Friday, August 28, 2009 1:00PM - By Anet Hovhanesian
Horror films are taking over this weekend at the movies. We have Rob Zombie’s thriller Halloween II coming out the same week as David R. Ellis’ The Final Destination. Which should you go see? The one where everyone dies a gruesome, horrific death or the one where everyone dies a gruesome, horrific death? At least it makes for some good entertainment, if you’re into that sort of thing. If not, go for the musical comedy, (Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock with Henry Goodman), the romantic comedy, (Marc Feinberg’s Play The Game with the one and only Andy Griffith!!) or the funny drama, (Robert D. Siegel’s Big Fan with Patton Oswalt).
Here are the movies coming out August 28th…
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:02AM - By Mali Elfman
Last week I sat down with Robert D. Seigel, the writer/director of the upcoming film Big Fan starring Patton Oswalt, about a hardcore New York Giants football fan, who is beaten up by his favorite player and has to deal with the consequences. Many people know Seigel for his award winning screenplay, which brought Mickey Rourke back to like film, The Wrestler.
His latest film is strongly reminiscent of his previous work and it has already been nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and although it’s not what he would call “Oscar bait” (you need Kate Winslet or WWII backdrop for that apparently), this film will most likely be seeing some awards around the end of the year.
Below we talk about how he went about casting Oswalt in his first serious role, why he loves obsessive characters, and resisting Hollywood clichés…
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Monday, July 6, 2009 5:58PM - By Mali Elfman
Patton Oswalt is taking a walk on the dramatic side with first time director Robert Siegel‘s film about, you guessed it, a big fan. Only, he’s not just any big fan, he finds himself being beaten up by his favorite player and then suing him for $77 million. For those of you who don’t remember Siegel was the brains (aka the writer) behind Darren Aronofsky‘s film, The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke and also a former editor for The Onion. Sounds like he’s got the smarts and the ability to pull off an amazing film.
Although you might be thinking that this could be going in a comedic direction due to Oswalt lead in the film, audiences at Sundance were amazed to see such a dark and dramatic performance from the comedian and the trailer below really gives us a sneak peek into what we can expect from both the actor and the director.
Check out the trailer now…
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