
Alonso Mayo has started principal photography on his feature directorial debut, The Story of Luke, in Ontario, Canada. Lou Taylor Pucci stars as Luke, “a young man with autism who, after being sheltered his whole life, embarks on a quest for a job and a girl.” Tonight it was revealed Seth Green will co-star alongside Cary Elwes, Kristin Bauer, Kenneth Welsh, Tyler Stentiford, and Mackenzie Munro.
Producers Nina Leidersdorff, Julien Favre, and Fred Roos are doing their best to get the word out on the indie coming-of-age comedy. The official site and Facebook page are packed with material, including production stills, a lengthy synopsis, and even the first ten pages of the screenplay. Check it out after the jump.

Roadside Attractions has released the trailer and poster for the The Music Never Stopped. I caught the film at Sundance and while I found it to be schmaltzy, it was still enjoyable because of the strong performances from lead actors J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci.
If you were curious about the movie but didn’t have 90 minutes to kill, this trailer does you the service of condensing the entire picture down to two minutes and thirty seconds. If that’s what you want, then hit the jump to check out the trailer as well as the poster. The Music Never Stopped also stars Cara Seymour and Julia Ormond. The film opens March 4th.

Schmaltz isn’t always a bad thing. It’s just usually a bad thing since it tells us how to feel, eschews genuine emotion in favor of forced sentiment, and cheapens emotional payoff. The Music Never Stopped is undoubtedly schmaltzy. It’s a feel-good father-son relationship story that relies on nostalgia of classic rock in order to bolster its real-life narrative about a brain-damaged man tapping into his memories through the songs he loved. However, the film never gets to the point where the sappiness is unbearable, and that in large part is due to the tremendous performances of lead actors J.K. Simmons and Lou Taylor Pucci.

While the Sundance Film Festival doesn’t begin until January, we’re bringing you the first images from films that will be screened at the festival. Today we bring you two films that will premiere out-of-competition at the festival: The Details and The Music Never Stopped. The Details stars Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, and Dennis Haysbert. The film tells the story of the chain reaction of events that occur following the discovery of worms living under the sod in a couple’s backyard by raccoons.
The Music Never Stopped stars J.K. Simmons, Julia Ormond, Cara Seymour, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Mia Maestro. The film centers on a father attempting to connect with his son, whose brain tumor prevents him from forming new memories. Hit the jump to check out images, as well as a brief synopsis for both films. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 20 – 30th.

After years of sitting on Paramount Vantage’s shelf collecting dust, “Carriers” is finally getting a theatrical release this September. You may be wondering what motivated the studio. I’ve got two words for you…Chris Pine.
You see, years ago, before he was cast as the new James Tiberius Kirk, Chris Pine made “Carriers” along with Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp. With the skyrocketing success of “Star Trek”, Paramount Vantage is clearly trying to capitalize of his new found fame with this release. And you know what, it’s probably going to work. If you’d like to learn more about the movie and see the first trailer, it’s after the jump:
We’re going to keep coming back to “The Squid and the Whale” and wondering whether or not Jeff Daniels can ever top his performance in that film. Looking at the trailer for “The Answer Man”, it probably won’t be this time. Daniels plays Arlen Faber, a man who wrote a best-selling self-help book and then went recluse for five years only to be pulled out of his apartment by a bad back and fall in love with his chiropractor (Lauren Graham). It looks like a wholly inoffensive romance flick and perhaps that’s my biggest problem with it: you have talented performers like Daniels, Graham and supporting roles from Lou Taylor Pucci and Olivia Thirlby and I want more challenging material for them.
Check out the trailer after the jump. “The Answer Man” hits theatres on July 24th.
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