Press Junket Potluck: Maze Runners move on to The Scorch Trials

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials opens in cinemas nationwide tomorrow, Friday, September 11, from 20^th Century Fox.

Special thanks to 20^th Century Fox)

The Movie Report #836, September 11, 2015

#836, September 11, 2015

MOVIES:

• A Brilliant Young Mind
  
• Coming Home
  
• Dynamite
  
• Meet the Patels
  
• 90 Minutes in Heaven
  
• Sleeping with Other People
  
• Time Out of Mind
  
• The Visit
  
• Wolf Totem
  

Movie Music Monday: Adam Scott, Patrick Brice & Cyril Beaumont launch The Overnight on all digital platforms

The Orchard and Paramount Pictures held a special party to launch the upcoming digital and home entertainment release of Patrick Brice's The Overnight this past Friday, September 4 at the Nerdist Showroom at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. While such an event to celebrate a home entertainment release is hardly unusual in and of itself, in keeping with the indie sex comedy's bold, brash, and quirky nature, there was a bit more to the bash, hosted by writer/director Brice and star/executive producer Adam Scott. Beyond the usual rounds of drinks, photo ops and glad handing, the event also was an art exhibit of the paintings featured in the film as being done by Jason Schwartzman's character, who specialized in renderings of "portals"--or, to put it more bluntly, anuses. While the paintings were indeed a sight to behold in real life, the highlight of the evening came with the special live musical performance of the film's original song "Chardonnay Eyes (A Vinter's Song)," performed not only by the original artist Cyril Beaumont (also known as Julian Wass, the film's score composer), but also interpreted by a pair of actors. Watch the entire catchy, kooky spectacle--and Brice and Scott's welcome remarks--in the video below.

The Overnight is available on all digital platforms this coming Tuesday, September 8; and on DVD the following Tuesday, September 15, from The Orchard and Paramount Home Entertainment.

(Special thanks to Adam Scott, Paramount Pictures, Brigade Marketing, and The Orchard)

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In Conversation with... Ed Skrein & Loan Chabanol, on The Transporter Refueled (& more...)

On just the quickest of glances, it would be easy, and perhaps more than a little understandable, to just as swiftly write off the new stars of the freshly rebooted The Transporter film franchise, as just another couple of pretty faces. But there's far more than meets the eye with the multitalented leads of The Transporter Refueled, Ed Skrein (taking over from Jason Statham as badass courier/driver Frank Martin) and Loan Chabanol (as femme fatale Anna). As more deeply detailed in a couple of exclusive sit-down interviews at the Forum in Inglewood on Wednesday, August 26, the pair are not only deeply committed rising stars in the acting realm, but they are also gifted and accomplished artists in other areas--Skrein in the world music, Chabanol in writing and painting. Watch the two discuss those passions and their work in Camille Delamarre's high-octane action-adventure below.

The Transporter Refueled opens in cinemas nationwide today, Friday, September 4, from EuropaCorp.

(Special thanks to Mammoth Advertising, EuropaCorp, Ed Skrein, and Loan Chabanol)

The Movie Report #835, September 4, 2015

#835, September 4, 2015

MOVIES:

• Before We Go
  
• Bhale Bhale Magadivoy
  
• Call Me King
  
• Dragon Blade
  
• Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
  
• The Transporter Refueled
  
• Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos (Huevos: Little Rooster's Egg-cellent Adventure)
  
• Uppi 2... Unknown
  
• A Walk in the Woods
  

Press Junket Potluck: Chris Evans & Alice Eve on Before We Go, after they went

Chris Evans is a veteran of so many films from indie to studio, to small-budget to very, very big, that one would think that making his directorial debut with the very modest, mostly two-character, largely walking-and-talking romantic comedy Before We Go would be fairly easy for the budding hyphenate. But as he, co-star Alice Eve, and producer Mark Kassen discussed in a roundtable interview at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, September 2, no amount of cinematic superheroism completely prepared him for the task of uber-indie, almost guerrilla-style filmmaking--and he would have it no other way.

Before We Go is now available nationwide on demand and opens in limited release in cinemas tomorrow, Friday, September 4, from Radius TWC.

(Special thanks to mPRm and Radius TWC)