The Road is out on DVD/Blu-ray today

Just a reminder that The Road gets released on DVD & Blu-ray today. DVD Talk has an extensive review of the Blu-ray here.
The list of special features:
SPECIAL FEATURES

Director’s Commentary
Deleted and Extended Scenes
The Making of The Road
Theatrical Trailer #1
Theatrical Trailer #2

You can get the film from Amazon.

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DVD News, Film News, The Road

More details about Baryo

Manila Bulletin has an interview with Joel Torre, a Filipino actor who will play a character named Rafael in Baryo, while the local Inquirer talked to director John Sayles.
Joel is in the thick of preparations for his on-and-off-screen participation in American independent filmmaker John Sayles’ historical war drama, “Baryo,” which will start its six-week shoot [...]

Baryo, Film News, The Road

The Road nominated for nine BAFTA Awards (long list)

Looks like Icon Distribution is doing a great job promoting the film in the UK.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has released the long list of nominees for this year’s BAFTA Awards and The Road has been nominated in nine categories: Best Film, Leading Actor (Viggo Mortensen), Adapted Screenplay (Joe Penhall), Cinematography (Javier [...]

Film News, The Road

Stephen King includes Last House and The Road on his Top 10 list

Stephen King has posted a list of the Top 10 Films of ’09 on his column at Entertainment Weekly. He put The Last House on the Left at #2 and The Road at #3. His number one is The Hurt Locker. Here is what he wrote about the films:
2. THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
Easily [...]

Film News, The Last House on the Left, The Road

2009 in review

Okay, it’s the last day of the year and this blog will be a year old tomorrow, so I am posting a recap of everything that’s happened in 2009.
Hope everyone has a great time tonight and a fantastic year ahead.
See you in 2010!
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The year started with Terminator promo and press tours. The show returned with the last [...]

Baryo, Burn Notice, Burning Bright, CSI, Criminal Minds, Keep Hope Alive, Law & Order: SVU, Lie to Me, Life, Oliver Sherman, One Night Only, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Last House on the Left, The Road, Things of Dry Hours, Unbound Captives, Water Pills, White Collar, Winter's Bone

New interview: The Road

Paul Gaita at LA Times has a new Q & A with Garret. A part of it is below, for the rest go here.
The Road should get an expanded release in the U.S. tomorrow, so check your local listings if you haven’t had the chance to see it yet.
Is it true that villains get the [...]

Film News, Interviews, The Road

Expanded release for The Road, first pictures from Winter’s Bone

The Road will get an expanded release in the U.S. on December 18. Brad Brevet at Rope of Silicon writes:
On December 18, The Road will be expanding and I have been told by a Weinstein Co. rep they are targeting 53 additional markets around the US. Now when I say “targeting” that means they are [...]

Film News, The Road, Winter's Bone

Updates: Winter’s Bone, The Road, Baryo, Keep Hope Alive, Water Pills

The Sundance Film Festival has released the lineup for 2010. Winter’s Bone is one of the films that will be screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition program.
Winter’s Bone (Director: Debra Granik; Screenwriters: Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)—An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying [...]

Baryo, Film News, Keep Hope Alive, One Night Only, Pictures, Television News, The Road, Water Pills, Winter's Bone

The Road opens this week

The Road finally hits the theatres in the U.S. tomorrow (November 25). You can find the showtimes on Fandango.
Here is a behind the scenes featurette that showed up online this week:

And all the international release dates available on IMDb:
Canada – 27 November 2009
France – 2 December 2009
Greece – 10 December 2009
Russia – 10 December 2009
Finland [...]

Film News, The Road, Video

The Road: Interview with Cormac McCarthy & John Hillcoat, new clips

Dread Central has several new clips from the film. Some of them are short versions of the clips that were released about a month ago and others are new. You can check them out here. If you haven’t seen the one with Garret, it’s on the page for The Road.
The Wall Street Journal has an [...]

Film News, The Road