by Jason Barr Posted: January 28th, 2011
Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand have signed on to star in Paramount’s road-trip comedy
My Mother’s Curse. Anne Fletcher (
The Proposal) will direct the Dan Fogelman (
Cars) script which pairs Rogen and the two-time Oscar-winner as mother and son. Per
THR, Fogelman’s script tells the story of an inventor (Rogen) who “invites his mother on a cross-country road trip as he tries to sell his new product.” As the story goes, in the process, Streisand’s character is also reunited with a lost love.
In addition to starring and writing respectively, Rogen, Streisand, and Fogelman will act as executive producers on My Mother’s Curse alongside fellow exec. producer David Ellison. Lorne Michaels and Evan Goldberg will also act as producers on the film which is scheduled to begin shooting this spring.
by Jason Barr Posted: January 28th, 2011
A trailer for veteran television director Sean McNamara’s (personal favorite Even Stevens) Soul Surfer has landed online. Starring AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia), Dennis Quaid, and Helen Hunt, the sports drama tells the true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton who lost her arm in a shark attack in 2003 only to return to the top of the competitive surfing world by 2005.
To check out the trailer for yourself, hit the jump. Soul Surfer opens April 8th.
Here’s the trailer:
by Matt Goldberg Posted: January 28th, 2011
Before the screening of Take Shelter, writer-director Jeff Nichols explained to the audience that he was attempting to tap into an emotion of dread and anxiety. For the first act of his movie, he’s wildly successful at capturing that feeling. Vivid, nightmarish dream sequences set the film up as a paranoid thriller. But then Nichols hits the breaks, stops the dreams, and the tension slowly leaves the picture as it moves at a glacial pace. While he’s able to eventually pick it back up at the end and come to an interesting conclusion, he is never able to reconnect with his audience.
Take Shelter opens with Curtis (Michael Shannon) having a vision of a storm. Thick, viscous rain falls from the sky and thunder shakes the landscape. The vision passes and Curtis goes back to his normal life as a family man with loving wife Sam (Jessica Chastain) and daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart). But then Curtis tarts to have nightmares. The nightmares always begin with a storm and end with Curtis waking up in pain and paranoia. He believes that his nightmares are premonitions of an apocalypse and so he takes to expanding the storm shelter in his backyard. Desperate to protect his family, Curtis has only two dark options: either he’s wrong and he’s starting to show signs of schizophrenia like his mother (Kathy Baker) or it’s the end of the world.
