The Gardener

New Posters for SOMETHING BORROWED and A BETTER LIFE (Formerly THE GARDENER)

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: February 1st, 2011 at 11:47 pm

We have new posters for a pair of films I’m really rooting for in 2011.  The first is Something Borrowed, an adaptation of the first in a series of novels from Emily Giffin.  Ginnifer Goodwin, Kate Hudson, Colin Egglesfield, and John Krasinski star.  Hudson’s name is a big red flag, but there are hints that Something Borrowed could be more than your average romantic comedy.

The second is A Better Life (formerly titled The Gardener), the latest from Chris Weitz.  For a brief minute, Weitz was the promising co-director behind the charming About a Boy before he was swallowed up by the big budget filmmaking of The Golden Compass and New Moon.  A Better Life scales things back down to the indie level: a gardener (Demian Bichir) and his son (Jose Julian) scour Los Angeles for a stolen truck vital to their livelihood in this tale inspired by The Bicycle Thief.  Hit the jump to view both posters.

A Recap of All Our AFM Coverage; Tons of Synopses, Posters, and Images for Upcoming Films

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: November 3rd, 2010 at 10:22 pm

With the American Film Market (AFM) starting today in Los Angeles, we’ve been posting an enormous amount of promo posters and first synopses from a wide assortment of movies. Due to the amount that we’ve been posting, we think there is a good chance you might have missed some of the posters and info over the course of the day. So to make sure you’re all caught up, here’s links to all our AFM coverage. Look for more tomorrow:

• Posters and Synopses for STEP UP 4EVER 3D, BROTHER’S JUSTICE, HYBRID, and SOMETHING BORROWED
• First Poster and Tons of New Images from Sarah Polley’s TAKE THIS WALTZ Starring Seth Rogen, Michelle Williams and Sarah Silverman
• Posters and Synopses for THE THREE MUSKETEERS, SOURCE CODE, and MAN ON A LEDGE
• First Posters and Synopses for Keanu Reeves’s GENERATION UM… and Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz’s A WARRIOR’S HEART
• First Poster for Aardman’s ARTHUR CHRISTMAS
• First Posters and Plot Synopses for THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY and THE GARDENER
• THE BEAVER Poster and Synopsis Starring Mel Gibson
• Updated THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PARTS 1 & 2 Synopsis Released at AFM
• FilmDistrict Acquires DRIVE Starring Ryan Gosling, Christina Hendricks, and Carey Mulligan
• First Poster and Synopsis for THE IMPOSSIBLE Starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor
• First Image and Synopsis for Tom Hanks’ LARRY CROWNE
• First Poster and Synopsis for Terrence Malick’s THE TREE OF LIFE
• Posters for THE KING’S SPEECH, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, and THE ILLUSIONIST
• Scarlett Johansson to Play Sexy Alien in Jonathan Glazer’s UNDER THE SKIN

First Posters and Plot Synopses for THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY and THE GARDENER

by Ramses Flores    Posted: November 3rd, 2010 at 8:14 pm

We have some more news from AFM for you tonight.  First up, we have the first poster and full plot synopsis for The Cold Light of Day.  As we previously reported, the film will star Henry Cavill (The Tudors) as “a young American whose family is kidnapped while on a vacation to Spain.  He is left with only hours to find the connection between their disappearance and his father’s secrets.” The film will also star Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver.  The film’s plot may sound like a bland thriller, but what makes this project exciting to me is that it will be Mabrouk El-Mechn’s directorial follow-up to his surprisingly great directorial debut, JCVD.

Secondly, we also have a plot synopsis and poster for director Chris Weitz’s (About a Boy) upcoming drama, The Gardener.  The film stars Demian Bichir (Weeds) as a gardener trying to find an important pickup truck that was stolen from him with the help of his son.  The plot synopsis makes the film sound a lot like a modern adaptation of the classic Italian neorealist film, Bicycle Thieves, and it’ll be interesting to see if Weitz can make a film that is even ten percent as good as that one.  Hit the jump to check out the plot synopsis and poster for each film.

NEW MOON Director Chris Weitz is Hiring THE GARDENER

by Michael Sullivan    Posted: November 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 pm

Right on the heels of rumors of his retirement, New Moon director Chris Weitz has announced he will be teaming up with Summit Entertainment again to make The Gardener. The film is about a Los Angeles immigrant trying to protect his son, and it begins production early next year. More information on the brand new Chris Weitz project after the jump.

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