Green Light Away We Go marks the first movie that director Sam Mendes has helmed from an original screenplay since the Academy Award-winning American Beauty. He remarks, “I was feeling the need to do something writer-led. Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida’s script was delightful, and had a lightness of spirit even when dealing with serious…
Away We Go (2009)
“Away We Go” is a contemporary comedy directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The movie follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski of The Office and Maya Rudolph of Saturday Night Live), as they travel the U.S. in search of a place…
Bandslam Movie Production Notes (2009)
“I met Vanessa very early on in the casting process while she was in New York doing press for ‘High School Musical,’ and really liked her,” recalls Goldsmith-Thomas. “She’s a straight-forward, very honest, sweet person.” After gaining worldwide recognition for playing the brainy, popular Gabriella in the phenomenally successful High School Musical trilogy, Hudgens was…
Bandslam (2009)
Tagline: Band Together. When gifted singer-songwriter Charlotte Banks (Aly Michalka) asks new kid in town Will Burton (Gaelan Connell) to manage her fledgling rock band, she appears to have just one goal in mind: go head-to-head against her egotistical musician ex-boyfriend, Ben (Scott Porter), at the biggest event of the year, a battle of the…
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
Tagline: Why would a man frame himself… For Murder? Fritz Lang’s last American film is brought back to life thanks to writer/director Peter Hyams (“Narrow Margin”) and stars Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn, and Jesse Metcalfe. Foresight Unlimited’s remake follows a similar story of a novelist’s investigation of a dirty district attorney that leads to a…
The Blind Side Production Notes (2009)
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…