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Indie Weekend Box Office: 'Poultrygeist' Overtakes 'Surfwise' and 'The Fall'

Posted May 13th 2008 4:32PM by Peter Martin
Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Magnolia, ThinkFilm, Box Office, Cinematical Indie, Roadside Attractions

Apologies for the one-day delay, but, as it happens, the indie weekend charts changed in the interim. Early on Sunday, estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo indicated that Tarsem Singh's The Fall (Roadside Attractions) won the weekend, but when the figures were tabulated, Lloyd Kaufman's Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (Troma) sneaked into the top position with a take of $10,624 at one theater in Manhattan. Ed Gonzalez of The Village Voice says the film "chronicles what happens when a fried-chicken shack goes up on a Native American burial ground" and called it "a predictably hit-and-miss yukfest."

Doug Pray's Surfwise (Magnolia) surged near the top, grossing $10,304 at another theater in Manhattan. The doc follows a doctor who abandoned his practice to become a surfer and live in a camper, packing along his wife and nine children. All 12 critics whose reviews are listed at Rotten Tomatoes were positive.

The Fall fell to third place, earning $8,845 per screen at nine locations. Reviews were mixed (57% positive, per Rotten Tomatoes), though even the naysayers acknowledged the visual beauty of the film. We've previously pointed to the trailer, posted exclusive stills and a clip, which definitely confirm this impression. In the words of our own Eric D. Snider, it is "a visually stunning fable where a man in a hospital tells a little girl a story, and that story is craaaazy."

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EXCLUSIVE: Clip from Tarsem Singh's 'The Fall'!

Posted May 7th 2008 3:02PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips

Cinematical has just received this exclusive, action-filled clip from Tarsem Singh's The Fall. The film is set in a Los Angeles hospital in 1915, where stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is recovering from a stunt-gone-wrong and the fact that his girlfriend dumped him for the film's leading man. Set on ending his life, he befriends the young Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) in order to persuade her to nab him the morphine he needs for his suicide. He begins to tell her amazing stories, full of people from his life and the hospital, to get her anxious for more, and to make her do his bidding.

The clip shares a scene from one of those stories, and is full of horses, dusty action, the freeing of slaves, and even some first-sight romance. This is definitely looking to be a rare gem -- a great story with a myriad of beautiful scenes. The film goes into limited release this Friday.

Gallery: 'The Fall' Stills

Roy Walker (Lee Pace) and Alexandria (Catinca Untaru)

Otto Benga (Marcus Wesley) and Darwin (Leo Bill)

EXCLUSIVE: New Stills From 'The Fall'!

Posted Mar 26th 2008 10:02AM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Movie Marketing, Images

Cinematical has just scored these exclusive stills from Tarsem Singh's upcoming film, The Fall. It's no wonder that David Fincher and Spike Jonze are presenting this feature, which will hit theaters on May 9. Set in the 1920s, a young girl (Catinca Untaru) meets a bedridden man (Lee Pace) while recovering from a fall in the hospital. The two become friends as he tells her an exotic tale, cast with the people she knows and loves, to spark her imagination.

The pictures from this film are, frankly, stunning, and if they are any indication of the story itself, this should be one solid and enjoyable fantasy drama. In these stills, you can check out the storytelling pair above, plus Daniel Caltigarone's Governor Odious, Otto Benga (Marcus Wesley) and Darwin (Leo Bill), another still of the young Catinca, and some spinning whirling dervishes. Check out the gallery below for these exclusive stills, plus some extra, previously-released peeks at the film.

Gallery: 'The Fall' Stills

The Trailer for Tarsem Singh's 'The Fall' is Online

Posted Feb 27th 2008 8:32PM by Jessica Barnes
Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family Films, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips

Say what you want about Tarsem Singh, but you can't deny the man has a way with art direction. If you don't believe me, take a look at the trailer over at IGN for Singh's fantasy film, The Fall. Dan Gilroy's story focuses on a young girl in a hospital who befriends an American actor. The tales he tells her to pass the hours begin to bleed into the real world and suddenly everyone around her becomes part of the story. Lee Pace *(~~Friday Night Lights~~) stars as the storytelling actor, and Catinca Untaru as his captive audience. The trailer might not explain much about the film, but it now carries the seal of approval from respected directors David Fincher and Spike Jonze in the form of a 'so and so presents'. You never know, maybe it was their combined star power that helped get the film a deal with Roadside Attractions.

Unfortunately for Singh, his film career has been filled with very few ups and plenty of downs. Despite his success with music videos, critical response to his debut film, The Cell, wasn't exactly encouraging. As of late, it hasn't gotten much better for the director, and he was recently replaced by David Slade (30 Days of Night) as director on the thriller Unthinkable. The Fall is proving to be no exception to Singh's track record in Hollywood. The film was completed back in 2006, and only a few people got the chance to actually see it when it premiered at TIFF. Hopefully putting Fincher and Jonze's name on the marketing is going to help draw an audience. The Fall is expected to go into limited release in March.

*Correction: Pace stars in Pushing Daisies

Indie Bites: Rains in the Fall, 'Haaaan!', and a Little 'Painted Skin'

Posted Dec 10th 2007 6:02PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Thrillers, Deals, Distribution, Cinematical Indie

Check out these bits for your Monday:

It's got to be a bit stressful to screen your film at a fest and watch nothing happen with it for months, or even years. But all is not completely over, especially as the latest news from The Hollywood Reporter will attest. Roadside Attractions has picked up two period films that screened at TIFF -- Before the Rains, which screened this year, and The Fall, which screened in 2006. Rains is about a British man in colonial India in 1937, who has an affair with his Indian servant, while Fall is a fantasy set in the 1920s about a young girl in a hospital who is told stories about heroes on a deserted island by an injured stuntman. Both films will be released next year.
It looks like the San Francisco-based Viz Pictures likes the idea of men and geishas. Variety reports that the company has picked up Maiko Haaaan!!! for distribution stateside. The hit comedy by Kankuro Kudo is about a geeky salaryman who is obsessed with geisha and tries to infiltrate Kyoto's geisha world. Five lucky cities will get to see the film in March, including New York and San Francisco, with further locales added later.
Finally, you might remember a certain film that Peter Martin blogged about back in June, one that would be the first cinematic collaboration between Singapore and Hong Kong. Donnie Yen had signed on to star in a big-budget thriller called Painted Skin, and now Variety reports that production has started in Hong Kong. It's a pretty sexy scenario -- there's a "vampire-like" lady who likes to go cannibal on her lovers -- eating their skin and heart. (It's a remake of an old 1965 Hong Kong film.) Since the film began cooking, the budget has jumped to $15 million, and Gordon Chan is now the director. The bloody production will continue through to February -- fitting since it's the month of hearts -- and will get to us in Christmas of 2008, just in time for the red of the holiday. I wonder if they planned it to coincide with such red-themed, and heart-themed holidays...

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Indie Weekend Box Office: 'Poultrygeist' Overtakes 'Surfwise' and 'The Fall'

EXCLUSIVE: Clip from Tarsem Singh's 'The Fall'!

EXCLUSIVE: New Stills From 'The Fall'!

The Trailer for Tarsem Singh's 'The Fall' is Online

Indie Bites: Rains in the Fall, 'Haaaan!', and a Little 'Painted Skin'

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