I got a press release today from Paramount about their new movie Son of Rambow. I dedicate this posting to every storyteller and independent filmmaker out there. This looks like great fun and I cannot wait to see it! Screening times are listed at the bottom.
Submit your own original short film about anything. Literally, anything! Be creative and have fun with it. The folks over at Hammer and Tongs will be judging the videos and the winning submission will have their short film placed in the Special Features section of the Son of Rambow DVD. Son of Rambow opens in theaters on May 2.
SON OF RAMBOW is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. The story takes place in 1980s Britain, where young Will Proudfoot is raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden. When Will encounters his first movie, a pirated copy of RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD his imagination is blown wide open. Now, Will sets out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical school bully, Lee Carter, to make their own action epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, all the while hiding out from The Brethren.
When school popularity finally descends on Will and Lee in the form of, oui, the super-cool French exchange student, Didier Revol, their remarkable new friendship and precious film are pushed, quite literally, to the breaking point.
Filmed in a creatively mad-cap, homemade style with a mostly amateur cast and a wry, comic-tinged nostalgia, creative visionaries Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, a.k.a. Hammer & Tongs (HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY), manage to capture both the agony and the giddy ecstasy of a camcorder childhood with humor, poignancy and a rousing dose of cinematic panache.
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 96-minutes
LOS ANGELES PRESS DAY INFORMATION:
The Los Angeles Press Day for SON OF RAMBOW is currently slated for Thursday, April 24th.
WHO: Garth Jennings (Director/Screenwriter) and Nick Goldsmith (Producer) (available for 1:1's and paired for roundtables)
WHERE: Paramount Pictures
5555 Melrose Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90038
Please let us know what screening you would like to attend if you have not already seen the film.
SCREENINGS: Thursday, March 27, at 7:30pm
Thursday, April 10, at 2:30pm
Wednesday, April 16, at 7:30pm
Tuesday, April 22 at 7:30pm
Paramount's Marathon Building Screening Room
5555 Melrose Avenue (Enter through the Melrose Gate (cross street is Windsor) and proceed to visitor parking)
NEW YORK PRESS DAY INFORMATION:
The New York Press day for SON OF RAMBOW is currently slated for Tuesday, April 22nd.
WHO: Garth Jennings (Director/Screenwriter), Nick Goldsmith (Producer), and Ed Westwick (please find biography below) will be available for interviews.
WHERE: Paramount Pictures
1633 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
ED WESTWICK Biography
An emerging young British actor trained at The National Youth Theatre in London, Westwick can currently be seen as "Chuck Bass", the overly confident and sexy bad boy on the Warner Bros. Television/CW show Gossip Girl. This new hit series from The O.C.'s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage is based on the tremendously popular book series about privileged teenagers who attend an elite private school in New York City.
Westwick was recently seen in two high profile features. He played the role of "Alex" opposite Clive Owen and Julianne Moore in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men for Universal. Westwick was also seen as "Zoran" opposite Jude Law, Juliette Binoche and Robin Wright Penn in Anthony Mighella's Breaking and Entering for the Weinstein Company and Miramax.
Westwick will also soon be seen in Son of Rambow, an independent film directed by Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.) The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, causing quite a buzz. Westwick plays "Lawrence", a bully and surrogate father figure to his devoted younger brother.
Westwick will also soon be seen in 100 Feet, a supernatural thriller written and directed by Eric Red. Starring alongside Famke Janssen and Bobby Cannavale, Westwick plays "Joey", a handsome Brooklyn delivery boy who delivers groceries to Janssen's character who is under house arrest. It is not long before they begin a heated affair.
Please let us know what screening you would like to attend if you have not already seen the film.
SCREENINGS: Wednesday, March 26 at 6pm – Dolby 24 (1350 6th Ave @ 55th St., 28th Floor)
Tuesday, April 8 at 1pm – Dolby 24 (1350 6th Ave @ 55th St., 28th Floor)
Thursday, April 17 at 7pm – Paramount Screening Room (1515 Broadway @ 45th St.
MAKE BELIEVE NOT WAR!
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