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THE SCIENCE OF COOL Films This Summer With Mischa Barton, Willa Holland, Steve Guttenberg, More

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: March 10th, 2011 at 9:40 pm

Humanistic Films has announced a summer 2011 start date for the high school movie The Science of Cool.  Steve Guttenberg, Kiowa Gordon (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), and Eden Sher (The Middle) have joined the cast, which includes The O.C. co-stars Mischa Barton and Willa Holland, Drew Van Acker (Tower Prep), Guy Kent (The Day the Music Died), Matt Dallas (Kyle XY), and Rumer Willis (Sorority Row).  The plot centers on “two high school nerds who discover a secret chemical formula when a science experiment goes terribly wrong that transforms them into the coolest kids in school; but with greatness comes great consequences.”

The film has been in development for a few years now — Eric and Patricia Goren first wrote the script in 2008.  At one point Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) and Jeremy Sumpter (Friday Night Lights) were attached, but sadly both dropped out due to prior commitments.  William Zabka is on board to direct.

M. Night Shyamalan, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz Interviews – THE LAST AIRBENDER Director and Cast On 3D, Video Games, Bollywood and Saying Goodbye To TWILIGHT

by Ron Messer    Posted: July 1st, 2010 at 4:37 pm

There’s never been anything small about M. Night Shyamalan’s career.  As a mostly unknown 27-year-old filmmaker, his first studio film, Wide Awake, received a splashy March 15, 1998 premiere at New York’s Ziegfeld Theater with an introduction by sitting Vice-President Al Gore.  At age 29, his next film, The Sixth Sense stunned audiences around the world and reaped global grosses of $672 million along with two personal Oscar nominations for Shyamalan.  Later that year, his first screenplay for a studio film that he didn’t direct, Stuart Little, took in $300 million, worldwide.  Shyamalan’s next five films grossed $1.1 billion, worldwide.  The critical reception may have cooled over his past few films, but it served to shoot the stakes even higher for his new film, The Last Airbender, which opens today.  However, Shyamalan gives off the sense that he wouldn’t be happy with anything less than a monumental challenge.

Collider caught up with Shyamalan and some of his cast this week.  Hit the jump for the highlights from roundtable interviews with Shyamalan, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz, including Shyamalan on his long, strange trip to 3D, Patel on Bollywood’s “God-awful” yet bankable movies, Rathbone on scoring his perfect Girlfriend and Shyamalan on why he doesn’t want “two feet tall Daniel Day-Lewises.”

ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT DVD Review

by Jeff Giles    Posted: October 25th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

Despite an interesting cast and passionate pleas from more than one film critic, Brett Simon’s Assassination of a High School President is the latest project to be burped out of the gaping, bankrupt maw of the Yari Film Group and directly onto the DVD market. Yari’s failure has claimed some terrific films – most notably a pair of Rod Lurie movies – and although Assassination doesn’t quite deserve to be lumped in with the best of the studio’s aborted litter, it’s certainly better than most direct-to-video projects, and well worth a rental and 90 minutes of your time. My review after the jump:

It’s Official – ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT Goes Straight to DVD

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: August 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm

At Sundance 2008, I saw a fantastic movie called “Assassination of a High School President”. The film was the debut feature from director Brett Simon and it’s a high school mystery that’s laugh out loud funny. Here are some clips. Anyway, back in March of this year, many sites wrote about the film and said it deserved a theatrical release. The only reason it wasn’t getting one is the original distributor (Yari Film Group) went bankrupt.

Unfortunately, I just got an email announcing the DVD release, so it looks like many of you are never going to see “Assassination of a High School President” in a movie theater. And I have to say, with all the crap that gets released week in and week out, this is a real disappointment. The only good news is the film is finally coming out and you’ll all get to see what everyone was raving about at Sundance. What’s coming on the DVD is after the jump:

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