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First Official Pics From ‘Jonah Hex’ & ‘The Losers’
12 hours ago | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
For some reason, this week has been filled with new photos from some highly anticipated movies: we’ve already had an amazing new Iron Man 2 image; our first image from Shrek Forever After; and a look at a toy figure of the new Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
To continue today’s trend, some new images have been released for two comic book adaptations, the dark Western, Jonah Hex, and the Special Forces team movie, The Losers. Both are definitely on my most anticipated list, so it’s nice to see some new pics from them – in fact, as far as we know they are the first official ones from each movie.
Jonah Hex is a dark and gritty Western comic book adaptation directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!) and starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox and John Malkovich. It’s based »
- Ross Miller
Review: ‘The Road’ – Shannon’s Take
14 hours ago | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
The Road is the film adaptation of the Pulitzer winning novel written by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men and All The Pretty Horses. Our fascination with what a post-apocalyptic world might be like has been fodder for countless books, television shows, and movies. When I was in college, I was required to read George R. Stewart’s novel Earth Abides. Excruciatingly detailed, the book gave me anxiety attacks for months, as it told the story of a grad student looking for other people who may have survived a plague that wipes out the entire population.
As he traverses the land, the minute changes that he observes in the landscape and appearance of the United States are painstakingly recorded. More recently, The History Channel presented Life After People, which depicts what changes would occur to the earth’s ecological systems and the infrastructure we leave in our wake. »
- Shannon Hood
Director John Hillcoat Interview for "The Road"
18 hours ago | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
I enjoyed "The Road" based on Cormac McCarthy's ("No Country for Old Men") novel. Read my review of "The Road" right here.
Now, here's my interview with the director. We talked about:
*** His involvement with the film
*** Adapting Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
*** The film's excellent production design by Chris Kennedy
*** The love story between a father and a son
*** Why he expanded the role of The Woman (Charlize Theron)
Here's more info on "The Road" courtesy of Yahoo Movies:
Cast and Credits
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Molly Parker
Directed by: John Hillcoat
Produced by: Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Marc Butan
An epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. It imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the »
- Manny
From No Country For Old Men To No Movie For Faith Audiences? I Don't Think So
18 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The Road, a sobering film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and All The Pretty Horses, is a national Thanksgiving holiday theatrical release, opening today. Unlike other recent doomsday movies that build toward a cataclysmic event marking the end of civilization as we know it, this motion picture focuses on the relationship between a father and son struggling to survive the dangers of a post-apocalyptic world. The Audacity of Hope became a focal point of last year's presidential race. The Road, however, goes beyond audacity to authenticity, as its dark vision of chaos and calamity is infiltrated by a ray of hope. The world has ended, all potential and purpose seems to be destroyed and only the very faintest traces of life remain. Yet the story that unfolds in... »
- Larry Ross
Oppressively Bleak ‘The Road’ Buries Great Viggo Mortensen Performance
19 hours ago | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The long-delayed and highly-anticipated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” has moments of stark beauty and a typically fantastic lead performance from Viggo Mortensen, but the film ultimately misses its mark as a whole piece, coming off numbing its bleak, repetitive view of the end of the world instead of inspiring emotionally or creatively.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
In works like “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country For Old Men,” and “The Road,” author Cormac McCarthy has made his opinion of the human race crystal clear. We are headed for our end days as a time of decency among human beings has gone away. His highly-acclaimed novel “The Road” was the ultimate in bleak nihilism, giving readers a glimpse of how difficult it will be to hold on to any shred of humanity if we continue down our current path.
Read Brian Tallerico’s full review of “The Road” in our reviews section. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Road Movie Review
25 November 2009 2:59 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
After No Country for Old Men, I wasn’t sure what to expect from a film based on a Cormac McCarthy book. I enjoyed No Country, for the most part, but like a lot of people, I felt somewhat alienated by the ending. I’ve always been a fan of stories where the character(s) are forced to survive by their own wits in a disastrous situation, such as being stranded on a desert island or lost in the mountains. The Road is about the Earth slowly becoming uninhabitable as a result of a meteor.
The Road, however, is a bit more straightforward. Viggo Mortensen is the lead character, a nameless father, who leads his son towards a warm, southern refuge that may or may not exist. Everywhere they go carries the possibility of running into roving gangs of cannibals. There is absolutely no food to be found »
- Jon
Movie Review: The Road (2009)
25 November 2009 12:48 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Robert Duvall, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Viggo Mortensen in The Road
Photo: Dimension Films Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a book I can't recommend often enough and if you have a free afternoon, pick it up and give it a read. Trust me, it won't take you any longer than that as a destroyed and ashen world is brought to desperate life as a father and son make their way to the coast in hopes of something... anything.
Once it was announced John Hillcoat, the director of the underappreciated Australian western The Proposition, was set to direct an adaptation of McCarthy's work on the heels of the Coen brothers' successful adaptation of "No Country for Old Men", my interest was piqued. I rushed out, picked up a copy and finished at three in the morning. Remembering the brutal reality of The Proposition I couldn't imagine a better director to bring »
- Brad Brevet
The Road Review
24 November 2009 10:35 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Short Version: The Road taps the power, beauty and horror of Cormac McCarthy’s novel and gives us a movie that is both gorgeous and gut-wrenching.
Screen Rant Reviews The Road
For those biting their nails in anticipation (I know you’re out there), I’ll skip the usual opening fanfare and get right to it: In my opinion, director John Hillcoat has successfully taken the power, beauty and horror of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road and translated it, intact, to the big screen. I think that those moviegoers who don’t already read McCarthy now have another good example of why they should (The Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men being the other); I think that those who Do read McCarthy will at least be happy that the movie version “didn’t screw it up,” and at most will truly appreciate the movie based on its own merits. »
- Kofi Outlaw
Exclusive: John Hillcoat on the Perils of Making 'The Road'
24 November 2009 9:45 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
When Cormac McCarthy’s novel "The Road" was published in 2006, Oprah Winfrey selected it for her influential Book Club and McCarthy made his first television appearance to discuss the book on The Oprah Winfrey Show in June 2007. It later picked up the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. "The Road" was McCarthy’s follow-up to "No Country for Old Men", which had been adapted by the Coen brothers into an award-winning film that raked in four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
A screen adaptation of "The Road" was inevitable. However, some studios were skittish about a film that although is an emotional tale of survival about a father and son making their way through a post-apocalyptic landscape also tackles issues of cannibalism, murder and extreme violence.
Producer Nick Wechsler optioned the book when it was in manuscript form and when Rudd Simmons joined the project as executive producer he »
The M/C Review: 'The Road' proves tricky to adapt
23 November 2009 2:45 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Cormac McCarthy is not an easy author to adapt from page to screen. Each of his books seems to pose a different challenge to screenwriters and directors, too, and so there's no one answer for how to crack the problem of bringing his books to the bigscreen. I think the Coens did a tremendous job with "No Country For Old Men," and there are parts of "All The Pretty Horses" that work very well, even if the film as a whole is sort of a heavily-manhandled mess as it was released. "The Road" was a very different type of challenge, and... »
The Road Behind The Scenes Featurette
23 November 2009 9:38 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
My favorite book of last year has become my favorite film of this year. I’m talking of course about the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and if you haven’t checked out my review yet go Here and see why I truly believe this film is currently the most deserving contender for a Best Picture Oscar.
The Road will be released in theaters this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, and if you want to know why that is such an appropriate release date (the time to be thankful) then we have a behind-the-scenes featurette that will help you understand the power of this story and how it translated into such a powerful film.
Starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road tells the story of a father and son wandering the dystopian landscape of post-apocalyptic America, trying to avoid roving bands of cannibals and insane murderers, »
- Kofi Outlaw
Viggo Mortensen Interview The Road
21 November 2009 9:26 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Viggo Mortensen has consistently earned acclaim for his work in a wide range of films, including most recently Eastern Promises, A History of Violence and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2008, he starred again with and was directed by Ed Harris in Appaloosa.
We sat down with him this past weekend to talk about his new movie, The Road, the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country for Old Men. Mortensen leads an all-star cast featuring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and young newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm.
Directed by John Hillcoat, The Road is an adventure story, a horror story, a road movie and ultimately »
- Sheila Roberts
Exclusive Video: Viggo Mortensen and Cast Travel on The Road
20 November 2009 12:14 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Viggo Mortensen is an actor who is known for pushing the envelope with every screen role he takes. From a warrior king in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, to an amnesia ridden reluctant hero in A History of Violence, to his Oscar Nominated role as a undercover agent posing as a Russian Mobster in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, Mortensen always delivers with a strong and moving performance. In his new film The Road, opening in theaters on November 25th, the actor once again takes on a difficult role as a father trying to protect his son from the hardships of a post-apocalyptic future. We recently had an opportunity to speak with Mortensen, along with his co-star Michael K. Williams (The Wire) and the film's director John Hillcoat (The Proposition) about the movie, the cast, the book it was based on and how to survive the inevitable post-apocalyptic future. »
Profoundly Humane, Beautiful: A Look at ‘The Road’
19 November 2009 4:32 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
There's something so beautiful and captivating about the end of humanity, the last gasping breaths of life as we know it. This is why post-apocalyptic movies have been so popular in recent years. We are fascinated with humanity's willingness to fight for every last inch -- or at least, even if we live in such a time of excess, we want to believe that we could survive at the very end. Such is the captivating element of John Hillcoat's The Road, based on the sensational novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men). It is a film that is a long-time coming, having been delayed time and time again, but it is a film that is about to shake you in ways that you didn't think possible. In anticipation of the film's release, The Weinstein Company has released a brand new behind the scenes featurette that takes us behind the emotional weight of the film »
- Neil Miller
Film review: A Serious Man
19 November 2009 2:20 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Deftly balancing bright comedy and bitter darkness, the Coens have come up with another uncomfortable masterpiece about a fraternal duo
Joel and Ethan Coen have bookended the decade with a superb film at the very beginning, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), and another two stormers at the end: their superlative adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men in 2007 – and now this sublimely funny, involving, utterly distinctive serio-comedy of mid-life crisis set in the American midwest in the 1960s, which happens to be where and when the Coen brothers themselves were brought up.
The Broadway actor Michael Stuhlbarg gets his big-screen break playing Larry Gopnik, a professor of theoretical physics whose life reaches a menopausal climacteric in mysterious tandem with his son's approaching barmitzvah and the astonishing announcement from his wife (Sari Lennick) that their marriage is over. She now wishes to divorce and to marry their supercilious acquaintance Sy Ableman, »
- Peter Bradshaw
The Blind Side: An Inspired Featurette
19 November 2009 8:52 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
We haven't written much about it yet, but I can tell you that a few folks here at Reject HQ really enjoyed the inspirational story behind Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming sports drama The Blind Side. The movie is not a perfect one, but it is full of heart and features a performance from Sandra Bullock that could easily put her in the conversation come Oscar time. Yes, you read that right, Sandra Bullock gives an Oscar-worthy performance. I said it. The film tells the remarkable true story of All-American football star Michael Oher. Teenager Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is surviving on his own, virtually homeless, when he is spotted on the street by Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock). Learning that the young man is one of her daughter’s classmates, Leigh Anne insists that Michael—wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter—come out of the cold. Without »
- Neil Miller
2009 Austin Film Festival Wrap-up
17 November 2009 12:18 PM, PST | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
The 16th annual Austin Film Festival opened with a true screenwriting gem, Serious Moonlight. Penned by the late Adrienne Shelley around the same time she created Waitress – Shelley was murdered shortly after wrapping Waitress, before she had the opportunity to direct Serious Moonlight. I loved Waitress, and have been a fan of Adrienne Shelley since seeing her act in Hal Hartley’s The Unbelievable Truth and Trust. Serious Moonlight | Review "...the script is chock-full of clever Hitchcockian twists along with a impeccably strong (and mysterious) conclusion. Serious Moonlight is very conservatively directed by first-timer Cheryl Hines (who acted in Waitress with Shelley)." ____________________________________________________ I have long been curious about C.D. Payne’s 1993 epistolary novel Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, and unfortunately I did not have the opportunity to read it prior to the Aff screening of Miguel Arteta’s film. Nonetheless, into the Paramount I went… I must »
- Don Simpson
Cormac McCarthy: A Blood Meridian Movie is Possible
16 November 2009 1:15 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Novelist Cormac McCarthy is no stranger to seeing his literary vision adapted to film. All the Pretty Horses and No Country for Old Men were both made into films. The adaptation by the Coen Brothers of No Country for Old Men was a box office and critical success garnering multiple Oscar nominations. McCarthy’s latest novel to be filmed is the Pulitzer Prize winning The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen. It opens November 25 the day before Thanksgiving Day. Not bad timing when you consider how much you’ll be thankful for after seeing this dark post apocalyptic tale about survival and hope. McCarthy gave an in depth interview to the Wall Street Journal where he discussed The Road, his life, work and what it’s like seeing his books made into films. McCarthy was asked about the feasibility of a film version of his dark, bloody Western Blood Meridian. WSJ: People have said Blood Meridian is unfilmable because »
- Robin Ruinsky
Woody, Woody everywhere: 'The Messenger' and '2012'
16 November 2009 11:27 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
While millions of moviegoers behold Woody Harrelson as a wild man shrieking warnings about the end of the world in "2012" right now, he's giving another showy performance in a small indie that could land him an Oscar nomination. "The Messenger" opened only in four theaters this past weekend, earning $50,000 compared with $65 million for "2012," but it may have a much bigger impact on his career. Harrelson earned an Oscar nomination for the title role in "The People vs. Larry Flynt" (1996) and shared the SAG ensemble award for "No Country for Old Men" (2007), but he has yet to win a major solo film-industry honor. The best he has done so far... »
- tomoneil
Author Cormac McCarthy Thinks Blood Meridian Is Filmable
15 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Another great, supposedly "unfilmable" novel (besides Watchmen), is Cormac McCarthy's break out 1985 novel Blood Meridian. If you're not familiar with McCarthy, he's the author who wrote the novels that were turned into All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and now The Road. Blood Meridian is a critically acclaimed novel, set in the 1850s, about American mercenaries hunting Indians in the Mexican borderland. McCarthy recently talked with the Wall Street Journal (it's actually a fantastic interview) and was asked about why people think Blood Meridian is unfilmable. And his answer might surprise you. WSJ: People have said "Blood Meridian" is unfilmable because of the sheer darkness and violence of the story. Cm: That's all crap. The fact that's it's a bleak and bloody story has nothing to do with whether or not you can put it on the screen. That's not the issue. The issue is it »
- Alex Billington
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