I'm surprised the word "grindhouse" isn't used on the packaging of this Al Adamson double feature. Despite the box office failure of the film Grindhouse, more people are familiar with the term now than ever, so it looks like Retro-Shock-O-Rama missed a chance to cash in on the free publicity. Both of the features on this two disk set were produced by Independent International, a company founded by Adamson and...

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Warner Independent Pictures will remake the German comedy Night of the Living Dorks, and has set Chris Bishop to write the script. Vertigo's Roy Lee and Doug Davison are producing along with Adam F. Goldberg.

Described as Revenge of the Nerds meets Shaun of the Dead, the story revolves around three not-so-cool school friends who decide to try an old voodoo ritual. When they later die in a car crash, they find themselves reborn as zombies, and try to take advantage of their new lifestyle.

"Dorks" would be one of Vertigo's first comedies.

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An astronaut is forced to leave NASA to save his family farm, but he continues to dream of space travel and sets out to build a rocket inside his barn. Though his neighbors consider him an oddity, the media considers him a story, and the government considers him a threat, nothing can deter him from his dream to break through the atmosphere and orbit the earth.

Genres: Comedy
 
Release Date: February 23rd, 2007 (wide)
 
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In the fall of 2004, Edward Norton telephoned Naomi Watts—once again—about playing Kitty Fane in The Painted Veil. This time, he was determined to enlist the actress—for five years, Norton, screenwriter Ron Nyswaner and producer Sara Colleton had been developing an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s 1925 novel, and they were hoping to finally get it produced. Unfortunately, Watts, a 2004 Best Actress Oscar nominee who had also recently completed roles in The Ring Two and Marc Forster’s Stay, had just finished a grueling eight-month shoot in Australia for King Kong and wasn’t eager to begin another film...more click on heading

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Release Date: December 15th, 2006

An bored, unhappily married woman (Naomi Watts) living in 1920s London goes through a midlife crisis and journey of self-discovery, first cheating on her stuffy scientist husband (Edward Norton) and then fighting the cholera outbreak in the Far East. Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

Starring: Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Sally Hawkins, Toby Jones
Directed by: John Curran
Produced by: Mark R. Gordon, Bob Yari, Robert F. Katz

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Release Date: November 17th, 2006

The cast and crew of a small indie movie find themselves inexplicably surrounded by Oscar buzz in the middle of Academy Awards season. Debut feature director Jay Berman steers cast and crew through a typically tumultuous independent film "Home for Purim," an intimate period drama about a Jewish family's turbulent reunion on the occasion of the dying matriarch's favorite holiday. When Internet-generated rumors begin circulating that three of the film's stars--faded luminary Marilyn Hack, journeyman actor and former hot dog pitchman Victor Allan Miller, and ingénue Callie Webb--may be perpetrating Award-worthy performances, a rumble of.....

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Release Date: October 13, 2006

This Truman Capote biopic, not to be confused with Capote, stars unknown Toby Jones as the renowned writer, who became uncomfortably close to the murderers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock while researching his "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood.

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Stephane (Gael García Bernal) returns to his childhood home with the promise of a job as a copy setter. Wildly creative, his dream life constantly threatens to take over his waking world. Stephane meets and falls in love with his neighbor, Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), whose imagination is just as powerful as his own. As their relationship blossoms, the line between reality and dreaming blurs.

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