A new poster for Todd Solondz’s “Life During Wartime” has arrived and it’s basically a more illustrated version of the already released U.K. one, and frankly we liked the English version better (and surely that will sell the picture better too). The film is a quasi sequel to Solondz’s “Happiness” and stars Allison Janney, Ciarán Hinds, Paul Reubens (aka “Pee Wee Herman”) and Ally Sheedy among many others. The boy in the poster is the actor Dylan Riley Snyder.[Vulture]
Vertigo Films is making its second 3D live-action pic based on Novel Entertainment’s children’s property “Horrid Henry.” The first was the $30 million box-office hit “Street Dance 3D.” The character is the second most successful children’s character in the U.K. behind “Harry Potter,” so franchise possibilities are definitely out there. [Variety]
Is there a happy ending to all this controversy and nonsense going on with Oscar-winning documentary, “The Cove”? The Louie Psihoyos-directed doc (which is excellent) centers on the illegal dolphin fisheries in Japan and thus the industry has campaigned to be banned from screening in the country, but there’s a minor victory so far. Six Japanese theaters plan on screening the doc. [Variety]
One of our favorite films of the year so far? Lisa Cholodenko’s funny, charming, heartbreaking humanist drama, “The Kids Are All Right.” The film stars Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as the lesbian parents of Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson (a potential “Spider-Man” reboot actor) whose curiosity makes them seek out their sperm donor biological father (Mark Ruffalo). Maybe this great featurette will entice you to go see it when it hits theaters in limited release on July 9.