. A thrilling-encompassing telling of 'The 9/11 Story' is clearly apt to be costly, without any historic evidence yet that audiences may decide to see this kind of factor, it's not small question that no an individual's attempted it yet. It's name is "show business" ultimately -- if there's no enterprise, there's no show. Let's tackle another point to consider now. Because the film marketplace is generally seen as dependably liberal -- conservative people in politics have elevated lots of money denouncing "Hollyweird" -- the monumentally complex and extended quantity of occasions just before Sept. 11 which is aftereffects take effort and time enough to cram in to a two-hour film, without any additional worries of the effort getting overlooked as fundamental partisan hackery or, worse, a deliberate political slanting from the national tragedy. Nonetheless, you will discover techniques to preempt such criticisms. Plenty of conservative company company directors are designed for storytelling relating to this scale. Clint Eastwood involves mind, especially after his dual tales of World War Ii, 'Flags within our Fathers' and 'Letters From Iwo Jima.' Employing someone like him would immediately defuse any try to brand the film some Hollywood's liberal activism. (That's to not express the complaint would not be handled to obtain likely would no matter who made the film.) Ideally, though, 'The 9/11 Story' might be above such typical political disputes. Rather, it may be of a terrible event and the way we, just like a nation, responded. But, may be the political edges be smoothed over? Every time they be? 'The 9/11 Story,' to have the ability to truly be comprehensive, will need to take the time to setup the terrorist attacks giving us backstory, and to accomplish this, it could always have to explore some very untidy politics, both in your area too as with balance more obscure cell phone industry's of national security and intelligence. This may require uncertainty including a lot of redacted areas of government reviews to accomplish the story. Nevertheless, you choose to make it happen, you'll probably upset lots of people. This seems as being a reasonable concern for just about any studio, specially when the film was already fighting a continuing fight financially. Finally, there remains the fact 'The 9/11 Story' is not over yet. We don't know how it finishes. This is often a major artistic concern, which is unclear the actual way it can come out. ten years ago, the country was attacked we responded by fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, wars that continue to this day. After which it ...? Creatively, it becomes an incomplete and ongoing story. Art can be very effective in searching back at a thing that has run its course it isn't always suitable for taking a chance so what can happen next. (Though an 'Inglourious Basterds'-style imagined-future take may be interesting.) Further further further complicating things in the filmmaking perspective is the fact that 9/11 wasn't a simple military attack the sufferers were largely regular people, as well as the perpetrators were neither soldiers nor actual reps connected having a country. Even though Government is obviously a military target, the Twin Towers were a cultural, symbolic and economic target. Despite some initial parallels, it had been an very different event from something such as Jewel Harbor -- a apparent-cut military assault. Two 1000 seven-hundred fifty innocent everybody was very wiped out tomorrow, an psychologically destructive act for the entire country that ripped open a wound that for a number of remains unhealed. No matter the numerous functions of genuine gallantry on 9/11 -- functions described well in 'United 93' and 'World Trade Center' -- the attacks themselves, if placed on-screen for audiences to feed once more, would require a subsequent catharsis. Film structure does not need a simple retelling in the particulars an excellent story features a beginning, a middle plus an finish. The occasions of the day were so appalling and nasty and unequalled that individuals have no clue this type of complete truth is. This is why the story feels incomplete: as it is. Best anybody can identify at this time around is always that we might be approaching the conclusion of 'The 9/11 Story,' but more likely we're within the center, and, hopefully, it is not still the beginning. A celebration like 9/11, something so personal to us as Us citizens and for that reason requiring the finest levels of storytelling to acquire right, probably cannot be done on film yet -- because we just have no clue the whole tale. Or can we? When Osama bin Laden was destroyed taken, that may have given filmmakers one last act. Kathryn Bigelow's approaching film in regards to the military raid that destroyed the al-Qaida leader gets the opportunity to behave new here. Whereas the attack concerning the World Trade Center is probably most likely probably the most-seen event ever, and for that reason isn't something particularly appealing for just about any director to try and film, Bigelow's movie can show audiences something nobody has seen: a Navy SEAL shooting the villain of 9/11 hard. 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'Warrior' Is 'A Love Letter' To MMA Martial artists, States Director

FROM MTV MOVIES: Film fans have not had it so great, because of the progressively massive quantity of movies launched every year. The only issue with this enormous haul isn't that all are great or memorable, regardless of their box-office success. Even though 2011 has introduced some good features, we at MTV News are searching toward the autumn movie season with great anticipation, mostly because galleries typically release a few of their best projects between your several weeks of September and December. Among the finest from the fall slate is "Warrior," a gritty and moving action flick about two siblings who face your dream of the lives inside a mma tournament. How can we know it is good? Because we have seen it, and throughout the marketing run for that Friday release, the response one of the other usually cynical reporters attending was very positive. We swept up with stars Tom Sturdy, Joel Edgerton and director Gavin O'Connor and requested if they'd like to believe positive vibe too. Browse the full story at MTV Movies!

REVIEW: Colin Firth's Southern Accent the Least of Main Street's Problems

At first glance, the formidable cast of Main Street appears to have gathered for a chance to work off the final original script from Horton Foote, the Pulitzered playwright and two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter (for 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird and 1983’s Tender Mercies) who passed away in 2009. But as the film creeps along with few signs of life, one begins to suspect the real reason they’re all there is to show off that most treasured item in any actor’s toolkit — the Southern accent. Main Street is an ensemble drama that functions as a display case for a range of regional drawls, from the authentic to absurd. Patricia Clarkson, playing Willa, a divorcee who’s returned to her hometown of Durham, North Carolina, easily walks away with best in show, but coming from Louisiana she’s in slightly more familiar territory than Colin Firth, who, as Gus Leroy, a representative of a toxic waste management company, is a sorely unconvincing Texan. That toxic waste is hazardous, but it also represents a possible salvation for Durham, standing in here for every American town being hollowed out by changes in the industry on which it used to depend. Durham’s tobacco heyday is gone, and Willa’s aging aunt Georgiana Carr (Ellen Burstyn), a silly Southern belle living alone in the grand house in which she grew up, but that she can no longer afford to maintain, rents out her unused tobacco warehouse to Gus without bothering to hear what he intends to use it for. When she’s told, she frets, and enlists Willa’s help in negotiating her way out of the agreement, despite having already spent most of the money, while Gus woos the city council (headed by Isiah Whitlock Jr. as the mayor) with promises of jobs and a much-needed injection of cash. Elsewhere, young Mary (Amber Tamblyn) considers leaving town and dates an older man (Andrew McCarthy), as her ex Harris (Orlando Bloom, wielding a pencil moustache) pines and the pair’s parents look on in distress. Main Street shoots for a sprawling, John Saylesian portrait of a community, but beyond just being dramatically inert — you can only pick out the climax after the fact — its characters also seems curiously disconnected from each other and from the physical location in which they’re supposed to live. In reality, Durham has over 200,000 residents, but it comes across as so depopulated in the film that number seem more like 200. John Doyle, a theater director making his film debut here, compounds the sitcom-like feeling that everything’s being shot on sound stages in Los Angeles by using few exterior shots, other than bookend montages of the city from its past and slightly dilapidated present. Despite its title, Main Street primarily plays out in living rooms and kitchens, as Georgiana bemoans her family’s decline, as Harris’s mother (Margo Martindale) worries her son’s exhausting himself in night school, as Gus and Willa start a cautious flirtation. The issue of crumbling municipalities whose hope for the future is fleeing with their younger generation, and who are placed in a weakened position in negotiating with businesses they might have turned away in a more stable time, is a knotty one with plenty of narrative potential. A July episode of This American Life exploring the PR battles that took place when a natural gas company looked into leasing land for drilling near a small Pennsylvania town contained enough fodder for a season of cable TV (though Lord knows how you’d pitch it). Main Street’s approach is disappointingly simplistic and sanctimonious — the bargain being offered by Gus’s company is strictly Faustian. The waste being stored in that rented warehouse in lines of canisters Gus swears meet every safety standard is described dramatically by Willa as “death,” and a perfectly timed accident and a character’s change of heart each suggest she’s right. If Main Street offers any sort of story, it’s one of a city briefly tangling with a predatory business, but managing to get away intact, while its representative new generation comes close to heading to Atlanta for new opportunities, but in the end decides to stay. So why does the film leave you feeling so sympathetic to a toxic waste company? Given the lack of other prospects left for this highly theatrical version of Durham, the hopeful lilt of the ending rings not just false but foolish, like the dithering Georgiana in her beautiful, empty house, monologuing about how splendid the old days were. One longs for someone to tell her, sure — back then you were rich. It’s when you no longer have power and resources on your side that you have to face difficult decisions, a fact Main Street dodges, and really needed to have taken on.

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Haunted Boat

Once the youthful Kevin will get the boat of his dead uncle like a gift, he invites five buddies of him to vacation to Catalina Island for that weekend. Whilst in the journey, they drink booze, have sexual intercourse and play games, with every one of them telling their finest fear. Later Kevin drowns on view ocean, the engine stops, plus they are haunted and killed by their finest innermost fear.

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Who Will Mourn Gwyneth Paltrow's Status as a Leading Lady?

Gwyneth Paltrow has a habit of sayings things that inspire me to take notes, fill a bulletin board with theories, and question my own feelings. Today’s incendiary soundbite: a seemingly off-the-cuff remark from the Cee Lo foil regarding the roles she takes: “I have little kids, and I’m a full-time mom. I really only do small parts.” Considering her role in Contagion is a short one — she’s only in the first 15 minutes — and her newly announced ensemble role in Stuart Blumberg’s upcoming sex addiction comedy Thanks for Sharing, is it possible that we should be mourning her status as a leading lady? Will you attend the memorial? Because I will! As much as Gwyneth Paltrow polarizes movie fans, she was so memorably effective in Emma, Proof, and Shakespeare In Love (her Oscar-winning performance, of course), that I can hardly imagine watching her in mainly supporting roles — even if her streak of minor parts only lasts a few years. I recommend Paltrow follow the lead of frequent birth-giver Nicole Kidman, who simply passed up most films for a couple years before returning in startlingly mature works like Rabbit Hole. Which reminds me: Do I have to keep pimping Rabbit Hole? Please drop everything and see it, unless you hate convincing dramas full of real-seeming adults. On the other hand, I’d prefer Paltrow avoid the post-baby track of Julia Roberts, who seems attracted to lighter, inconsequential movies these days. Or terrible movies, really. An absence from the screen is best succeeded with roles that declare self-possession and professionalism, not high-profile banality. Here’s hoping Paltrow comes to re-own her marquee greatness. Gwyneth Paltrow Talks Balancing Movies With Motherhood, Parties With Beyonc In Venice [HuffPost]

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The Drive Soundtrack Has Arrived Online

Ryan Gosling fans, Nicolas Winding Refn devotees, and soundtrack obsessives, take note: As of today, you can download the ’80s/electronica-influenced soundtrack to Drive, the crime-thriller-romance that should be on your must-see list for fall. Available for purchase on Amazon today, the album — combining original tracks by the likes of Johnny Jewel’s Desire and Chromatics with an atmospheric electronic score by Cliff Martinez — should make the perfect aural accompaniment to your Drive tour of L.A.! The full track listing, as follows: 1. “Nightcall” - Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx 2. “Under Your Spell” - Desire 3. “A Real Hero” - College (feat. Electric Youth) 4. “Oh My Love” - Riz Ortolani (feat. Katyna Ranieri) 5. “Tick of the Clock” - Chromatics 6. “Rubber Head” - Cliff Martinez 7. “I Drive” - Cliff Martinez 8. “He Had a Good Time” - Cliff Martinez 9. “They Broke His Pelvis” - Cliff Martinez 10. “Kick Your Teeth” - Cliff Martinez 11. “Where’s the Deluxe Version?” - Cliff Martinez 12. “See You in Four” - Cliff Martinez 13. “After the Chase” - Cliff Martinez 14. “Hammer” - Cliff Martinez 15. “Wrong Floor” - Cliff Martinez 16. “Skull Crushing” - Cliff Martinez 17. “My Name on a Car” - Cliff Martinez 18. “On the Beach” - Cliff Martinez 19. “Bride of Deluxe” - Cliff Martinez Drive hits theaters on September 16. [Amazon]

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