(via Anne Thompson at IndieWire) Teaser for Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love. Akiko (Rin Takanashi) a pretty young student, sells herself to help pay for her studies. But then she comes across a very unusual client: a learned old scholar (Tadashi Okuno) who shows her great kindness. An extraordinary relationship develops between her and the old man. ...
Monthly Archives: March 2012
The Hunger Games opening weekend tally adds up to $155M domestic + $58.7M international for a total of $213.7M worldwide. Third biggest opening of all time. Deadline digs into the marketing strategy: What made Lionsgate’s promotional campaign for The Hunger Games so unusual and probably effective was that the studio stuck to the rare strategy of not showing any footage...
I love the new Dragon Tattoo DVD disc idea which has “buyers confused.” The roll out for Dragon Tattoo was the most exciting thing that happened to film marketing last year. Ideas in Hollywood feel recycled, focused-grouped, generic and way too familiar. For the most part, we here in America have mostly been conditioned, Pavlov’s doggie style, to...
From EW via DarkHorizons: John Hillcoat’s Prohibition crime flick, previously titled “The Wettest County”, has now changed its name to “Lawless”. An adaptation of the 2008 historical novel “The Wettest County in the World”, the film stars Gary Oldman, Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain and is set for release August 31st. ...
