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'Black Irish' Gets a Trailer
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Trailer Trash », Distribution », Cinematical Indie »
I know I'm not the only one who was impressed with Michael Angarano when he appeared as Young William in Almost Famous. Since then, he's also picked some pretty killer roles, dipping his toes in both art-house and mainstream movies. He played Freddie in my favorite Lars von Trier-related flick, Dear Wendy, and then soared as Will Stronghold in Sky High -- one of my top family film picks in recent years. The kid knows how to pick roles, so I was pretty stoked when Peter Martin posted that his latest, Black Irish, found a distributor. What you might not realize is that it also has a trailer.The first written-and-directed feature by Brad Gann, Irish is about a 15-year-old named Cole McKay -- yes, played by the 19-year-old-with-baby-cheeks Angarano -- who is itching for independence in his South-Boston Irish-Catholic family . His older brother (Tom Guiry) is being romanced by drugs and crime, his sister is about to become an unwed mother and his father is a self-pitying drunk. Cole's saving grace is baseball, and as he fights through his family's turmoil to make the state championships, "he must make a life and death decision, a decision that will change the McKay family forever."
Over at the film's website, you can see the trailer, which looks pretty good, save the cheesy wrap-up it has. It seems that Cole is also fighting against being drawn into his brother's ways, although Tom is also shown as fiercely protective -- in one clip from the trailer, he punches Francis Capra, who you might remember as Weevil from Veronica Mars. Any bets on that "life and death" decision being something about his troubled brother? Black Irish will get released some time this fall -- hopefully sooner rather than later.
Fox Walden Lines Up Another One -- Basketball This Time
Filed under: Drama », Sports », 20th Century Fox »
Here's another true story that was just screaming to be a movie: Frank Gildea returns to college twenty years after dropping out, joins his son Isaac on the school's basketball team and helps to win the team's first conference championship in 27 years. It sounds so cinematically appropriate you'd almost think the father and son had Hollywood in mind when making their life choices. Whatever the intentions, the duo has apparently sold the rights to their story to Walden Media (Amazing Grace), which will be producing, along with Mayhem Pictures, for 20th Century Fox. Brad Gann, who wrote the similarly against-the-odds sports movie Invincible, is currently at work on the screenplay.If the story does seem a little familiar, you have probably seen one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasures, Back to School. In that comedy Rodney Dangerfield plays a man who enrolls in the college that his son attends and the two end up on the diving team together. The only real difference is that, unlike Dangerfield's character, Frank Gildea had already been to college. Oh, and basketball is typically more cinematic than diving. But really this movie isn't likely to be too comparable with Back to School. In its tone and in its demographic interests, it should share more in common with The Rookie, which features Dennis Quaid as a middle-aged man who returns to a career in minor league baseball. That film was also produced by Mayhem Pictures, which also made Invincible and Miracle and is currently at work on a Secretariat movie.
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