Who showcased an eight minute sizzle reel at Cannes

Who showcased an eight minute sizzle reel at Cannes



Watch X Men Days of Future Past Online Obviously, none of us were inside that car and can confirm what happened, but in the grand scheme of things to lie about, this doesn’t send up any warning flags at all. If you feel like you need confirmation for some reason, however, feel free to bust out the rhyme next time you see Morgan Freeman out and about and see if he plays along.



Watch Godzilla 2014 Online In complete shock, Hill allegedly word vomited out a "thank you" and then Freeman topped it all off by asking him to then do the same rhyme with Morgan. God only knows what might have been going through the legend’s head when he got chatty, but something tells me he was having a better time than Hill who was still terrified and overwhelmed to be acting opposite someone like Freeman.



Watch The Amazing Spider Man 2 Online Appearing on The Graham Norton Show, Jonah Hill revealed Morgan Freeman didn’t speak to him between takes. They just sat in complete silence, right next to each other in the car. It was allegedly uncomfortable and excruciating, and it took a turn for the weird during the last day when, out of nowhere, Freeman started talking, or at least singing. Jonah, Jonah. Ba-nana-nana-fa-fona. Mi My. Ma-Jonah.



Watch Godzilla Online Back in 2006, Jonah Hill wasn’t super famous. He hadn’t received either of his Academy Award nominations or toplined any huge comedies. Instead, he was probably still best known as either the fat kid in Accepted or the awkward dude who couldn’t figure out how the eBay store worked in 40 Year Old Virgin. During this time, he was hired to work on the film 10 Items Or Less opposite Morgan Freeman. The movie never got a very wide release and didn’t make a huge dent at the box office, but it’s a cute enough film. More importantly, it opens with an extended car ride scene featuring Hill and Freeman. Because of the amount of dialogue, it took 3 days to shoot, and according to Hill, it was the most awkward and uncomfortable 3 days of his life.



Watch Neighbors Online The feel of every movie set is a little bit different. Sometimes the cast gets on the same page very quickly and becomes almost like a family. Sometimes, the set is a professional and focused atmosphere throughout, or it devolves into a scary and miserable place of conflict. You just never know until you show up. Jonah Hill could tell you that better than everyone else. His experiences have been all over the board, including one that involved the most awkward car ride of his life with Morgan Freeman.



Watch God's Not Dead Online La French is likely indebted to the poliziotteschi genre, a type of crime film that emerged out of Italy and inspired the gritty American crime films of the sixties and seventies. They often made these films in France as well, and often they were featuring notable American actors and filmed without sound, later dubbed into another language in the style of spaghetti westerns. These films were often seedier, more violent, and more profane than their American counterparts, sharing the common thread of a bleak outlook on life and an absolutely jamming soundtrack provided by the likes of Stelvio Cipriani, Guido & Maurizio Angelis or even Ennio Morricone. Hopefully, La French sounds just as awesome.



Watch Divergent Online Jean Dujardin will be co-starring with Gilles Lellouche, the star of Gaelic hits Little White Lies, Point Blank and Tell No One. Cedric Jimenez is directing, and the film is being shot in 35 MM, with select theaters in America (likely Alamo Drafthouses) showcasing not only the film in that format, but a block of trailers for a host of other French crime thrillers, some of which seem to be inspiring this latest film. Drafthouse has also planned a vintage VHS release of the film for home distribution, a unique gesture that speaks to the legacy of the genre.



Watch Captain America The Winter Soldier Online La French is a period piece set in the 1970's, based upon the story of the judge who dedicated his life to bringing down the French Connection. The French Connection, for those of you not up on your drug history, was an elaborate, decades-old method of trafficking heroin from Turkey to France, and then through Canada into America. This procedure was almost singlehandedly responsible for the bulk of heroin abuse in America during the sixties and seventies, particularly in New York City. And hey, they even made a movie about that. You should see it sometime.



Watch Vampire Academy Online Overseas, Jean Dujardin is the coolest cucumber around. Domestically, however, despite a Best Actor Oscar, Dujardin is just another handsome French actor, albeit one who stole the show in The Monuments Men and The Wolf Of Wall Street. Thanks to Drafthouse Films, however, that's looking to change. Jean Dujardin's about to hit our shores in the Frenchiest French movie that ever Frenched, La French.



Drafthouse Films has announced they've nabbed the domestic distribution rights for the actioner, which showcased an eight minute sizzle reel at Cannes. Drafthouse Films CEO and founder Tim League awesomely says, "One of our goals is to get young audiences excited about foreign language film... We combed the market and devoured the official selections. Nothing excited us more than La French." Foreign films are behind the eight ball: U.S. box office for the top five foreign films has declined by 61% over the last seven years, according to this Indiewire piece, and too many of them are simply providing fodder for English-language remakes. League is doing God's work, folks.




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