First, hop over to YouTube for an interview Garret did before the Amigo screening at AFI Fest that I keep forgetting to post.
Then, this:
Winter’s Bone won the top prize (Best Feature) at the Amazonas Film Festival last week. It will also be screened at the Turin Film Festival (Nov. 26 – Dec. 8). And it has also made it to the second (and final) round of nominees for the Gotham Independent Film Awards.
You can vote for the film using as many e-mail addresses as you like at the Gotham Awards site until November 29.
And Raising Hope is one of the finalists for the People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy. You can vote for the show, also as many times as you like, at PeoplesChoice.com.
All right, some previews and promo for the next two episodes of Raising Hope.
Episode 1×08, “Blue Dots,” airs this Tuesday at 9. The pictures are here. Three sneak peeks are embedded below.
Jimmy (Lucas Neff), Virginia (Martha Plimpton) and Burt (Garret Dillahunt) learn how they can qualify for a scholarship so Hope can attend an expensive day care facility. The Chance family also visits a lawyer (guest star Lou Wagner) in the “Blue Dots” episode of RAISING HOPE airing Tuesday, Nov. 16 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
And two more stills from episode 1×09, “Meet the Grandparents,” which airs next Tuesday (Nov. 23), showed up this week (see below). You can find the first batch of pics here.
Instead of sleeping in and ordering pizza, per his normal Thanksgiving custom, Jimmy invites Hope’s other grandparents, Dale (guest star Greg Germann) and Margine (guest star Valerie Mahaffey), to join the Chances for a more traditional holiday dinner. The Chances soon realize that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when Dale and Margine kidnap Hope, and it’s up to them to get her back.
Garret talked to FOX25 about Raising Hope in recent days. The video is embedded below.
Here is the synopsis for tonight’s episode, “The Sniffles:”
When Hope catches a cold, Virginia (Martha Plimpton) goes into panic mode because the family doesn’t have health insurance, so she locks Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman) in her bedroom to avoid getting sick. However, when Jimmy (Lucas Neff) realizes that he can’t afford to take Hope to a doctor without insurance, he figures out a way to secure a second job at the grocery store where Sabrina (Shannon Woodward) works.
Winter’s Bone has been nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the Best Foreign Film category. The winners will be announced on December 5.
Amigo was screened at AFI Fest 2010 the other day. Hollywood.com has a few pictures. Hollywood Reporter caught up with Garret at the event and got him to share a few details about the upcoming guest stars on Raising Hope, Amy Sedaris and Jason Lee. Hit the link for the spoilers. Here’s another interesting snippet:
Dillahunt has his eye on Dexter and Boardwalk Empire as TV shows he’d like to appear in, but there’s another he wants to try out.
“I’d say [Starz’s] Spartacus, but I don’t want to have to wear a loincloth. I’d be pale and hairy. Who knew Spartacus shaved down so much, right?” Dillahunt said with a laugh.
Was he surprised by Raising Hope’s full-season order?
“Not really. I think it’s a really good show. In this climate, there’s no telling what’s going to happen, but I thought it deserved it. I’m happy about it. And I don’t die in it,” Dillahunt joked. [THR]
Tyler Shields did another photoshoot with Garret, this time also with Izabella Miko (that’s Carrie from Deadwood) and Ali Cobrin. You can see the pictures here.
And another clip from Oliver Sherman showed up on YouTube. It’s a scene with Garret and Molly Parker. The film has been added to the Whistler Film Festival lineup and will be screened there on December 4 (see listing).
