Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Connelly and Greg Kinnear Set for Indie Drama WRITERS

by Dave Trumbore    Posted: January 26th, 2012 at 8:54 pm

Negotiations are underway for Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream) and Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine) to star in the indie drama, Writers. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Josh Boone who also wrote the original screenplay. The plot of Writers centers on the familial relationships between a well-established novelist (Kinnear), his ex-wife (Connelly) and their children: a college-age daughter and teenage son. THR reports that Judy Cairo (Crazy Heart) of Informant Media will produce the project. Her upcoming works include Hysteria, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy and Jonathan Pryce and The Expatriate, starring Olga Kurylenko and Aaron Eckhart.

First Trailer for SALVATION BOULEVARD Starring Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: May 23rd, 2011 at 5:40 pm

The first trailer for Fox Searchlight’s Salvation Boulevard has been released. Starring Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear and Jim Gaffigan, the comedy centers on the preacher of a mega church who frames an ex-hippie for a crime he didn’t commit. The flick premiered at Sundance where Matt wasn’t too thrilled by the finished product. Hit the jump to watch the trailer.

THE DILEMMA Blu-ray Review

by Scott Wampler    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 6:10 am

By now, I think we’ve all faced facts:  Vince Vaughn’s entered the “puffy” stage of his career.  Gone is the motor-mouthed, all-sharp-angles ladies’ man with the stunning amount of overconfidence who owned films like Made, Swingers, and Wedding Crashers.  In his place, we’ve been given the slightly-heavier, slightly-slower, seemingly-disinterested Vaughn that’s headlined films like Four Christmases and Fred Claus (just try reading that title without shuddering).  Ron Howard’s The Dilemma is certainly a part of this “puffy period”, but does it succeed despite Vaughn’s low-powered screen presence?  Is The Dilemma as “Hilarious!” as the film’s cover box claims it to be?  Read on and find out in our full review, after the jump.

Sundance 2011: SALVATION BOULEVARD Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: January 25th, 2011 at 11:24 pm

In my review of Higher Ground, I noted that religion is a tricky topic but that it was easy to mock it.  Salvation Boulevard can barely even manage that.  The story features a mega church and celebrity pastor and there’s great fun to be made at the absurdity of these elements in modern evangelical Christianity.  Instead, co-writer and director George Ratliff uses this setting as the thinnest of backdrops for a chase movie that goes absolutely nowhere.

5 Movie Clips from THE DILEMMA

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: January 5th, 2011 at 8:45 pm

Universal has released 5 movie clips from The Dilemma, a comedy from director Ron Howard which stars Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, and Queen Latifah.  Vaughn plays a man who is distraught when he catches the wife (Ryder) of his best friend (James) cheating.

I didn’t love the trailer, but the cast is undeniably impressive.  The bromance between Vaughn and James plays well in this footage, which bodes well for the film.  Watch the clips after the jump.

Sundance 2011: First Images from WIN WIN Starring Paul Giamatti and SALVATION BOULEVARD Starring Pierce Brosnan

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: December 15th, 2010 at 11:33 am

We’re bringing you the first images from films premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and today we’ve got two films that will have their out-of-competition premieres at the festival: Win Win and Salvation Boulevard. Win Win features Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, and Jeffrey Tambor. The film comes from writer/director Tom McCarthy (The Visitor), and centers on an attorney (Giamatti) moonlighting as a high school wrestling instructor who stumbles upon a star athlete with a mother fresh out of rehab.

Salvation Boulevard is a comedy starring Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, and Jim Gaffigan. The flick centers on the head of a mega-church (Brosnan) who frames an ex-hippie for a crime he didn’t commit. Hit the jump to check out images and a brief synopsis for both films. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 20 – 30th.

New Trailer for THE DILEMMA Starring Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, and Jennifer Connelly

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: October 9th, 2010 at 9:49 am

Universal has released a new trailer for The Dilemma, the comedy/drama which star Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly, Queen Latifah, and Channing Tatum.  Vaughn plays a man whose world is turned upside down when he discovers that the wife (Ryder) of his best friend (James) is cheating on him with a younger man (Tatum).  Ron Howard directs.  Check out the trailer after the jump.

Trailer for Ron Howard’s THE DILEMMA Starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 17th, 2010 at 2:13 pm

Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for the upcoming comedy The Dilemma and it looks exactly like the movie you’d expect.  Basically, if you like bland-looking situation comedy but always want to spend $10 and go to the theater to see it rather than stay home and watch Two and a Half Men, then The Dilemma looks like the movie for you.  And hey, it’s Vince Vaughn once again playing Savvy-but-Beleaguered-Guy!  Oh, SBBG.  Can’t you ever get a break?

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  The Dilemma also stars Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, and Queen Latifah.  It opens on January 14, 2011.

First Image of Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, and Winona Ryder in THE DILEMMA

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: August 20th, 2010 at 4:02 pm

Today we have the first image (plus a few more details) from Ron Howard’s The Dilemma.  Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, and Winona Ryder star with a script from Allan Loeb (The Switch).  The film centers on a man (Vaughn) who learns that the wife of his best friend (James) might be cheating.  Howard remarked to USA Today, “There is so much about Vince and Kevin’s relationship that could all unravel — they have a business together, they share a four-way friendship with Kevin’s wife (Ryder) and Vince’s girlfriend (Connelly).”

Among other things, Vaughn promises that James does “some JumboTron dancing” at a Chicago Blackhawks game when The Dilemma opens on January 14, 2011.

CREATION DVD Review

by Sean OReilly    Posted: July 13th, 2010 at 8:55 am

Imagine living in a time where you put forth a theory in which, “…the world stopped believing that God had any sort of plan for us?  Nothing mattered.  Not love, trust, faith – not honor.  Only brute survival.”  Now imagine that time is 1850s England and you are a scientist – very much living in a world where God is to be feared and has created all things great and small.  You come up with a brave, new radical theory on human evolution.  Would you risk everything – your professional reputation, standing in society, friends and family to put forward your radical new idea?  This is the crux of what Creation wrestles with.  It tells the story of Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) and his tortuous struggle to produce his best known work, “On the Origin of Species.”  More after the jump:

9 DVD Review

by Jackson    Posted: February 11th, 2010 at 6:17 am

It’s rare that two films with the same name come out within months of each other.  After all, the MPAA Title Registration Database exists to protect against just such confusion; however, when both are adapted from pre-established source material, what can the MPAA do?  To be fair, so the two films in question, Nine and 9, are not quite identically titled.  The former is an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name that itself is taken from Fellini’s 8 ½.  This is not a review of that film.  The latter is an expansion of director Shane Ackers’s digitally animated short about a burlap doll that awakens in a post-apocalyptic world devoid of humans and must subsequently struggle to survive.  DVD review of that 9 after the jump.

LABYRINTH and THE DARK CRYSTAL Blu-ray Reviews

by Jeff Giles    Posted: October 7th, 2009 at 9:02 pm

For most people, just coming up with a cast of characters as wonderfully lovable as the Muppets – to say nothing of helping spearhead a pair of television classics as durable as The Muppet Show and Sesame Street – would be enough to justify an early and lucrative retirement. For Jim Henson, however, those feats only scratched the surface of his ambition, and by the early ’80s, the man who helped turn puppets from a sideshow trick into an art form was ready to try his hand at slightly more grown-up fare. The results were 1982′s The Dark Crystal and 1986′s Labyrinth, a pair of PG-rated fantasy films that connected the dots between The Muppet Movie and The Lord of the Rings. Neither film made much of an impression at the box office, but they’ve both acquired cult status over the years – and now they’ve both been given rather painstaking hi-def upgrades courtesy of Sony Pictures. My reviews after the jump:

Ed Harris Replacing Liam Neeson in WHAT’S WRONG WITH VIRGINIA; Emma Roberts and Amy Madigan to Co-Star with Jennifer Connelly

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 14th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

I can’t think of a bad instance of Ed Harris stepping into replace an actor in an upcoming movie.  So while Liam Neeson-who I think is fantastic-leaving Dustin Lance Black’s “What’s Wrong With Virginia” is disappointing, I have no problem with Ed Harris playing his role.  If Robert Downey Jr., George Clooney, or Dame Judi Dench want to step down from a role, I got just the guy: Ed Harris.

Hit the jump to find out about other actors who are not Ed Harris joining “Virginia” and wonder what these actors found appealing about the story.

9 Review

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 8th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

“9″ is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that is visually inspiring, exquisitely crafted, unflinching (for an animated PG-13 movie), and frustratingly vapid.  It’s one thing to see a bloated summer blockbuster indulge in such technical indulgence at the expense of story and character (I’m looking at you “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”), but for a small movie like “9″ which was based on an animated short film and comes out of Universal’s art house distribution division, Focus Features, “9″ only cares about its technical and visual achievements and forgets its story and characters.

Exclusive: Jennifer Connelly talks 9, the Apocalypse, and Working with Her Husband on Creation.

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: September 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

Before getting to the interview with Jennifer Connelly let me say a few quick words on Focus Features’ upcoming “9″ movie….go see the film as I thought it was great.  After all, you paid to see tons of crap this summer, so plunk down your cabbage for a decent film for a change.

Anyway, in “9″, Jennifer Connelly tackles her first voice over role as 7, a tough as nails warrior who just happens to be tiny.  At the “9″ junket, Jennifer talked about working in a sound studio as opposed to on a soundstage, as well as the upcoming “Creation” with husband Paul Bettany.  Watch the complete interview after the jump.

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