Winter’s Bone has won a couple of new prizes this week: the Best Feature Film prize at the Palm Beach Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Independent Film Festival Boston.
The trailer hit the web earlier this week too. You can see it on The New York Times site.
And here is the poster, from the Winter’s Bone Facebook page (click to enlarge):
Sobini Films posted the first trailer for Burning Bright on their site and the film is now expected to come out this summer. From the looks of it, it got its original name back too. There’s no mention of “Ravenous” anywhere in the trailer or on the site.
The trailer can’t be embedded so go to Sobini.com to see it.
In other news, One Night Only has been added to the Worldwide Short Film Festival lineup. The festival runs from June 1 to 6, 2010, in Toronto.
For details, keep an eye on the festival’s official site.
And this is what the Pretty Bird DVD will look like when it comes out in June (click to enlarge):
Winter’s Bone won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the Florida Film Festival, which closed on Sunday.
Go here for the complete list of winners and pics from the closing ceremony.
The film also nabbed the Special Jury Prize at the Sarasota Film Festival this weekend. Herald Tribune has a brief report.
The news I mentioned yesterday:
Garret has a new film in development called Arkansas Traveler. It’s a western written by Deadwood’s Sean Bridgers, still in the development stage, with Bridgers and Angela Bettis also attached to star. (Go here for the synopsis.)
Last week, they filmed an extended trailer for the film. Blue Springs Journal was there and wrote a really good article about it.
“…Understanding that period and understanding it on a level that other people don’t – that rubs off on the actors and the performance,” Bridgers said.
Bridgers, an actor by trade, is familiar with period pieces. He played Johnny in HBO’s frontier series, “Deadwood,” as did the star of “Arkansas Traveler,” Garret Dillahunt, who played Francis Wolcott. Dillahunt also played Ed Miller in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”
“When I’ve been around and heard the actors talk about being around a historical setting, it really makes their jobs easier to transport into that era,” Bears said.
The cast and crew of “Arkansas Traveler” tread carefully around one of the log buildings as the inescapable mud from the rain the day before makes for sloppy, unsure footing. Wide Awake Films and the co-directors production company, Travelin’ Productions hope the “teaser” they filmed here in Missouri last month will translate into a feature-length Hollywood film. — Blue Springs Journal
And in other news:
Page updates: Burn Notice (screencaps), Gary Unmarried (screencaps), Baryo (pics), Arkansas Traveler (page & synopsis)
Okay, this seems to be getting out of hand, so just a quick note to say that no, Garret will not be in this film. I ran it by him in December when this Facebook page first showed up in my Google alerts and he said he had never accepted the offer. This hasn’t changed.
Even though his name now appears on several news sites that have reported in recent months that he’d be starring in the film, along with Melissa Leo, Diane Ladd and now Wentworth Miller too apparently, Garret is still most definitely not attached.
So whoever has been trolling the Facebook page is actually correct. A screenshot, for posterity (click to enlarge):
Some actual news coming tomorrow.