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In this week’s episode of the /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley ring in the new year with thoughts on Total Recall, Land of the Lost, and Youth In Revolt. Also, some thoughts on Sam Mendes doing Bond, Spidey IV being scrapped, and the classic Casablanca. Special guest writer/director Rian Johnson joins us this week (and felt incredibly honored to do so). Rian’s latest film, The Brothers Bloom, is now available for purchase on DVD and Blu-Ray.
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We’ve seen two trailers for Youth in Revolt, and with a month left before the film finally opens (it was delayed from a fall open) we’ve now got a red band trailer. This clip follows much the same structure as the second trailer, only with a lot more dirty dialogue. That’s not a bad thing, necessarily, as it’s funny stuff. Check it out after the break.
The primary drawback to this trailer is that it makes it sound a lot more like Superbad, but perhaps that’s exactly the point. On one hand, the film has garnered some praise on the basis of Michael Cera’s performance, which has been said to expand upon his now-typical screen persona. So you’d think that Dimension and the Weinsteins would be eager to emphasize that this is a different Cera than we’ve seen previously. On the other hand, cash is always good and the fallback tactic for selling any movie is to make it look like a similar, successful one.
Maybe this trailer will successfully sell both ends against the middle. You’ve got Cera’s mean, alternate Francois persona on display, and a lot of crude but palatable humor. You tell me — how does this one fly? Without having seen the film, I think I prefer the last trailer. (Though Peter had gripes about the voice over and use of music, which suggests that both elements are handled better in the full feature.)
The film hits theatres on January 8th. Miguel Arteta directs from a Gustin Nash screenplay based on C.D. Payne’s novel. Alongside Cera are Portia Doubleday, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, Justin Long, Jean Smart, Ari Graynor, Fred Willard, Zach Galifianakis, Mary Kay Place and Rooney Mara. It’s a fantastic cast; I’m curious based on that alone.
Dimension Films has released the second trailer for the big screen adaptation of C. D. Payne’s epistolary novel Youth in Revolt. Michael Cera stars in this “irreverent story about the wild adventures of a teenage boy named Nick Twisp who meets the girl of his dreams while on a family vacation and has to turn his life and the lives of all those around him upside down in order to be with her.” Newcomer Portia Doubleday plays Sheeni Saunders, and the film also features Steve Buscemi, Zack Galifianakis, and Ray Liotta.
I had a chance to see this film at the Toronto Film Festival, and its quite good. The new trailer is a bit over the top, filled with horrible voice over and a bunch of songs that don’t quite fit. Watch the new trailer now after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Youth In Revolt is scheduled to hit theaters on on January 8th 2010, with sneak previews on January 2nd 2010.
Back in September, just as the film was screening to very positive word at the Toronto Film Festival, The Weinstein Company moved Youth in Revolt back to January 15. That wasn’t a huge surprise. Though audiences seem to really like Miguel Arteta’s adaptation of C.D. Payne’s novel, thanks in part to what some call a career-expanding performance by Michael Cera, TWC already has their awards season movies in Nine and (maybe, but looking less likely now) The Road. Saving Youth in Revolt for 2010 was a predictable move.
Now the film’s release date has been bumped up slightly, to January 8, and audiences will be able to buy tickets to sneak previews of it on January 2.
Variety reports on the date change, which it says will be a nationwide opening, and the sneak peek. (The subhead actually says the film opens on January 9, contrasting the Jan. 8 date in the body text, but since the 9th is a Saturday we’ll stick with Jan. 8.) On January 2, screens showing Nine will be taken over briefly for screenings of Youth. Reasonable move. At that point Nine will have been open long enough to perform as well as it is going to, and Youth could use the attentive bump to offset the fact that people will have been paying attention to Christmas, New Years’, a bunch of other movies and their hangovers in the weeks prior.
Just in case that sneak preview night isn’t enough, TWC is also doing a college tour of the film with Michael Cera in tow. With partners Comedy Central, the film will hit five cities starting December 1; we don’t yet have a schedule of stops, but will present it when we can. In the meantime, here’s the trailer for the film, in case you missed it when we promoted this clip a couple months back.
Youth in Revolt, the Miguel Arteta adaptation of C.D. Payne’s novel starring Michael Cera, has been doing well as it plays the Toronto International Film Festival. Reviews have, in general, been more pleased with the film than I would have expected. Peter liked it, Cinematical said Michael Cera is “wickedly hilarious” in a performance that is “easily the best of his career,” and indieWire says it suggests more versatility to Cera than some would have allowed.
But now, according to an email blast from PR firm Allied, The Weinstein Company is moving Youth from October 30 of this year to January 15, 2010. What’s the story?
The Weinstein Company has been the object of great speculation over the last few weeks. While Inglourious Basterds did much better than expected, the party line is that the outfit doesn’t have much money to throw around. There were rumors that Rob Marshall’s Nine was being pushed to next year (denied by TWC) and Harvey’s notable buy of Tom Ford’s A Single Man. That deal reportedly came with an Oscar promise to Ford. This is after a significant delay for The Road, which was finally set to release in October, but was then moved to a Thanksgiving date: November 25.
By this time of the year, Harvey Weinstein seems to focus on one thing: Oscar. And while Youth in Revolt is being pegged as a decent film, realistically speaking it is not an Oscar contender at all. A Single Man, on the other hand, is definitely a contender. Given that TWC doesn’t have a serious amount of money to throw around, the obvious conclusion to draw is that Youth is being pushed to make room for Tom Ford’s movie.
And the January date might not be a terrible one. There’s nothing like Youth in Revolt hitting then. The film will now compete with genre films Daybreakers, which opens the week before, and The Book of Eli, also opening Jan 15. TWC also has Hoodwinked 2 slated for the same date, but that’s no competition for Youth.
Steve (from Collider) and I usually record our video blog’s in separate locations through the magic of the internet, but since we’re both attending this year’s Toronto Film Festival, we’ve decided to record some video blogs talking about some of the movies we’ve seen at the festival. We’ve tried to keep the video blogs short and to the point, but, as always, it sometimes goes longer than planned. But if you know us, that’s to be expected.
Anyway, after the jump you can watch Peter and I talk about the new Michael Cera movie Youth in Revolt and The Spierig Brothers vampire film Daybreakers. We liked both of the films, and you can find out why in the video blogs below. Also, while some movies at the festival won’t hit theaters for another year, Youth in Revolt arrives in late October and Daybreakers hits theaters this January.
And one final thing before watching. We both want to give a thank you to Tim Horton’s by Union Station for providing the location for our video blogs. While you may not think a coffee shop is the right place to record some conversations about movies, we discovered it works quite well. Especially if you’re able to mooch free wi-fi from the building next door….
And with that, we hope you like these two video blogs.
Youth in Revolt
Daybreakers
Dimension Films has released the first trailer for the big screen adaptation of C. D. Payne’s epistolary novel Youth in Revolt on moviefone. Michael Cera stars in this “irreverent story about the wild adventures of a teenage boy named Nick Twisp who meets the girl of his dreams while on a family vacation and has to turn his life and the lives of all those around him upside down in order to be with her.” Newcomer Portia Doubleday plays Sheeni Saunders, and the film also features Steve Buscemi, Zack Galifianakis, and Ray Liotta.
The first thing I noticed from the trailer was the dark comedy, something I just wasn’t expecting as I’ve never read the novel. Also, Cera seems to be going for something different than his usual shtick. The film premieres in a couple weeks at the Toronto International Film Festival. Watch the trailer after the jump, and leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Youth In Revolt is scheduled to hit theaters on October 30th, 2009.
