Carnaval

Promo Posters for ASS BACKWARDS, CARNAVAL, and THUNDER RUN Starring Sam Worthington and Gerard Butler

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: November 6th, 2011 at 8:34 am

We’ve got another round up of stuff from the American Film Market to share with you today in the way of promo posters for Ass Backwards, Thunder Run, and Carnaval. Thunder Run is the 3D motion-capture war film starring Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Simon West (Con Air), the film centers on the 2003 capture of Baghdad. The comedy Ass Backwards stars Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer, Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) and Vincent D’Onofrio and centers on two best friends who head back to their hometown in an attempt to win a pageant they never won as children.

Carnaval stars John Cusack and Johnny Knoxville and centers on a sports scout (Cusack) who is forced to head down to Rio de Janeiro to recruit the world’s top soccer player. The scout’s best friend (Knoxville) comes along for the trip, and hijinks ensue. Josh Stern (Swing Vote) will direct.  Hit the jump to check out the promo posters.

John Cusack and Johnny Knoxville to Star in CARNAVAL

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 19th, 2011 at 11:16 am

John Cusack and Johnny Knoxville will co-star in Josh Stern’s comedy Carnaval.  According to THR, Cusack will play sports scout who, in order to inherit his agency, must heads to Rio de Janeiro to recruit the world’s top soccer player.  However, he has to do it during the madness of the city’s annual festival, Carnaval.  Knoxville will play his best friend who comes along for the trip, but ends up having an affair with the soccer star’s girlfriend and this is how conflict happens.

Stern will also re-write the script from former agent David Styne.  Shooting is expected to begin this January.  Cusack will next be seen playing Edgar Allan Poe in the thriller The Raven and he’s signed on to star in Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy.  Knoxville’s slate continues to fill up as he’s set to co-star with Patton Oswalt in an untitled comedy from Todd Rohal, and earlier this week we learned Knoxville was on board Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comeback film, The Last Stand.

Joshua Michael Stern to Direct R-Rated Comedy CARNAVAL

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: July 27th, 2011 at 8:37 pm

Stone Village has hired Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) to direct Carnaval.  Per Variety, the R-rated comedy is about “a sports scout sent by his boss to Rio during Carnaval to recruit a soccer phenom no one has been able to reach.”  Stern rewrote the original script by David Styne, who is still on board as producer along with producing partners Dylan Russell and Scott LaStaiti (Turistas) and Stone Village’s Scott Steindorff (The Lincoln Lawyer).  The $20 million production is scheduled to begin in January in Rio de Janerio.

Depending on how Stern wants to depict it, Rio is a beautiful place, and a particularly vibrant setting during Carnaval.  The festival takes place from February 18-22 next year, so I imagine production was scheduled to film in the middle of the action at the end of the shoot.  For my money, this has the makings of a very interesting comedy prospect.

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