The Establishing Shot Trailer Park: 2011-08-21

Saturday 27 August 2011

The Rum Diary Trailer

Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.

Release Date: 4 November, 2011

The Rum Diary
Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean.

Director: Bruce Robinson
Writers: Bruce Robinson (screenplay), Hunter S. Thompson (novel)
Stars: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Aaron Eckhart

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THE ESTABLISHING SHOT: NEW TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY IMAGES

The spy thriller features a stellar cast including Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Konstantin Khabensky, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Roger Lloyd Pack, and Mark Strong. Directed by Tomas Alfredson (“Let The Right One In”) it is a Working Title production for STUDIOCANAL.

Set in the 1970s, TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY finds George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a recently retired MI6 agent, doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tasked with investigating which of his trusted former colleagues has chosen to betray him and their country, Smiley narrows his search to four suspects - all experienced, urbane, successful agents - but past histories, rivalries and friendships make it far from easy to pinpoint the man who is eating away at the heart of the British establishment.

The screenplay is by Peter Straughan and Bridget O’Connor and the film, which was shot in London, Budapest and Istanbul is produced by Working Title’s co-chairmen Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and Robyn Slovo. The executive producers are Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin, Douglas Urbanski, Peter Morgan, Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern and John le Carré.

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY will be released in UK & Ireland on 16 September 2011.

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Writers: John le Carré (novel), Peter Straughan (screenplay)

Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy

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Kill List - Musketeers clip

The acclaimed second feature of DOWN TERRACE director Ben Wheatley, this British hitman thriller garnered excellent reviews in SXSW festival. The story follows ex-soldier turned contract killer Jay, eight months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred.

Pressured by his partner, Gal, he takes on a new assignment. As they descend into the dark and disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again -- his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness.

Release Date: 2 September, 2011

Kill List
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writers: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
Stars: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring and Harry Simpson

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The Establishing Shot: TYRANNOSAUR TRAILER

A moving story of finding redemption and love in the most unlikely places, Tyrannosaur follows the story of two damaged people brought together by circumstance: Joseph (Mullan), an unemployed widower, crippled by his own volatile temperament; and Hannah (Colman), a respectable charity shop worker, whose apparent happiness belies troubles of her own. A gripping drama, defined by powerhouse performances and a deeply affecting story, Tyrannosaur is released in cinemas on October 7.

The highly-anticipated directorial debut from Paddy Considine, TYRANNOSAUR has been winning universal acclaim for its assured direction and standout performances from stars Peter Mullan (NEDS) and Olivia Colman (Peep Show), including a World Cinema Prize for directing and two World Cinema Special Jury Prizes for dramatic acting at Sundance Film Festival this year.

Release Date: 7 October 2011

Tyrannosaur
A woman looks for a way out of her abusive relationship.

Director: Paddy Considine
Writer: Paddy Considine (screenplay)
Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan

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The Skin I Live In Clip

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem. Marilia, the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig…

Release Date: 26 August, 2011

The Skin I Live In
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writers: Pedro Almodóvar (screenplay), Thierry Jonquet (novel)
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya and Jan Cornet

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Albatross Trailer

Albatross is a 2011 British coming-of-age comedy drama film directed by Niall MacCormick and written by Tamsin Rafn. It stars Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond, Felicity Jones and Jessica Brown-Findlay. The film's premise revolves around a teenage aspiring writer entering the lives a dysfunctional family living in the south coast of England.

A fresh, modern-day coming-of-age tale focusing on 17-year-old force of nature Emelia (newcomer Jessica Brown Findlay) who bursts into the lives of the dysfunctional Fischer family when she is hired to work in their guest house in a sleepy town on the South Coast. Beth Fischer (Felicity Jones), also seventeen, is cramming for her A-Levels, in a desperate bid to escape to University, whilst dad Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), once a best-selling author, is suffering from writer’s block much to the annoyance of frustrated mum Joa (Julia Ormond) who runs the hotel and laments the promising acting career she once left behind.
Aspiring writer Emelia has been bought up by her grandparents and is under the impression that she is the great granddaughter of renowned novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Jonathan sees promise in Emelia and begins to tutor her, as Beth becomes enamoured with her forthright friend and decides to take her along on a visit to Oxford University - with hilariously raucous results.

As Emelia’s confidence and free-spirit help Beth learn to enjoy life beyond, Emelia too is inspired by Beth’s determination to focus and she begins to see a way to break through her self-destructive tendencies. However, when Emelia and Jonathan begin an illicit affair, the girls’ friendship is threatened.

Can Emelia and Beth escape the ties of small town existence and free themselves of the Albatross around their necks?

Release Date: 14 October, 2011

Albatross
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

Director: Niall MacCormick
Writer: Tamzin Rafn (screenplay)
Stars: Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond and Felicity Jones

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THE ESTABLISHING SHOT: YOU INSTEAD TRAILER & FREE TRACK

Shot guerrilla-style, over five days during T in the Park in the summer of 2010, YOU INSTEAD is a free-wheeling rock’n’roll love story set against the raucous magnificence and unforgettable sounds of Scotland’s leading music festival.

The film features a charismatic performance from Luke Treadaway as strutting indie star Adam. Arriving at T in the Park for his gig, Adam is handcuffed to punky girl-band leader Morello. Initial frustration gives away to grudging acceptance and then the stirring of genuine feelings over the next 24 hours of the festival.

YOU INSTEAD releases 16th September 2011

You Instead
Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.

Director: David Mackenzie
Writer: Thomas Leveritt (screenplay)
Stars: Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena and Mathew Baynton

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Final Destination 5 - Strange Trivia

In “Final Destination 5,” Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive, and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.

Final Destination 5 - Strange Trivia

Throughout the film series, many characters have been named after directors, producers or stars from genre films over the ages. Here’s a rundown of how they got their names:

CharacterName Inspiration

Final Destination
Chaney “Man of a Thousand Faces” Lon Chaney (The Wolfman)
Waggner Director George Waggner (The Wolfman)
Browning Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks)
Larry Murnau, Director F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu)
Schreck Max Schreck, star of Nosferatu
Valerie Lewton Producer Val Lewton (The Body Snatcher)
Blake Dreyer Director Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr)
Howard Siegel Director Don Siegel (Dirty Harry)
Billy Hitchcock Director Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho)

Final Destination 2
Kimberly Corman Director/producer Roger Corman (Fall of the House of Usher, Little Shop of Horrors)

Final Destination 3
Wendy and Julie Christensen Director Benjamin Christensen (Häxan)
Erin Ulmer Edgar G. Ulmer (Detour, Isle of Lost Souls)
Lewis Romero Director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead)
Jason Robert Wise Director Robert Wise (The Haunting)
Carrie Dreyer Director Carl Theodor Dreyer (Vampyr)
Ashley Freund Cinematographer/director Karl Freund (Metropolis)
Ashlyn Halperin Director Victor Halperin (White Zombie)

The Final Destination
Nick O’Bannon Writer/Director Dan O'Bannon (Alien)
Janet Cunningham Director Sean Cunningham (Friday the 13th)
Lori Milligan Director Andy Milligan (The Ghastly Ones)
Hunt Wynorski Director Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall)

Final Destination 5
Peter Friedkin Director William Friedkin (The Exorcist)
Candice Hooper Director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Olivia Castle Horror impresario William Castle (House on Haunted Hill)

Unlucky Numbers
The first film, originally titled Flight 180, was based on a concept originally written as a unfilmed script for The X-Files. The title was changed but the number remained.

• In the first Final Destination, a bedside clock fades in from 1:00am to 180.
• In Final Destination 2, a police officer radios in an accident at mile marker 180. The number repeats again when a character is pulled out of the way of a truck, in a road work sign that says "next 180 feet."
• In Final Destination 3, a light rail train number is 081, which, reflected in the mirror is 180. In the hardware store scene, a tag that fatefully catches on a chain has UNIT 081 written on it.
• In the fourth film, The Final Destination, victims at the race track accident are seated in area 180 (as shown on a sign behind them). The number repeats in video camera footage and on the roof of a bus in the final scene.

In Final Destination, the ill-fated flight is scheduled to take off at 9:25, which is the same as the main character’s birthday (25th September). When he gets on the plane, he sits in seat I (the 9th letter of the alphabet) in row 25.

The number “666,” generally considered to be a bad omen, appears on a luggage cart in the first film and on the car that crashes at the speedway in the fourth film.

In The Final Destination, two characters go into auditorium 13 (considered an unlucky number) and to their doom.

More Strange Trivia
In the first film, the original plan was to have Death as a much more obvious entity, as illustrated when the character Tod sees a shadow in the mirror and the water running back into the toilet to “cover its tracks.” Subsequently, it was decided to have the deaths appear simply as accidents.

Death foreshadowed: During the opening credits of the first film, a hanging doll, a guillotine and a picture of a knife in someone's chest foreshadow what will soon befall the characters. One character is shadowed by a dagger in the first film, while in the second film, a character’s face fades into the outline of a skull, and yet another character unwisely ignores warnings about his eye. In Final Destination 3, two characters hear the song “Love Rollercoaster,” which refers to the rollercoaster that should have killed them.

In order to film the massive pileup sequence in Final Destination 2, several miles of highway had to be closed down for several days.

In Final Destination 3, the cast members on the rollercoaster had to ride the coaster 26 times on the same night in order to shoot the film's main premonition scene.

Tony Todd, who plays Bludworth in the first, second and fifth films, provides the voice of the devil above the entrance to the roller coaster in Final Destination 3. In that third film, he also provides the speaker's voice saying, “This is the end of the line” in the subway.

The opening titles of The Final Destination recreate death scenes from all three of the previous films. The fourth film holds the distinction of containing 11 “kills,” the most of any film in the series.

In The Final Destination, when he is hit by the bus, the character George is in the middle of stating, “My wife said that Deja Vu is like God's way of...” and then he's cut off by the impact. Some viewers wonder what the end of his sentence was going to be. The answer is that of a common expression “...telling you that you are in the right place at the right time,” hence the irony of the situation.

Release Date: 25 August, 2011

Final Destination 5

Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death.

Director: Steven Quale
Writers: Eric Heisserer, Jeffrey Reddick (characters)
Stars: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell and Arlen Escarpeta

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The Establishing Shot: FIRST NIGHT POSTER

Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he’s little more than a city suit living the capitalist’s dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of a female conductor he’s been pursuing whom – it just so happens – is the first to be recruited for his showpiece. Starring classical crossover star Sarah Brightman alongside Richard E Grant, First Night is set to hit cinemas this autumn.

Fusing the stately grandeur of Gosford Park with the magical music of Amadeus, First Night is a unique story of love’s fluctuating fortunes set against a backdrop of visual and vocal beauty. As the cast, the drama, and the music carefully walk a tightrope between humour and pathos a timeless romantic comedy unfolds.

Release Date: 14 October, 2011

First Night
Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream...

Director: Christopher Menaul
Writers: Christopher Menaul, Jeremy Sams
Stars: Peter Basham, Sarah Brightman and Edyta Budnik

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Crazy Stupid Love Quad Poster

At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream—good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his “perfect” life quickly unravels. Worse, in today’s single world, Cal, who hasn’t dated in decades, stands out as the epitome of un-smooth.

Now spending his free evenings sulking alone at a local bar, the hapless Cal is taken on as wingman and protégé to handsome, thirtysomething player Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). In an effort to help Cal get over his wife and start living his life, Jacob opens Cal’s eyes to the many options before him: flirty women, manly drinks and a sense of style that can’t be found at Supercuts or The Gap.

Cal and Emily aren’t the only ones looking for love in what might be all the wrong places: Cal’s 13-year-old son, Robbie, is crazy about his 17-year-old babysitter, Jessica, who harbors a crush on Cal. And despite Cal’s makeover and his many new conquests, the one thing that can’t be made over is his heart, which seems to keep leading him back to where he began.

Release Date: 23 September, 2011

Crazy, Stupid, Love
A father's life unravels while he deals with a marital crisis and tries to manage his relationship with his children.

Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Writer: Dan Fogelman
Stars: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Julianne Moore

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Footloose Trailer

Writer/Director Craig Brewer (“Hustle & Flow,” “Black Snake Moan”) delivers a new take of the beloved 1984 classic film, “Footloose.” Ren MacCormack (played by newcomer Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont’s local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore (Dennis Quaid) responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough) in the process.

Release Date: 14 October, 2011

Footloose
Director: Craig Brewer
Writers: Dean Pitchford (screenplay), Craig Brewer (screenplay)
Stars: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Poster

After moving into her new home with her father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend, Kim (Katie Holmes), Sally (Bailee Madison) is pursued by ruthless creatures who want to claim her as one of their own.

Release Date: 7 October, 2011

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

Director: Troy Nixey
Writers: Guillermo del Toro (screenplay), Matthew Robbins (screenplay)
Stars: Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Teddy Bear Clip

Release Date: 7 October, 2011

The Establishing Shot: THE IDES OF MARCH TRAILER

The Ides of March takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, when an up-and-coming campaign press secretary (Ryan Gosling) finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.

THE IDES OF MARCH is the much anticipated political thriller written and directed by George Clooney and starring George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright and Max Minghella

Release Date: 28 October, 2011

The Ides of March
An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Based on the play by Beau Willimon.

Director: George Clooney
Writers: George Clooney (screenplay), Grant Heslov (screenplay), and 2 more credits »
Stars: Paul Giamatti, George Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman

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THE ESTABLISHING SHOT: TONY MONTANA ON TWITTER - SCARFACE SPEAKS

The legendary Mr Tony Montana has arrived on twitter www.twitter.com/scarfacespeaks

Tony Montana
@ScarfaceSpeaks

Welcome to the official twitter for me,Tony Montana. All those other guys are a bunch of f**kin fakes. So follow me, h’okay? (Explicit content - over 18s only)

Available for the first time ever in stunning Hi-Def, cult classic Scarface comes to blu-ray this September

Release Date: 5 September, 2011

Scarface

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug empire while succumbing to greed. (Cartel not Mafia)

Director: Brian De Palma

Writer: Oliver Stone (screenplay)

Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer

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Final Destination 5 Laser Eye Surgery’ Clip

In ‘Final Destination 5,’ Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of co-workers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.

Release Date: 26 August, 2011

Final Destination 5
Survivors of a suspension-bridge collapse learn there's no way you can cheat Death.

Director: Steven Quale
Writers: Eric Heisserer, Jeffrey Reddick (characters)
Stars: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell and Arlen Escarpeta

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Final Destination 5 Death Doesn’t Like To Be Cheated’ (feat. Tony ‘Candyman’ Todd) Clip

Release Date: 26 August, 2011

Take That When We Were Young music video from The Three Musketeers 3D

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three veteran Musketeers to prevent the villainous Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz) from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war in this fast-paced, action-filled reboot of Alexandre Dumas' classic 17th-century adventure.

When famed Musketeers Athos (Matthew Macfayden), Aramis (Luke Evans), and Porthos (Ray Stevenson) steal highly coveted airship designs from a high-security vault, the sweet taste of success is short-lived. Their beautiful partner in crime, Milady (Milla Jovovich), drugs the trio and sells the designs to a higher bidder, the ultra-cool Englishman, Buckingham (Orlando Bloom). It's a major blow to the famed swordsmen. So when, three years later, the devil-may-care young D'Artagnan journeys to Paris to realize his dream of becoming a Musketeer, he finds them a shadow of their former selves, working menial jobs and seeking a cause worth serving.
The conniving Cardinal Richelieu hatches a deadly plot to overthrow the young King Louis (Freddie Fox). Employing the double agent Milady to do the dirty work, he frames the King's new bride, Queen Anne (Juno Temple) in an affair with Buckingham.

If the King buys into the lie, war with England will follow, the Queen will die and the people of France will demand a stronger leader - Richelieu himself - to see them through the crisis. If the King doesn't buy into the lie, peace may yet stand a chance. But for peace to be ensured, the three Musketeers and their young apprentice must undertake their most dangerous mission ever - to retrieve a priceless diamond necklace from the impregnable Tower of London and return it to the Queen in time for an all-important ball.

Release Date: 12 October, 2011

The Three Musketeers
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writers: Alex Litvak (screenplay), Andrew Davies (screenplay)
Stars: Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen and Ray Stevenson

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Missing Pieces Promo Trailer and behind the scenes & interview with director Kenton Bartlett

This is a story about a man who’s lost everything and his misguided attempts to put it back together. Missing Pieces is an emotional enigma about love and loneliness… and a kidnapping.

David (Mark Boone Jr. – Batman Begins, Memento, ‘Sons of Anarchy’) tries again and again to win back the love of his life, Delia (Melora Walters- Magnolia, Cold Mountain, ‘Big Love’), but she’s not having it.

As the situation turns hopeless, David concocts a master scheme that will surely win her back and turn it around.

Through interwoven, poignant vignettes, this multi-plot tale unfolds and untangles into a truly unique and heartfelt love story about finding hope when all is lost.

Release Date:Currently seeking distribution

Missing Pieces

A kidnapper takes two lonely souls and tries to make them fall in love by putting them through a series of unique situations.

Director: Kenton Bartlett

Writer: Kenton Bartlett

Stars: Mark Boone Junior, Melora Walters and Alana Jordan

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The Peddler Trailer

Meet Daniel Burmeister, the most prolific filmmaker you’ve never heard of. Armed with a camera and enough charm to persuade entire towns to join in on his dreams, this tireless DIY movie veteran rolls in his beat up old car from one Argentine town to another. There, in exchange for food and board, he turns out a film in 30 days, transforming sleepy villages into bustling film sets and the bored populace into avid performers.

**** "Be Kind Rewind, only for real... a delight from start to finish"

EYE FOR FILM

"One of the most compassionate and disarming films you'll see all year"

THE NEW STATESMAN

**** "A beautiful film"

TIME OUT

A film by Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano and Adriana Yurcovich.

Release Date: 12 September, 2011

The Peddler

Meet Daniel Burmeister, the most prolific filmmaker you've never heard of. Armed with a camera...

Directors: Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano

Writers: Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano

Stars: Daniel Burmeister

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THE ESTABLISHING SHOT : CIRCO TRAILER

From first-time director Aaron Schock comes an intimate portrait of a century-old Mexican travelling circus struggling to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering conflict that threatens this once vibrant family tradition.

Filmed along the backroads of rural Mexico, the stunning visuals of this cinematic road movie, married to a soundtrack by legendary U.S. band Calexico, open the viewer to the luminous world of a traveling circus while examining the universal themes of family bonds, filial responsibility and the weight of cultural inheritance.

Through an intricately woven story of a marriage in trouble and of a century-old family tradition that hangs in the balance, CIRCO asks: To whom and to what should we ultimately owe our allegiances?

Release Date: 12 September, 2011

Circo
A hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, but will their art survive into the 21st?

Director: Aaron Schock
Writers: Mark Becker, Aaron Schock

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I Killed My Mother Trailer

"We love our mothers almost unknowingly, unconsciously, and we fully realise how deep-rooted that love is when we come to the last separation." Guy de Maupassant

Hubert Minel doesn’t love his mother. The seventeen-year-old regards her with haughty contempt, and sees only her dated sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. In addition to these irritating surface details, there are also the cherished family mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by a love/hate relationship which obsesses him more and more each day, and desperate to escape the suffocating atmosphere of his mother’s working-class, suburban home, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical: artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, sex, and ostracism.

The directing debut of young French-Canadian actor Xavier Dolan is a cathartic, fiercely compelling evocation of turbulent late adolescence. Visually stunning, with exquisite performances from Dolan himself – as the volatile, verbally savage Hubert – and a highly acclaimed cast including Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clément, 'I Killed My Mother' was the winner of 22 international film awards in 2009, including three categories at Cannes.

Release Date: 12 September, 2011

I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)

A semi-autobiographical story about Dolan as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.

Director: Xavier Dolan

Writers: Xavier Dolan (screenplay), Xavier Dolan (dialogue)

Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan and François Arnaud

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Creepy The Woman in Black Teaser Trailer

During afternoon tea there is a shift in the air,

A bone trembling chill that tells you she’s there,

There are those who believe that the whole town is cursed,

That the house in the marsh is by far the worst,

What she wants is unknown but she always comes back,

The spectre of darkness, The Woman in Black.

Release Date: 10 February, 2012

Based on the classic ghost story, THE WOMAN IN BLACK tells the tale of Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a lawyer who is forced to leave his young son and travel to a remote village to attend to the affairs of the recently deceased owner of Eel Marsh House.

Working alone in the old mansion, Kipps begins to uncover the town's tragic and tortured secrets and his fears escalate when he discovers that local children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances. When those closest to him become threatened by the vengeful woman in black, Kipps must find a way to break the cycle of terror.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK also stars Ciaran Hinds (TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY) and Janet McTeer (TUMBLEWEEDS), was adapted from Susan Hill's novel for the screen by Jane Goldman (KICK ASS) and directed by James Watkins (EDEN LAKE).

The Woman in Black

A young lawyer travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client's papers, where he discovers the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.

Director: James Watkins

Writers: Susan Hill (novel), Jane Goldman (screenplay)

Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds and Janet McTeer

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

Gigola Trailer

It's 1963 and Paris is sizzling with sex. The stylishly butch Gigola spends her days roaming chic cafés, taking on the criminal underclass, enticing pretty femmes away from their pimps, breaking hearts and making enemies along the way. Her evenings are spent in famous lesbian cabaret bar Chez Moune, picking up rich older women who keep her flush. Based on the long censored novel of the same name, Gigola captures a little known chapter in Parisian history in which eroticism defied conventional morals.

Release Date: 14 November , 2011

Starring a host of renowned faces of European cinema, including Rossy De Palma (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Eduardo Noriega (Open Your Eyes, The Devil's Backbone), Marisa Paredes (All About My Mother, The Skin I Live In) Thierry Lhermitte (The Dinner Game), Marisa Berenson (I Am Love) and introducing Lou Doillon, daughter of Jane Birkin, as the eponymous Gigola.

Marisa Paredes (All About My Mother, The Skin I Live In)
Rossy De Palma (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
Eduardo Noriega (Open Your Eyes, The Devil's Backbone)
Thierry Lhermitte (The Dinner Game)
Marisa Berenson (I Am Love)
Marie Kremer (Hidden)
and introducing Lou Doillon, daughter of Jane Birkin, as the eponymous Gigola.

"It's steamy, saucy, racy and suffused with the feeling of wickedness you might get from drinking spirits before lunch or smoking in church... a fantastically naughty, silly and enjoyable film" – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Gigola

Director: Laure Charpentier

Writer: Laure Charpentier (novel)

Stars: Lou Doillon, Marie Kremer and Eduardo Noriega

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Friday 26 August 2011

THE ESTABLISHING SHOT: CONTAGION GWYNETH PALTROW CHARACTER POSTER

Directed by Steven Soderbergh from an original screenplay by Scott Z. Burns (“The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Informant!”), the film also stars Bryan Cranston (AMC’s “Breaking Bad”) and Sanaa Lathan (“Alien Versus Predator”). It is produced by Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher (“World Trade Center”), and Gregory Jacobs (“The Informant!”), with Jeff Skoll, Michael Polaire and Jonathan King serving as executive producers.

Soderbergh’s creative team includes production designer Howard Cummings (“Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”), Oscar®-winning editor Stephen Mirrione (“Traffic”) and costume designer Louise Frogley (“Quantum of Solace,” “Ocean’s Thirteen”).

Cliff Martinez (“Traffic”) will compose the score.“Contagion” was filmed on locations around the world, including sites in Hong Kong, Macao, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi, London and Geneva. A Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, in association with Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi, a Double Feature Films/Gregory Jacobs Production, “Contagion” will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company.

Release Date: 21 October, 2011

Contagion
An action-thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law

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THE ESTABLISHING SHOT: CONTAGION LAURENCE FISHBURNE CHARACTER POSTER

Release Date: 21 October, 2011

THE ESTABLISHING SHOT: CONTAGION MATT DAMON CHARACTER POSTER

Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh from an original screenplay by Scott Z. Burns (“The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Informant!”), the film also stars Bryan Cranston (AMC’s “Breaking Bad”) and Sanaa Lathan (“Alien Versus Predator”). It is produced by Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher (“World Trade Center”), and Gregory Jacobs (“The Informant!”), with Jeff Skoll, Michael Polaire and Jonathan King serving as executive producers.

Soderbergh’s creative team includes production designer Howard Cummings (“Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”), Oscar®-winning editor Stephen Mirrione (“Traffic”) and costume designer Louise Frogley (“Quantum of Solace,” “Ocean’s Thirteen”).

Cliff Martinez (“Traffic”) will compose the score.“Contagion” was filmed on locations around the world, including sites in Hong Kong, Macao, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi, London and Geneva. A Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, in association with Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi, a Double Feature Films/Gregory Jacobs Production, “Contagion” will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company.

Release Date: 21 October, 2011

Contagion
An action-thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law

For more information on film visit the www.theestablishingshot.com

Contagion Jude Law Character Poster

Contagion Kate Winslet Character Poster

Contagion Marion Cotillard Character Poster

Contagion Poster

Release Date: 21 October, 2011

Wreckage Trailer

An automobile wrecking yard after dark provides the perfect location for a nail-biting slasher with a killer twist in Wreckage, directed by John Mallory Asher (One Tree Hill; Dirty Love) and featuring an attractive cast of young up-and-coming talent that includes Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad; Big Love; The Last House On The Left), Scoot McNairy (Monsters), Cameron Richardson (Harper’s Island; Point Pleasant), Kelly Kruger (Mysterious Skin; The Young And The Restless) and Mike Erwin (Chaos Theory).

When their car’s fan belt snaps during a drag race on a county road several miles outside their home town, best friends Jared (Erwin), Kate (Richardson), Rick (Paul), and Jessica (Kruger) find themselves stranded with two options: walk all the way back home or try their luck on finding a spare belt at a nearby scrap yard. Choosing the latter, but arriving after nightfall and finding the yard closed, they decide to climb the gate and go in search of the required part. Their situation goes from mildly inconvenient to seriously lethal in an instant when Rick’s careless horseplay with a loaded pistol leaves Kate wounded and in desperate need of medical attention.

Meanwhile, the local sheriff’s office has just received notification that a serial killer has escaped from the state prison and is thought to be hiding out somewhere in the area. Alerted to the situation at the wrecking yard by Jared, the police and ambulance crew arrive on the scene but can find no immediate sign of Rick, Jessica or the injured Kate. Moments later, the discovery of a mutilated body places Jared in the frame as the prime suspect in a murder investigation and leads to a long night of bloodshed and mayhem as a mysterious killer stalks the yard determined to slay everyone and leave no witnesses.

Release Date: On DVD 22nd August 2011.

Wreckage
Beware. The spare parts may be your own

Director: John Mallory Asher
Writer: David Frigerio
Stars: Aaron Paul, Justin Allen and Mike Erwin

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The Establishing Shot: WARRIOR UK QUAD POSTER

An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan (Hardy) returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father (Nick Nolte), a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan (Edgerton), a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father.

But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives.

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Warrior
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Writers: Gavin O'Connor (screenplay), Anthony Tambakis (screenplay)
Stars: Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte and Joel Edgerton

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Director: Tomas Alfredson

Writers: John le Carré (novel), Peter Straughan (screenplay)

Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy

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Tuesday 23 August 2011

THE ESTABLISHING SHOT:YOUTUBE VETS BRING TOGETHER FANS AND INDUSTRY CREATIVES LIKE NEVER BEFORE

Indie Filmmakers Use KICKSTARTER to Garner Start-Up Funds for Comedy Feature “SPORTS FANS”

Hollywood, CA – Indie Filmmakers Jason Horton and Adam Rudder are
creating a new breed of partnership, combining the forces of their
millions of YouTube fans and a ‘dream team’ of experts and industry
veterans to bring their buddy-comedy “SPORTS FANS” to the big screen.

With distribution already in place, Horton and Rudder are literally
turning their loyal fans, sports lovers and YouTube subscribers into
film financiers, using the crowdfunding site Kickstarter to acquire
start-up funds necessary to attach key name talent. The young
filmmakers have already created strategic industry alliances with over
40 major feature film credits under their belt to keep the project
moving and solidify the additional financing for the project.

These collaborations include Mark Koesterer and his Sports Studio
Ventures, Hollywood’s premiere consultant for scripted sports content,
which is co-owned by Jack Giarraputo’s Happy Madison Productions. Also
involved are: Mark Ellis, who has directed and coached Oscar winning
actors and Hall of Fame athletes in over 30 movies grossing more than
one billion dollars at the box office; sports agent Doug Schaer and
his Silent Partner Media (SPM), a niche, creative and strategic
marketing firm, which connects properties within the sports,
entertainment and music industries; and Dave Hickey, former Promenade
Pictures Vice President of Development and Acquisitions; and
additional key industry associations to be announced at a later date.

While other indie filmmakers have turned to the public to raise money,
none have had this many assets attached or been as ambitious. Using
this blueprint of funding and affiliations, Horton and Rudder are
trailblazing a new wave of filmmaking that could revolutionize the way
indie films are made. “We feel honored that everyone believes so much
in the project that they have agreed to come on board before we have
any money to pay them,” Rudder said.

Horton and Rudder are also working with a talented team of YouTube
heavy-hitters, including MysteryGuitarMan, Jenna Marbles, Elie
Seckbach (ESNEWS), Nikki Limo, and SupRicky06, who rake in millions of
views on their popular YouTube channels.

“Sports Fans” follows two die-hard fantasy baseball geeks as they road
trip across the country, visiting baseball’s most renowned stadiums in
search of autographs. Along the way, they untangle a love triangle and
get caught up in misadventures with major sports figures. Described as
baseball’s version of “The Hangover”, this rip-roaring road trip buddy
comedy celebrates baseball and its fan culture. One reader at a major
network said it was one of the “strongest female characters” she has
read in a long time. A major producer called it “one of the best
scripts” he has seen on his desk.

Jason Horton is an actor/writer/comedian who regularly performs sketch
and improv comedy and has been seen in over 150 million-viewed videos
on YouTube. He is a Staff Writer and content creator for Maker
Studios and continues to act in and write for popular YouTube channels
Totally Sketch & The Station. He also writes and develops for Rogue
Pictures IamRogue.com. Horton is represented by Dana Wickens (phone:
310-417-4877 / email: Dana@levityent.com).

Adam Rudder is an independent filmmaker, screenwriter and founder of
Moocha Pictures, which is the primary production company for “Sports
Fans.” Previously, Rudder served as a Production Manager for Disney’s
“Oceans,” the highest budgeted ‘natural film’ of all time, 1st AD for
the feature film “Refuge From a Storm” starring Michael Madsen,
Producer of the feature “Pushing Thirty,” and Director/Producer of a
dark-comedy web series. Before specializing in film and more recently,
social media, Rudder spent over 10 years honing his skills as an Event
Planner/Music Promoter and co-founder of the non-profit EcoAid
Productions. Rudder can be reached at: info@moochapictures.com.

“Sports Fans” is set to launch its 30-day fundraising campaign on
Kickstarter on Tuesday, August 23, 2011.

“Sports Fans” can be found at
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sportsfans/sports-fans-the-movie