Carnage - New Trailer

New trailer for Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Tony winning play. Of course it's all about the way the writing and performances pull off the complex characters. A surprising black comedy mined from a very straightforward situation. The performances should be good fun.

Carnage - Trailer

Four Oscar winners, an Oscar nominee & an award-winning play bring you:

Polanski's Carnage - Preview

Based on the Tony-nominated play, God of Carnage, Roman Polanski's Carnage replaces the play's excellent cast (Marcia Gay Harden, James Gandolfini, Hope Davis & Jeff Daniels) with a new, equally intriguing cast of Kate Winslet, John C Reilly, Jodi Foster & Christoph Waltz. A very eclectic set of actors with very little in common besides the 4 Oscars between them (2 belong to Foster, none to Reilly).

The story roughly concerns two sets of parents who get together to talk after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl. The witty script is set entirely inside a single New York apartment. Needless to say, Polanski did not shoot in New York, as the warrant for his arrest was not overruled by his Oscar, but it will be interesting to see what he and his cast bring to the table. Foster seems a touch too intense for comedy, but we shall see.

    

The Beaver - Trailer

Hotly anticipated after spending time on Hollywood's 'Black List' of best un-produced screenplays, Jodi Foster's third directorial effort, after Little Man Tate and Home for the Holidays, has finally opened to so-so reviews, mostly praising Mel Gibson's 'committed' performance, and endless jokes about the title (use your imagination...).

Gibson is not liked much in Hollywood, thanks to his off-screen antics, so any praise truly is praise.

Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon & Jodi Foster in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium

Neill Blomkamp has put (rumoured) District 10 on hold & roped in Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon & Jodie Foster (impressive) to star in his new sci-fi mystery, Elysium. All we know is that it is set in the distant future, on a foreign planet, with - of course - socio-political undertones. But apparently that's wrong, cause IMDB describes it as follows: "Aliens come to earth to do battle with man kind so they find peace on earth and live like human beings."

So basically we know nothing, except it probably has aliens. And the less we know, the better. Probably. After District 9, anything Blomkamp does next is news. He only has to not screw it up to become huge.

I searched the web for a trailer and found this:

Elysium Trailer - Watch more amazing videos here

Yeah... I don't think that has anything to do with the Blomkamp film... Thankfully.


THIS, however, apparently does:



Interesting... The initial promotional trailers for District 9 were clever in that they hinted at the film's content while including very little footage from the actual film. This is likely along the same lines, and certainly piques my interest as much as the high profile cast.