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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Get ready for ‘The Signal’ from Atlanta filmmakers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The best horror film I’ve seen in this decade is definitely “The Signal” made in Atlanta by local filmmakers, including co-directors Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry and David Bruckner.
It’s bloody, sometimes a little disgusting and always smart with a complicated, involving plot about electronic signals that turn humans into berserk killers.
The movie debuted at Sundance last year and was bought by Magnolia Pictures for the studio’s new specialty arm Magnet Releasing.
Here’s one of the original trailers for the movie. And pay no attention to the “Summer 2007” opening in the final frames. The movie does finally have an opening date — Feb. 22. (A Feb. 21 premiere is expected to be at the Plaza).
Enjoy! And be afraid. Very afraid.
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Valentine’s Day — Say it with one of four new movies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Most movies open on a Friday, or sometimes a Wednesday, but not that often on a Thursday unless it’s summer.
This year, Valentine’s Day is on a Thursday, so you know Hollywood is going to take advantage.
At least four new films open on Feb. 14 just in case your idea of love means, “Let’s go to the movies”:
“Definitely, Maybe” — For the romantic-comedy minded. Ryan Reynolds is the dad. Abigail Breslin is his inquisitive daughter. His spins for her a bedtime tale of the three main women in his life. Do you think it ends with true love?
Step Up 2 The Streets” — For the romantic-dance drama minded. People you’ve never heard of are dancing this way and that at the Maryland School of the Arts. This is a sequel of sorts to Disney’s 2006 “Step Up” and we hear that film’s star, Channing Tatum, has a cameo in “2.”
“Jumper” — For the romantic-action minded. Hayden Christensen can teleport here and there in the blink of an eye.
“The Spiderwick Chronicles” — For those whose heart gets a kick jump from fantasy. For three young siblings, a garden is a gateway to faeries and otherworldly beings.
Do you and yours like to go to the movies on Valentine’s Day?
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Something is unusual about Julia Roberts’ next role
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Let’s cut to the chase.
Julia Roberts is 40. Ryan Reynolds is 31. In their upcoming drama “Fireflies in the Garden,” she plays … his mother.
“You know, you’d think it was brother-sister but she’s playing my mother. Amazing,” says Reynolds, who visited Atlanta Tuesday to promote his Valentine’s Day romantic comedy “Definitely, Maybe.”
“Fireflies,” a drama with a tragedy that affects a family, will have its world debut this month at the Berlin Film Festival. Co-stars include Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson and Carrie-Anne Moss
When we last saw her on film, Smyrna-born Roberts played a glamorous and dolled-up Texas beauty queen in “Charlie Wilson’s War.” For “Fireflies,” Reynolds says she donned “age makeup and that kind of thing” to look several years older.
“I always thought, ‘Wow, I get to work with Julia Roberts,’” Reynolds says. “But it’s not a love interest thing. It’s a loving interest thing, which is still nice, I suppose.”
Though the age differences in “Fireflies” is unusual, it’s not without precedent in Hollywood.
For 1962’s “The Manchurian Candidate,” Angela Lansbury was 36 when she portrayed the mother of 33-year-old Laurence Harvey. During filming for 1967’s “The Graduate,” Anne Bancroft was 35 and Dustin Hoffman turned 30.
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