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Love at First Sight is a rom-com film about fate and love at first sight. Directed by Vanessa Caswill from a screenplay by Katie Lovejoy the film is based on a 2011 novel titled The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith. Love at First Sight follows the story of Hadley (Hailey Lu Richardson) and Oliver (Ben Hardy) as they meet for the first time at an airport and fall in love during a flight from America to London. So, if you loved the rom-com film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Before Sunrise (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Castle Rock Entertainment

Synopsis: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star as two young people who meet and whose lives are forever changed on a train from Budapest to Paris. They may have only one night, but when soul mates find each other, anything can happen...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Always Shine (Sophia Takal)

With the excess of low-budget, retreat-in-the-woods dramas often finding characters hashing out their insecurities through a meta-narrative, a certain initial resistance can occur when presented with such a derivative scenario at virtually every film festival. While Sophia Takal‘s psychological drama Always Shine ultimately stumbles, the chemistry of its leads and a sense of foreboding dread in its formal execution ensures its heightened view of...

He made his breakthrough in the romantic comedy In Search of a Midnight Kiss and has since gone to give memorable performances in Monsters, Killing Them Softly, Argo, 12 Years a Slave and Gone Girl. Now, Scoot McNairy gets to be part of a great cast of actors which includes Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton and Anthony Mackie in the comedy-drama Our Brand Is Crisis.

A fictionalized account of the American campaign political strategies that were used in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election, the movie co-stars McNairy as Buckley, the hot-shot advertising expert who is assigned to handle print ads and campaign spots for the seemingly unelectable Castillo (Joaquim de Almeida). Despite the fact that this is his first time ever on a political campaign, Buckley believes he can sell anybody anything they want. But while he thinks he has all the answers, it doesn’t take us long to see that he in fact does not.

R.L. Stine's Goosebumps novels have been terrifying children since 1992, and inspired Cavity Colors to create apparel based on the 11th book in the series, The Haunted Mask. Also: Ejecta Blu-ray details, The Last Survivors trailer, and Clowntown photos.

Cavity Colors's The Killer Mask: R.L. Stine's The Haunted Mask tells the story of a girl who discovers that the Halloween mask she purchased has become permanently attached to her face.

The Killer Mask collection of apparel was designed by artists Coki Greenway and Aaron Crawford. With a retail price of $24.00 apiece, The Killer Mask T-Shirt and Tank Top are black in color and 100% Cotton. The limited edition print is priced at $40.00, and the stickers / buttons are priced at $10.00 for a pack of two.

For more information on this apparel, visit the Cavity Colors online shop.

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Ejecta: Press Release: "From the writer of Pontypool and Septic Man comes Ejecta,...

Shout! Factory TV is spreading fear all summer long with a plethora of classic films including John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper's Body Bags. Also: a Cthulhu Vinyl Bank from Diamond Select Toys and Blu-ray and DVD release details for The Last Survivors.

Shout! Factory TV's Summer of Fear: Press Release: "This July, summer hats up with a plethora of new programming on Shout! Factory TV that is sure to beat those binge cravings. Shout! Factory TV is unveiling Summer of Fear, a fright fest sure to please! A collection of classic horror films debut this month, featuring Body Bags, Day of the Dead, Night of the Demons, Q: The Winged Serpent, The Final Terror and many more.

Shout! Factory TV grants an insider’s insight into these films with the premiere of audio commentaries on the streaming service. This month, directors John Carpenter, George A. Romero, Kevin Tenney,...

"Just make a movie." That was "Short Term 12" producer Asher Goldstein’s advice for first-time filmmakers at the production case studies panel at the Film Independent Forum in October: Just make it, "not to make a ton of money—or make your money back, even—just making a movie, just to make it, to prove that you can." Read More: What I Wish I Knew About Film Distribution Before Self-Distributing "I Am Not a Hipster" Goldstein, his producing partner Ron Najor and "Land Ho!" writer-director Aaron Katz were on the panel discussing their films' paths to the big screen. Moderating the panel was Seth Caplan, producer of "The Young Kieslowski," which premiered at the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival, and Spirit Award winner "In Search of a Midnight Kiss," which he discussed on this same panel at a past Forum. "I was in one of your guys’ seats a few years ago,...

Film and TV distributor The Orchard has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to “Meet Me in Montenegro,” which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival and will be released in theaters next year. Real-life couple Alex Holdridge (“In Search of a Midnight Kiss”) co-directed the love story with Linnea Saasen, and the duo also star alongside Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) and Jennifer Ulrich. Also read: ‘Homeland’ Star Rupert Friend in Talks to Replace Paul Walker in ‘Agent 47' (Exclusive) Art imitates life in “Meet Me in Montenegro,” as it is closely tied to Holdridge and Saasen's real-life relationship. The film centers around L.

Making his directorial debut with a nighttime two-hander, Before We Go, actor Chris Evans has gravitated to dramatic material far removed from the effects-driven world saving of his Captain America movies. Starring alongside Alice Eve, Evans puts his own spin on the “one night” film, a sub-genre that has been explored over the years in pictures ranging from Before Sunrise to Into the Night to In Search of a Midnight Kiss. Here, Evans tells us what he tried to do differently and what’s unique about Gotham at night. Before We Go premieres this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. […]...

Making his directorial debut with a nighttime two-hander, Before We Go, actor Chris Evans has gravitated to dramatic material far removed from the effects-driven world saving of his Captain America movies. Starring alongside Alice Eve, Evans puts his own spin on the “one night” film, a sub-genre that has been explored over the years in pictures ranging from Before Sunrise to Into the Night to In Search of a Midnight Kiss. Here, Evans tells us what he tried to do differently and what’s unique about Gotham at night. Before We Go premieres this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. […]...

Exclusive: Alex Holdridge and Linea Saasen, the writer/directors in Toronto with Meet Me in Montenegro, are now writing an ambitious TV series to be set in 1945 post-war Berlin.

The project, loosely titled Hour Zero, will be set in the American sector of Berlin. Saasen said: “It’s set at a time when everything is broken and in flux…It’s an interesting moment in time, it’s a city with no rules.”

The series will examine the origins of the CIA and Kgb.

Holdridge, whose previous credits include In Search of a Midnight Kiss, said that “the story will be about crazy characters, based on real people in Berlin at that time…it is such a ragtag way that the CIA was formed.”

He added: “It’s a city that’s alive because it has experienced so much death. 75% of Berlin has been levelled during the war.”

The project is envisioned as an ongoing series and the...

Exclusive: Alex Holdridge and Linea Saasen, the writer/directors in Toronto with Meet Me in Montenegro, are now writing an ambitious TV series to be set in 1945 post-war Berlin.

The project, loosely titled Hour Zero, will be set in the American sector of Berlin. Saasen says: “It’s set at a time when everything is broken and in flux…It’s an interesting moment in time, it’s a city with no rules.”

The series will examine the origins of the CIA and Kgb.

Holdridge, whose previous credits include In Search of a Midnight Kiss, adds that “the story will be about crazy characters, based on real people in Berlin at that time…it is such a ragtag way that the CIA was formed.” He added: “It’s a city that’s alive because it has experienced so much death. 75% of Berlin has been levelled during the war.”

The project is envisioned as an ongoing series and the...

Production company Ketchum Labs, a creative incubator challenging conventional entertainment models of production and distribution, and BlackBoxTV, the #1 online genre channel with over 600,000 loyal fans, will launch a strategic production and distribution partnership.

From the Press Release

The first two projects to go into production are Fight Of The Living Dead, a hybrid-reality series set to shoot in Los Angeles in May and the feature film Villisca, which unravels the mystery surrounding one of the most haunted houses in America.

Ketchum co-founder and principal Kevin Abrams and BlackBoxTV founder and creator Tony Valenzuela made the announcement.

A competition series with horror overtones, Fight Of The Living Dead (Fotld) is an unprecedented mash-up of the reality and scripted genres. The show will follow six top YouTube stars as they attempt to survive the first 24 hours of a highly simulated Zombie Apocalypse. What they do to eliminate each other from the competition...

Marvel released a poster for their new One Shot called "All Hail the King," which features Ben Kingsley reprising his role as the Mandarin. The short film will be included with the Blu-ray for Thor: The Dark World, which is set to be released on February 25th, and here's the description:

A documentarian played by Scoot McNairy (best known for Argo and In Search of a Midnight Kiss) narrates his quest to understand the history of the man who, in Iron Man 3, captivated the world’s attention as a fearsome terrorist, who amalgamated the forms of various menacing figures from history.

The fact that this man turned out to be (Spoiler Alert) kind of a huge fraud is just another fascinating wrinkle in The Mandarin’s storied past.

Those who’ve already seen Iron Man 3 know that this terrifying figure was actually a clueless British actor who was...

Ben Kingsley reprises his role as the Mandarin from Iron Man 3 in the new Marvel One Shot short film, All Hail the King. Today we have the first clip from the short, and it features Argo's Scoot McNairy narrating his quest to find out the truth behind the man actually known as Trevor Slattery.

A documentarian played by Scoot McNairy (best known for Argo and In Search of a Midnight Kiss) narrates his quest to understand the history of the man who, in Iron Man 3, captivated the world’s attention as a fearsome terrorist, who amalgamated the forms of various menacing figures from history.

The fact that this man turned out to be (Spoiler Alert) kind of a huge fraud is just another fascinating wrinkle in The Mandarin’s storied past.

Those who’ve already seen Iron Man 3 know that this terrifying figure was actually a...

You nevurrrr sawwww thissss commmmming…

Unless, that is, you saw our recent First Look at Ben Kingsley’s encore as The Mandarin. In any case, EW has even more on Marvel Studio’s new One-Shot short film All Hail the King — a clip from the opening of the 14-minute film.

In this prologue, a documentarian played by Scoot McNairy (best known for Argo and In Search of a Midnight Kiss) narrates his quest to understand the history of the man who, in Iron Man 3, captivated the world’s attention as a fearsome terrorist, who amalgamated the forms of various menacing figures from history.

Exclusive: ICM Partners has signed Jacob Vaughan, whose directorial debut Milo played at SXSW. The agency repped the flm and brokered a distribution deal with Magnolia genre division Magnet, and now the agency has brought the writer-director into the percentery fold. Vaughan is a longtime collaborator of Mark and Jay Duplass, who are among the producers of the film, along with Adele Romansk, Gabriel Cowan and John Suits. The Duplass duo were exec producers along with John Norris, Kerry Johnson, Dallas Sonnier, Jack Heller and Floren Shieh Productions’ Clay Floren and Aimee Shieh. Vaughan edited the Katie Aselton-helmed horror-thriller Black Rock, as well as Jeff, Who Lives At Home and Cyrus. He produced and edited Dear Pillow and In Search Of A Midnight Kiss.

Among the 2013 SXSW Film Festival highlights (it played like gangbusters at its world premiere screening at the Alamo Ritz), Deadline reports that the horror comedy from first-time helmer and Duplass bros. film editor Jacob Vaughan scored a deal with Magnolia Pictures. Look for Milo to tour the Fantastic Film Alliance circuit with possible stops in Montreal, Los Angeles, Toronto and perhaps Sitges before settling down for a theatrical/VOD release.

Gist: Co-written by Vaughan and Benjamin Hayes, this ode to Gremlins, E.T. and a slew of bodily functions B-type comedies, this features the believable Ken Marino, as a desk job/hubby who discovers that his chronic stomach problems are due to the fact that he has a demon baby living in his colon.

Worth Noting: For the past decade, Vaughan has been hard at work in American indie film scene – he produced, shot, and edited the Independent Spirit Award nominated Dear Pillow,...

The timing might be just right for John Cassavetes Award for The Best Independent Film of 2009 winner Alex Holdridge to break into Sundance. I imagine he tried with his previous three features, Wrong Numbers (2001), Sexless (2003), and the SXSW selected In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008), but his latest, Meet Me In Montenegro appears to be a better fit. Teamed with his dp Robert Murphy, this was filmed in Berlin, Los Angeles and the titular Montenegro and stars Rupert Friend and Deborah Ann Woll (pictured above on set).

Gist: Linnea Saasen’s screenplay sees a failed European dancer who has a chance meeting in Berlin and starts an affair despite the fact that they are moving to opposite ends of the earth. Rupert Friend plays the writer’s best friend who is in a fading relationship and toys with the idea of taking his girlfriend – played by Jennifer Ulrich (The Wave) – to a sex club.

Kenny Basumatary

Kenny Basumatary started dreaming of making his own films since he was in Std. XI. A fan of martial arts films, his dream materialized in his ultra low budget film “Local Kung Fu”,. The film will premiere this Saturday at the Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival in New Delhi.

What made you think of creating Local Kung Fu (Lkf)? What’s the genesis?

I’ve wanted to work in films since around class VI. After about two-three years of acting and writing in Mumbai, I realized that no one was going to just give me a bunch of money to go and make a film – not that I went around asking – and my dad didn’t have crores of rupees stashed away in a secret chamber in his house. Around this time, I also saw quite a few ultra low budget films that went on to win a...

Good projects never really die, but sometimes it takes a bit of time for the right set of circumstances to come along to make them happen. Back in 2010, "The F Word" was gearing up with backing from Fox Searchlight, with "In Search Of A Midnight Kiss" director Alex Holdridge at the helm, Casey Affleck attached to star, and Rose Byrne, Rebecca Hall, Deborah Ann Woll and Mary Elizabeth Winstead all vying for the female lead. The project ultimately never came together, but it has found new life with two very able actors. Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan have joined the picture that has now moved out of Fox Searchlight and is set up at Entertainment One which has the worldwide rights to the film. Michael Dowse ("Fubar," "Take Me Home Tonight," "Goon") now takes the director's chair. Based on the play "Cigars and Toothpaste" by T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi,...

Scoot McNairy is on a hell of a run at the moment. The star of "In Search Of A Midnight Kiss" finally turned heads in a big way with Gareth Edwards' 2010 low-budget spectacular "Monsters," and ever since then he's been the toast of the town: he met for roles in "Prometheus" and "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," but ended up going down more grounded routes, with parts in Ben Affleck's "Argo"; in Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land" with Matt Damon; in Lynn Shelton's "Touchy Feely"; and in Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly," for which McNairy earned rave reviews at Cannes this morning (read ours right here).

And clearly, he impressed his co-star in that film, Brad Pitt. The megastar is gearing up to produce and play a supporting role in "Twelve Years A Slave," directed by "Shame" helmer Steve McQueen, and according to Variety, he's bringing along McNairy,...

I fell in love with Alex Holdridge’s gorgeous, smart black-and-white La-set romantic comedy In Search of a Midnight Kiss when I saw it on the film festival circuit in 2007, and later interviewed Holdridge for Filmmaker when Kiss was released theatrically in 2008.

In the intervening years, Holdridge and I were in occasional contact, and through Facebook I was aware that he had left L.A. and decamped to Berlin. But little more than that.

When I read earlier this spring that he was in postproduction on his follow-up feature, Meet Me in Montenegro – a film co-written by and co-starring Holdridge himself and the Norwegian newcomer Linnea Saasen – I dropped him a line to find out more about the film and its genesis.

The following conversation is a composite of our back and forth over email and Skype.

Filmmaker: So, tell me about the new film.

Holdridge: It’s inspired by an exodus from Los Angeles,...

Last week, we took a look at the relative dearth of leading men in Hollywood: why Tom Cruise, Will Smith, et al. remain at the top of the tree and why so few serious competitors have emerged since. But one of the most exciting things about our job is getting to watch the new names that emerge, breakouts who have the potential to join the A-listers, or at the very least, deliver a host of hugely exciting performances for decades to come.

So we've decided to kick off our On The Rise selection for 2012 by looking at some of the actors who we're tipping for big things in the next few years. Last time we made these kinds of picks and predictions we did pretty well, listing the likes of Joel Edgerton, Edgar Ramirez, Jason Sudeikis, Adam Scott, Jake Johnson and David Oyelowo who have all gone on to become much-sought-after names,...

From Fred and Ginger to Jennifer and Ashton, romantic comedies used to be one of the safest bets in Hollywood. But it seems that rom is just not into com any more

Is it the end for the romcom? You can imagine the celebrity mag headlines: "Romcom's relationship on the rocks?" "Com: I'm just not that into Rom" "Rom: Com doesn't make me laugh any more."

After all, who says romance and comedy go together like a horse and carriage? It seems to be a chiselled Hollywood commandment that the two shall be forever conjoined in cinematic matrimony, but perhaps it's time they went their separate ways. Sure, they got off to a great start: in those early years it was all fun and games and sparkling repartee, but recently they haven't quite looked the happy couple; the spark just hasn't been there.

They've been stuck in the same repetitive formula: boy meets girl,...

Whether it be The White Ribbon, Control, The Good German, Tetro or In Search of a Midnight Kiss, there have been a number of films that have utilized the black-and-white aesthetic in recent years, to mixed results. We’ve seen some use it as no more than a gimmick and others succeed in grasping the beauty of the monochrome, but director Michel Hazanavicius has taken it a step further with his sure-to-be Oscar darling The Artist.

Following George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a silent film “artist” at the top of his game, Hazanavicius’ approach includes everything one would find in a film from the 1920s. Presented in 1.33 aspect ratio, audible dialogue is exchanged for title cards while the entire production is complimented by a swelling orchestral track.

Dujardin exudes the charm required for such a role: a handsome figure that conveys palpable emotions with a simple glance. Upon meeting Peppy Miller...

Scoot McNairy is having a pretty good twelve months. The actor had a minor indie hit a few years back with "In Search Of A Midnight Kiss," but it was his turn in last year's lo-fi genre smash "Monsters" that really started to turn heads. The film was a big hit on the festival circuit last year, and McNairy was courted for a number of massive films, including "Prometheus" and "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," before taking something far more interesting: a lead role, opposite Brad Pitt, in Andrew Dominik's eagerly-anticipated crime flick "Cogan's Trade." Oh, and he managed to find…...

Actress Jamie Chung will star in “Eden,” an independent film being directed by Megan Griffiths (“The Off Hours,” “First Aid for Choking”). The film is based on a true story. It’s about a Korean-American girl who was abducted and forced into prostitution. She manages to survive her two year ordeal by establishing power and influence within the organization that imprisoned her. Richard B. Phillips (“Kimchi Warrior,” “The Last Eve”) and Griffiths wrote the script. It is based on the story by Phillips and Chong Kim. Chung has appeared recently this year in “Sucker Punch” and “The Hangover 2.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, actor Scoot McNairy is also in negotiations to star in the film. He recently wrapped filming “Cogan’s Trade,” which starred Brad Pitt. McNairy has appeared in several films including “In Search of a Midnight Kiss,” “Herbie Fully Loaded,” “Bobby” and “Wonderland.”Source: The Hollywood Reporter...

After the huge worldwide success of the tiny, low budget sci-fi thriller that is new kid Gareth Edwards’ hot ticket to Hollywood, Monsters gets a much anticipated release on Blu-Ray for all those who didn’t get the chance to see it on the big screen. And while many may have had concerns about how this tiny production that was shot primarily with a crew of under 10, a principal cast of 2, and Edwards acting as director, cinematographer, cameraman and caterer for a budget of under $500, 000 (including post production) would transfer to high definition, their concerns have proven to be unwarranted, as Monsters is one of the best examples of how Blu-Ray can enhance a movie’s qualities.

Set in the not so distant future where a probe containing alien specimens from Europa – one of Jupiter’s moons – crash landed around the Gulf of Mexico and now six years on have grown into giant,...

Gareth Edwards' tale of a romantically crossed couple attempting to get home to America through the alien-infested plains and wilds of Mexico has many burdens to overcome, and shrugs them all off with poetry, thrills, imagination and a deep fund of invention rarely seen from a first-time director.

In the distant wake of District 9, Monsters seems cut from suspiciously similar cloth, although it was conceived well before that movie and manages to exceed its balance of Sf thrills with humanity and warmth. Additionally, public approbation of a low-budget VFX project was undermined by the garbage that was the Strausse Brothers' Skyline, released shortly prior to Monsters. Here there was no script, only a tiny handful of professional actors among an army of 'real life' amateur performers - and one man doing the visual effects (Edwards himself) where there is normally a 40-strong CGI pipeline. Monsters should be a straight-to-disc disaster,...

We’ve been given an exclusive look at the Monsters Blu-ray and DVD trailer before it rolls out to other sites and places next week.

Gareth Edwards’ film is released from 11th April and will no doubt do spectacular business much like it did at the box office upon its theatrical release.

“Following its hugely successful theatrical release that saw it earning Five Star reviews in Empire (“a sci-fi picture which never loses sight of the human factor… an amazing achievement”), Total Film (“the most audacious debut since ‘The Blair Witch Project’”), the Financial Times (“a lollapalooza… so edgy it hardly needs monsters… a masterpiece of high-amp anxiety”), the Daily Express (“an intelligent, inventive film… highly recommended”) and the Sunday Mirror (“a road trip blending romance with sci-fi thrills”), the critically acclaimed Monsters comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 11th April 2011 courtesy of Vertigo Films.

The winner of the Best Director,...

Upon hearing that the Jameson’s Cult Film Club’s screening of Gareth Edward’s Monsters was to be held at The Royal College of Surgeons, I questioned my lead; do they actually show films there? However, when I and my fellow blogger VIP’s were lead through the grand building to a rarely seen wing that contained ulcerated penises, cross sections of a child’s hollowed skull, jarred brains, animal mutations – among other biological oddities – the choice of location couldn’t have become more apt for a screening of a film called Monsters.

This was the location for our meet and greet with director Gareth Edwards. At just thirty-five years of age he has seen his first feature film gain the kind of recognition we haven’t seen since Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the nineties and has given Edwards the opportunity to direct Warner Bros’ mega budgeted Godzilla reboot,...

Gareth Edwards’ lo-fi sci-fi flick, Monsters, is receiving its Blu-ray and DVD outing in the UK from 11th April. With its stunning computer effects and unusual storyline, Edwards’ movie has become something of a much-celebrated cult classic.

FilmShaft saw it back in September and you can read out review here. If you’re expecting Michael Bay or Godzilla-like monster smackdowns, think again. What we have is a strange, ominous sort of film which will grow on you.

Check the press release below for all details and what extra features will be appearing on the discs.

“Following its hugely successful theatrical release that saw it earning Five Star reviews in Empire (“a sci-fi picture which never loses sight of the human factor… an amazing achievement”), Total Film (“the most audacious debut since ‘The Blair Witch Project’”), the Financial Times (“a lollapalooza… so edgy it hardly needs monsters… a masterpiece of...

Monsters has been a pretty good luck charm for those involved. Gareth Edwards is now shepherding a new era of Godzilla, and now lead actor in the film Scoot McNairy will be doing the Cogan Trade film that has one hell of an ensemble cast already. McNairy has landed a lead alongside Brad Pitt and a great supporting cast in the Andrew Dominik-directed Cogan’s Trade. The film follows Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that went down during a mob-protected poker game.

The current cast ensemble for the film is Pitt, McNairy, Ray Liotta, Javier Bardem, Casey Affleck, Mark Ruffalo, Sam Rockwell, Richard Jenkins and James Gandolfini.

He is also in contention for another lead role in the Ridley Scott-directed Prometheus where he would be joining Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace and Charlize Theron. Finally he is circling the role of Josh Speed...

Scoot McNairy likes to get things done. That’s his general attitude toward life and filmmaking. The indie actor most recently peeked his head out into pop culture awareness with a great photoshop job in In Search of a Midnight Kiss and in Gareth Edwards’s Monsters. Off-kilter romance with or without giant aliens seem to be his thing. Now, McNairy could possibly be jumping in feet first into that mainstream awareness. According to Variety and Deadline Burbank, the actor has joined Brad Pitt for Cogan’s Trade (being directed by Andrew Dominik). He’s also up for co-starring roles in Prometheus: Not an Alien Prequel (as a love interest for Noomi Rapace’s character) and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Good thing he likes to get things done. This is great news for a strong talent and for audiences that like talented actors. It’s akin to Jeremy Renner making it to major casting lists, although...

If you didn't see Monsters or In Search of a Midnight Kiss (or aren't a dedicated fan of Bones) your first thought here might be 'who the hell is Scoot McNairy?' The male lead from Gareth Edwards' low-budgets sleeper Monsters has got great people working on his side, because despite not having the most head-turning performance in that film he has become a hot commodity after years of playing sideline roles. The first evidence of that status is grabbing a big role in Andrew Dominik's Cogan's Trade. He also has a couple other possible big jobs brewing. And, good news for fans of the film Animal Kingdom: Ben Mendelsohn is also in Cogan's Trade. Variety [1] says that the two actors will be " two young junkies who perpetrate a heist that takes place during a high-stakes poker game held under the protection of the mob." In other...

Scoot McNairy ("Monsters," "In Search Of A Midnight Kiss") and Aussie thesp Ben Mendelsohn (“Animal Kingdom”) have joined the cast of Andrew Domink‘s mob comedy “Cogan’s Trade" reports Deadline and Variety.

Brad Pitt stars as Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer investigating a heist which takes place during a mob-run high stakes poker game. The pair will play junkies who hold up the game.

James Gandolfini, Sam Rockwell, Vincent Curatola, Richard Jenkins, Bella Heathcote and Ray Liotta are all presently linked to the project.

McNairy is also said to be up for roles in Ridley Scott‘s “Prometheus” and Timur Bekbetamov‘s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.”...

My most anticipated film of 2012 just got more promising. After the impressive In Search of a Midnight Kiss and even more impressive Monsters, actor Scoot McNairy is finally getting recognition. While those low-budget efforts features relatively unknown directors and actors, Variety is reporting Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James, Chopper) has grabbed him for his upcoming heist film Cogan’s Trade.

Joining him will be another break-out star of 2010, Ben Mendelsohn. He played a terrifying subdued gangster in Animal Kingdom, which debuted at Sundance. The duo will “play two young junkies who perpetrate a heist that takes place during a high-stakes poker game held under the protection of the mob.”

This comes off yesterday’s news that Ray Liotta would be joining the cast, which already includes Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, James Gandolfini, Javier Bardem, Mark Ruffalo and Sam Rockwell.

McNairy isn’t stopping with Cogan’s Trade though.

Improvised on the run and edited on a laptop using off-the-shelf CGI, Monsters is a lo-fi sci-fi game-changer. We meet its enterprising young director Gareth Edwards

This time last year, the film world was raving about how Avatar was going to "change the game" (even that expression feels so 2009), but it could turn out we were looking in the wrong direction. For sure, Avatar has changed the movie landscape: without it, we'd never have had such 3D delights as The Last Airbender, Resident Evil: Afterlife and Garfield's Pet Force. But perhaps the industry should have been looking harder – and worrying more – about Monsters.

Directed by 35-year-old Brit Gareth Edwards, this is another credible alien sci-fi movie. But instead of Avatar's blue cheese, it servers up hipster indie vibes and, despite the title, offers a genuine alternative to your standard monster-movie fare. What's really striking about Monsters, though, is that...

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Monsters - Review

First, the raw numbers: this is director and writer Gareth Edwards’ first feature, the movie cost a purported $15,000, internationally speaking the film has grossed over 1.5 million dollars, this is the one film you need to see this fall.

One of the spectacular aspects of a movie that is labeled sci-fi even though we only really glimpse the science of the fiction at the very beginning and then near the end which, really, is the crowning achievement of this little film that could, is that this movie exists at all. Actor Scoot McNairy, last seen in the very sweet and gentile film In Search of a Midnight Kiss, and his co-star Whitney Able are essentially starring in a film where...

British producers warned they must learn to make movies on the cheap if the domestic industry is to survive

The British film industry is haemorrhaging so much money that it will not survive unless it changes its ways. Vast sums are being frittered away on needless production costs and most films recoup only a fraction of their multimillion-pound budgets.

This warning comes from Chris Jones, film-maker and head of the London Screenwriters' Festival, Europe's biggest gathering of writers, at which the issue will be debated later this month.

Speaking to the Observer, Jones gave the example of drivers who are paid to sit in Mercedes cars all day, waiting to take stars home. A single driver costs hundreds of pounds a day. "Can we really afford that?" said Jones.

Rushing half-baked scripts into production, then fixing problems during the shoot or at the editing stage, also took its toll on production costs,...

The third, and what I can only imagine, final trailer for Gareth Edwards‘ super low-budget sci-fi flick Monsters is here. Only available on Hulu, our non-us visitors will have to wait. In the meantime, you can check out Monster, which is no way related to the film but a good single.

Produced for only $15,000, it received rave reviews at Cannes and SXSW. The film shot all across Mexico while the all visual effects done was done by Edwards on his own computer. It stars Scott McNairy (In Search of a Midnight Kiss) and Whitney Able (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane). Check out the trailer below.

Synopsis: The breakout hit of this years SXSW, Gareth Edwards’ groundbreaking new film is as much a poignant contemporary romance as it is an epic science fiction adventure. Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of two, Gareth Edwards’ team traveled through Guatemala,...

We first told you about Gareth Edwards' first feature Monsters during our 2010 SXSW coverage here and here. Amongst stiff competition from other distributors, the flick was sold to the Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing (genre arm of Magnolia Pictures) for North America and Mexico distribution. Today, we have a brand new Monsters behind-the-scenes clip with director Gareth Edwards courtesy of IGN, check it out below. Monsters was produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson of Vertigo Films (Bronson, StreetDance), the film was shot as a road movie, travelling through Guatemala, Mexico and the Us, involving local people alongside its key cast Scoot McNairy (In Search of a Midnight Kiss) and Whitney Able (All the...

We first told you about Gareth Edward's first feature Monsters during our 2010 SXSW coverage here and here. Amongst stiff competition from other distributors the flick was sold to the Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing (genre arm of Magnolia Pictures) for North America and Mexico distribution. Today, we have a brand new trailer for the flick, check it out below. Monsters was produced by Allan Niblo and James Richardson of Vertigo Films (Bronson, StreetDance), the film was shot as a road movie, travelling through Guatemala, Mexico and the Us, involving local people alongside its key cast Scoot McNairy (In Search of a Midnight Kiss) and Whitney Able (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane). Six years ago previously,...

The second trailer for the the low budget sci-fi film Monsters has been released and is now available for your viewing pleasure.

Gareth Edwards has written and directed this nice looking monster movie, which has been bandied about as an art house Cloverfield. The story kicks off six years after Nasa discovered the possibility of alien life within the solar system and sent out a probe to collect samples. Upon re-entry over Central America the probe crash-landed and soon after new life form began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Now, a a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone to the safety of the Us border.

The film stars Scoot McNairy (In Search Of A Midnight Kiss) and Whitney Able (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane) and was supposedly made for maybe as little as $15,000.

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The second trailer for Gareth Edwards‘ super low-budget sci-fi flick Monsters has arrived. After watching this great trailer it is almost incomprehensible how this was made for as low as $15,000. It received rave reviews at Cannes and SXSW and shot all across Mexico while the all visual effects done was done by Edwards on his own computer. It stars Scott McNairy (In Search of a Midnight Kiss) and Whitney Able (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane). Check out the trailer below via Apple.

Synopsis: The breakout hit of this years SXSW, Gareth Edwards’ groundbreaking new film is as much a poignant contemporary romance as it is an epic science fiction adventure. Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of two, Gareth Edwards’ team traveled through Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, finding and utilizing their locations and supporting actors as they went. The result is a film as cutting...

Gareth Edwards‘ super low-budget sci-fi flick Monsters was made for as low as $15,000 and received rave reviews at Cannes and SXSW. The film was shot all across Mexico and all the effects done on Edwards own computer. Now Magnet has picked it up for a fall release and you can see new posters and images from IMDb (via Bloody Disgusting). It stars Scott McNairy (In Search of a Midnight Kiss) and Whitney Able (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane). Check out the official poster and new images below. You can also check out the trailer here.

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The breakout hit of this years SXSW, Gareth Edwards’ groundbreaking new film is as much a poignant contemporary romance as it is an epic science fiction adventure. Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of two, Gareth Edwards’ team traveled through Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, finding and utilizing their locations...

Casey Affleck is currently circling the lead role in "The F-Word" for Fox Searchlight says The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi's play "Cigars and Toothpaste", Affleck would play a young man who falls for a young woman but hides his attraction for her until she reciprocates.

Alex Holdridge ("In Search Of A Midnight Kiss") directs from a script by Elan Mastai ("Alone In The Dark"). Russell Smith, Marc Stephenson, Mark Costa, Ford Oelman and Liane Halfon will produce.

Ever since director Neill Blomkamp managed to turn the $30 million production of District 9 into a $115 million domestic haul, Hollywood has been looking for the next low budget sci-fi film with mega blockbuster potential.

Who better to bring that next hit than mostly unknown writer/director Gareth Edwards with his film Monsters. While the movie was screened at Cannes, to predominantly positive reviews, today we’ve got the first official trailer. The film opens in limited release on October 29th.

Gareth Edwards’ Monsters stars relative unknowns, Whitney Able (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane) and Scoot McNairy (In Search Of A Midnight Kiss). Here’s the official synopsis, in case this is the first time you’re hearing about the film:

“Six years ago Nasa discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was…

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Casey Affleck (The Killer Inside Me) is in negotiations to feature in the romantic comedy, F-Word. The film, set to be directed by Alex Holdridge (In Search of a Midnight Kiss), will be based on T.J. Dawe and Michael Rinaldi’s play Cigars and Toothpaste. Synopsis: A story of a young man and woman who struggle to navigate their friendship, which has developed a deep romantic undercurrent. Elan Mastai has wrote the script, while Mr. Mudd Productions, Nho Entertainment and Sleep Noir will co-produce the film. Fox Searchlight will distribute. The film is likely to shoot towards the end of this year, with a release likely for 2011.

Not so fast; there are a ton of "f words" out there that aren't expletives. In fact, in this case, the title The F-Word is referring to friendship, not you know what. Okay, maybe that just took some of the fun out of this film, but considering Casey Affleck is in negations to star does mean the it's got potential.

According to THR, the Fox Searchlight romantic comedy will be directed by Alex Holdridge, a writing, directing and acting triple threat with a short list of credits, none of which I'm too familiar with. His 2008 film In Search of a Midnight Kiss is rocking a 84% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics praising his ability to convey the relationship between his leads, something that will come in handy when working on The F-Word.

Elan Mastai's script is based on T.J. Sawe and Michael Rinaldi's play Cigars and Toothpaste about a...