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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 12/22/2009

21 December 2009 8:35 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

'Twas the countdown to Christmas and all through the house... all the creatures were stirring wondering what frights were hitting stores this week...

With only four more shopping days until Santa arrives, there's not a lot of new genre fare hitting retail, though the high-profile District 9 is finally hitting the street - bumped up a week from it's previous 12/29 release date. Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores tomorrow, Tuesday, December 22, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. If you're shopping for yourself or your favorite boils and ghouls, a gift card might be the way to go as there's some good stuff coming next week, including Jennifer's Body, 9, Paranormal Activity, A Perfect Getaway and more. Preview those selections here, and  check out this weeks list below!

Note: Some product descriptions provided by Amazon.com or through Video Distributors. Clickable links lead to Amazon. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Oscar buzz surrounds Jim Sheridan's latest film 'Brothers' (IrishCentral)

30 November 2009 9:42 AM, PST | IrishCentral | See recent IrishCentral news »

His latest film "Brothers" is garnering Oscar buzz, but Irish film-maker has more up his sleeve, including a movie called "Black Mask," about Boston Irish gangster Whitey Bulger. Born in Dublin in 1949 Sheridan moved to American in 1982. He has worked as an actor as well as a director and his movies have covered a host of familiar Irish subjects: land ownership and inheritance in “The Field”; Ira violence and false accusations in “In the Name of The Father”; imprisonment and release in “The Boxer”; and the immigrant experience in a movie called “In America.” He told the story of disabled Irish artist Christy Brown in “My Left Foot”, whose stars, Brenda Fricker and Daniel Day-Lewis, both won Oscars. Sheridan also worked with Day-Lewis on a number of other films. Sheridan’s latest offering, “Brothers,” is based on a film by Danish director Susan Biers. It tells the story of a »

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Miller Lands Irish Film Festival Honour

1 September 2009 9:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Daniel Day-Lewis' writer/director wife Rebecca Miller is set to be honoured at Ireland's star-studded Kerry Film Festival.

Miller, who is also the daughter of renowned American playwright Arthur Miller, will be presented with the Maureen O'Hara award recognising women in film.

The award, named after one of Ireland's best known and best loved acting greats, was presented for the first time last year to Irish actress Brenda Fricker.

Miller's credits include 2005 drama The Ballad of Jack and Rose, starring her husband Day-Lewis and Camilla Belle, and this year's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, starring Robin Wright Penn.

The nine-day event is scheduled to kick off on 31 October. »

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Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker play elderly lesbians in love

2 July 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Brenda Fricker — who you may remember as Central Park Pigeon Lady from the much-lauded Home Alone 2 — and Olympia Dukakis are set to star in the forthcoming film Cloudburst, about a lesbian couple that decides to bust out of a nursing home to take a road trip to Canada.

Cloudburst is being billed as a comedy, but there's a poignant undertone: The women, who have been together for 30 years, plot their escape and subsequent trip to Canada because they want to be married before either of them dies.

See how I'm already weeping? There's no way I'll be able to sit through this movie.

Well played on the gender-bender tux, Brenda Fricker. Congratulations, you're ready to play a dyke!

On their way to Canada, the women pick up a young hitchhiker, which of course make me thing the alternate title of Cloudburst could be Thelma and Louise: What If They Survived The Fall? »

- stuntdouble

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Olympia Dukakis Grabs a Lesbian 'Thelma and Louise'

2 July 2009 12:33 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Same-sex love is most definitely in the air. I already wrote about Julianne Moore and Annette Bening were coupling up for a new film today, but they're not the only ones. In a Thelma and Louise meets The Bucket List move, The Hollywood Reporter posts that Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker will star in a new road trip comedy from Thom Fitzgerald called Cloudburst.

Dukakis and Fricker will play a couple who have been together for 30 years. Itching for a little adventure, the two "break out of a nursing home and head to Canada to get married, picking up a young, male hitchhiker along the way." I can't begin to count the ways these two films are great. Both have long-term lesbian couples, played by women with oodles of talent, and in this case, feature an older generation of actresses -- a theme which seems to be slowly »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Lesbian Nursing Home Road Trip Comedy?

1 July 2009 8:31 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

A few years ago Olympia Dukakis had a supporting role in a deeply affecting film set in a nursing home, Away From Her. But apparently what Dukakis really wanted was to ditch the Alzheimer's and throw in some lesbians, and thus Cloudburst was born. She and Brenda Fricker will star in the road-trip comedy, about two lesbians who break out of the nursing home where one of them now lives and set off on something resembling Thelma and Louise 2. According to Variety Thom Fitzgerald, who previously made the AIDS drama 3 Needles, will direct the film from his own script. Not sure why today is the day of lesbian news-- see our earlier story about Annette Bening and Julianne Moore's new movie--or who on earth would be the audience for an old lesbian road trip comedy. Maybe the same people who saw Bonneville? Still, more power to Dukakis for taking »

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Fitzgerald re-teams with Dukakis for Cloudburst

1 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Not sure if Sidney Kimmel Ent. is tapping into a new market demo. While they're setting up Jon Amiel’s distinctly golden aged Old Timers, the prod co. are boarding a road trip film with vet actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker. Reteaming with Dukakis with whom he worked with on his last picture 3 Needles, Thom Fitzgerald shoots Cloudburst this month and in his own backyard again - if there is a film industry in the miniscule Canadian province of Nova Scotia it might be because of this filmmaker. Based on Fitzgerald's screenplay, this story tackles both ageism and same sex marriage. It follows two women who have been lovers for 30 years but have to escape a nursing facility to get married in Canada. They pick up a young male hitchhiker who sidetracks them. For those who have forgotten about Dukakis - she most recently played a strong supporting »

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Daily news dose: Jason Lee boards 'Couple of Dicks;' Christina Applegate is 'Going the Distance'

1 July 2009 2:42 AM, PDT | screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news »

Here is your dose of film news for July 1, 2009:

• Jason Lee and Michelle Trachtenberg are the latest to join Kevin Smith's upcoming Warner Bros. comedy "A Couple of Dicks." Robb and Mark Cullen wrote the script for the action comedy, which also stars Bruce Willis, Tracey Morgan, Seann William Scott and Adam Brody. Willis plays a cop who, along with his partner (Morgan), encounters a mysterious gangster and rescues a Mexican chick during their investigation into the theft of a valuable baseball card. (Variety)

• Charlie Day and Christina Applegate have signed on to star alongside Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in Nanette Burstein's upcoming romantic comedy “Going the Distance" for New Line Cinema. The film focuses on a couple’s attempt to maintain a long-distance relationship. One lives in Chicago while the other is located in Los Angeles. Day will play Long's best friend, while Applegate stars as Barrymore's sister. »

- Franck Tabouring

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Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker Feel Cloudburst

30 June 2009 5:46 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

In a story from Variety Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker are teaming up to star in Cloudburst for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.

Thom Fitzgerald will direct this project from an original script he wrote.

The film looks at two women who have been lovers for 30 years. One day they decide to leave a nursing facility where one of them has been sent.

Production is set to start this month in Nova Scotia.

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Dukakis, Fricker ready to see 'Cloudburst'

30 June 2009 4:55 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker will star in the road-trip comedy "Cloudburst" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, with Thom Fitzgerald directing from his own script.According to Variety, Ske is financing "Cloudburst"; Fitzgerald is producing with Doug Pettigrew while William Jarblum executive produces. Production starts this month in Nova Scotia.Story centers on two women who have lived as lovers for 30 years and decide to break out of the nursing facility where one of them has been committed. »

- Adnan Tezer

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Eliza Dushku Dishes on Valediction

16 June 2009 6:24 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

So last week the first tiny tidbits of news broke surrounding the Eliza Dushku thriller Valediction. Not a whole hell of a lot was known about the feature then, but oh what a difference a week can make!

MTV caught up with Dushku to get the dirt! I have to admit, judging from what she had to say, it's kind of debatable whether or not this actually is a horror film; what do you guys think?

From the site:

"It’s about this young couple and they have a 6-year-old daughter, seemingly in a coma, but [they learn] she’s actually alive and fully living out in her brain, but is just in this locked-in state,” Eliza explains. “So he’s trying to have his daughter wake up from this traumatic experience.”

The film centers around a car accident Josh (Ben Barnes) has which leaves his daughter Brooke in a coma. But »

- Uncle Creepy

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Eliza Dushku Gives More 'Valediction' Details

16 June 2009 5:34 PM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »

Last week some very tiny news broke about a new thriller starring Eliza Dushku entitled Valediction. While the film is already in production, the only details given were of a short plot synopsis that teased a similar fate as What Dream May Come. MTV caught up with Dushku and found out who is directing, starring, and got more information on what the film is about. Directed by Suri Krishnamma, the film stars Eliza Dushku, Ben Barnes, Brenda Fricker, Sarah Roemer, Johnny Whitworth and Dennis Haysbert. When a car accident leaves a father fighting for his daughters life, his journey for the pieces of the puzzle that will save her lead him to discover it's actually his life that he is fighting for. In the film, Dushku plays the daughter in the flashback scenes. »

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Dushku Goes Home for Valediction

9 June 2009 1:30 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

During a break from the surprisingly renewed "Dollhouse", Watertown, Mass. native Eliza Dushku has returned to her roots to appear in indie thriller Valediction. Home base for the crew is reportedly South Boston's Seaport District.

According to Loaded Gun Boston, Valediction, whose title means "farewell" in Latin, has the following premise: When a car accident leaves a father fighting for his daughter’s life, his journey for the pieces of the puzzle that will save her lead him to discover it's actually his life that he is fighting for. In the film Dushku plays the daughter in the flashback scenes.

Loaded Gun lists Dushku's co-stars as the new Dorian Gray, Ben Barnes, and fabulous Irish actress Brenda Fricker, but no other details are available.

Keep it here while we dig a little further, and in the meantime, follow Eliza on Twitter, where she's been posting updates on the shoot.

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- The Woman In Black

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"Beautiful People" Makes For Beautiful Television

25 May 2009 5:47 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

All photos credit: Logo/BBC

For me, summer is not a season for television. It's a season for kicking back in the yard or the park with fizzy cocktails, eating meals composed entirely of various types of ice cream, and laughing so hard with your friends that your mother/landlord/neighbors yell at you or you lose control of a bodily function.

Enter Logo's (AfterElton.com's parent company) Beautiful People, the first series of the summer to allow you to do all of these things in the comfort of your air-conditioned living room.

Equal parts wistful remembrance and raucous, candy-colored fantasy, Beautiful People is sort of what The Wonder Years would look like were it directed by a relatively well-behaved John Waters. Loosely based on the memoirs of Simon Doonan (first released in the U.K. under the title Nasty), the series tells the story of an impossibly fabulous and »

- brian

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2009 | 2008

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