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FAll 2008 Upcoming Films
(*subject to studio & talent avail.)

PRIDE & GLORY - An exploration of the personal and professional lives of
NYPD officers told through the interwoven lives of a three generation family
of cops. Their moral codes are tested when Ray Farrell, one of three sons on
the job, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption
scandal involving his own brother.

Release Date: October 24th, 2008 (limited). Distributors: New Line Cinema.

Starring: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Ehle, Noah Emmerich, Lake
Bell
Directed by: Gavin O'Connor
Produced by: Gavin O'Connor, Gregory O'Connor, Josh Fagin

WHAT JUST HAPPENED -A desperate movie producer, in the throes of a broken
second marriage, tries to survive the treachery of Hollywod and the hell of
getting his move made.

Starring: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, John
Turturro.
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Produced by: Marc Butan, Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban

THE SOLOIST -A homeless musician with schizophrenia dreams of playing at
Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Release Date: November 21st, 2008
(limited).Distributors: Paramount Vantage
Starring:
Jamie Foxx,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Catherine Keener,
Rachael Harris
Directed by: Joe Wright (ATONEMENT).

RACHEL GETTING MARRIED -When Kym returns to the Buchman family home for the
wedding of her sister Rachel, she brings a long history of personal crisis
and family conflict along with her. The wedding Party's abundant cast of
friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feating, music
and love, but Kym -- with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell
drama -- is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions.
Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics.
Starring:
Anne Hathaway,
Rosemarie DeWitt,
Bill Irwin,
Anna Deavere Smith,
Debra Winger
Directed by: Jonathan Demme

YOUTH IN REVOLT - MGM - Teenage antihero Nick Twisp moves from the pages of
the beloved novel YOUTH IN REVOLT to the screen with this film directed by
Miguel Arteta (THE GOOD GIRL).
Michael Cera (JUNO) stars as Nick, a teenager
who may be wise beyond his years, but that doesn't stop him from getting in
all sorts of trouble.

QUANTUM OF SOLACE - Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the
urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to
uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White who reveals the
organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than
anyone had imagined.
Release Date: November 7th, 2008,
Distributors: MGM/Columbia Pictures.
Starring:
Daniel Craig,
Judi Dench,
Giancarlo Giannini,
Jesper Christensen,
Mathieu Amalric
Directed by: Marc Forster (KITE RUNNER, STRANGER THAN FICTION, MONSTERS
BALL).

AUSTRALIA - An Australian outback epic that takes place from the mid-1930s
leading up to the Japanese bombing of the tropical northern city of Darwin
in World War Two.
Release Date: November 14th, 2008.
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution
Starring:
Nicole Kidman,
Hugh Jackman,
David Wenham,
Joel Edgerton,
Bryan Brown
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann

ROCKNROLLA - A Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, putting
millions of dollars up for grabs and attracting all of London's criminal
underworld.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures
Starring:
Gerard Butler,
Tom Wilkinson,
Thandie Newton,
Idris Elba,
Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Produced by: Steve Richards (III), Navid McIlhargey, Joel Silver

ADORATION - A high school student claims to be a figure from recent histroy.
Starring:
Rachel Blanchard,
Scott Speedman,
Katie Boland,
Arsinee Khanjian,
Raoul Bhaneja
Directed by:Atom Egoyan. SPC

SECRET LIFE OF BEES - Set in South Carolina in 1964, the tale of Lily Owens,
a 14-year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To
escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees
with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that
holds the secret to her mother's past.
Starring:
Queen Latifah,
Dakota Fanning,
Jennifer Hudson,
Sophie Okonedo,
Alicia Keys
Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood.

KILLING PABLO - Chronicles the hunt for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Distributors: Paramount Pictures, Yari Film Group
Starring:
Christian Bale,
Javier Bardem
Directed by: Joe Carnahan
Produced by: Mark R. Gordon, Bob Yari, Jason Zelin

PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND - A rebellious little girl clashes with the
rule-obsessed authority figures in her life, and seeks enlightenment from
her unconventional drama teacher.
Distributors: ThinkFilm.
Starring:
Felicity Huffman,
Patricia Clarkson,
Bill Pullman.

THE BROTHERS BLOOM - The younger of two brothers, who are the world's best
con artists, decides to quit their life of crime. However, he's persuaded to
do one more job, swindling an eccentric millionaire, but she turns the table
on the duo.
Release Date: October 24th, 2008.
Distributors: Summit Entertainment, LLC,
Adrienne Brody, Mark Ruffalo.

DEFIANCE - Four Jewish brothers living in Nazi occupied Poland escape into
the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling
the Nazis. Throughout the war they built a village inside the forest and
saved the lives of more than 1200 other Jews. Based on a true story.
Release Date: December 12th, 2008 (limited).
Distributors: Paramount Vantage
Starring:
Daniel Craig,
George MacKay,
Liev Schreiber,
Jamie Bell,
Allan Corduner

HUMBOLDT PARK - A family reunion during the holidays in the Chicago
neighborhood of Humboldt Park. Release Date: November 14th, 2008.
Distributors: Overture Films
Starring:
John Leguizamo,
Freddy Rodriguez,
Jay Hernandez,
Melonie Diaz,
Alfred Molina
Directed by: Alfredo De Villa
Directed by: Edward Zwick (BLOOD DIAMOND).

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON - An old man physically ages backward.
At age 50, he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman and then must come to
terms with the relationship as they literally grow in opposite directions.
Release Date: December 19th, 2008.
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures
International, Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Cate Blanchett,
Kimberly Scott,
Jason Flemyng,
Taraji P. Henson
Directed by: David Fincher
Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall.

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2008 Summer Recap:

6/23 - AMERICAN TEEN

AMERICAN TEEN - Documentary following the lives of four teenagers--a jock, the popular girl, the artsy girl and the geek--in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future. Filming daily for ten months, filmmaker Nanette Burstein developed a deep understanding of her subjects. The result is a film that goes beyond the enduring stereotypes of high school to render complex young people trying to find their way into adulthood.

Starring:
Hannah Bailey,
Colin Clemens,
Megan Krizmanich,
Mitch Reinholt,
Jake Tusing

Director: Nanette Burstein
Screenwriter: Nanette Burstein

GUESTS: DIRECTOR NANETTE BURSTEIN



PRODUCER JORDAN ROBERTS



HOST: MARSHALL FINE


Official Site: Link

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6/16 - MOVING MIDWAY



At Christmas 2003, New York-based film critic Godfrey Cheshire is visiting his family in North Carolina when his cousin Charlie Silver tells him something startling. Charlie inherited Midway Plantation, the ancestral home of his and Cheshire's extended family, and has been its devoted caretaker. But now Charlie and his wife Dena have made a decision: They want to move Midway - the antebellum manor house and several outbuildings - to a new location to escape Raleigh's encroaching sprawl. Can you really transplant a plantation? Will the "place" be the same if it is uprooted from the soil in which it has stood since 1848?

Charlie's plan provokes immediate controversy in Cheshire's tradition-minded family. For Cheshire, it brings back memories of the wild, strange and magical place Midway seemed when he was a child, and of the stories he heard there - stories of his mother's family, the Hintons, settling the area in the early 1700s, fighting in the Revolution, being invaded by Yankee troops in the Civil War, and surviving Reconstruction. Yet stories, Cheshire realizes, both convey and conceal. The reality of the Southern plantation was that it depended on the institution of slavery. In Cheshire's family, stories of slaves always depicted them as happy and devoted, which surely disguised a more painful, complex reality. In fact, Midway bred two sets of Hintons, one white, one black. For years, they have rarely encountered each other. But that begins to change as Cheshire sets out to chronicle Charlie's attempt to move Midway.

Godfrey Cheshire (Director, Writer, Producer) is an award-winning film critic based in New York City. A native of North Carolina, he co-founded Raleigh’s Spectator Magazine and began writing film criticism professionally in 1978. Since moving to New York in 1991, he has written for numerous national and international publications including The New York Times, Variety, The Village Voice, New York Press, Interview, Film Comment, Oxford American, and The Independent Weekly. His areas of special interest include cinematic representations of the South, Iranian film, and the transition to digital technology. A former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, he has twice received awards for best arts criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Executive Producer: R.B. Reeves

Director: Godfrey Cheshire
Screenwriter: Godfrey Cheshire
Cinematographer: Jay Spain
Editor: Ramsey Fendall, Greg Loser
Composer/Music: Ahrin Mishan

Other Credits:
Ross McElwee (Consulting Producer),
Robert Hinton (Chief Historian/Associate Producer)

Guests: GODFREY CHESHIRE & ROBERT HINTON

Official Site: Link

2nd Feature:

Bottle Shock




Based on the story behind the birth of the Napa wine industry, which culminates in the triumph of California wines over the French at the 1976 Paris Tastings.

Cast:
Freddy Rodriguez,
Chris Pine,
Rachael Taylor,
Eliza Dushku,
Bill Pullman



Directed by: Randall M. Miller
Produced by: Jody Savin,
Marc Toberoff, J. Todd Harris

Official Site: Link

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6/9 - THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION



In 1970, Brazil and the world seem to have been turned upside-down, but 12 year-old Mauro's worries have nothing to do with the military regime which controls the country. His biggest dream is to see Brazil become three-time winner of the World Cup. Suddenly, he is torn from his parents and taken to live in a "strange" and fun-filled community called Bom Retiro, a district in Sao Paolo which is home to a large Jewish and Italian community, among other cultures.



Cast:
Michel Joelsas
Germano Haiut
Daniela Piepszyk
Simone Spoladore
Caio Blat Italo
Liliana Castro
Paulo Autran
Edgardo Moreira



Director
Cao Hamburger

Writers
Cao Hamburger Screenplay
Cluadio Galperin Screenplay
Braulio Mantovani Screenplay
Cao Hamburger Story By

Producers
Caio Gullane Executive Producer
Fabiano Gullane Executive Producer
Sonia Hamburger Executive Producer
Cao Hamburger Producer

Guest: Sal Scamardo

Sal Scamardo is currently President of City Lights Pictures and Home Entertainment, an emerging major independent film company based in New York City. His career in film and television spans over 22 years across a broad range of key executive positions including marketing, promotion, production, publicity, business development and acquisitions for a diverse mix of media companies including major studios Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios; major recording companies CBS Records and PolyGram and; independent film studios such as Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures and, now City Lights. Over the years he has also provided strategic media and content consulting for through his consulting firm for clients ranging from Broadway producers to major media companies such as Sony/BMG and HBO.



The Matador (2008)
Harold (2008)
Underground (2007/I)
Everything's Cool (2007)
Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Descent (2007)
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (2007)
Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, O (2006)
Suicide Killers (2006)
Tamara (2005)
A Generation Apart (1984)

HOST: MARSHALL FINE

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2008 Summer Series Opener!
6/2 - When Did You Last See Your Father?

When Did You Last See Your Father?: An unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur's terminal illness and imminent death. Blake's memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and teens are interspersed with tender and heartrending scenes in the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of conflict, and learns to accept that one's parents are not always accountable to their children.



Starring:
Colin Firth,
Jim Broadbent,
Juliet Stevenson,
Gina McKee,
Claire Skinner,
Matthew Beard



Director: Anand Tucker
Writers David Nicholls, Blake Morrison

Guest: Director ANNAUD TUCKER



Director Anand Tucker and Jim Broadbent

Official Site: Link

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Paramus Spring Series Recap:

Spring Series Closer:

5/19 - THE PROMOTION



The Promotion: "Two mid-level Chicago supermarket employees--Doug and Richard, a dubious new guy from Canada--compete ruthlessly for a coveted managerial post at a new store location. Doug and Richard could not be more different, but going head-to-head in a contest of wits and will reveals how they have more in common than they once suspected."



Cast:
Seann William Scott
John C. Reilly
Jenna Fischer
Lili Taylor
Gil Bellows
Fred Armisen
Rick Gonzalez
David Moscow
Chris Conrad
Adrian Martinez
Bobby Cannavale

Directors
Steve Conrad Director

Writers:
Steve Conrad

Producers:
Bob Weinstein Executive Producer
Harvey Weinstein Executive Producer




GUEST Director: Steve Conrad Director


Steve Conrad

HOST - GODFREY CHESHIRE

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5/12 - LOVELY BY SURPRISE

"A blocked writer turns to her former mentor (and ex-lover) for advice. When he advises her to kill the main character to strengthen the story, she just can't do it. The real and fictional worlds collide when her character escapes his story, and begins appearing in the oddest of places."

Cast:
Carrie Preston,
Austin Pendleton,
Reg Rogers,
Dallas Roberts,
Michael Chernus

Directed by: Kirt Gunn
Produced by:
Kirt Gunn,
Michael Hilliard,
Marco Londoner

GUEST - DIRECTOR KIRT GUNN


KIRT GUNN
Read the interview over at The Film Lot

HOST GODFREY CHESHIRE

GODFREY CHESHIRE

Info: Link

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5/5 - SAVAGE GRACE



SAVAGE GRACE, based on the award winning book, tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, red-headed and charismatic, Barbara is still no match for her well-bred husband. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. Tony is a failure in his father's eyes. As he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for a tragedy of spectacular decadence are sown. Spanning 1946 to 1972, the film unfolds in six acts. The Baekelands' pursuit of social distinction and the glittering 'good life' propels them across the globe. We follow their heady rise and tragic fall against the backdrop of New York, Paris, Cadaques, Mallorca and London.



Cast:
Julianne Moore
Stephen Dillane
Eddie Redmayne
Unax Ugalde
Belen Rueda
Elena Anaya
Hugh Dancy



Executive Producers:
John Wells
Temple Fennell
Johnathan Dorfman
Hengameh Panahi
Stephen Hays (II)
Peter M. Graham II
Howard Morales



Guest: IFC DIRECTOR; TOM KALIN

Tom Kalin’s critically acclaimed films and videos have been screened at museums, film festivals, galleries and broadcast on television throughout the world. From short experimental videos to feature-length narrative films, he has created a diverse body of work, garnering top honors including the Berlin Film Festival’s Caligari Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Stockholm Film Festival. His films and videos are in the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Kalin has been awarded support from institutions including the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Paul Robeson Fund, the Peter Reed Foundation, the American Film Institute, New York State Council for the Arts and the Wexner Center. Commissions include The Whitney Museum, The American Center and The Kobe Museum, Japan. Kalin’s debut feature, SWOON, was awarded Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, the Open Palm for best first film at the Independent Feature Project’s Gotham Awards, among others.

FILMOGRAPHY
2007 SAVAGE GRACE (Director / Co-Producer)
1997 OFFICE KILLER (Co-Writer -- Directed by Cindy Sherman)
1996 I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (Producer -- Directed by Mary Harron)
1994 GO FISH (Executive Producer)
1992 SWOON (Director / Co-Producer)


Tom Kalin

Host: PETER TRAVERS

IFC Entertainment

Official Site: Link

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4/28 - THE DUKES

When a group of down-on-their-luck friends try to launch a comeback for their nostalgia group, "The Dukes", creative juices flow, as do the risks of ending up on the wrong side of the law. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical/Performing Arts and Crime/Gangster.



Starring:
Robert Davi,
Chazz Palminteri,
Elya Baskin,
Eloise Dejoria,
Patrick Cupo (II)



Directed by: Robert Davi.
Produced by: Frank Visco Jr, John Paul Dejoria, Herbert F. Boeckmann.

Host: David Edelstein - New York Magazine, NPR's Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Mornings




Guest: DUKES Director/Star ROBERT DAVI (DIE HARD, LICENSE TO KILL, TV'S "THE PROFILER")


ROBERT DAVI

Official Site for The Dukes  Link

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4/21 - SON OF RAMBOW

"Son of Rambow" is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. The story takes place in 1980s Britain, where young Will Proudfoot is raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden.

Filmed in a creatively mad-cap, homemade style with a mostly amateur cast and a wry, comic-tinged nostalgia, creative visionaries Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, a.k.a. Hammer & Tongs ("Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"), manage to capture both the agony and the giddy ecstasy of a camcorder childhood with humor, poignancy and a rousing dose of cinematic panache.

Cast:
Will Poulter,
Bill Milner,
Jules Sitruck,
Charlie Thrift,
Jessica Stevenson

Director: Garth Jennings
Screenwriter: Garth Jennings
Producer: Nick Goldsmith
Composer: Joby Talbot

HOST: MARSHALL FINE



GUESTS: DIRECTOR GARTH JENNINGS & PRODUCER NICK GOLDSMITH



PARAMOUNT VANTAGE

Official Site: Link

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4/14 - THEN SHE FOUND ME

THEN SHE FOUND ME - Nearing 40, April Epner (Hunt), a schoolteacher in New York who was adopted at birth, wants to have a baby of her own - a desire made that much stronger by the fact that she never knew her biological mother. A snag in her plans presents itself when her sweet but immature husband Ben (Matthew Broderick) announces one night that their marriage was a mistake, leaving April devastated and bewildered. With her life in disarray, one more surprising bolt is thrown April's way in the form of Bernice (Bette Midler), an eccentric local talk show host, who declares herself to be April's birth mother. Despite the influence of her newfound mother and a relationship with Frank (Colin Firth), the father of one of her students, April's once simple life begins to spiral out of control.

Based on the eponymous first novel by writer Elinor Lipman, the film tells the funny and moving story of one woman's very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment.

Director: Helen Hunt



Cast:
Helen Hunt,
Bette Midler,
Colin Firth,
Matthew Broderick,
Lynn Cohen

Directed by: Helen Hunt

Executive Producers:
Ralph Kamp
Louise Goodsill
John Wells
Walter Josten
Jeff Geoffray
Chip Signore
Victor Levin Executive Producer

Guest: Mark Urmann , Head of ThinkFilm.


HOST: PETER TRAVERS

Distributors: ThinkFilm

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4/7 - Young @ Heart

Young @Heart - At an age when most people are either dead or living out their last days in retirement homes, these men and women are up on stage singing their hearts out about the big taboos surrounding old age: about love and sex, loss of youth, loneliness and death. In their mouths, familiar lyrics take on whole new meanings. Link

Cast:
Bob Cilman
Young@Heart

Producers:
Jane Villiers - Executive Producer
Sally George -Producer

Official Site: Fox Searchlight



HOST: PETER TRAVERS



GUEST: DR. JOY BROWNE

2ND Feature:

LIFE BEFORE HER EYES

Imaginative, impetuous and wild, Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) can’t wait for her adult life to begin. Whiling away the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and drugs as her more conservative friend Maureen (Eva Amurri) watches with concern.

Director: Vadim Perelman

Starring: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri

Officail Site: Link

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3/31 - PADRE NUESTRO (Sundance Grand Jury Winner)



Padre Nuestro- Fleeing a pack of henchman on the Mexican side of the border, Juan hops a truck transporting illegals from Mexico to New York City. En route he befriends Pedro, an innocent from central Mexico who is headed to New York to seek his rich restaurateur father, Diego. Pedro shows Juan a sealed letter that his mother, now dead, has given him--an introduction to the father he never knew. When the truck pulls into New York City, Pedro wakes to find both his belongings and his new friend gone without a trace. He is cast onto the street and stumbles around, lost in an unknown city. Juan, meanwhile, shows up at Diego's door with the letter, claiming to be his long-lost son, Pedro



Cast :
Jesús Ochoa,
Armando Hernández,
Jorge Adrián Espíndola,
Paola Mendoza



Screenwriter : Christopher Zalla
Producers : Benjamin Odell, Per Melita
Cinematographer : Igor Martinovic
Editor : Aaron Yanes
Production Designer : Tommaso Ortino



GUEST:
Director - Christopher Zalla

Christopher Zalla - Born in Kisumu, Kenya, Christopher Zalla spent much of his youth overseas and worked for nine summers as a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska's Bering Sea. Zalla received his MFA with honors in directing from Columbia University's graduate film program, where he served as a teaching assistant and the faculty awarded him a full research assistant fellowship for merit as a top student. Prior to Padre Nuestro, he wrote "Marching Powder" for Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment. Zalla is fluent in Spanish and lives in New York City.

HOST - Stephen Whitty

Official Site: Link Link