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Review: The Box
14 November 2009 6:42 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Richard Kelly is unable to make a dull film, and the merits of his latest, The Box, point to a director whose commitment is always to his own personal view of the story – not the narrative flow, nor the performances of the actors, and certainly not to giving the audience a coherent and straightforward plot.
The Box is Kelly’s third film and follows the glorious angst-ridden time twister of Donnie Darko and the visually stunning Southland Tales, a post apocalyptic mess of identity and ideas. The Box deals with the slow burning personal apocalypse of two suburbanites, Norma and Arthur (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden), who suffer a sudden loss of fortune and are perplexed when a small package arrives early one morning anonymously which, when opened, contains the titular box. Later that day the ominous figure of Arlington Steward, the owner of the box, appears to offer the »
- Jon Lyus
“Ticket Stubs”: ‘The Box’ with Cameron Diaz
13 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
Ticket Stubs review of ‘The Box‘ by Austin Lugar
for MovieSet.com
If I write this review, two things will happen. One: someone somewhere in the world who I probably know will roll their eyes at this introduction. Two: I will receive one million dollars courtesy of MovieSet.com. Now this could all be a bluff, an empty box if you will. Nothing may happen, but there’s still that thought in the back of your head that it could. It seems like a short puzzle, but curiosity will still remain after a decision is made. Is this really the end of the line? What poor souls have to have to be the ones to roll their eyes? Who is making this offer? Surely not MovieSet; I’m sure they doubt my employment with every review I turn in.
Cameron Diaz stars as Norma Lewis in Warner Bros. Pictures', »
- Austin Lugar
Birthday Suits: Hamlets & Hydes
13 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Today's Cinematic Birthdays 11/131312 Edward III (of Windsor), not the gay one who gets more cinematic treatment (including Derek Jarman's fascinating take), but his son. This is the one Shakespeare wrote a play about and the one who Mel Gibson implied to be the bastard son of Braveheart William Wallace, thereby giving the finger to history unless Wallace's sperm could survive years past his death. That Gibson's sperm could magically endure beyond the grave is far more likely. He already has eight children.1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, famous influential thespian and the 19th century's most prominent Hamlet. He's been portrayed onscreen and stage by famous thespians like Richard Burton and Frank Langella, usually in stories connected to his estranged brother's assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Will someone play him in the Spielberg helmed Lincoln film?
Oskar, Steve and Whoopi
1897 Gertrude Omstead, one of many silent film actresses who moved on once sound hit the movies. »
- NATHANIEL R
The Box Movie Review
12 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Richard Kelly has once again made a film that confuses me. It's not the head-spinning, I need a chart to figure out the plot sort of confusion that Donnie Darko was. It isn't the "why did they need to expand more" confusion created by the director's cut of Darko. Nor is it that frustrating form of confusion caused by Southland Tales, where you wonder how this movie even got made when even the director doesn't seem to know what the movie's about. This is a different kind of confusing, as The Box is more than competently made, has a story that's easy to follow, and features terrific turns from all three leads, and yet it left me cold and not sure how I feel about it.
The Box is a typical Twilight Zone-movie, where an unnatural situation is thrown at a seemingly normal person, or peoples, who are then »
Still more vampire photos from Dead Cert
12 November 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent along yet another couple of pics from his new vampire film Dead Cert, this time depicting veteran British actor Billy Murray as lead bloodsucker Dante Livenko. Sothcott and Murray also shared a couple of quick comments about the role and movie.
“To follow in the footsteps of actors such as Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan and Frank Langella is a thrill,” Murray, flashing his fangs with Loretta Basey in the first pic below, tells Fango. “This is one of the great parts, and I’m loving playing it. I am a much darker, more terrifying vampire than the Twilight audience is used too. It’s very gory.”
“Billy is one of the most underrated actors in the country,” Sothcott adds. “Someone recently described him at a meeting as simply ‘Billy Murray, English icon,’ and that’s what he is. But his vampire king is very »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Still more vampire photos from Dead Cert
12 November 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent along yet another couple of pics from his new vampire film Dead Cert, this time depicting veteran British actor Billy Murray as lead bloodsucker Dante Livenko. Sothcott and Murray also shared a couple of quick comments about the role and movie.
“To follow in the footsteps of actors such as Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan and Frank Langella is a thrill,” Murray, flashing his fangs with Loretta Basey in the first pic below, tells Fango. “This is one of the great parts, and I’m loving playing it. I am a much darker, more terrifying vampire than the Twilight audience is used too. It’s very gory.”
“Billy is one of the most underrated actors in the country,” Sothcott adds. “Someone recently described him at a meeting as simply ‘Billy Murray, English icon,’ and that’s what he is. But his vampire king is very »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Still more vampire photos from Dead Cert
12 November 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent along yet another couple of pics from his new vampire film Dead Cert, this time depicting veteran British actor Billy Murray as lead bloodsucker Dante Livenko. Sothcott and Murray also shared a couple of quick comments about the role and movie.
“To follow in the footsteps of actors such as Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan and Frank Langella is a thrill,” Murray, flashing his fangs with Loretta Basey in the first pic below, tells Fango. “This is one of the great parts, and I’m loving playing it. I am a much darker, more terrifying vampire than the Twilight audience is used too. It’s very gory.”
“Billy is one of the most underrated actors in the country,” Sothcott adds. “Someone recently described him at a meeting as simply ‘Billy Murray, English icon,’ and that’s what he is. But his vampire king is very »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Still more vampire photos from Dead Cert
12 November 2009 8:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent along yet another couple of pics from his new vampire film Dead Cert, this time depicting veteran British actor Billy Murray as lead bloodsucker Dante Livenko. Sothcott and Murray also shared a couple of quick comments about the role and movie.
“To follow in the footsteps of actors such as Christopher Lee, Jack Palance, Louis Jourdan and Frank Langella is a thrill,” Murray, flashing his fangs with Loretta Basey in the first pic below, tells Fango. “This is one of the great parts, and I’m loving playing it. I am a much darker, more terrifying vampire than the Twilight audience is used too. It’s very gory.”
“Billy is one of the most underrated actors in the country,” Sothcott adds. “Someone recently described him at a meeting as simply ‘Billy Murray, English icon,’ and that’s what he is. But his vampire king is very »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
First Images and Synopses for All Good Things, Pirhana 3D, Shanghai, and The Fighter
10 November 2009 10:54 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Afm* fun continues with the first images and full synopses for All Good Things starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, Pirhana 3D starring Elisabeth Shue and Richard Dreyfuss, Shanghai starring John Cusack and Ken Watanbe, and The Fighter starring Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, and Amy Adams. These are all films that should be on your radar because there’s a good chance that these films will be getting some major marketing when they hit theaters.
I write and read about films every day and with the exception of The Fighter, these films weren’t really on my radar. After reading the synopses and seeing some shots from these movies, I’ll definitely be on the lookout for further news about them. Hit the jump to check out debut photos and what you need to know about these upcoming flicks.
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans »
- Matt Goldberg
Movie Review: The Box
10 November 2009 9:02 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Warner Bros.
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Richard Kelly’s third film, The Box, is based on the short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson which later became a segment on an episode of The Twilight Zone. If you know nothing about the movies that Kelly has written and directed then you watched The Box because it has Cameron Diaz in it and you thought it looked interesting. If you are familiar with his movies then you knew what you were getting in to. Either way you will all have the same reaction. If you are part of the latter group you know that reaction because you’ve been here before.
Living in fairly affluent Virginia suburb in 1976, Arthur (James Marsden) and Norma Lewis »
- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
Movie Review: The Box
10 November 2009 9:02 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Warner Bros.
- - -
Richard Kelly's third film, The Box, is based on the short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson which later became a segment on an episode of The Twilight Zone. If you know nothing about the movies that Kelly has written and directed then you watched The Box because it has Cameron Diaz in it and you thought it looked interesting. If you are familiar with his movies then you knew what you were getting in to. Either way you will all have the same reaction. If you are part of the latter group you know that reaction because you've been here before.
Living in fairly affluent Virginia suburb in 1976, Arthur (James Marsden) and Norma Lewis (Diaz) appear to be living the American dream. They have a nice house, »
- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
Movie Review: The Box
10 November 2009 9:02 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Warner Bros.
- - -
Richard Kelly's third film, The Box, is based on the short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson which later became a segment on an episode of The Twilight Zone. If you know nothing about the movies that Kelly has written and directed then you watched The Box because it has Cameron Diaz in it and you thought it looked interesting. If you are familiar with his movies then you knew what you were getting in to. Either way you will all have the same reaction. If you are part of the latter group you know that reaction because you've been here before.
Living in fairly affluent Virginia suburb in 1976, Arthur (James Marsden) and Norma Lewis (Diaz) appear to be living the American dream. They have a nice house, »
- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
Movie Review: The Box
10 November 2009 9:02 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Warner Bros.
- - -
Richard Kelly's third film, The Box, is based on the short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson which later became a segment on an episode of The Twilight Zone. If you know nothing about the movies that Kelly has written and directed then you watched The Box because it has Cameron Diaz in it and you thought it looked interesting. If you are familiar with his movies then you knew what you were getting in to. Either way you will all have the same reaction. If you are part of the latter group you know that reaction because you've been here before.
Living in fairly affluent Virginia suburb in 1976, Arthur (James Marsden) and Norma Lewis (Diaz) appear to be living the American dream. They have a nice house, »
- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
Movie Review: The Box
10 November 2009 9:02 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Running Time: 116 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Warner Bros.
- - -
Richard Kelly's third film, The Box, is based on the short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson which later became a segment on an episode of The Twilight Zone. If you know nothing about the movies that Kelly has written and directed then you watched The Box because it has Cameron Diaz in it and you thought it looked interesting. If you are familiar with his movies then you knew what you were getting in to. Either way you will all have the same reaction. If you are part of the latter group you know that reaction because you've been here before.
Living in fairly affluent Virginia suburb in 1976, Arthur (James Marsden) and Norma Lewis (Diaz) appear to be living the American dream. They have a nice house, »
- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
The Box - Movie Review
10 November 2009 3:40 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
One wonders why The Box is released now, during Oscar season and not buried in shame in January or February. This clumsily morbid .thriller. never gets its groove on in the seemingly endless 115 minutes of its existence, despite stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden, two talented actors, working on what seems an interesting premise . push a secret button, someone in the world dies and you get $1M, tax free. But no, they had to get silly, fancy, ahead of themselves. The story loses its way careening from sloppy romantic tragedy to slick, over inflated sci-fi epic to domestic tragedy leading to mind numbing inanity. When Frank Langella shows up with half his face missing and teeth »
- Anne Brodie
The Box (review)
9 November 2009 2:17 PM, PST | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
It’s a box. A cardboard box. Frank Langella brings it to your door, and inside is the Pop-o-matic of Death, and you either push the big red button under the plastic dome, in which case someone you don’t know dies and you get a cool million in a briefcase, or you don’t, in which you don’t get a movie made about you. Resisting the Moral Dilemma? No movie for you! Actually, I sorta don’t get those who are complaining about The Box for being morally repugnant, because it’s kind of a given with movies like this that there is an assumption that the audience will feel morally superior to the characters onscreen: Sheesh, of course I wouldn’t push the button, we’re all telling ourselves as we watch, not for a gillion bazillion dollars. That would be Wrong. Except we all do these things all the time. »
- MaryAnn Johanson
The Box (Review)
9 November 2009 11:59 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Box Directed by Richard Kelly Anyone expecting Donnie Darko and Southland Tales director Richard Kelly to finally dial back on his idiosyncrasies in service of a familiar conceit may be surprised to find his peculiar voice very much present in The Box, his third feature. Where initial reports suggested a fairly conventional take on the Twilight Zone-tackled Richard Matheson story "Button, Button," we instead get a warped morality tale dripping with style and jutting out with potential energy in every direction - for better and worse. Cameron Diaz and X-Men's James Marsden star as Norma and Arthur Lewis, a loving married couple living in Langley, Virginia in 1976, where Arthur works for Nasa on their Mars technology and Norma teaches. They're both staring down at financial crises on the day a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella) with a huge facial scar arrives on their doorstep, his appearance preceded by »
- Simon
Box Office: An Indie Racks Up Some ‘Precious’ Per Screen Totals
9 November 2009 9:15 AM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Sure, technically Jim Carrey and company won the weekend with the 3D animated adventure A Christmas Carol, but the real reason everyone’s talking about this weekend’s box office is because of another movie’s totals.
Remember a few weeks ago when I was talking about how unbelievable it was that Paranormal Activity had a per screen average of $44,000? Well a little indie called Precious came in and mopped the floor with those totals. Precious played in just 18 theaters and grossed $1.8 million. Folks, that’s a $100,000 per screen average. To put that in perspective, if A Christmas Carol had the same per screen average, it would have grossed over $360 million (instead of $31 million).
This indicates a high degree of interest in the movie, and this weekend’s total will only add to that. Additionally, some people have been throwing around the “O” word, as in Oscar. It received a standing ovation at Cannes, »
- Shannon Hood
Why is Richard Kelly's The Box set in the 70's?
9 November 2009 5:45 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Richard Kelly's new thriller is set in the 70s because people had more anonymity then.
The director's latest film 'The Box' stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a struggling couple who are delivered a box by a mysterious man called Arlington Steward (Frank Langella).
He offers them a deal - if they open the box and push the button inside, they will get $1 million in cash. However, pushing the button will kill one person in the world - somebody they don't know.
'Donnie Darko' director Richard explained: "The concept of someone you don't know, which is inherent to the premise, doesn't really exist anymore.
"With modern kinds of social networking sites and Google satellite maps and like all of the surveillance technology that we have today. Norma could sit down and Google the name Arlington Steward and sit in front of her laptop for half the movie. »
- Paul
Review: The Box
8 November 2009 11:29 PM, PST | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Plot: A mysterious, badly scarred stranger (Frank Langella) presents a struggling young couple (Cameron Diaz & James Marsden) with a wooden box containing a button. If they press the button, they will receive $1 Million dollars tax free- but someone, somewhere will die. The couple eventually succumbs to temptation, setting in motion a bizarre series of events wit dire consequences not only for the couple, but for humanity itself. Review: Walking into The Box on Saturday night, I... »
- Chris Bumbray
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