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Rosalía flows free in the forest with a hatchet and a chainsaw in the new, nature-roaming music video for “Delirio de Grandeza.”

The Mitch Ryan-directed music video, which dropped Wednesday, follows the Spanish singer exploring nature as she starts a fire by a tent, chops her own wood (she poses with a chainsaw but never turns it on), and runs through the forest.

“The ambition, the delusion of grandeur/Made of me a martyred being,” she sings in Spanish in the chorus. “Because I was madly in love/Woman, I don’t deserve such lowness.

Rosalía’s TikTok performance in celebration of her album Motomami is a wild ride. The trippy, campy, strange video is now available to watch on YouTube — and it’s meant to be viewed from a mobile device since the camera spins from a wide view to a vertical view and flips around throughout.

“The contents change orientation, so it is recommended to lock screen orientation in settings and to hold the device with both hands,” a disclaimer reads at the start.

Rosalía begins her performance with “Saoko” as she dances...

This is my seventh TCM Classic Film Festival. At a certain point, some things become routine – one learns to expect the exhaustion at the dawn of day three (of four), the constant negotiation between personal viewing whims and rare presentations, the way plots and aesthetic choices start to run together, and the suspicion that explaining the draw of such an event to those not immediately inclined to attend it may come across a touch insane. Film festivals are innately demanding experiences, but between the pleasure of its programming, the consolidation of the venues, and the brevity of most of its films’ running times, few make it so easy to watch four, five, six movies in a day. You tell your coworkers on Monday what you did all weekend, and it starts to not make a lot of sense. But somehow, in the midst of it all, the point of it couldn’t be clearer.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr, a film producer and executive and son of movie pioneer Samuel Goldwyn, died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 88. The New York Times reported that Goldwyn’s son John said he died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The founder of the Samuel Goldwyn Company earned an Emmy and a Best Picture Oscar nom during a producing career that spanned 65 years through 2013’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty; his father produced the original in 1947.

Goldwyn’s credits include 2003’s Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World, which tallied 10 Oscar nominations including Best Picture. He also was a producer on such films as The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1960), Mystic Pizza (1985), The Preacher’s Wife (1996) and Tortilla Soup (2001). One of his rare TV credits was producing the 60th Academy Awards in 1988, for which he was rewarded with an Emmy.

Born September 7, 1926, in Los Angeles...

From Mvd, Sneak Peek footage from "The Best Of The Danny Kaye Show", available on DVD October 7, 2014, including six uncut episodes of the Emmy-winning 1963-1967 variety series:

"...Danny Kaye was at the height of his popularity when 'The Danny Kaye Show' debuted on CBS in the fall of 1963. A pair of Broadway hits 'Lady In the Dark' and 'Let's Face It' plus a succession of popular feature films including 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', 'The Inspector General', 'Knock On Wood', 'Up In Arms', 'The Court Jester', 'Hans Christian Andersen' and 'White Christmas' made Danny Kaye one of the most beloved stars of his day..."

In this collection  Danny sings with Ella Fitzgerald, Nana Mouskouri and Harry Belafonte. He sings and dances with Liza Minnelli and Gene Kelly, and deftly clowns his way through comedy sketches with Art Carney, Rod Serling,...

The Oscar race may be a little under four months away, but the campaign circuit is already in full swing in Hollywood, where any number of industry screenings, Q&A's, parties, dinners and other glad-handing events are vying for the time and attention of voters. Glenn Whipp considers today's packed diary, with competing events for "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "12 Years a Slave," "Her," "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" and "Inside Llewyn Davis," and wonders if things have already gone too far. "It's out of control," one academy member said of the barrage of events. Says one Academy member, "It's...

Today's podcast covers a wide range of topics because we finally get to many of the listener questions we've been saving up over the past couple of weeks. Therefore we discuss Marvel movies, the Production Design category at the Oscars, the Best Animated Film race, reading source material, the best trilogies, Sweden's use of the Bechtel Test, the effect of commerce on today's movies and much more. We also take a look at the new DVDs and Blu-rays out today, play some games and cover even more ground all in the span of about 102 minutes. If you are on Twitter, we have a Twitter account dedicated to the podcast at @bnlpod. Give us a follow won'tchac I want to remind you that you can call in and leave us your comments, thoughts, questions, etc. directly on our Google Voice account, which you can call and leave a message for us...

Instead of a platform release beginning Dec. 27, Jason Reitman's film starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin will have a one-week Oscar-qualifying run and then open wide on Jan. 31.

Paramount has backed off plans to open Labor Day, Jason Reitman's upcoming film starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, in limited release over a very crowded Christmas holiday, instead planning a one-week awards-qualifying run ahead of a wide release.

The distributor has shifted the film from a slower platform release beginning on Dec. 25 to a wide release on Jan. 31, after an Oscar qualifying run on Dec. 27.

Film Review: Labor Day

The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel of the same name, stars Winslet as a depressed mother who gives a mysterious and possibly dangerous stranger (Brolin) a ride in her car.

Paramount and Indian Paintbrush co-produced the film, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Aug. 29.

With this move,...

It's time for reviews as we delve into Thor: The Dark World and The Book Thief while also continuing our sequel discussion just a little, talk about the upcoming RoboCop remake, explore some Oscar betting odds, answer your questions, play some games and talk a little about the Blockbuster closure. If you are on Twitter, we have a Twitter account dedicated to the podcast at @bnlpod. Give us a follow won'tchac I want to remind you that you can call in and leave us your comments, thoughts, questions, etc. directly on our Google Voice account, which you can call and leave a message for us at (925) 526-5763, which may be even easier to remember at (925) 5-bnl-pod. Just call, leave us a voice mail and we'll add those to the show and respond directly. An alternative to that option is a new way of leaving us a voicemail directly from your computer.

Once again this Fall AFI Fest will take place in the heart of Hollywood on November 7-14, 2013. Presented by the American Film Institute and Audi, the 27th edition of the festival encompasses the year's best in cinema from around the world's most important festivals. The program includes some of the most anticipated films that will surely be in the running this Award Season, as well as several Foreign Language Oscar Submissions, films from new voices in cinema, as well as classic films restored for the delight of new audiences. AFI Fest is a World Class film festival that is also, surprisingly, free for the public, which really assures people in Los Angeles, and those who visit for the festival, that they can enjoy great films without any burden.

The festival's director Jacqueline Lyanga talked to us about the specifics of each section in the festival, the arduous selection that begins early every year, and how AFI Fest represents the new, broader way Hollywood operates today.

Carlos Aguilar: Could you briefly discuss the selections process for the festival, given that it is a very eclectic and varied program?

Jacqueline Lyanga: Our festival has evolved over the past few years; we are not a festival that focuses on World Premieres. What we do is, we start looking for films in January at Sundance, and then we go to Rotterdam, Berlin, Tribeca and South By Southwest, Cannes, Locarno, Telluride, and lastly Toronto is the last festival that we attend. We look to bring, as best as we can, a program that serves as a kind of almanac of the year. We look to bring the best films of the year and try to inspire in the local audience, and in those who come to Los Angeles for the festival, dialogues around cinema that we have experience over the course of the year as we go from festival to festival, to showcase the ideas that filmmakers are exploring around the world.

Aguilar: In regards to each section, what is new this year? Could you give us an overview of the distinct sections of the festival?

Lyanga: We have one competitive section for feature films, that’s our New Auteurs section. New Auteurs is a section that highlights first and second time international filmmakers. We look to have it be very international, there is one American filmmaker in it, and we look to showcase films of young filmmakers with a bold new creative vision. That’s a really exciting program, many of these films have won awards at other festivals, and then they play together in the same section at AFI Fest.

World Cinema encompasses a number of kinds of filmmakers, emerging filmmakers, master filmmakers, The Lunchbox is by a first time director, then we have filmmakers like Kim Ki-duk with Moebius, or Sebastian Lelio, who has made a few films, with Gloria starring Paulina Garcia. It showcases a lot of great international performances as well.

The Special Screenings are highly anticipated films often from the Fall Festival Circuit, and of course our Galas, our big nightly red carpets. That section is also very much a combination of studio films, independent films, auteur films, and foreign films. We have The Last Emperor in 3D, we have Inside Llewyn Davis, Saving Mr. Banks, Out of the Furnace, so a lot of different kinds of filmmaking, which really showcases what Hollywood is now, which is really a big part of our message this year.

We want people to see the festival as the way in which Hollywood encompasses icons, masters, and emerging filmmakers, American filmmakers and foreign filmmakers. Our guest Artistic Director is Agnes Varda, as I’m sure you know, she selected a program of films. That program will showcase two of her films Cleo from 5 to 7 and Documenteur, as well as a film that she restored with her children, her daughter Rosalie and her son Mathieu, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, her late husband Jacques Demy’s film.

So we have a really great cross-section of filmmaking in the program. We also have a new section this year called Cinema’s Legacy in which we highlight restoration and film anniversaries, all of the films in that section have a connection to our program the one I just mentioned, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, that Agnes Varda restored. The other two are The Court Jester, which stars Danny Kaye, who also starred in the original The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. It is Danny Kaye’s centennial this year, which we are celebrating. The third film Mary Poppins, which is the film that inspired our Opening Night film Saving Mr. Banks that tells the story of the making of Mary Poppins.

Aguilar: What drew you to select Agnes Varda to be this year’s Guest Artistic Director?

Lyanga: It is really exciting for us that she is our first female Guest Artistic director, and a director that has been so influential to the French New Wave. The French New Wave was extremely influential to American filmmakers especially in the 70’s, so that influence and us seeking for masters in that role like David Lynch, and as you know Pedro Almodovar or Bernardo Bertolucci, and it just seemed perfect to follow those three with Agnes Varda.

Aguilar: Given that you have attended all the major film festivals in the world what makes AFI Fest different or special?

Lyanga: One of the great things about the festival is that it’s free. I think it’s amazing, because of great partners, great sponsors like Audi, American Airlines who helps us bring in the filmmakers, or Motorola who is a big sponsor this year, or Coca-Cola, they enable us to really put on a World Class film festival for free. The audience doesn’t have to worry about the cost of the ticket; the cost of the ticket doesn’t have to be a barrier to experience the best of contemporary World Cinema. I think that’s what makes me really excited every year about programming this festival and then ultimately about Opening Night.

Aguilar: What is the relationship between AFI Fest and the AFI Conservatory Alummi?

Lyanga: The festival offices are on the Institute’s campus, which is where the conservatory is housed. Every year, including this year, we definitely have some AFI Alumni’s films playing at the festival. Drake Doremus, who was a Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner with Like Crazy a few years ago, has a film called Breath In at the festival this year. Producer Brian Udovich is present with a film called We Gotta Get Out Of This Place in our American Independent section, which was at Toronto earlier this year. We have alumni as a screenwriter and another as a cinematographer on Out of the Furnace. Also La Jaula de Oro a Spanish/Mexican Co-Production directed by an AFI cinematography alumni. We have some in the shorts program as well; a short called Whale Valley, another short called Machsom, also Wild Horses by Stephanie Martin. So we have several AFI Alumni with films in the program.

Aguilar: The program includes several Submissions to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award; do you think AFI serves as a platform to increase the chances of these films at getting a nomination?

Lyanga: Often times when we invite a film it hasn’t even been selected yet, so we don’t know, we find out afterwards. It’s always exciting to find that out because it means more opportunities and more attention for the filmmakers. Festivals certainly do have a role to help promote cinema, and to build audiences for the filmmakers, and to help build the filmmakers’ careers. The fact that the festival takes place in Los Angeles provides a great opportunity for those films and those filmmakers to get the attention from both the public audience and the industry audience that might have been difficult for them to attain otherwise.

Aguilar: Lastly, why should people come to AFI Fest 2013, and what are you most excited about this year?

Lyanga: I think a lot of people came to festival over the past two or three years and had a great experience, and discovered new films and new filmmakers, and fell in love with films that they were looking forward to seeing. We will definitely have that again this year. There are some films that people have been hearing about, films like Her, Philomena, Mandela, August Osage County, or The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, that people can’t wait to see and they are going to come see them at the festival. There is the return of some great filmmakers like the Cohen Brothers, that’s really exciting, is something great to look forward to. They return to their partnership with T-Bone Burnett. Of course, I think in our New Auteurs section specially, there are some great new directors to discover. Across the World Cinema program, fantastic performances in Child’s Pose, in Gloria, Omar, Bethlehem, Gabrielle, there is a global experience and what filmmakers are exploring and the issues that people are tackling around the word. It’s a great place to escape, to be entertained, and in many way to educate both in documentaries and in narrative films.

For tickets, schedules, and more information on AFI Fest visit Here...

We are covering topics far and wide today with Oscar talk, new DVDs and Blu-rays and the sequelization of today's movies. Plus Laremy saw Ender's Game, The Way, Way Back and The Internship so we talk some more about those plus we get to your questions and voicemails, play some games and pretty much discuss whatever comes to mind. If you are on Twitter, we have a Twitter account dedicated to the podcast at @bnlpod. Give us a follow won'tchac I want to remind you that you can call in and leave us your comments, thoughts, questions, etc. directly on our Google Voice account, which you can call and leave a message for us at (925) 526-5763, which may be even easier to remember at (925) 5-bnl-pod. Just call, leave us a voice mail and we'll add those to the show and respond directly. An alternative to that option is a new...

There's been some question about whether "American Hustle" will compete as a drama or comedy at the Golden Globes, but an official decision has finally been made: drama. David O. Russell's films tend to have a rich mix of drama and comedy that give them the flexibility to opt for either award classification. Last year his "Silver Linings Playbook" chose to compete as a comedy (where it earned the Best Actress laurels for Jennifer Lawrence), but it easily could've chosen the drama route. But the comedy lineup at the upcoming Globes got especially crowded recently with the news that "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "August: Osage County" will go for those races, joining "Inside Llewyn Davis," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "Enough Said," "Her" and "Nebraska,"  among others. -Break- Over on the drama side, "American Hustle" takes on "12 Years a...

Visited by his late mother one strange night in a dream, Charlie (Shia Labeouf) is prompted to board a plane and journey to Bucharest with no real plans in mind. What starts out as a drug-fueled party trip filled with dancing, pills and Rupert Grint, turns into something more severe when he meets up with a mysterious girl named Gabi (Evan Rachel Wood). Gangsters and gun violence follow. Isn’t that how these things always work out? Fredrik Bond‘s Charlie Countryman (formerly The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) seems like, at least from the trailer, a story about a man who plays it safe, who now gets to live when thrust into his new surroundings. Though we’re not shown what his life is like before Bucharest, it’s clear that the version of Charlie that gets hunted down by Mads Mikkelsen and parties hard isn’t the norm. But...

One of the most intriguing movies to come out this year for me anyways is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Ben Stiller (who also directed the film) stars as a daydreaming Life Magazine employee who has to start going on real adventures in order to track down an elusive photographer played by Sean Penn. The first trailer (watch here) got a lot of people talking and after it’s recent Nyff premiere, people are pretty much split on it. I’ll check it out for myself and let the Internet know what I think.

The film also stars Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Shirley MacLaine, Kathryn Hahn, and Patton Oswalt.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty opens December 25th, watch the trailer below:

Ben Stiller directs and stars in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, James Thurber’s classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing...

Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has long been one of the most anticipated films of the year.

The last time Stiller was seen behind the camera for a feature was Tropic Thunder, earning Robert Downey, Jr. his second Oscar nomination. Five years later, things are once more looking very good for Stiller’s upcoming film ahead of the awards season.

With the film due out at Christmas in the States, Fox launched the first teaser trailer over the summer, to a brilliant reception. And with the film officially making its debut at the Nyff this month – you can read our review here – the studio has now released the full theatrical trailer.

Ben Stiller directs and stars in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, James Thurber’s classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism,...

Back in 1947, Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo captivated audiences with “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” and on December 25th, Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig will give the story a fresh reboot.

In the newly-released trailer, the “Meet the Parents” star plays a writer at Life magazine who goes on a wondrous journey in order to save his own job and that of Wiig’s character, whom he secretly loves.

Also starring Adam Scott, Patton Oswalt, Sean Penn, and Kathryn Hahn, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” was a long time coming.

Producer John Goldwyn explained that he waited until writer Stuart Conrad came up with the perfect script. “In every other version, the script skewed closely to the original film, and his didn’t. It gave the character clarity. That’s what got Ben on board, Fox on board, got the thing moving down the track.”

Stiller added, “We...

The brand new full movie trailer for 20th Century Fox's Christmas Day release, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." The self-discovery drama is directed by and stars Ben Stiller. The film, that had it's movie premiere the other day at the New York Film Festival, also stars Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn,Sean Penn, Patton Oswalt, Shirley MacLaine and Joey Slotnick. Ben Stiller directs and stars in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," James Thurber's classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real...

We've finally got another trailer to share with you for Ben Stiller's incredibly fun-looking film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. I love the inspirational, imaginative feel to this movie, and the visuals look pretty amazing. There's a ton of more footage from the movie in this trailer, and it gives you more of an idea of what the story is actually going to be like.

James Thurber's classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.

The movie comes out on December 25th, 2013!

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Ben Stiller has really outdone himself in a new trailer for his epic-scale flick The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in which he co-stars with Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Patton Oswalt, Kathryn Hahn and Sean Penn. Based on the short story by James Thurber, Stiller‘s latest directorial effort premiered to mixed-but-passionate reviews at the New York Film Festival this past weekend. That is a major liberty he’s taken in telling the original story which seems decidedly uncinematic. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is the globe-spanning fantasy adventure film in Stiller’s quirky comedic style that will hit theaters this coming Christmas Day. Check...

The teaser trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is awe-inducing in terms of visuals, yet the basic premise behind the film – wherein an over-imaginative, yet milquetoast, officer worker set out upon a real adventure – also registers on an emotional level. But is the newly-released full-length theatrical trailer just as intriguing? And, more importantly, is the actual movie a viewing experience worth having, according to the initial wave of reviews?

First things first, the second trailer for star/director Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (loosely based on the short story written by James Thurber, which previously inspired the 1947 Technicolor comedy headlined by Danny Kaye) provides a more detailed breakdown of the story, albeit without spoiling any major twists or turns along the way. By the end, we’ve been given basic information (no more or less) about ...

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This is strange. Apparently Ben Stiller’s latest movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is all about me. I mean, literally. Stiller’s title character, Walter, goes on a globe-trotting mission of personal growth and salvation… and he does it to help his friend and former partner Sean O’Connell. I’m serious! Listen for it in the latest Mitty trailer, which just arrived on Yahoo Movies: There’s something surreal about hearing your own name in a trailer. Granted, if any actor were to play me on-screen, I probably would have gone with George Clooney, because of the resemblance. But I suppose Sean Penn is a worthy substitute. Stiller’s Walter Mitty is a modernized remake of the James Thurber...

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As I pointed out earlier this morning, the New York Film Festival screening of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty didn't exactly paint a flattering picture of the upcoming Ben Stiller flick and I would suspect Fox was hoping today's newly released trailer for the film would be met with more excitement than trepidation, but such is the risk of unveiling a hotly anticipated film that doesn't really live up to expectations. The film is an adaptation of James Thurber's classic story of a day-dreamer (Stiller) who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined. Fox will release the film in theaters on Christmas Day.

The last time I offered up a list of the best of 2013 was back in July, following my time at the Cannes Film Festival and smack dab in the middle of the Summer movie session. As it turns out, summer didn't offer all that much to be impressed by, but with three months between that list and this one, my list of favorites has grown and there are still a lot of films to look forward to. This is why I've broken up my list into several categories, beginning with those I've seen and have already been released in theaters to those I've seen that are still to come or don't yet have release dates. Following that is a list of eleven films I'm still most looking forward to seeing over the course of the next three months, all of which have a chance of making my top ten at the end of the year,...

20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” which also stars Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, and Sean Penn

Ben Stiller directs and stars in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” James Thurber’s classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.

Have a look at the new trailer below.

Film will hit theaters this coming Christmas Day.

Source: Yahoo! Movies

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Yahoo Movies has premiered the new full-length trailer for the Ben Stiller's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". The film is a new adaptation of James Thurber's famed short story, and the subsequent Danny Kaye 1947 musical fantasy film based on it.

The first trailer took many by surprise and delight a few months back, the film essentially looking like the lovechild of Wes Anderson & Michel Gondry, or a less esoteric Spike Jonze.

This past weekend the film premiered at the New York Film Festival to a very divided reaction from critics that spilled out into a minor Twitter skirmish. Those that loved it think it a serious awards contender, but the question is will it have enough wide support.

Ben Stiller’s adaptation of James Thurber’s short story “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” has been met with some mixed reactions from the critical community. There was early Oscar buzz when the first trailer and stills arrived, but that has since cooled down in the face of some blase reviews following its premiere at the New York Film Festival. The latest trailer for The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty tries to keep the buzz alive, treating us to images of epic scope and personal sentiment.

The film is based on the Thurber short story, but looks like it resembles it (and the original 1947 Danny Kaye film) in name only. The film is about a man who lives his life largely in his imagination, casting himself in heroic roles while occupying a normal and everyday existence. Walter (Stiller) takes his life on the road in a global adventure to...

Following its world premiere at the New York Film Festival this weekend, 20th Century Fox has released the second trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Ben Stiller stars as this timid photo manager who creates his own meticulous fantasy world to escape his humdrum existence. When an important photo negative goes missing, he sets off on a real-life adventure to track it down, while trying to win over his co-worker (Kristen Wiig). Sean Penn, Adam Scott and Shirley MacLaine co-star in this adaptation of James Thurber's novel, in theaters Christmas Day.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty comes to theaters December 25th, 2013 and stars Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Shirley MacLaine, Kathryn Hahn, Patton Oswalt, Terence Bernie Hines. The film is directed by Ben Stiller.

"Life is about courage and going into the unknown." Ben Stiller has clearly outdone himself. Following a glowing review from our own Joey Magidson over the weekend, the new full length trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is here, and damn, is it a gorgeous preview of what promises to be an endearing, emotional and visually stunning piece of work. This could be Stiller's first serious foray into Oscar consideration. Honestly, it does look a little sappy, but there's something about this trailer so uplifting, especially the music from Of Monsters and Men, and even a new song from Jose Gonzalez and St. Vincent. Here's the new trailer for Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, originally from Yahoo: Ben Stiller directs, produces and stars in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a new adaptation of James Thurber's classic short story with a script from...

20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Ben Stiller (who also directed the film) stars as a daydreaming Life Magazine employee who has to start going on real adventures in order to track down an elusive photographer (Sean Penn). Steve and I saw the movie this weekend. He liked it; I didn’t. The trailer is a fair representation of the film, and even though it goes through a lot of the plot, the trailer doesn’t really give anything away since everything is so spaced out and mixed up. Hit the jump to check out the trailer along with the New York Film Festival press conference. The film also stars Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Shirley MacLaine, Kathryn Hahn, and Patton Oswalt. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty opens December 25th. Click over to Yahoo! Movies to see the trailer in HD.

When the first trailer arrived for "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty" this past summer, it took many by surprise. Ben Stiller's remake of Danny Kaye's 1947 musical fantasy looked like it had it's own unique magic, one that got many talking about its Oscar potential. This past weekend, that theory got tested as 'Mitty' made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival to decidedly mixed reviews, and far from the sort of raves that would sustain a picture through the awards season. That being said, there is still a long haul to go and Fox isn't stopping yet. A brand new trailer has arrived for the movie to keep the word going—good or bad—and offers up even more from the film. We'll leave it you to share your verdict below, but here's what our man in New York had to say about the film:...

“I remember my first conversation [with writer Steve Conrad] where he said, 'Every American male yearns to be on the cover of a Wheaties box,' ” says John Goldwyn, the producer of “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.” Speaking with the New York Film Festival crowd, he helped present the film’s world premiere over the weekend (our review), though it was a long time coming. The fantasy film, based on the 1939 short story by James Thurber, runs in the family: it was Goldwyn’s grandfather Samuel Goldwyn who produced the original 1947 Danny Kaye adaptation, and had worked to bring a newer incarnation to the big screen. After a raft of comedians (Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson) came and went from the long developing project, Ben Stiller came aboard, not only to star, but to direct the film as well. However, he had to contend with a wildly...

Critics are divided about whether or not Ben Stiller’s take on “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is visionary or just vapid. The special effects driven comedy debuted last weekend at the New York Film Festival, where it received an enthusiastic response from audiences, but polarized reviews. Some commentators praised the film as a bold step forward in the “Tropic Thunder” star’s evolution as a filmmaker and others faulted the film for being tonally inconsistent. Of course, just getting “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” to the screen is a significant accomplishment. A film version of the James Thurber short story.

Ben Stiller's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," an adaptation of James Thurber's 1939 short story of the same name, premiered at the New York Film Festival this past weekend to widely polarized critical reactions. While many proclaimed the film an utter mess, others praised its fun and fantastical nature.

Directed by and starring Stiller, "Walter Mitty" loosely follows the fantasy and real-life adventures of the fictional title character (first portrayed on screen by Danny Kaye in 1947). Stiller's awkward and timid Mitty works in the photography department at Life magazine and is the liason for famed photographer Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn). But when a negative of O'Connell's photo goes missing -- one that will be used as the cover photo of the very last Life print issue before the mag transitions to online -- Mitty must go on a real adventure, one crazier than his imagination has ever concocted.

20th Century Fox has released the new trailer for director Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in which he co-stars with Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn and Sean Penn. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty , opening Christmas Day, is James Thurber's classic story of a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.

The idea of facing that which terrifies you and changing your lifestyle is not a new concept in movies, it’s been done many times before with mixed results. This is the theme of Ben Stiller’s newest film, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, easily the most ambitious project the actor/director has ever worked on. The result is a poignant and witty comedy/drama that pleases in a variety of different ways.

Based on the short story by James Thurber, the film tells the story of Walter Mitty – a negative assets specialist at Life magazine who spends his uneventful days slipping into elaborate fantasies where he is the consumate hero. When a snide executive enters the fray (played mercilessly by a bearded Adam Scott) to usher Life from print to digital, Walter fears for his job and those of his longtime co-workers. Things are made worse when Walter...

1947's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a musical-comedy vehicle for Danny Kaye, barely resembles the satirical 1939 short story by the great American humorist James Thurber (who was opposed to the adaptation, and allegedly offered ten grand to producer Samuel Goldwyn if he scrapped his plans). Neither of those versions has anything in common with this, the latest yearning carpe-diem fantasy about the milquetoast daydreamer with a secret life. Ben Stiller earnestly directs and even more earnestly stars as the iconic introvert Walter, a plain and lonely guy who zones out into implausibly lionhearted delusions, slickly actualized through majestic panoramas, dense color palettes and absurdist CGI fabulism. As the dutiful yet outmoded "negative asset manager" in the ph...

The secret is out. "Walter Mitty" has now been seen by industry insiders and it's a real Oscar contender. Expect to find "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" on the list of Best Picture nominees. At its New York Film Festival debut, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" got a whooping standing ovation. Out in Los Angeles where I viewed it at a simultaneous media screening on the Fox lot, response was split, but predictable. Anyone with a warm heart and a Walter Mitty-blessed imagination adored it and the Too Cool for the Room Film Critics scoffed in horror at its fearless sentimentality. But pay no mind to the latter. This year Oscar voters are on the hunt for warm fuzzies, the kind that delivered a surprise Best Picture nomination for "The Blind Side" when it was under nuclear attack by film critics in 2009. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...

It seems particularly fitting that there is a "Benjamin Button" joke in Ben Stiller's film version of James Thurber's "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty," since "Mitty" is the only film I can think of that's been in active development longer than "Button," at least since I moved to Los Angeles in 1990. Both were based on short stories, both offered intriguing challenges to a long line of filmmakers, and both seem to have gone through all sorts of various versions before finally ending up in front of the camera. The greatest challenge facing any writer trying to turn Thurber's three page...

New York – A lyrical comic fable about releasing the exceptional qualities trapped within ordinary people, Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty expands upon the classic James Thurber short story, updating it to the age of corporate downsizing and dehumanizing job elimination. Premiering at the New York Film Festival ahead of Fox’s wide Christmas Day release, the film’s pleasures may be too minor key and its pace too meandering to conquer the mainstream. But audiences willing to tune in to its blend of surreal fantasy, droll comedy and poignancy will be rewarded. Originally published in The New Yorker

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Ben Stiller excels at playing genial outsiders lost in their personal grievances; as a director, from the unfairly maligned broadcast satire of "The Cable Guy" through the outlandish fashion world satire of "Zoolander" and the Hollywood satire of "Tropic Thunder," Stiller has shown a penchant for wacky energy that builds on seemingly real world situations with cartoonish absurdity. On paper, then, the idea of Stiller directing and starring in a new adaptation of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the 1939 James Thurber short story previously turned into a 1947 feature starring Danny Kaye, makes perfect sense: The actor is a natural fit for the role of an everyman daydreamer lost in far-out heroic fantasies, which present an opportunity for a contrast between normality and dramatic overstatement that Stiller theoretically has the filmmaking chops to explore. Unfortunately, the actor-director's long-gestating "Walter Mitty" treatment, less an adaptation than an original story that...

It isn’t easy being Walter Mitty in the year 2013. In our superhero world, Ben Stiller must have realized how much harder it is today for milquetoast men in a macho America when he set out to direct and star in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” which is set for a December release, but which premiered on Saturday at the New York Film Festival. Unfortunately, this “Mitty” tries too hard, and as a result his many adventures — both real and imagined — are neither intriguing nor amusing. Back in 1939, when James Thurber wrote the original short story for...

It's another Friday edition of the RopeofSilicon podcast and we have three movies we're reviewing today including Gravity, Runner Runner and Parkland. We've also got three of your voice mails to listen to and comment on, plenty of game action and one final reminder to get your Safe Haven voicemail reviews in before this Sunday. Prizes and the top three will be announced on Tuesday. Also, if you are on Twitter, we have a new Twitter account dedicated to the podcast at @bnlpod. Give us a follow won'tchac I want to remind you that you can call in and leave us your comments, thoughts, questions, etc. directly on our Google Voice account, which you can call and leave a message for us at (925) 526-5763, which may be even easier to remember at (925) 5-bnl-pod. Just call, leave us a voice mail and we'll add those to the show and respond directly.

For decades Adam Scott has successfully played bad boys, historical figures, jerks and nice guys in both television and film. Days before the premiere of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" at the New York Film Festival, where Scott plays yet another jerk, he sat down with Indiewire to discuss his leading man status in "A.C.O.D," in which he effortlessly swaps back to the status of nice guy. Scott plays Carter, an "Adult Child of Divorce" who must negotiate a truce between his long divorced parents (Richard Jenkins and Catherine O'Hara) when his brother (Clark Duke) gets engaged.  Throughout your career you've acted in a really wide variety of genres. You've done drama, you've done sci-fi, you've done action. Do you feel like comedy is where you want to stay? Is it your niche? I don't know. I love it and it's really fun and I love...

Film industry associations say more than 200 jobs could be lost because of public film funding cuts.

The Icelandic film industry associations yesterday (October 4) turned sharply against the new government’s proposal to cut public film funding for cinema by 39% - from $8.4 million (Isk 1.018 million) to $5.14 million (Isk 0.624 million) - in the 2014 national budget.

“We don’t understand how the foundations for a modern thriving growth industry can be so suddenly demolished, so many jobs cut, and how a valuable foreign investment can be turned down,” said the Association of Icelandic Film Producers, the Icelandic Film Makers Association and The Directors Guild of Iceland in a joint statement.

A financial report presented by the associations concludes that if the 2014 state budget is cut as suggested, the consequences will be the loss of more than 200 jobs in film production, $5.1 million (Isk 615 million) less tax income, $4,2 million (Isk 500 millon) less foreign income, starting next year.

Following the financial...

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American Hustle and Saving Mr Banks are the Oscar Bait Unknowns... unless you assume that Wolf of Wall Street will be finished in time. All have, to my knowledge, not been screened for even long lead critics. Most pundits, armchair or otherwise, believe in Hustle wholeheartedly (one assumes due to David O. Russell's recent track record) and are suspicious of Banks (one assumes because of the dangers of Disney-on-Disney hagiography but maybe also because movies-about-movies aren't always Hugos; sometimes they're Hitchcocks). So far I'm not expecting a lot of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty but maybe that's a stealth masterpiece about to blow us all away. Which of the unseens are you hoping deserves space in the Best Picture race?

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Opening October 4th, Stuart Zicherman’s hilarious comedy A.C.O.D. centers on Carter (Adam Scott), a seemingly well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce with a successful career. When his younger brother (Clark Duke) announces he’s getting married, Carter suddenly finds himself revisiting the chaos of his parents’ ugly divorce. Trying to reunite his bitterly divorced parents (Richard Jenkins and Catherine O’Hara) and their new spouses (Amy Poehler and Ken Howard) for the wedding proves more than he bargained for, so he turns to his wacky therapist (Jane Lynch) for advice. At a wildly irreverent roundtable interview, Scott and Duke talked about what drew them to the roles, their reaction when they first read the script, why having a well written script made their jobs easier, how their real-life friendship helped them develop a genuine brotherly rapport on screen, what it was like having Poehler play their bitchy stepmother, being deputized...

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- Mamma Mia! (sorry): Joseph Gordon-Levitt faces criticism over his 'racist' portrayal of Italian-Americans in Don Jon.

- Saoirse Ronan has said she has auditioned for Star Wars VII, "but so has everyone else".

- Orc to be good: Duncan Jones' World of Warcraft movie will be released in 2015.

- Director Mark Basseley Youssef, the man behind the Youtube video that was blamed of inciting the Benghazi attack, has a new film on the way.

- Angelina Jolie will shoot Unbroken down under.

- Here no gore: Eli Roth's Las Vegas haunted house has shut its (creaky) doors.

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Today's podcast is a nice, random little collection of various topics ranging from some new audio drops from the trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug to some thoughts on Curse of Chucky and its relationship to the current state of Hollywood. Of course, being Tuesday we also have DVDs and Blu-rays, we also have questions, voicemails, games and much more. Also, if you are on Twitter, we have a new Twitter account dedicated to the podcast at @bnlpod. Give us a follow won'tchac I want to remind you that you can call in and leave us your comments, thoughts, questions, etc. directly on our Google Voice account, which you can call and leave a message for us at (925) 526-5763, which may be even easier to remember at (925) 5-bnl-pod. Just call, leave us a voice mail and we'll add those to the show and respond directly. An alternative to...

It's nice to see more and more of the year's awards season players being evenly spread throughout the fall festival circuit. Venice got "Gravity" and "Philomena." Telluride got "12 Years a Slave" and "Prisoners." Toronto landed films like "August: Osage County," "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." New York, meanwhile, landed the trio of "Captain Phillips," "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and "Her." AFI Fest, as always, is utilized smartly by studios every year. In the middle of Oscar season, it's a great opportunity to make a big splash with a cheap Los Angeles premiere, and films...

AFI Fest was put in bit of a bind last week when the disappointing news broke that Sony Pictures Classic was opting to push director Bennett Miller’s excellent-looking drama Foxcatcher to 2014. The film had been poised to be AFI Fest’s centerpiece premiere film, and so the festival organizers were no doubt left scrambling to find a replacement. In Foxcatcher’s stead, AFI Fest announced today that director Scott Cooper’s (Crazy Heart) new film Out of the Furnace will now make its world premiere at the festival. The promising pic stars Christian Bale as an ex-con steel worker who seeks vengeance when his brother (Casey Affleck) disappears after getting involved with a local crime ring. Additionally, Nebraska and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty have been added to the AFI Fest slate. Hit the jump to check out some new images from Out of the Furnace. The film also stars Woody Harrelson,...