Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt Crushin’ on Michael Fassbender + First Looks at a Lot of Movies!
New Year, lots of new movies! We’ve got some first looks and a bit of news on a slew of films coming your way in the next few months.
First up is Your Sister’s Sister which received a standing ovation at its Sundance screening this weekend. It stars Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel’s Getting Married) who reportedly replaced Rachel Weisz after she dropped out due to ‘scheduling conflicts’.
The film tells the tale of Iris (Blunt) who invites her friend Jack (Mark Duplass-one half of the directing team of the Duplass brothers) to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah (DeWitt), Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Apparently, according to the video below, about 85% of the movie was improvised. The best thing about the video, is Blunt and DeWitt’s reaction to Michael Fassbender’s The Hollywood Reporter cover story.
Your Sister’s Sister, which had its world premiere at TIFF, is slated to open the Seattle International Film Festival at the end of May. No word yet on what happens after that but I think it’s a safe bet it will get a theatrical release this year.
7500 is a thriller which stars Amy Smart, Ryan Kwanten, Scout Taylor-Compton, Jerry Ferrara, Jamie Chung, Christian Serratos, Nicky Whelan, Leslie Bibb and Johnathon Schaech. The story follows an estranged married couple (Smart, Kwanten) that boards a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo only to encounter malevolent supernatural forces on the airplane. Written by Craig Rosenberg (The Uninvited) and directed by Takashi Shimizu (Grudge 2), 7500 lands in theaters August 31 in the US.
The Oranges stars Hugh Laurie as a who guy falls for the daughter (Leighton Meester) of a family friend (Oliver Platt), making life just a bit awkward for himself and the family. Queen of the Indies, Catherine Keener plays his wife while Alison Janney plays the wife of the friend. Alia Shawkat, Adam Brody, Tim Guinnee and Boyd Holbrook round out the cast. The Oranges is directed by Julian Farino (Entourage, How to Make it in America) from a first script by Ian Helfer and Jay Reiss. No word on a release other than “2012”. It’s been in the can since late 2010, but screened at TIFF in ’11 and ATO pictures has just dropped this first still. With a cast like this I can’t imagine it won’t get a theatrical release. We’ll keep you posted.
The release of The Good Doctor which stars Orlando Bloom as physician Martin Blake and Riley Keough (who will forever be known as Elvis’ granddaughter) as his patient, was delayaed after it was originally slapped with an R rating for “some crude sexual references” by the MPAA's Classification and Rating Administration. However, Co-producer Jonathan King and writer Julia Lebedev appealed the rating and won a reversal, so now the movie will be rated PG-13 for “thematic material, disturbing situations and some crude sexual content.” It had better be good to justify the fuss.
Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.
I’m sure we’ll here more once an exact date is announced. For now, color me skeptical.
Another TIFF favorite that is sure to get a US release now that Michelle Williams has been nominated for a Genie Award (Canada’s Oscar) for her performance in Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz, described as a funny, bittersweet and heart-wrenching story about a woman struggling to choose between two different types of love. Seth Rogan, Sarah Silverman and Aaron Abrams costar.
Finally (for this post anyway), we have your first look at This is 40, which is being called the sequel to Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up. It stars Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann reprising their roles as Pete and Debbie and basically it’s a look at their lives a few years after the events from that film. Pete's music label is in trouble, consequently Debbie, with her dress shop staffed by Megan Fox andCharlyne Yi, becomes the primary breadwinner.
Melissa McCarthy has been added as the mother of a classmate of one of Pete and Debbie’s kids. Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl are not in it, but Jason Segel is back, as are Maude and Iris Apatow as Pete and Debbie’s kids.
Mann told the LA Times, “"It's the kind of stuff about marriage that you don't get to see in movies. It's about getting older. What the hell happened? Am I making all the right choices? Is this where I'm supposed to be? Is this it?” Married or not, everyone asks themselves those questions when they hit 40. The answers will probably be the same as the ones we get when we look in the mirror and ask those questions, but at least in Apatow’s hands the asking will be funnier.
Universal has staked out prime awards season territory for This is 40 with a release date of December 21.
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