Throw back road movie thriller, “Wrecker” gets cool poster, trailer and release date!

I have to say I am a sucker for road movies and a sucker for fun, tense horror films so I have a lot of hope for this new, exciting thriller from the producer of American Mary, details below:

WRECKER
IN THEATERS: November 6, 2015
VOD AND iTUNES RELEASE DATE: November 10, 2015
DIRECTED BY: Micheal Bafaro
STORY BY: Evan Tylor, Micheal Bafaro
SCREENPLAY BY: Micheal Bafaro
CAST: Anna Hutchison, Drea Whitburn

SYNOPSIS: Best friends Emily and Lesley go on a road trip to the desert. When Emily decides to get off the highway and take a “short cut,” they become the target of a relentless and psychotic trucker who forces them to play a deadly game of cat and mouse.

GENRE: Action/ Thriller/ Horror 
DISTRIBUTOR: XLrator Media

The official trailer for YOUTH starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel and Rachel Weisz is HERE!

Directed and Written by Paolo Sorrentino
Produced by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima and Carlotta Calori 
Starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano and Jane Fonda

From Paolo Sorrentino, the internationally renowned writer and director of Italy’s Oscar-winning foreign language film The Great Beauty, comes YOUTH – a poignant tale of how we each find our own passion in life.
Starring Academy Award winner Michael Caine as Fred and Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel as Mick, YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement.
While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz), Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda (Academy Award winner Jane Fonda). And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy (Paul Dano), an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance? Set against a sprawling landscape of unforgettable sights and intoxicating music, YOUTH asks if our most important and life-changing experiences can come at any time – even late – in life.

YOUTH will open in theaters December 4, 2015

For more info: 

Official site: www.youththemovie.com 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youthmovie2015

DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE STORY OF NATIONAL LAMPOON, Trailer and release date

Magnolia Pictures will release

DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE STORY OF NATIONAL LAMPOON 

In Theaters, On Demand and On iTunes on September 25th 

Directed by Douglas Tirola 

Featuring Judd Apatow, Kevin Bacon, Chevy Chase, John Goodman, Bill Murray and more!

From the 1970s thru the 1990s, there was no hipper, no more outrageous comedy in print than The National Lampoon, the groundbreaking humor magazine that pushed the limits of taste and acceptability - and then pushed them even harder. Parodying everything from politics, religion, entertainment and the whole of American lifestyle, the Lampoon eventually went on to branch into successful radio shows, record albums, live stage revues and movies, including ANIMAL HOUSE and NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION, launching dozens of huge careers on the way.
Director Tirola tells the story of its rise and fall through fresh, candid interviews with its key staff, and illustrated with hundreds of outrageous images from the mag itself (along with never-seen interview footage from the magazine's prime). The film gives fans of the Lampoon a unique inside look at a magazine that dared to think what no one was thinking, but wished they had.

Running Time: 92 minutes
Rating: Unrated

For more information visit:

http://www.magpictures.com/nationallampoon/

TRUMBO, starring Bryan Cranston, trailer, poster, photos & release date

Directed by Jay Roach

Screenplay by John McNamara

Starring Bryan Cranston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Louis C.K., David James Elliott, Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Diane Lane, Alan Tudyk, Michael Stuhlbarg and Helen Mirren

In Theatres November 6, 2015

The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.

Distributor: Bleecker Street

Genre: Drama, Biography

Run time: 124 minutes

MPAA rating: Rated “R" for language including some sexual references

With a cast like that you can bet I am buying a ticket when this gets released!
Watch the trailer below, presented by Bryan Cranston and take a look at some stills from the film!

Bryan Cranston stars as Dalton Trumbo in Jay Roach’s TRUMBO, a Bleecker Street release.


Credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle

Helen Mirren (left) stars as Hedda Hopper and Bryan Cranston (right) stars as Dalton Trumbo in Jay Roach’s TRUMBO, a Bleecker Street release. 

Credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle

Bryan Cranston (left) stars as Dalton Trumbo and Diane Lane (right) stars as Cleo Trumbo in Jay Roach’s TRUMBO, a Bleecker Street release. 

Credit: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle

For More Information: 

Official Site: www.TrumboMovie.com 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrumboMovie 

Twitter: @BleeckerStFilms 

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/BleeckerStFilms 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BleeckerStFilms 

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Horror film SOME KIND OF HATE gets a release date and a trailer

SOME KIND OF HATE  from RLJ Entertainment

IN THEATERS, VOD, AND iTUNES: September 18, 2015 

Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer 

Written by  Brian DeLeeuw & Adam Egypt Mortimer 

Cast: Ronen Rubinstein, Grace Phipps, Maestro Harrell, Lexi Atkins, Sierra McCormick, Noah Segan, Brando Eaton with Spencer Breslin and Michael Polish 

Synopsis:  Relentless bullying has turned Lincoln’s life into a nightmare. But he soon learns the true meaning of terror when he is sent to a remote school for troubled teens and the harassments start all over again. Only this time, someone is watching – a teenage girl named Moira who was driven to suicide by vicious bullying years ago. When Lincoln accidentally summons Moira from the grave, he unleashes a vengeful and unstoppable force on a mission of blood-soaked revenge.

GENRE: Horror, Thriller 

RUNTIME: 83 minutes

RATING: Not Rated

EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK of the ALL NEW Herschell Gordon Lewis produced Bloodmania

We here at the After Movie Diner are proud to be able to present to you the first sneak peek from one of the four segments that comprise the anthology film, Herschell Gordon Lewis' Bloodmania.
Produced by friend of the site, the awesome James Saito and with segments directed by genre icon Herschell Gordon Lewis,  Kevin Littlelight and Melanie Reinboldt, Bloodmania is the first movie from the magazine off-shoot Diabolique Films and is produced in conjunction with HGB Entertainment.
It stars up and coming, prolific indie scream queen, Genoveva Rossi.
COMING SOON!

Hear James Saito and Herschell Gordon Lewis discuss the film on The Podcast From The After Movie Diner

Alan Partridge comes to American shores

After proving to be a massive hit in the UK and abroad, America is set to get the feature length tale of everyone's favourite odd ball, middle aged, local radio DJ from Norwich, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (uk title)
Magnolia Pictures will release ALAN PARTRIDGE on iTunes/OnDemand February 27th and in theaters April 4, 2014.

Watch the official trailer for ALAN PARTRIDGE, starring Steve Coogan, exclusively on Apple Trailers: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/alanpartridge/

Directed by Declan Lowney 

Starring Steve Coogan, Felicity Montagu, Simon Greenall, Colm Meaney and Tim Key 

Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) has had many ups and downs in his life. National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV. Local radio broadcaster. A nervous breakdown in Dundee. His self-published book, 'Bouncing Back', subsequently remaindered and pulped. 

The movie, ALAN PARTRIDGE finds Alan at the center of a siege, when a disgruntled fellow DJ (Colm Meaney) decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he’s getting sacked by the new management. 

The character Alan Partridge first appeared over twenty years ago as a BBC sports reporter on the radio show, On The Hour. Since then, this wonderfully conceited, petty, anal, idiosyncratic comic creation has flourished across virtually every medium you can think of. He’s been a sports reporter (again) on the seminal TV news spoof, The Day Today, host of his own TV chat show, Knowing Me, Knowing You, star of the fly-on-the-wall sitcom I’m Alan Partridge, and most recently Mid-Morning Matters.

I can tell you, as I have seen the film that it's very funny and well worth a look when it's released.

Official Site: http://www.magpictures.com/alanpartridge/
Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlanPartridgefilm

The Right Kind Of Wrong Trailer and Details

Magnolia Pictures will release THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG on iTunes/OnDemand February 6, 2014 and in theaters March 14, 2014. 

Directed by Jeremiah Chechik
Starring Ryan Kwanten, Sara Canning, Will Sasso and Catherine O'Hara

Leo Palamino has dedicated his life to what some may call impossible dreams. At least his ex-wife Julie would call them that. But Leo is an expert at not listening to her criticism or anyone else’s for that matter because Leo is a stubborn romantic... An idealist. A dreamer. And to dream big, impossible dreams you can’t listen to the people who tell you that’s what those dreams are.

It is precisely this refusal to listen to criticism that drove his ex-wife Julie to blog about Leo’s flaws as their relationship broke down. A blog... called Why You Suck that would become a cultural phenomenon. And so when we meet Leo Palamino, he is a romantic dreamer, a dedicated writer, a dishwasher in a tourist trap, and a celebrity...

A man famous for his flaws.

Then one afternoon, as the very dejected Leo watches Julie being interviewed on a talk show about her upcoming book, he lays eyes on the woman of his (impossible) dreams... COLETTE is on her way into a wedding across the street from Leo’s house.

Her wedding.

For more info: Official Site: http://www.magpictures.com/therightkindofwrong/ 

Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rightkindofwrongfilm 

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Fading Gigolo Trailer and Details

Millennium Entertainment will release FADING GIGOLO in theaters April 18, 2014.

Director Woody Allen will be awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes this Sunday, January 12.

Written and Directed by John Turturro 
Starring Sofía Vergara, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Liev Schreiber, John Turturro, Max Casella and Vanessa Paradis 

Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

Grand Piano Trailer and Details

Directed by Eugenio Mira
Written by Damien Chazelle
Starring Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Tamsin Egerton, Kerry Bishé and Alex Winter

Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public in a long-awaited concert in Chicago. In a packed theater, in front of the expectant audience, Tom finds a message written on the score: “Play one wrong note and you die.”
Without leaving the piano, Tom must discover the anonymous sniper’s motives and look for help without anyone realizing… For more info:


Official Site: http://www.magnetreleasing.com/grandpiano/ 
Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grandpianomovie

Magnet Releasing will release GRAND PIANO on iTunes/On Demand January 30, 2014 and in theaters March 7, 2014.

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Magnolia Takes US Rights to Richard Ayoade’s THE DOUBLE

The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnolia Pictures announced that they have acquired US rights to THE DOUBLE, the new film directed and co-written by Richard Ayoade (Submarine), starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre).

A darkly funny and moving dystopian vision loosely based on the novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, THE DOUBLE boasts a terrific supporting cast, including Wallace Shawn, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor, James Fox, Cathy Moriarty, Chris O’Dowd, Sally Hawkins, Craig Roberts and Paddy Considine. Co-written by Avi Korine, THE DOUBLE was produced by Amina Dasmal and Robin Fox, with executive producers Michael Caine, Graeme Cox, Tessa Ross and Nigel Williams. It bowed to critical acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival last month.

Eisenberg plays Simon, a timid, isolated man who’s overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams (Wasikowska). The arrival of a new co-worker, James (also played by Eisenberg), serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.

Said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles, “THE DOUBLE is an incredibly assured, confident and visionary film. Richard Ayoade is a talent to be reckoned with—he firmly establishes himself as an dynamic and important auteur with this uncannily entertaining, stylish and compulsively watchable film.”

Producer Amina Dasmal states "Magnolia's proven ability to work so well with the leading filmmakers and original voices of our time, makes them the perfect partner for this urgent film"

Producer Robin Fox adds "Magnolia's passion for the film and for Richard's work give us a great comfort the film will be handled with strength and thought needed to give it the platform it richly deserves"

Magnolia is eyeing a 2014 theatrical release for THE DOUBLE following a robust domestic festival run.

The deal was negotiated by Magnolia Director of Acquisitions John Von Thaden, with WME Global and Protagonist Pictures on behalf of the filmmakers.

The Double is Film4 and BFI presentation of an Alcove Entertainment production in association with Protagonist Pictures.

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