The Experiment

THE EXPERIMENT Starring Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker Going Straight to DVD/Blu-ray

by Jason Barr    Posted: July 9th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

While Adrien Brody may be spending time on another planet in Predators, his film The Experiment will not be spending any time in theaters. According to Movieweb, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the Paul Scheuring (television’s Prison Break) film straight to DVD/Blu-ray on September 21^st. The drama/thriller is a remake of the 2001 German film of the same name (but, in classic German style, with Das replacing The) and also stars Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Maggie Grace (Taken), and Clifton Collins Jr. (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day).

For more info on the 2001 original as well as the absolutely necessary remake, hit the jump.

AFM 2009 Promo Posters Part 1 + Steve Watches AFM’s HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Red Band Trailer and Catches a 2nd MACHETE Poster Featuring Lindsay Lohan as a Naughty Nun

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: November 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Earlier today, I was at the American Film Market in Santa Monica. If you’re not familiar with AFM, it’s the place where film buyers from around the world come once a year to buy movies and also pre-buy films in development. Simply put, this is where a lot of money changes hands in the film industry and it’s where many decisions about what you and I get to see are made. In an effort to try and raise a film’s profile or attract film buyers, many of the studios print up promo art for movies in development or nearing completion. Almost none of the artwork will ever see the light of day outside of AFM, but if you’re a film junkie like me, then getting to see all this stuff is Christmas. After the jump you can take a look at the first grouping of random promo posters and artwork from today. You can also see the first images from Rogues Gallery and The Experiment.

Now for the other bit of news: When I was walking around, I got to see even more awesome stuff. The first was the AFM only red band trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine! To say it looked painfully hilarious would be a huge understatement. The other thing I saw was a promo poster for Robert Rodriguez’s Machete featuring Lindsay Lohan in a nun’s outfit while being very friendly to a firearm. Read more on the trailer, poster, and a whole lot else after the jump:

Adrien Brody, Elijah Wood, Forest Whitaker, and Cam Gigandet Join Remake of DAS EXPERIMENT

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 18th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Oliver Hirschbiegel’s “Das Experiment”, based off the events of Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, is a perfectly watchable movie.  It’s thoughtful, intense, well-acted, and only came out eight years ago.  But it’s in German so fuck that.  Let’s remake it.  I won’t call a remake “unnecessary” but had it come out or at least been announced around the time of the Abu Gharib scandal, it may have had a stronger resonance with American audiences as opposed to now when not only has the scandal has “passed” (the Obama administration is still blocking the release of prisoner abuse photos), but our attention is primarily on domestic affairs such as the economy and health care.

At least this remake is bringing some talented actors on board.  According to Variety, Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Elijah Wood, and Cam Gigandet have all signed on to star with Paul Scheuring writing and directing since he created “Prison Break” and since this movie is about a prison experiment, that’s good enough.

More after the jump.

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