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Three new films: One Night Only, Oliver Sherman, Unbound Captives

Okay, the film news, finally. Garret has several projects lined up, two of them in the very near future.
First up is One Night Only, a short film with Kristen Wiig, that starts shooting one of these days in New York.
The mystery project, Oliver Sherman, is a psychological thriller written by Ryan Redford that goes into [...]

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Tiger movie in the news – interview with Carlos Brooks

Bloody Disgusting has a new interview with Burning Bright director Carlos Brooks. A few quotes after the jump, for the full version go here.

BD: Did you add anything to the existing script?
CB: Before we started shooting we had two or three script meetings. I added some ideas, but nothing structurally significant. At least I wouldn’t [...]

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Burning Bright screened in Cannes

Burning Bright was screened at the Cannes Film Festival last week. (No, not in competition. Sobini Films were probably just looking for distributors.) The version screened was 89 minutes long. [Cinando.com]

Sobini Films has a page up with a bunch of stills from the film. The set is also available on Flickr.
First pics of Johnny Gavineau below. [...]

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Two new interviews – SCI FI Wire, AICN

The first one is with the cast of The Last House on the Left, from SCI FI Wire:

The second one is just Garret and AICN’s Capone. It includes some Sarah Connor spoilers and finally the info about the character he plays in Winter’s Bone. Snippets below:
In many ways, the character you’re playing in LAST HOUSE, [...]

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Garret on BlogTalkRadio.com – The Last House on the Left

With The Last House on the Left premiering this week, Movie Geeks United interviewed Garret yesterday. Among other things, he talks about seeing the film at the first screenings, how he landed the part, how he got cast in Burning Bright, what he talked about with David Hess, what some of his favourite 1970s movies [...]

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The Road: Garret talks to SCI FI Wire

Garret talked to SCI FI Wire last week. The article is here, quotes below:
About The Road:
“No one writes better stories than Cormac McCarthy. I think Cormac had just had his son [when he wrote The Road]. He had his son fairly late in life, and there was a fire on the hill, and he was [...]

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Burning Bright – more info, from Briana Evigan

Briana Evigan talked to Bloody-Disgusting.com about her role in Burning Bright. A few snippets below.
About the setup:
“She can’t go outside, and the tiger’s in the house, how long can she hide from it? She [also has] the autistic brother that’s just as bad as the tiger. He doesn’t respond to her, he makes [...]

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New Last House interview with Garret, Winter’s Bone confirmed

Garret talked to Bloody-Disgusting.com recently and apparently he is already filming Winter’s Bone in Branson, Missouri. The film is directed by Debra Granik, with Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes (Deadwood’s Sol Star) starring. Here is the synopsis, taken from this article:
“Winter’s Bone” centers on 16-year-old Ree Dolly, who hails from a large family of Ozark [...]

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More about Burning Bright, from the writers

Burning Bright writers Julie Prendiville Roux and Christine Coyle talked to Ryan Rotten at ShockTillYourDrop.com about how the movie came to be…
Roux: The way this all happened is that we had a screenplay out there called Chance and it was Altman-esque because it was different storylines intersecting. A producer read it, David Higgins, and he [...]

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Burning Bright: Garret plays Beastwizard’s distant cousin

During the Q & A for The Last House on the Left, someone asked Garret about Burning Bright so we finally have some info about that one.
Here is what he said:
- about the character:
“Have you ever driven through the South like, ‘Come to Johnny’s Rattlesnake Pit!’? He’s that guy and he’s got a wild animal [...]

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