The Year That Was: 2014 in Film

Check out ALL of the PDC end of year lists!

Review: Ava DuVernay's 'Selma'

Starring David Oyelowo

Review: Rob Marshall's 'Into The Woods'

Starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Anna Kendrick

Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes'

Starring Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

First Trailer for Noah Baumbach's 'While We're Young' starring Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts


Noah Baumbach's last two films, Greenberg and Frances Ha, dealt with people at different stages of life crisis. One concerned an acerbic middle-aged man while the other was about a flighty, irresponsible girl nearing 30. One thing about Baumbach is that his characters are always flawed, sometimes downright unlikeable, but always "real". And that seems to again be the case with his latest film, While We're Young, which follows two couples from very different generations.

Starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, and Adam Driver, the film centers on an older married couple, both documentary filmmakers, who are revitalized by the hipster lifestyle after meeting a younger duo. The trailer plays this as more of a comedy than some of the early reviews out of Toronto indicated, but Baumbach's trademark scathing wit is definitely in place.

While We're Young opens next year on March 27th.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Review: Seth MacFarlane's 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'


It's nearly impossible not to mention Mel Brooks' classic comedy, Blazing Saddles, in any discussion of Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West. MacFarlane was clearly inspired by the film, one of the rare comedy-westerns that brilliantly used modern sensibilities (modern for 1974, anyway) to reflect on the stupidity of the Old West cowboy mentality. And that's the approach MacFarlane is taking, combining sophomoric gags with his usual brand of wit to make for a funny but uneven jaunt into tumbleweed territory.

MacFarlane is like a big league slugger batting .250 but with 50 home runs. When he connects it hits hard, and A Million Ways to Die in the West peppers you with enough jokes that some are bound to be worth a big laugh. Unlike his smash hit, Ted, MacFarlane steps in front of the camera and makes for a serviceable if unspectacular leading man. He plays Albert, a meek know-it-all sheep farmer wildly out of place in the Wild West of 1882. Albert is like a man out of time, speaking in modern cultural references and recognizing the absurdity of the time period of which he lives.

"The American West is a terrible place in time. Everything that’s not you, wants to kill you. Angry drunk people, hungry animals, outlaws… the f**king doctor!"

And he's right. People die in ridiculous, and often hilarious fashion in the Old West (a fart can kill you!), so the film more than lives up to the title. But Albert's forward-thinking and anti-violence stance make him a wimp in those days, and after he backs down from a gunfight his shallow girlfriend Louise (Amanda Seyfried) up and ditches him for a the mustachioed Foy, played by Neil Patrick Harris.  Albert doesn't know how to deal with the loss, turning to his best friend Edward (Giovanni Ribisi) and his prostitute girlfriend Ruth (Sarah Silverman) for answers, but they've got their own issues. MacFarlane gets great mileage (and takes a few swipes at Christians) out of Ruth's willingness to have sex with men for money while holding out on Edward until marriage.

An already dangerous town gets more lethal with the arrival of Anna (Charlize Theron), the gunslinger wife of notorious outlaw, Clinch Leatherwood (Liam Neeson). While Clinch is off hiding out until things calm down, Anna is stuck in town and quickly befriends Albert who saves her from a ridiculously over-the-top barroom brawl. She agrees to pretend to be his new girlfriend in an effort to make Louise jealous, but when Albert mistakenly challenges Foy to a duel, she has to save his bacon by teaching him how to fight. Cue the perfect opportunity for them to fall in love, done through hurried montage of Albert and Anna laughing over their mutual hatred for the Old West.

It's charming enough, and Theron proves to be the real comedic heavyweight as the tough-as-nails Anna, knocking down preconceived notions of a female's place in that society. MacFarlane dabbles in exploring deeper themes but more often than not gives way to an endless stream of fart and poop jokes, profanity, and labored racial humor. Can't forget the racial humor, as ill-fitting and somewhat desperate as it seems to be in this case. MacFarlane and co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild run into problems when balancing the need for story with their desire for constantly offensive jokes. To fill in the gaps MacFarlane dials up some of his celebrity pals for cameos that reference other famous Westerns in very clever fashion. Those are really smartly done, and they remind you how much funnier MacFarlane is when he's being intelligent and goofy rather than just appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Basically, A Million Ways to Die in the West is exactly what fans of Ted and Family Guy would expect from MacFarlane, and if that puts a bur in your saddle then this isn't the film for you.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Red Band Trailer for Seth MacFarlane's 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'


After banking $540M on Ted, an R-rated comedy about a talking teddy bear, Seth MacFarlane could have done pretty much anything he wanted. A Ted sequel? Sure, that'll come later and probably earn a ton. But how about taking on the deadly comedy-western drama and casting himself in the lead role? Not such an easy road to travel, yet that's what MacFarlane has done with A Million Ways to Die in the West, so saddle up for the latest red band trailer.

MacFarlane is joined by a slew of heavy-hitters that include Charlize Theron, Giovanni Ribisi, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris, Liam Neeson, and Sarah Silverman in the story of a wimpy goat farmer who backs out of a gun fight and loses what little dignity he has. He also loses his girlfriend, and in an attempt to win her back he's toughened up by a new beauty in town.

It looks like some of the best sight gags are being spent on these trailers but hopefully MacFarlane is keeping plenty more under his cowboy hat. A Million Ways to Die in the West opens May 30th.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Amanda Seyfried Joins 'Pan'; 'Legend' Adds Emily Browning; Zooey Deschanel Boards 'Driftless Area'



* Filming on Joe Wright's Pan kicks off Monday, and so the cast has been firmed up. Amanda Seyfried will take on the role of Mary, joining Levi Miller as Peter Pan, Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard, Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, Adeel Akhtar as Smee, and Garrett Hedlund as Captain Hook. Also coming aboard are Jack Charles, Kathy Burke, Taejoo Na, Nonso Anozie, Kurt Egyiawan, Lewis MacDougall, and newcomer Leni Zieglmeier as Wendy Darling.

* Emily Browning will get to star with not one but two Tom Hardys in the period crime thriller, Legend, in which he plays twin gangsters Ronny and Reginald Kray. Directed by Brian Helgeland, the film will chronicle the brothers' criminal exploits and celebrity hobsnobbing throughout the 1950s and '60s. Browning will play "a young woman who tragically falls for Reggie and marries him, hoping he will change his gangster ways." [THR]

* Zooey Deschanel, Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Ciaran Hinds, and John Hawkes will star in Zachary Sluser's directorial debut, Driftless Area. Adapted from Tom Drury's novel, the film has Deschanel as "an enigmatic woman while Yelchin portrays a bartender who returns to his hometown after the death of his parents. When he falls in love with her, he is unwittingly pitted against a volatile criminal played by Hawkes." [Variety]

Monday, February 24, 2014

Amanda Seyfried to Star in 'Ted 2'; Mila Kunis Has Reduced Role


Uh oh, has Ted finally come between John and Lori's relationship for the last time? Seth MacFarlane has begun casting his sequel to Ted, hoping to capitalize on the vulgar R-rated flick's unexpected  $500M success. And while we know Mark Wahlberg will obviously be back to join his thunder buddy, he'll have to get used to a different female lead.

Deadline reports that Amanda Seyfried, who has a role in MacFarlane's comedy-western A Million Ways to Die in the West, will star in Ted 2 and not Mila Kunis. MacFarlane and his co-writers made a "creative decision" to reduce Kunis' role greatly, or possibly even remove her character entirely. The story stresses this wasn't due to a falling out between Kunis and MacFarlane, and that they remain good friends. Still, this is a move that will raise a few eyebrows.

Ted 2 is expected to hit theaters on June 26th 2015. 


Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Amanda Seyfried Joins 'Flying Horse'; Nicolas Cage in Talks for 'Men with No Fear'



Gary Oldman has been having some difficulty mounting his first directorial effort since 1997's Nil By Mouth, the Eadweard Muybridge biopic Flying Horse. Last year it seemed like he was moving in the right direction with Benedict Cumberbatch and Ralph Fiennes coming aboard, but even with those stars, and the newly-added Amanda Seyfried, Oldman reveals to Absolutely Magazine that the lack of funding may prevent the film from happening....

Oldman: The script doesn’t fit their model. It’s called Flying Horse and it’s a real story. I have Ralph Fiennes in at the moment, Amanda Seyfried, Benedict Cumberbatch, and me. And it’s not enough because they have to make their movie for $15 million and they have got to have their model. You need someone who will actually be a risk taker. It’s set in San Francisco but you could save yourself $100k if you do three weeks in Romania and then you get a tax subsidy if you do a week in Ireland. It’s fucking eye-crossing!

Fiennes was set to play Muybridge, a pioneering photographer instrumental to the development of motion pictures, and presumably Seyfried would have been his young wife who had an affair with and had a child by Major Harry Larkyns (Cumberbatch). The discovery of the affair led Muybridge to murder Larkyns, causing quite the scandal and something of a circus trial.  Filming was set to begin later this year but it doesn't look like it will happen any time soon. [BleedingCool]

Meanwhile, Nicolas Cage is in talks to star in Men with No Fear, which would reunite him with his Tokarev director, Paco Cabezas. Produced by Bryan Singer and set to be sold at the European Film Market, the film "centers on Marty ‘The Mule,’ newly released from prison after being set up by his former boss Frank, a smalltime neighborhood crook. While Mule was locked up, Frank went big time and became a ruthless drug kingpin. But Frank also took Mule’s most precious item — his son, raising him like his own. But now Mule is back on the streets and ready for revenge." [Deadline]

Monday, February 3, 2014

Green Band Trailer for Seth MacFarlane's 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'


After saddling up for the red band trailer just a few days ago, Seth MacFarlane took to the airwaves during the Super Bowl to tease the all-ages trailer for A Million Ways to Die in the West. MacFarlane stars as a a wimpy sheep farmer who backs out of a gunfight and loses his girlfriend in the process. While trying to stay alive in the exceedingly dangerous Old West, he must also reclaim his manhood with the help of mysterious, beautiful woman played by Charlize Theron. The red band trailer is more effective at capturing MacFarlane's sense of humor, but this version shows he doesn't need to rely too hard on vulgarity to be funny. The sight gags of the many ways one can be slaughtered in the "tumbleweed era" are worth more than a few laughs on their own.

Co-starring Liam Neeson, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris, Giovanni Ribisi, and Sarah Silverman, A Million Ways to Die in the West opens May 30th.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Red Band Trailer and Posters for Seth MacFarlane's 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'


The comedy Western is a tough horse to break, which is why so few attempt it. For every one that gets it right like Blazing Saddles, there's a Wild Wild West that's aim is off the mark. So Seth MacFarlane has his work cut out for him with A Million Ways to Die in the West, the follow-up to his unexpected hit, Ted. Chances are it won't be able to match Ted's box office, but the first red band trailer suggests it may be able to keep up in laughs and raunch.

MacFarlane's gathered an aces ensemble including Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Sarah Silverman, Liam Neeson, and Neil Patrick Harris for a film that follows a sheep farmer who loses his girlfriend after backing out of a gun fight. In order to get her back he'll need to prove his mettle, and he gets help from a sexy gunfighter until her outlaw husband comes looking for revenge. I'm interested in seeing how the proper storyline gels with the constant gags over the many ways the Old West can kill someone ("People die at the fair"), and hopefully Silverman gets more to do than just rattle off sexual acts. Overall this looks pretty funny, and I'm happy to see that MacFarlane is tackling it from a contemporary perspective, like he would in an episode of Family Guy.

A Million Ways to Die in the West opens May 30th 2014. Check out the trailer and a bunch of new character posters below.


A Million Ways to Die in the West (Red Band Trailer) by tvPRIME








Thursday, January 2, 2014

First Look at Seth MacFarlane's 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'


One film that has been lost in the hype of anticipated 2014 flicks is Seth MacFarlane's directorial follow-up to Ted, the comedy-western A Million Ways to Die in the West. MacFarlane also co-writes and stars as a wimpy sheep farmer who backs out of a gun fight, losing the respect of his girlfriend who quickly leaves him. Charlize Theron plays the wife of a notorious outlaw who teaches him how to be a man and fight, giving him one last shot to regain his pride.

The first official image has been released and it looks like another showdown with MacFarlane and co-stars Theron, Amanda Seyfried, and Neil Patrick Harris.  There was a test screening held for it a few weeks ago and, much like Ted before it, the response has been mixed with some finding it hilarious and some protesting the vulgar and racially-charged jokes MacFarlane traffics in. Personally, I can't wait and it's one of the movies I'm looking forward to most this year.

Co-starring Liam Neeson and Giovanni Ribisi, A Million Ways to Die in the West opens May 30th.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Amanda Seyfried to Star in 'He's F-ing Perfect'


Amanda Seyfried's attempt to dirty herself up for Lovelace didn't quite pan out the way she might have hoped. Actually, the film was total joke, although it wasn't for lack of trying. So she's going to veer in the other direction and do something she hasn't done in a long time, which is star in a straight-up comedy.

 She'll take the lead in He's F-ing Perfect, which is probably looking at a name change somewhere down the line. Produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, with Funny or Die vet Jake Szymanski directing, the film centers on a pessismistic woman who scrutinizes the men in her friends' lives. When she convinces one of her friends to dump her new boyfriend, Seyfried's character uses all her social media savvy to win him for herself.

McKay's assistant Lauryn Kahn wrote the script, and this one's been kicking around for some time. Emma Stone had been eying it at one point, back when the project was still at Fox. Universal picked up the rights and are moving forward with Seyfried, who hasn't done a film of this type since Mean Girls. [THR]

Friday, October 18, 2013

Amanda Seyfried Joins 'Fathers and Daughters' Opposite Russell Crowe


As I noted a few days ago when it was revealed Russell Crowe would be starring in the drama Fathers and Daughters, his presence alone is enough to attract considerable attention. And now we see the effect of his signing as the film has quickly landed a big name co-star in Amanda Seyfried.

The two Les Misérables stars will reunite for the film directed by Gabriele Muccino (Seven Pounds), with Crowe as a renowned New York City novelist struggling to raise his 5-year-old daughter while dealing with his mental illness. Seyfried will play the daughter 25 years later as she tries to cope with her troubled upbringing. 

No word on when this will lens but it's shaping up fast enough that we can probably expect to see it later in 2014.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Amanda Seyfried joins 'While We're Young'; Steven Soderbergh to helm 'The Knick'; Todd Haynes returns for 'Carol'



* Noah Baumbach's invigorating Frances Ha rolls into theaters nationwide tomorrow, but he's also busy assembling the cast for his long-developing While We're Young. Reuniting with his Greenberg star Ben Stiller, along with Adam Driver (Girls) and Naomi Watts, Baumbach has now added Amanda Seyfried. The film follows an older couple who are inspired to "loosen up" by a younger, carefree couple, obviously comprised of Driver and Seyfried. The plan is for filming to take place this fall.

* So much for that retirement, eh? Ok, so maybe he only meant feature films. Steven Soderbergh will direct every episode of Cinemax's 10-episode TV series, The Knick, starring Clive Owen.  The show sounds pretty awesome, set in the 1900s at the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City, where the surgeons, nurses, and staff push the boundaries of modern medicine at a time when mortality rates were ridiculously high. Soderbergh's final film, Behind the Candelabra, airs on HBO this Sunday.[Deadline]

* Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) has replaced John Crowley as the director of Carol, marking his first big screen effort in six years. Starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, the film is based on the Patricia Highsmith novel, The Price of Salt, set in the 1950s and centering on the lesbian relationship between a bored housewife and her young lover. Haynes has been keeping busy, recently directing the Emmy award-winning Mildred Pierce for HBO.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Amanda Seyfried, Chris Pine, and Chiwetel Ejiofor to star in 'Z for Zachariah'



After establishing himself as an author of fairly mature children's books with Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH(later adapted as The Secret of NIMH), Robert Conley (pen name Robert O'Brien) took to writing novels intended for adults. That led to his deeply disturbing, haunting 1974 post-apocalyptic novel Z for Zachariah, published posthumously by his wife and daughter. Remarkably, other than a fairly pedestrian 1984 BBC adaptation, it's never been brought to the big screen. But that's about to change, as Craig Zobel (Compliance) became attached to direct a Tobey Maguire-produced adaptation last summer, and now his cast is starting to come together.

The underrated Chiwetel Ejiofor (Redbelt), Amanda Seyfried, and Chris Pine are the first three to sign on to the psychological thriller. Seyfried will play Ann Borden, who believes she is the lone survivor of a devastating nuclear event. That turns out not to be the case, however, as she soon encounters Professor Loomis (Ejiofor), which leads to a weird love/hate relationship. The novel basically follows only these two characters, so it's interesting that Pine has supposedly been cast as another survivor. It's possible that Nissar Modi's screenplay is going to tweak the story a little bit.

It's another big move for Pine, who can already be seen saving the universe in Star Trek Into Darkness, and is eying a major role opposite Johnny Depp in Into the Woods. Filming on Z for Zachariah begins this August, and you can listen to Zobel briefly discuss it here.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Sure Shots: Keira Knightley; Scott Cooper; Reese Witherspoon



* A major change is in order for Laggies, the long-developing dark comedy from Your Sister's Sister director, Lynn Shelton. Anne Hathaway had been set for the film, but due to scheduling conflicts with Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, she's had to drop out. EW now reports that Keira Knightley is in talks to replace her as the 28-year old woman who freaks out after her boyfriend's marriage proposal and runs off to hang out with a group of adolescents. Sam Rockwell, Mark Webber, and Chloe Moretz co-star.

* Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace) has had no trouble attaching himself to a slew of projects, most of which don't seem to be progressing all that much. But that won't stop him from adding one more, as he'll next take on 36th Precinct, a remake of the 2004 cop film directed by Olivier Marchal. The story will be set in the NYPD anti-terrorism unit, and follows a pair of ruthless cops seeking a promotion by taking down a criminal gang. [Deadline]

* Reese Witherspoon is hoping you're done staring at her mugshot and ready to embrace her as America's sweetheart again. Witherspoon, who has booked two big projects in the last week, is set to rejoin her Walk the Line director James Mangold for Three Little Words. An adaptation of Ashley Rhodes-Courter's memoir, the story follows a Florida girl who entered the child welfare system at the age of four. Witherspoon will play the social worker trying to convince the child's mother to give up her rights. Amanda Seyfried is currently being eyed to play the mother. The last time Witherspoon and Mangold teamed up, she walked away with an Oscar win. Can it happen again?

Monday, February 11, 2013

Amanda Seyfried joins Seth MacFarlane's 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'


It's easy to peg Amanda Seyfried as just another young actress swirling around the sappy romance drain, but her career has been anything but predictable. For every Letters to Juliet or Dear John, there's a Chloe or In Time. She's been broadening her horizons even more of late with mixed results, busting out her vocal chops in Les Miserables, and playing a porn legend in Lovelace. Now she's turning to the comedy route by joining the latest film from Seth MacFarlane.

THR reports that Seyfried will join A Million Ways to Die in the West (that title's gotta be shortened), MacFarlane's directorial follow-up to Ted and bringing back that film's co-writers. She'll play the girlfriend to MacFarlane's mild-mannered farmer, dumping him after he backs out of a gun fight.  The newly-cast Charlize Theron is the wife of a notorious outlaw who teaches him how to shoot, with sparks flying between the two.

This is why it pays to be a famous filmmaker-turned-actor. You get to cast all sorts of hot chicks to play love interests. Production begins this May. 

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Sundance News: First clip drops from 'Lovelace,' starring Amanda Seyfried


Well, Amanda Seyfried has gone from playing the purest of the pure - Cosette in last year's Les Mis - to legendary porn star Linda Boreman in the biopic Lovelace, which premieres Wednesday at Sundance. Our very own Travis Hopson will be seeing the film at Sundance, so stay tuned for his review!

Until then, though, click through for the first clip from the film, which features Seyfried with some very curly brown hair and very few clothes. No, she's not naked just yet, but she is becoming more sexually aware. In the clip, she chats with photographer and love interest Larry (Wes Bentley, YES, I ADORE HIM; this looks so much better than last year's Gone, which Seyfried and Bentley also starred in together) about how her work in the adult industry so far has taught her "how to enjoy sex, and I feel free." And when she sees the portraits Larry shoots of her, she can't believe it - "You made me beautiful."

Yup, lots here for dudes to salivate over and women to get angry about. I'm already a little offended, feminism, etc. But anyway, check back later this week for Travis's review of Lovelace (which also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Adam Brody, and Juno Temple), and click through for the clip!



Tuesday, January 15, 2013

New trailer for Mark Webber's 'The End of Love'


Mark Webber's intimate and deeply personal The End of Love debuted at last year's Sundance Film Festival, so perhaps in an attempt to remind people of that, a new trailer has debuted just days before this year's fest kicks off. We brought you the previous one a few months ago, and it looks like a story Webber has been aching to tell for quite some time, even if it does look all too much like the prototypical indie festival film.  Starring alongside his actual son, Webber plays an actor(named Mark of course), who must learn to grow up and take care of his child in the wake of his wife's sudden death.

Co-starring Aubrey Plaza, Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Cera, Amanda Seyfried, Jason Ritter, and more, the film hits Itunes on January 21st before opening in limited release on March 1st. Check out the trailer below....

Monday, October 1, 2012

Trailer for Mark Webber's 'The End of Love' with Michael Cera and Amanda Seyfried


Premiering at Sundance earlier this year, The End of Love didn't make a whole lot of waves, and thus to the best of my knowledge still doesn't have a distribution deal in place. The film marks the second directorial effort by Mark Webber, an actor many will recognize from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and he's brought along a few friends in a story that looks to be a deeply personal one.

Webber stars as an actor named Mark, who is struggling to find a balance between work and caring for his infant son as a single parent.  'Scott Pilgrim' alum Michael Cera appears as himself, and Aubrey Plaza is in there as well. Amanda Seyfriend plays a woman named Amanda, and if you look closely you'll see others such as Alia Shawkat and Jason Ritter. Shannyn Sossamon plays a woman Mark seems to hit it off with, and what you get is what looks like a reflection on some aspect of the actor's real life, mixed with a healthy dose of fiction. While seeing all of Webber's close buds together is cool, this trailer is so glacially paced I hope they aren't using it as part of the sales pitch.

Check out the trailer for The End of Love below....[BleedingCool]



Sunday, February 12, 2012

New poster for 'Lovelace' shows Amanda Seyfried as the 'Deep Throat' star


As interesting as the story of iconic porn star Linda Lovelace is, there's little hope of people being interested enough to support two films on the subject. That's why it's been so fascinating watching the neck and neck race between the two rival films trying to tell her story. One, titled Inferno, used to have Lindsay Lohan in the lead role before finally settling on Malin Akerman. The other, titled Lovelace, has a surprising amount of positive buzz surrounding it, making it one of the most hotly anticipated indie films of the coming year. What's the big deal about Inferno? A lot of it has to do with it's star, Amanda Seyfried.

With her innocent appearance and history of schmaltzy romances(Mamma Mia!, Letters to Juliet), the marketing strategy has been to put Seyfried out there as much as possible, hoping people will jump at the chance to see her get a little dirty.  The New York Times has debuted the latest poster and a couple of new images from the film, showing Seyfried in a vintage style poster for Deep Throat, the film that made Lovelace a household name.


Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, they've assembled a cast that Inferno simply can't touch. Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Wes Bentley, Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, Adam Brody, Chloe Sevigny, Sarah Jessica Parker co-star with James Franco making a cameo as Hugh Hefner.
 
Seyfried has been trying for awhile to shed her good girl image, and so far those attempts have all been goose eggs like Chloe.  But Lovelace seems to have hooked everybody's attention, so maybe this will be the turn that finally does it for her.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

New poster for the Amanda Seyfried thriller, 'Gone'


And the struggle to turn Amanda Seyfried into a star continues. Last month we saw the first trailer for Gone, another throwaway thriller she's starring in(like Chloe) that looks like it'd be better served on the Lifetime Channel. She plays Jill Parrish, who returns home one night to discover that her sister, Molly, has vanished. Jill, who survived a kidnapping attempt once in her life, believes that the same man is back and now holds her sister hostage. Unfortunately, nobody believes her, and Jill must do whatever it takes to find Molly and expose her abductor.

Directed by Brazilian filmmaker, Heitor Dhalia, the film stars Wes Bentley, Jennifer Carpenter, Sebastian Stan, Michael Pare, and Joel David Moore.  Summit Entertainment, still keen on Seyfried after her surprise hit, Letters to Juliet, have unveiled a new poster ahead of the film's February 24th release.