TRAITOR TRAILER GREATER NOW THAN LATER

05.16.08 Written by Vince Mancini

After the jump you may find the trailer for Traitor, or you may find a box of kittens. (Click here to find out!)  In the film, Don Cheadle stars as an undercover agent in a terrorist organization, and shit gets real when he becomes a target of the CIA.  It also stars Guy Pearce, Neal McDonough, Jeff Daniels, and Archie Panjabi (pictured at left).

The movie was written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (writer of The Day After Tomorrow) and is based on an idea from Steve Martin.  That’s right.  They attached Steve Martin’s name to the project and his only credit on IMDB is "(idea)".  And I bet they paid him handsomely for it, too.  Way to keep your tang game proper, Steve. – RoboPanda

HD version also available at firstshowing

 

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‘CRASH’ COMES TO TV

01.29.08 Written by Vince Mancini

Don Cheadle, Paul Haggis, and four of the producers on Crash will produce a 13-episode TV series based on the 2005 Best Picture oscar winner for the Starz network.

“This deal fits well with Starz’s strategy of making TV series out of presold movie commodities,” said Stephan Shelanski, executive VP of programming for Starz Entertainment.

Shelanski said the series would have “high production values,” but decisions are still to be made on casting and the shooting location. Starz will be able to begin work on those details immediately, Shelanski said, because Lionsgate has signed a separate deal with the writers guild.

Important to note: none of the characters from the movie will be in the show.

“We’ll use the style of storytelling from the movie,” he said, “but there’ll be new characters and new stories to get into the subjects of race and class, and the bigotry that’s simmering under the skin of a city like Los Angeles.”

Some might expect me to angry about this – not so.  The only problem was Crash ever being a movie in the first place – it always belonged on cable.  I only hope they’ll shoot it in the style it was always meant for: An afternoon special where Ludacris and some stuffed animals rap about the dangers of racism. 

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DARFUR TRAILER PROVES YOU’RE A BASTARD

11.06.07 Written by Vince Mancini


Watch the trailer for Darfur Now

This is the trailer for Darfur Now, a documentary about "the struggles and achievements of six different individuals from inside Darfur and around the world bring to light the tragedy in Sudan and show how the actions of one person can make a difference to millions."  Much like Al Gore’s movie, it will probably win lots of awards and get tons of recognition to make up for the fact that no one will actually do shit about the situation.  It’s sad that we learned so little from the holocaust Mel Gibson says didn’t happen.

I hope you see this.  It will be the heartwarming movie of the year.  You’ll learn that once again, while you were out shopping for iPod covers and wondering what Star Wars t-shirt to buy, African children were being raped and murdered.  In fact, in the time it took you to read this, 15 babies were killed.  I hope you’re happy.

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