Must Watch: BFI's Trippy 'The Genius of Hitchcock' Tribute Trailer

  Speaking of the BFI, we've got a must see trailer harkening back to the master of suspense himself,Alfred Hitchcock. The BFI is hosting an exhibition/retrospective looking back at the many tremendous films of Mr. Hitchcock, and to kick that off they've released a trailer. The full title is The Genius of Hitchcock: Celebrating Cinema's Master of Suspense and this quick, but outstanding, trailer features footage from many of his classics like Psycho, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Birds,Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, The Lodger and plenty more. It's a rather fun and fitting tribute wrapped up in a nifty short video. Here's the official trailer for BFI's The Genius of Hitchcock series, from YouTube (via TheMovieBox): From BFI's Hitchcock page: "One of the world's greatest directors, Alfred Hitchcock excelled in a variety of genres during his early British career, before moving to Hollywood in 1939. It was here he became known as the 'Master of Suspense', producing some of the most analysed works in the history of cinema. With Vertigo in contention for the top spot in Sight & Sound's Greatest Films Poll, and the BFI's restoration of his surviving silent films, Hitchcock's remarkable body of work remains as relevant as ever." The BFI presents a major celebration of the most influential and iconic British film director of all time.

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Watch 'Stage Fright' Movie First Trailer

  This Halloween marks another chapter in the found footage horror franchise Paranormal Activity with the fourth installment arriving in October, but this year also brings more of the shakily shot subgenre in the form of Stage Fright. The film acts as the only evidence of what happened to a group of high school students who find themselves trapped in the theater where a drama student died 25 years earlier. It looks kind of spooky, but I'm not sure how news footage about filmmakers wanting to make a movie about the incident is supposed to enhance the story. Are they trying to make it real like Blair Witch Project perhaps? 25 years after the tragic death of small town high school drama student Charlie Grimille, four teens get locked inside the theater in which he died. Witness the only obtained evidence from the most haunting unsolved case in the Midwest. Chris Lofing directs Stage Fright for Tremendum Pictures with a script he wrote himself along with Travis Cluff. The film is supposed to arrive sometime this October.Interested?

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'Breaking Bad' Star Aaron Paul Joins Adaptation of 'Long Way Down'

  On the small screen, Aaron Paul has been enjoying a great amount of success on "Breaking Bad," but hasn't really had a huge role on the big screen. Later this year he'll show of some solid supporting chops alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Smashed (coming this October), and now he's landed a starring role in Long Way Down, an adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel of the same name. British TV writer Jack Thorne (of "Skins" and "Cast Offs") is adapting the book which follows four people who plan to commit suicide by jumping off a building on New Year's Eve, but become friends with each other before the jump. Paul joins Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Imogen Poots as the other people looking to leap to their death. Deadlin says Paul's character is a pizza delivery man while Brosnan is playing embattled television talk show host, Poots portrays a teenage girl and Collette takes the role of the mother of a disabled boy. Will this new friendship be enough to stop each of them from taking the plunge? The book sounds pretty powerful as it has character "confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality" in a story bringing light to "connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace

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Jesse Eisenberg & Dakota Fanning Are Eco-Terrorists in 'Night Moves'

    Last fall, Paul Dano was teaming up with Peter Sarsgaard for an indie thriller called Night Moves, the story of three environmentalists who take their passion for everything green to the next level when they decide to become eco-terrorists and blow up a dam. The two were said to play a couple of the eco-terrorists with Rooney Mara considering the third role. However, Variety now reports that Jesse Eisenberg is replacing Dano on the film with Dakota Fanning taking the female role. Sarsgaard is still on board as the bomb mastermind the plot and Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) is still directing the film. Eisebnerg is the ringleader of the terrorist group while Fanning is a rich girl who funds their plot to blow up the damn. Sounds like a different role for Eisenberg who usually plays the awkward straight man in many films, and this is just another interesting turn for Fanning who seems to be turning into quite the talented young woman. Though it would've been nice for Dano to reunited with his Meek's Cutoff director, Eisenberg is not a bad replacement at all. This certainly sounds like a film we'll see at a film festival, so stay tuned.

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