New Photos from The Coens' 'Burn After Reading'
Filed under: Comedy, Mystery & Suspense, Focus Features, Brad Pitt, Movie Marketing, George Clooney, Images
After the gut-wrenching terror of No Country for Old Men (I haven't been that tense in a movie theater since, well, ever), I can safely say that I am incredibly relieved that the Coens' next film, Burn After Reading, looks like it is going to be a lot more fun. First Showing now has some stills from the Coens' black comedy, and it would appear that the brothers are returning to what I like to call their 'Raising Arizona roots.'Burn is the story of a CIA agent (played by George Clooney) who is assigned to investigate the case of a former agent named Ozzie Cox (John Malkovich) who has taken his revenge on the agency by writing a tell-all memoir. When Cox's ex-wife (played by Tilda Swinton) steals the only copy and leaves it behind at her gym, the gym's owner (Frances McDormand) and star personal trainer (Brad Pitt) see an opportunity to engage in a little blackmail.
The Coen flick just got the nod to open the Venice Film Festival this year, but Burn will not be making an appearance at Cannes this year (which is a little strange considering the luck they had at the French festival last year). This makes it zero for two for Pitt now that his other high-profile film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, also failed to make the list for Cannes. Burn After Reading is scheduled for wide release on September 12th, 2008.
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5-02-2008 @ 2:48PM
Enrique said...
Awesome news! I loved NCFOM also, but am a bigger fan of Raising Arizona/Big Lebowski/Fargo/O Brother Where Are Thou?....
How come sometimes you guys link to AOL Movies and sometimes to imdb? I would like to state that I'd personally prefer to never go to AOL Movies again in my life. I hate the interface - always impossible to find what I'm looking for. It's come to a point where I hover of your links just to see which site you linked to, and if it's AOL, I don't click anymore.
Seriously, compare this link:
http://movies.aol.com/movie/burn-after-reading/28109/main
to this one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0887883/
How can you even compare them?
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5-05-2008 @ 3:48PM
Jake said...
This looks too funny.
Anything where Brad Pitt and George Cloony engage in halirity is funny.
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