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What Are You Seeing This Weekend? 'Flight' & 'Wreck-It Ralph' Touch Down In Theaters

  • By Emma Bernstein
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  • November 2, 2012 3:01 PM
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  • 2 Comments
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This weekend belongs to the acting community, as many of the new films feature a big name star (or six). Alright, thespians – you headline those films! And there’s no shortage of variety in tone or style: Denzel is serious, Alicia makes you giggle, Philip scowls, and Russell dextrously throws knives. Let us know in the comments who you decide to spend your time with at the Cineplex!
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More: Flight, Wreck-It Ralph, The Man With The Iron Fists, This Must Be The Place, Vamps, The Bay, The Details, Jack And Diane, A Late Quartet, A Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, Bones Brigade

Review: ‘The Details’ Is An Inconsistent But Entertaining Dark Comedy

  • By Cory Everett
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  • October 30, 2012 4:10 PM
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  • 1 Comment
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“The Details” is one of those dark comedies where everything that can go wrong does. The sophomore film from Jacob Aaron Estes, whose previous film “Mean Creek” won the John Cassavetes Award at Sundance in 2004, was the biggest sale of the 2011, purchased by The Weinstein Company for $8 million. Of the dozen movies this writer saw while he was at the fest, it was one of the more accessible, but didn’t exactly ring of “Little Miss Sunshine”-like success either. The film stars Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks as Jeff and Nealy Lang, young parents who have hit a rough patch in their marriage. Jeff is a doctor, Nealy is an interior decorator and while it’s probably neither’s fault, the passion has clearly gone out of their relationship, the image of the happy suburban couple is immediately shattered by a screaming match between the couple during the opening credits.
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More: The Details, Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Review

Raccoons & Infidelity Run Through New Clip And Images From ‘The Details’ Starring Tobey Maguire

  • By Charlie Schmidlin
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  • October 29, 2012 10:48 AM
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  • 1 Comment
News
Through the beginnings of Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio’s careers existed a parallel role choice before diverging in approach, and so it's with perhaps a tinge of familiarity, post-“Revolutionary Road,” that Maguire stepped in for his own take on a crumbling marriage with 2011 Sundance hit “The Details.” However, despite finding distribution coin (to the tune of $8 mil) from The Weinstein Company, the Jacob Aaron Estes (“Mean Creek”) black comedy is just now finding theatrical release next month, but rather than bury the film, they’ve instead ramped up promotion with a slew of new material to witness.
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More: The Details, Tobey Maguire, Laura Linney, Elizabeth Banks, Dennis Haysbert

Watch: 'The Details' Drive Tobey Maguire Crazy In New Trailer

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • September 21, 2012 4:21 PM
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  • 4 Comments
News
After an unofficial trailer dropped last week and was quickly scrubbed from the Internet, Radius and The Weinstein Company have finally unveiled the official trailer for "The Details." And while this spot contains familiar elements like dialogue and characters, it's still no less quirky (and compelling) that the decidedly odder version that preceded it.
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More: The Details, Film Trailers, Tobey Maguire

Watch: Unofficial Trailer & New Images From 'The Details' With Tobey Maguire & Elizabeth Banks

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • September 13, 2012 4:24 PM
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  • 5 Comments
News
There are two kinds of Sundance films. There are those that earn instant buzz, get picked up, continue on the festival circuit and become a success. And there are the movies that get a lot of heat at Park City or feature some big stars, get bought up and then sit on the shelf or underperform. Unfortunately for "The Details," it has fallen into the latter category.
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More: The Details, Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Laura Linney

David Fincher To Produce 'IOU,' The Next Effort From 'Mean Creek' Director Jacob Aaron Estes

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • June 25, 2012 12:42 PM
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  • 2 Comments
News
David Fincher doesn't produce very often, so you can bet if he's throwing his weight behind something, he believes in it. To date, Fincher has put his name on those BMW ads in the early '00s directed by folks like Joe Carnahan and John Frankenheimer, Catherine Hardwicke's "Lords Of Dogtown" and, oddly, the Brittany Murphy vehicle "Love And Other Disasters" (we're sure there's a story there). But next is a project that certainly sounds intriguing.
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More: Jacob Aaron Estes, David Fincher, The Details, IOU

Sundance ‘11 Review: ‘The Details’ Is An Inconsistent But Entertaining Dark Comedy

  • By Cory Everett
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  • February 3, 2011 4:15 AM
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  • 1 Comment
“The Details” is one of those dark comedies where everything that can go wrong does. The sophomore film from Jacob Aaron Estes, whose previous film “Mean Creek” won the John Cassavetes Award at Sundance in 2004, was the biggest sale of this year's festival being bought by The Weinstein Company for $8 million. Of the dozen movies this writer saw while he was at the fest, it was one of the more accessible, but didn’t exactly ring of “Little Miss Sunshine”-like success either. The film stars Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks as Jeff and Nealy Lang, young parents who have hit a rough patch in their marriage. Jeff is a doctor, Nealy is an interior decorator and while it’s probably neither’s fault, the passion has clearly gone out of their relationship, the image of the happy suburban couple is immediately shattered by a screaming match between the couple during the opening credits.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Review, The Details, Elizabeth Banks

Sundance '11: 'The Details,' 'The Guard,' 'Another Earth' All Find Distribution

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • January 26, 2011 2:39 AM
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As good red-blooded capitalists, we at The Playlist like nothing more than stories about people buying things for millions of dollars, and as such, the last week of January is one of our favorite times of year -- it's the time when acquisition executives descend in their hordes on Park City for the Sundance Film Festival in the hope of picking up the next indie breakout hit. Whether the films turn out to be the next "Little Miss Sunshine" or the next "Hamlet 2" won't be seen for months, for the most part, but it's certainly been a busier market than in recent years.
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More: Films, The Details, The Guard, Another Earth

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