As promised, this week we are bringing out the big guns in anticipation of the April 27 release of SOUND OF MY VOICE. Today, courtesy of Apple Trailers, we've unveiled the first two minutes of the film as well as the exclusive poster!
This week, George Clooney was a guest on CBS' Person to Person, an interview program hosted by Charlie Rose where he speaks to celebrities for the comfort of their own home. As you can imagine, Clooney was his usual charming self.
Up next from us at Searchlight is a new film we hold near and dear: Zal Batmanglij's SOUND OF MY VOICE, starring ANOTHER EARTH's Brit Marling as a super enigmatic cult leader who may or may not be a stranded, time-traveling emissary from the future. The film opened at lots of top-notch festivals last year, and before we tell you all about what's to come with SOMV, let's take a short look into the past, so to speak.
Last night at the 11th annual AARP Movies for Grown-Ups Awards, Alexander Payne's THE DESCENDANTS walked away with a statuette for Best Picture! Check out snaps, red carpet looks, and all that good awards stuff over at the AARP website.
The cast of THE DESCENDANTS – (L-R) Shailene Woodley, George Clooney, Matthew Lillard, Nick Krause, Judy Greer and Robert Forster – are featured on the cover of this week's Oscar Wrap, the awards season print counterpart to film site The Wrap. The corresponding interview with leading man Clooney is quite revealing as well...
The American Cinema Editors have decided to bestow one of their greatest honors, the ACE Filmmaker of the Year Award, to Alexander Payne for his work in THE DESCENDANTS. Congrats, Mr. Payne!
Fans of comedy-dramas as British thespians: we are doing free screenings of John Madden's THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL for Searchlight fans across the country, and here is your chance to register for tickets!
Twitter movie guru Dave Karger and the rest of the crack team at EW recently got some time with the cast of THE DESCENDANTS to chat about their experiences making the film. Listen to what insanely dapper George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, and the rest of the actors involved had to say in their series of Q&A videos.
As the Academy Awards looms on the horizon, it's always a great excuse to look at all of the aspects that go into great filmmaking – not just the actors, but what goes on behind the scenes as well. Today we're debuting a brand new featurette about the design team behind Alexander Payne's THE DESCENDANTS, and how they nailed the look and feel of Hawaii, which the story is so inextricably linked to.
So if you missed last night's special, don't worry. Check out videos, photos, and other tidbits on Bravo's site... and in this post!
While George Clooney joins them via... chair?
Tonight at 7/6c, Bravo's Inside the Actors' Studio will be airing a two-hour long special starring none other than THE DESCENDANTS' Oscar-nominated leading man, George Clooney. Bravo has already released some juicy video content from the shoot, which you can view below. Apparently, Brad Pitt better watch his back:
The New York Times has dedicated one of their illustrious lectures to Alexander Payne and George Clooney, the two men behind the Oscar-nominated family drama THE DESCENDANTS on Wednesday, February 8th, at SilverScreen Theater. If you have any unanswered questions about the movie, and live in the LA area, now's your chance! Details below.
"Family" has always been a big theme in America cinema – Oscar™-nominated Best Pictures such as Ordinary People, Terms of Endearment, Kramer vs. Kramer all draw from this one aspect of our culture that effects just about everyone. Alexander Payne's THE DESCENDANTS is a detailed portrayal of the classic American family, and today we're exclusively debuting a brand new TV Spot – entitled "Family Matters Most" – the illustrated the core of the movie. Check it out:
Good news for you fans of Alexander Payne and George Clooney – THE DESCENDANTS is finally going live today, with showings all across this fine country of ours. More details below.
While THE DESCENDANTS is riding high on awards buzz, check out these two brand new TV spots we cooked up, featuring George Clooney (who is now nominated for BEST ACTOR!) in Alexander Payne's lush Hawaiian landscapes.
