Shiloh Fernandez and Rosamund Pike Mark Next Project “Return to Sender”

May 23, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

returntosender Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez and Nick Nolte will topline indie psychological thriller “Return to Sender”, according to THR. Fouad Mikati will direct from a script by Patricia Beauchamp and Joe Gossett.

Pike will play a small town nurse whose life is turned upside down after agreeing to a blind date with a man (Fernandez) who turns out to be not who he says he is, making her fall victim to “a life-altering event.” She then must “find the strength and courage to rebuild her life and return to her former self.” Nolte will play Pike’s father. Filming has already commenced in New Orleans.

Pike, who’s known for “Pride and Prejudice”, “An Education” and most recently “Jack Reacher” opposite Tom Cruise, recently wrapped Nick Hornby adaptation “A Long Way Down” as well as Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy conclusion “The World’s End.” Fernandez has appeared in “Red Riding Hood” with Amanda Seyfried” and can next be seen opposite Brit Marling in eco-terrorist thriller “The East” as well as drug cartel drama “Deep Powder” opposite Haley Bennett.

Newport Beach Film Festival REVIEW: Brit Marling’s “The East” Goes Mainstream

April 29, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Reviews 1 Comment

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Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij made a splash at Sundance two years ago with their micro-indie “Sound of My Voice”, and Hollywood quickly came calling: The screening for their new film “The East” kicked off at the Newport Beach Film Festival with a program director quipping “let’s see what they were able to do with an actual budget.” Well, what they did with an actual Fox Searchlight-sized budget is something altogether more mainstream than their previous effort, with all the positives and negatives that come with it.

Watch: Shiloh Fernandez and Haley Bennett in First Trailer for “Deep Powder”

March 31, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Videos 1 Comment

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Here’s a movie that continues to surprise and surpass expectations. We didn’t know what to make of “Deep Powder” when we first heard about it over a year ago, but our interest was properly piqued when we finally learned what exactly the Tribeca Film Festival premiere was about, and a now a trailer has raised our expectations even further.

Shiloh Fernandez and Haley Bennett star in the film about a couple of young kids from opposite sides of the tracks who fall in love. She’s a privileged member of a secret society who has ties to the South American drug trade, and now that he’s with her, she wants him to make the next drug smuggling trip with her. Though the initial synopsis made it sound like she’s using the less financially set boy for whatever reason, the trailer seems to indicate it’s a real love story between the two, and Fernandez and Bennett look perfectly natural together and have some great chemistry. It looks like they have bigger than usual high school relationship problems to worry about, but this looks like an intense and compelling ride.

“Deep Powder” will make its world premiere in the Viewpoints section at Tribeca next month, and has no distribution yet. The first trailer can be viewed below.

First Look at Haley Bennett and Shiloh Fernandez in Tribeca-Bound Thriller “Deep Powder”

March 12, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images 1 Comment

deeppowdersm More from Tribeca, coming right up! Somehow this one slipped through the cracks, but it appears indie drama “Deep Powder”, which we first heard about a year ago and then gradually lost track of, is also headed to the Tribeca Film Festival to have its world premiere next month. In addition to the first images from the film featuring Shiloh Fernandez and Haley Bennett, we also finally know exactly what this movie is about.

The Mo Ogrodnik film is based on real life events that happened in the 1980s, and Bennett plays boarding school senior Natasha Tabor, who is a member of a secret society with ties to the drug world. She’s tapped to make an annual drug run to Ecuador, and chooses a working class young man (Fernandez) to be her partner in crime, “launching a journey with devastating outcomes for everyone involved.” So, that sounds way better than the snowboarding plot we had originally envisioned.

“Deep Powder” will make its world premiere in the Viewpoints section at Tribeca next month, and has no distribution yet. The first photos from the film can be viewed below.

Watch: Brit Marling returns to Sundance in first trailer for thriller “The East” as film draws muted praise

January 21, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in Reviews, Videos 1 Comment

It’s Sundance darling Brit Marling’s third year in a row back at the Utah film festival, but “The East” is her first return to co-writer as well as star since 2011′s double feature of “Another Earth” and “Sound of My Voice.” Judging by the reactions to her second collaboration with director Zal Batmanglij, she hasn’t lost any of her touch since hitting mainstream Hollywood’s radar.

After playing the enigmatic leader of a secretive, cultish group in “Sound of My Voice”, Marling takes the outsider role this time around, playing a young corporate contractor infiltrating an eco-terrorist organization intent on carrying out destructive acts on companies they believe are committing crimes against nature. Shiloh Fernandez, Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgard and more play members of the group, and the film drew everything from raves to muted responses from its first audience at Sundance last night.

“Burt Wonderstone” to open SXSW 2013; “Drinking Buddies”, “Evil Dead” and more to premiere

January 15, 2013 | Posted by Linda Ge in General News, Images Leave a comment

Film Festival season of 2013 is officially underway. Sundance is just around the corner, and now increasingly popular Austin fest SXSW has announced its first batch of films. Magician buddy comedy “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”, starring Steve Carell, Jim Carrey and Olivia Wilde, will open the festival with its world premiere. Meanwhile, Wilde will be double-dipping at the fest, as she also stars in Joe Swanberg’s rom com “Drinking Buddies”, which co-stars Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson and Ron Livingston and which will also have its world premiere at the festival.

Harmony Korine’s much talked-about “Spring Breakers”, which stars James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez and Ashley Benson and which premiered at Cannes last year, was also announced today as part of the initial lineup of SXSW. Another buzzy title making its world premiere is the remake of “Evil Dead”, which features the quintet of Jane Levy, Jessica Lucas, Shiloh Fernandez, Elizabeth Blackmore and Lou Taylor Pucci being tortured and slaughtered quite graphically.

The list of the first batch of films can be viewed below, along with the first image of Wilde and Johnson in “Drinking Buddies.”

Sundance out of competition premieres announced; first look images from “The East”, “Stoker” and more

December 3, 2012 | Posted by Rebecca Lewis and Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

Just last week Sundance Film Festival announced their 2013 picks, the films that will be competing against each other to win the coveted Grand Jury prizes and hopefully go on to bigger box office and critical success. Now today Sundance have announced the Out of Competition premieres and there are a lot of familiar and exciting rising stars in attendance.

Some of our most anticipated films of 2013 are included in today’s released line up, including Park Chan-Wook‘s English language thriller “Stoker” starring Mia Wasikowska, and “Breathe In“, the second directorial effort from Drake Doremus. Doremus, who hit the 2010 festival with “Like Crazy” which won him the Grand Jury prize, reunites with Felicity Jones in this new film – which again stars Jones as a foreign exchange students in America.

Brit Marling and writing partner Zal Batmanglij are back again with “The East“, starring Marling as an operative whose loyalties are tested when she goes undercover to infiltrate a mysterious anarchist collective attacking major corporations. The pic also features Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Toby Kebbell and Shiloh Fernandez.

Noir film “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman” with Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood will also premiere at the 2013 festival, as will the Amanda Seyfried-starrer “Lovelace“. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who starred in the 2012 festival hit “Smashed“, will be back again in “A.C.O.D“.

For Brie Larson and Elizabeth Olsen, Sundance 2013 will be especially busy, as both have films in and out of competition – “The Spectacular Now” and Joseph Gordon-Levitt‘s directorial debut “Don Jon’s Addiction” for Larson, and Beat pic “Kill Your Darlings” and the Naomi Foner helmed “Very Good Girls“, also starring Dakota Fanning and Boyd Holbrook for Olsen.

Click below for the first images from these films and the official synopses for the featured films.

First Look: Shailene Woodley sports dark locks on the set of Gregg Araki’s “White Bird in a Blizzard”

November 28, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Images Leave a comment

You know a teenage girl is rebellious and “troubled” when she sports dark hair, dark makeup and dark boots. In Gregg Araki’s “White Bird in a Blizzard” (formerly just “White Bird”), Shailene Woodley plays just such a young woman whose life is turned upside down after the disappearance of her mother, and Just Jared has the first photos of Woodley looking quite transformed at work on her first movie since wrapping up “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.”

Woodley will be joined on set by Christopher Meloni as the lead detective investigating her mother’s disappearance, as well as Shiloh Fernandez as her next door neighbor/love interest, and Eva Green and Gabourey Sidibe in unspecified roles.

The eco-friendly Woodley, who has previously said “I don’t use any products, I don’t own a brush, and I don’t believe in hair dye or anything artificial or toxic,” will probably be getting over that in a hurry over the next several months. Having gone dark for “White Bird”, she will undoubtedly have to go red to play Mary Jane Watson in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″, and while “Divergent” heroine Tris’ blonde locks aren’t quite as iconic as MJ’s, Woodley may consider another dye job to appease those finnicky YA book fans. Just ask Jennifer Lawrence how many people simply would not accept her Katniss Everdeen until she was no longer a blonde.

Woodley’s first transformation from ABC Family’s version of an American Teenager to Araki’s can be seen below, with even more photos to be found at JJJ.

Shiloh Fernandez and Eva Green join Shailene Woodley in Gregg Araki’s “White Bird”

October 15, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting 1 Comment

“Red Riding Hood” actor Shiloh Fernandez and Eva Green have joined future Mary Jane Watson Shailene Woodley in indie drama “White Bird”, according to Deadline.

Gregg Araki will direct the film which revolves around Woodley’s character, a young woman whose life is upended following the disappearance of her mother. Last we heard, the search was on for the roles of the girl’s parents and the lead detective on the disappearance case, though we can’t say for sure either Green or Fernandez fits any of those roles.

Fernandez played Peter, aka Love Interest #1 to Amanda Seyfried, in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Red Riding Hood” and has wrapped up filming on Brit Marling’s eco-terrorist thriller “The East” alongside Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgard, indie dramas “Deep Powder” opposite Haley Bennett and “Syrup” opposite Amber Heard, as well as the new “Evil Dead” remake opposite Jane Levy.

Shiloh Fernandez to play world champion boxer Tapia in biopic “Johnny”

August 23, 2012 | Posted by Linda Ge in Casting Leave a comment

Shiloh Fernandez has been tapped to play the late Johnny Tapia, a five-time world champion boxer in indie biopic “Johnny”, according to THR. Director Eddie Alcazar had been in development on the project for a while before the boxer died this year on May 27th.

Tapia’s story is tinged with tragedy following the murder of his father and mother in his childhood, which led to a lifelong drug addiction battle. He began boxing at age 9 at the urging of his grandmother, and found great success in the 90s, winning titles including the WBO super flyweight and WBO bantamweight. Filming will begin in early 2013 on the film that will focus on Tapia’s early years.

Fernandez is most known for his role opposite Amanda Seyfried in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Red Riding Hood” fairy tale remake and has also completed filming in various indie flicks including Brit Marling’s eco-terrorist thriller “The East”, which co-stars Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgard. He is also one of the stars of the new “Evil Dead” remake, along with Jane Levy, Jessica Lucas, Lou Taylor Pucci and newcomer Elizabeth Blackmore.

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