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TIFF ’11: ‘God Bless America’ Is Hopefully Better Than This Cheap Poster
Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America premieres at tonight’s “Midnight Madness” event at the Toronto International Film Festival. Have you guys seen Word’s Greatest Dad? Wow. That thing is nuts and crazy good and I would expect that this new one keeps up the pace!
I’m not so in love with this poster, but I’d bet it’s just a temporary piece of festival ephemera that will be replaced once the film’s actual campaign kicks in. The film stars Joel Murray (Hatchet, “Mad Men”) and Tara Lynne Barr (“The Suite Life Of Zach And Cody”) and is produced by Sean McKittrick, Jeff Culotta and Sara De La Rose in association with Darko Entertainment (Tedd Hamm and Richard Kelly).
Also written by Goldthwait, the film concerns “Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank (Joel Murray) has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. He finds an unusual accomplice: 16-year old Roxy (Tara Lynne Barr), who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement.”
Poster after the jump.
Poster courtesy of HitFix.
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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