Jennifer Garner and Alfred Molina star in “Serena,” a short film written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, a co-founder of WIGS along with Jon Avnet and Jake Avnet. Garner plays Serena, a woman who makes a series of shocking confessions to her Priest (Molina).
“Serena,” the first WIGS short film, is premiering now on youtube.com/wigs.
“Jennifer and Alfred were perfect,” remarked Rodrigo Garcia. “They elevated the script and found feeling and laughter where I had not seen it. I wish everything was this easy and fun.”
“Serena” is the first of 10 short films planned for WIGS, and comes on the heels of the channel’s first series, “Jan.” The first six episodes of “Jan,” which stars Caitlin Gerard, Virginia Madsen, and Stephen Moyer, are available on youtube.com/wigs.
Check out the trailer for Jen’s short film Serena (where she is playing a priest-lusting lady).
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Back in August, we got a look at Disney’s upcoming film The Odd Life of Timothy Green, which introduced us to young boy who appears in the garden of a married couple. A new trailer has made its way online that gives us a better look at the story beyond the appearance of Timothy Green.
Directed by Peter Hedges, The Odd Life of Timothy Green is described as an inspiring, magical story, which follows Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton), a married couple looking to start a family and, after a stormy night, find a child in their garden waiting for them. In the trailer released last year, we were given a better look at how all of this happens. It looks like Cindy and Jim were having trouble conceiving and, seemingly on a whim, came up with a wish list of sorts, creating their dream child on pieces of note paper, which they later buried in the backyard. And then Timothy (CJ Adams) arrived. This new trailer takes the story further, giving us a better glimpse of how Timothy will affect the lives of the people around him.
Words like “magical,” “enchanting” and “inspiring” seem to be fitting descriptions for a story like this, especially when factoring in the additional footage we’re shown from the movie, which explores the relationships Timothy begins to form, not only with his parents but with the other people he encounters. And, while Kelly Clarkson’s “Breakaway” is probably a bit dated, it’s effective and it’s worked for Disney in the past (see also: The Princess Diaries 2).
In addition to Adams, Garner and Edgerton, The Odd Life of Timothy Green stars Dianne Wiest, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ron Livingston, and Common. The film arrives in theaters August 15, 2012.
According to http://boxofficemojo.com/ the release date for Butter has been pushed to October 5.
An upcoming film starring Jennifer Garner has lost its “Republican primary connection,” The New York Times points out.
The central character in the comedy “Butter” – played by Garner – is a conservative woman fighting to win a butter sculpting competition in Iowa who’s said to be loosely based on Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Since Bachmann has dropped her presidential bid, the comparison won’t be as buzzy when the movie comes out in March.
Though Garner has called her character’s similarity to Bachmann “serendipitous,” executive producer Harvey Weinstein emphasized the connection a few months ago by sarcastically inviting the then-presidential candidate to the movie’s Iowa premiere.
Source: http://www.politico.com/
Last night, a crowd of industry insiders and excited film enthusiasts gathered at the Bing Theater at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for a live table-read of John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club. This time, instead of Molly Ringwald and the gang, Up in the Air director Jason Reitman gathered an equally eclectic group of actors to reimagine the diverse sterotypes portrayed in the film. A lovely and very pregnant Jennifer Garner was beauty queen Claire (Molly Ringwald), James Van Der Beek was Andy the jock (Emilio Estevez), Mindy Kaling was basket case Allison (Ally Sheedy), Patton Oswalt was Brian the geek (Anthony Michael Hall), and, probably best of all, Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul was the criminal Bender (Judd Nelson). Rounding up the cast as those ever-meddling adults (cue eye-roll) were J.K. Simmons as Carl the janitor, and Michael Chiklis as Mr. Vernon. Reitman himself called out the directions on stage, while images from the film flashed on stage to signal a change of scene.
EW caught up with Reitman after the show, and he said that choosing the 80?s classic for this new experiment was a no-brainer. ”The Breakfast Club was just a perfect fit,” he said. ”I needed a film that was in a contained location with not too many characters, that was funny, that was populous, that had a great script that the audience would have a relationship with…it just hit the nail.”
If the audience’s frequent laughter is any indicator, then Reitman is absolutely right. Consider that nail hit. Many of the laughs came from Hughes’ already fantastic dialogue, which translates very well to stage, but the audience definitely reacted to the forgotten 80?s lingo that runs rampant in the film. It was very surreal seeing the dude from Dawson’s Creek threaten to ‘total’ a guy, and then a few minutes later Jesse Pinkman used “eat my shorts” as an actual, non-ironic insult. Remember when Bart Simpson was a controversial cartoon character? Crazy.
The entire cast did a great job. Most of them stayed true to the original characters, but Kaling’s natural valley girl voice put a slightly different spin on the vodka-loving Allison. If you didn’t read any press coverage before the event, you never would have known that the actors didn’t rehearse. “They just showed up 30 minutes before and started reading,” Reitman said. “Aaron Paul in particular really took the lead and decided he was going to full-on act it out, and everyone went with it.”
