This week: Something otherworldly is tormenting the poor Barretts in "Dark Skies," the sci-fi horror film starring Josh Hamilton, Keri Russell, Dakota Goyo and Kadan Rockett as a suburban family under siege by nasty alien visitors.
Also new this week is the 2010 Irish road-trip indie film "My Brothers" and the compelling drama "Lore" starring young Saskia Rosendahl as a German girl wandering post-wwii Europe with her siblings after their Nazi parents are interred by the Allies.
'Dark Skies'
Box Office: $17 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 34% Rotten
Storyline: Daniel (Josh Hamilton) and Lacy Barrett (Keri Russell) have a fairly ordinary life in the 'burbs with their two sons until some mysterious break-ins and disturbing activity — including blackouts, "Poltergeist"-like stacking of objects and sleepwalking — cause the family to suspect that something otherworldly is trying to get into their house. As the parents do research on alien abduction and try to protect...
Also new this week is the 2010 Irish road-trip indie film "My Brothers" and the compelling drama "Lore" starring young Saskia Rosendahl as a German girl wandering post-wwii Europe with her siblings after their Nazi parents are interred by the Allies.
'Dark Skies'
Box Office: $17 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 34% Rotten
Storyline: Daniel (Josh Hamilton) and Lacy Barrett (Keri Russell) have a fairly ordinary life in the 'burbs with their two sons until some mysterious break-ins and disturbing activity — including blackouts, "Poltergeist"-like stacking of objects and sleepwalking — cause the family to suspect that something otherworldly is trying to get into their house. As the parents do research on alien abduction and try to protect...
- 5/27/2013
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
Production finished on My Brothers in 2009, but now three years and three Ifta nominations later, the film, the directorial debut of screen writer Paul Fraser (Dead Man's Shoes), working from a script by Cork born screen writer Will Collins, is finally getting an Irish release date. Shot entirely in Cork, the 1987 set film follows three brothers' journey across Ireland to replace their dying fathers watch. The film stars Timmy Creed, Paul Courtney, Tj Griffin, Kate Ashfield, Don Wycherly and Sarah Greene. My Brothers is released in selected Irish cinemas on the 17th August. Source: Iftn...
- 8/11/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Retail marketing agency Crossmark has been appointed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia to manage national retail merchandising of its home entertainment products.
The announcement:
One of Australasia’s largest retail marketing agencies, Crossmark today announced its appointment by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia (Us) to manage the national retail merchandising of its home entertainment products.
Crossmark will continue to work on the business following a competitive pitch, where it will manage the retail merchandising for all film and TV content distributed by Us on DVD and Blu-ray across Australia.
Crossmark Managing Director Australia, Polly Yule said: “We are delighted to be appointed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia to employ our retail merchandising expertise to deliver strategic growth solutions, through speed to market retail activations that have been developed in-house.”
“Using state-of-the-art iPad technology for real-time reporting in-store, our experienced field teams will be deployed to...
The announcement:
One of Australasia’s largest retail marketing agencies, Crossmark today announced its appointment by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia (Us) to manage the national retail merchandising of its home entertainment products.
Crossmark will continue to work on the business following a competitive pitch, where it will manage the retail merchandising for all film and TV content distributed by Us on DVD and Blu-ray across Australia.
Crossmark Managing Director Australia, Polly Yule said: “We are delighted to be appointed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia to employ our retail merchandising expertise to deliver strategic growth solutions, through speed to market retail activations that have been developed in-house.”
“Using state-of-the-art iPad technology for real-time reporting in-store, our experienced field teams will be deployed to...
- 3/12/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Paul Courtney got his first movie role by ditching class. A middle-school student from County Cork, Ireland, he was sitting at his desk when it was announced that a filmmaker visiting the school wanted to audition boys for a part in a movie. Figuring that an acting career had to be better than what he was currently enduring, he signed up."The next day, I was sent in, and they asked me if I could come back again in an hour," Courtney says. "I went back, and at the end of that they asked me to come back again the day after."Courtney—red hair, freckles, spectacles and all—was the first of three untrained actors cast as siblings in "My Brothers," which made its world premiere at the just-wrapped-up Tribeca Film Festival. Courtney plays Paudy, the second in age of three siblings with an ailing father, and a comic...
- 5/4/2010
- backstage.com
Irish writer and director Paul Fraser is comfortable working with non-actors and using improvisation to get great performances, thanks to his work as a writer with the likes of Shane Meadows and Damien O'Donnell. But when it came time to make his feature directing debut, Fraser gave himself the added challenge of directing three boys, all of them newcomers to the screen who didn't just shoot most of their scenes inside a cramped bread van, but had to act like brothers all the while. The wonderful thing about My Brothers isn't just that the family relationship worked, but is the linchpin of Fraser's tender and lovely film. Last week I talked to Fraser and his three lead actors-- Timmy Creed, Paul Courtney and T.J. Griffin-- and Fraser told me it was less important to find non-actors than simply actors who could be honest onscreen. "From my point of views,...
- 4/26/2010
- cinemablend.com
Though the Tribeca Film Festival lineup can be notoriously inconsistent and impossible to predict what will actually be worth watching, I've noticed an impressive track record for Irish films at the festival. In 2008 there was the gut-wrenching family drama Eden, 2009 had the supernatural love story The Eclipse, and this year offers My Brothers, an inconsistent but remarkably tender and affecting story about three brothers on an accidental road trip as they cope with the fact of their father's imminent death. Teenage Noel (Timmy Creed) has been given much of the duty of taking care of his younger brothers Paudie (Paul Courtney) and Scwally (T.J. Griffin) while their mother tends to their ailing father, and it's clearly taking its toll. As a sentimental gesture Noel borrows his father's cheap wristwatch, but it's immediately broken by school bullies, leaving Noel both distraught but with a concrete plan rather than the aimless ...
- 4/24/2010
- cinemablend.com
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