Michael Winterbottom’s controversially violent and gratuitous film, The Killer Inside Me, has been picked up by IFC Films for approximately $1.5 million for U.S. distribution, and will be released this summer via a small theatrical run along with VOD channels. Read the official press release below:
IFC Films, one of the leading American distributors of independent and foreign films, announced today at the Sundance Film Festival it is acquiring U.S. distribution rights to Michael Winterbottom’s THE KILLER INSIDE ME. Since its premiere on Sunday, it has become the most provocative and discussed films at this year’s festival. Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, THE KILLER INSIDE ME stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker and Bill Pullman, from a script by John Curran. It is Winterbottom’s first foray into pure American cinema. The film is a Hero Entertainment presentation of a Stone Canyon, Muse, Revolution production in association with Wild Bunch, Curiously Bright Entertainment and Indion Entertainment Group. It was produced by Chris Hanely, Bradford L. Schlei, Andrew Eaton and executive produced by Jordan Gertner and Lily Bright.
THE KILLER INSIDE ME will next be screened in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
The deal for THE KILLER INSIDE ME was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Vice President of Acquisitions and Co-Production for IFC Films, with Graham Taylor of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment and Carole Baraton of Wild Bunch. Wild Bunch is also a co-producer on the film and handling all International Distribution.
The deal marks the second time IFC Films has worked with Winterbottom and Eaton’s Revolution Films. This February, IFC Films is releasing the highly anticipated THE RED RIDING TRILOGY, a fictionalized account of the investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper.
THE KILLER INSIDE ME tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy named Lou Ford (Casey Affleck). The film takes place in an idyllic West Texas town in the early 1950’s. As a lifelong resident, Ford has difficulty juggling his long-term girlfriend Amy (Kate Hudson), the prostitute named Joyce (Jessica Alba) that he mistakenly falls for, and the sociopathic tendencies inside him. In Thompson’s savage, bleak, blacker than noir universe nothing is ever what it seems.
Michael Winterbottom is a prolific filmmaker who has directed sixteen films in the past thirteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features. Three of his films – WELCOME TO SARAJEVO, WONDERLAND and 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE – have been in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the socially conscious films IN THIS WORLD, WELCOME TO GUANTANAMO and A MIGHTY HEART starring Angelina Jolie. Winterbottom’s most recent film, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, a documentary adaptation of the acclaimed book by Naomi Klein, also premiered at this year’s festival and is currently available nationwide on video-on-demand via Sundance Selects.
Jonathan Sehring, President, IFC Entertainment said, “Since it premiered at Sundance on Sunday, we haven’t been able to stop talking or thinking about THE KILLER INSIDE ME. It is a stylish work of cinema by one of its great directors, with an incredible cast. We are incredibly excited to be working with Michael and Andrew Eaton again and we look forward to bringing this film to America via our theatrical and video-on-demand platforms.”
Jessica Alba was seen out and about in Park City, Utah earlier today (Jan 24) for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where “The Killer Inside Me” will premiere later today at 9.3pm. Click on the previews below to view, and if the premiere photos become available, i shall add them tomorrow morning.
Jessica Alba sighting in Park City, Utah
2010 Park City – “The Killer Inside Me” Dinner
2010 Sundance Film Festival – “The Killer Inside Me” Premiere
Audiences React to The Killer Inside Me
Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) had two distinctly different films in the festival, but it wasn’t the one entitled The Shock Doctrine that drew the most polarizing reactions from festival goers. It was his dark, psycho-sexual thriller The Killer Inside Me, a character study of a small-town sheriff (Casey Affleck, who drew kudos, incidentally) who harbors a sinister secret. Critics in attendance reported on a number of mid-movie walkouts — including one by co-star Jessica Alba — due to the extremely violent content in the film, which is based on the 1952 noir novel by Jim Thompson. (For the record, we don’t know why Alba walked out.) Thompson on Hollywood’s Anne Thompson and Screen Crave’s Mali Elfman Tweeted from the scene of the lively Q&A that followed:
“Audience disturbed by shocking violent beating of women. One woman berates Sundance for booking it. Winterbottom moved by book.” – Anne Thompson, Thompson on Hollywood
“Crew on stage & lady yelled out ‘I can’t believe Sundance approved this, it was dark unnecessary & horrible’ then people booed as she left.” – Mali Elfman, Screen Crave.
Source: Fearnet.com
Alba rep denies film walkout
A representative has brushed off speculation Jessica Alba is disgusted by her violent new movie The Killer Inside Me, after the actress was spotted walking out of its screening.
Alba plays a prostitute who is bludgeoned by a psychotic killer in the upcoming thriller, which has come under fire from critics for its excessive gore.
And the 28 year old sparked rumours that even she couldn’t tolerate the bloody scenes after leaving a theatre halfway through a screening at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Sunday.
But her spokesperson insists Alba only left the cinema to catch a plane.
Her rep Brad Cafarelli explains, “This rumour is silly and not accurate at all. Jessica had seen the final version of the film just prior to coming to Sundance and was pleased with the outcome. She came in to support the film and the filmmakers by introducing the screening, which she did, and left right after to get home to her family in L.A., as planned.”
“The Killer Inside Me” which stars Jessica Alba, Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson is 1 of 26 movies selected for this years Berlin Film Festival.
“Howl,” Rob Epstein’s biopic of beat poet Allen Ginsberg, starring James Franco, and Michael Winterbottom’s “The Killer Inside Me,” about a sociopathic Texas lawman, starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, will screen at the Berlin Film Festival.
The pics are among five U.S. indie titles unspooling in the Berlinale’s official selection, which also include Lisa Cholodenko’s Sundance screener “The Kids Are All Right,” with Julianne Moore and Annette Bening. Pic, about two children conceived by artificial insemination who find their birth father, will screen out of competition.
Rounding out the American indie selection are Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg,” starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Jason Leigh, screening as a world premiere, and, unspooling out of competition, Nicole Holofcener’s “Please Give,” starring Catherine Keener and Amanda Peet.
Other notable screeners include Thomas Vinterberg’s “Submarino,” which will have its world premiere at the fest; Zhang Yimou’s “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop;” and Oskar Roehler’s “Jud Suess – Film ohne Gewissen,” the story of Ferdinand Marian, the actor who appeared in Veit Harlan’s notorious anti-Semitic Nazi-era film, “Jud Suess,” about the rise and fall of 18th-century German-Jewish financier Joseph Suess Oppenheimer.
A total of 26 films will screen in the official selection this year.
Previously announced pics include Roman Polanski’s “Ghost Writer” and Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island.” Wang Quan’an’s “Apart Together” opens the fest, which runs Feb. 11-21.
Additional titles screening in the official selection include:
“Caterpillar,” by Koji Wakamatsu (Japan)
“A Family,” by Pernille Fischer Christensen (Denmark)
“A Somewhat Gentle Man,” by Hans Petter Moland (Norway)
“If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle,” by Florin Serban (Romania/Sweden)
“How I Ended This Summer,” by Alexei Popogrebsky (Russia)
“Mammuth,” by Benoit Delepine, Gustave de Kervern (France)
“Puzzle,” by Natalia Smirnoff (Argentina/France)
“Shahada,” by Burhan Qurbani (Germany)
Askmen.com has published their annual top 99 woman list, and as you know, no list is complete without Jessica Alba! She has landed at No.5 this year. Congratz
Why She’s No.5
Before there was Avatar, Dark Angel was the main reason we forgave James Cameron for the number of times our girlfriends forced us to watch Titanic. It was Cameron’s brilliant idea that a show about Jessica Alba kicking ass in tight suits was worth pursuing, and for that we are grateful. We’d also like to thank Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez for casting Alba as pole-dancing, chap-sporting Nancy Callahan in Sin City and — while we’re at it — we’d like to give a shout-out to director Tim Story and the costume department on the set of The Fantastic Four. How did you know blue was our favorite color? Although Jessica is attempting to have a more serious acting career as of late, with upcoming roles in An Invisible Sign of My Own and The Killer Inside Me, we have our fingers crossed for her role in the assassin flick Machete, which has Alba reteaming with writer/director Robert Rodriguez. Hey Rob, just a suggestion, but we’d love it if you could work those ol’ chaps into the script. The stripper pole is optional.
For Larry and Melissa Beach and their 13 children, recipients of a new house from ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, their new digs came up a nice, green surprise courtesy of Jessica Alba.
The actress greeted the family during the “reveal” portion of the show and showed off the eight solar panels she donated to grace the roof of the 6,340-square-foot, two-story house. It’s expected that the panels will help reduce the families annual electric bill by more than $1,200. From The Daily News,
The Beaches’ house was wrecked by Hurricane Ike and the family lived in mobile homes on their property until the popular reality series showed up last week to build them a house that would meet their large family’s needs. For years, the Beaches have been foster parents to several special needs children.
The episode is scheduled to air this coming March.
Jessica Alba graces the cover of ‘Self’ Magazine’s February issue, with a brand new photoshoot and interview. I’ve added the cover and 3 outtakes to the gallery thanks to Justjared.com.
On being a politician if she wasn’t an actress: “I used to think being a marine biologist would be the best thing ever, but now that I’ve grown up and seen things in the world, I think politics. Advocating and lobbying for certain issues would be a pretty interesting way to live your life… When I was in Washington, D.C., I got to meet Nancy Pelosi. She was so warm. I just grinned from ear to ear with my mouth open and my eyes bulging out of my head! Afterward, I called Cash and totally geeked out. I was beside myself. Tickled pink! The fact that a woman is speaker of the house? Oh, my God!”
On how she blows off steam: “Honor is the best cure for stress. When I spend time with her, I get instant perspective. I can be hard on myself if I don’t do everything perfectly. But now that I have her, there’s no time for that. I want to teach her that you can learn from your mistakes, and if you keep moving and stay positive and loving, everything will work out.”
On what she does in the Internet: “I’ve bought 70 percent of my house off CraigsList! I’ve found so many things: couches, tables, lamps. I love the idea of recycling furniture and there being a history there.”
On her marriage: “I love the way I feel after Cash and I wake up. Or talk on the phone. Everything! Every time I see him or talk to him, I fall in love with him all over again.”
On life in 10 years: “I’d love to be raising my kids on a farm in the South of France. My mother-in-law has lived there for more than 20 years, and she has a beautiful setup. I want to be able to allow Honor and my other kids, who I hope to be blessed with in the future, to maintain their innocence for as long as possible. There is so much time to be an adult.”
“The killer Inside Me” will have its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival later this month (January 24), and will have 3 other additional screenings ending January 30th.
For tickets and more information, head over to Sundance.org
Jessica Alba graced 1/10 covers for Total Film’s ‘issue of the decade’ for Sin City, which was named the ‘Coolest Movie‘ of the decade. She was the runner up for ‘BestFemale Body‘ of the decade for ‘Into The Blue‘ and ‘Love Guru‘ was named one of the worst movies of the decade. Click on the preview below to view the scans.
Tanned, blonde, mid-riff baring. Check, check, check. She’s who people think of when they use the phrase “just a pretty face”—but that’s exactly the misnomer Jessica Alba’s been trying to disprove since she came on the scene in James Cameron’s series Dark Angel. Sure, Into the Blue was a barely-concealed excuse to put her in a two-piece for the duration of a feature-length movie, but she was fearless in the noir hit Sin City—albeit, as a stripper. Okay, so maybe she’s not gotten very far in the serious actress department. But she’ll have the next 10 years to overcome her genetic gifts.
BENCICIO DEL TORO: So, you have to do some dancing in [Sin City]. Did you practice for that?
JESSICA ALBA: Yeah [Laughs]. When I got hired I talked to Robert [Rodriguez] and as like, “Should I talk to some choreographers? I can put together a routine if you give me some music, and that way I can duplicate it.” Bet he was like, “Yeeeah… Np. Did you see Salma Hayek’s dance in From Duck ‘Til Dawn? [1996]?” And I said, “yeah, that was the hottest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!” And he said, “Well, I just put on some music, and she just dance.” But I was terrified. I’m not an extrovert. So, I just went to a bunch of strip clubs to do research. I would have to get a little tipsy, though, because it’s kind of intimidating talking to these women with incredible bodies who are writihing in front of you. But I learned some stuff from them. I hit about four strip clubs in L.A., two in new York, and two in texas.
DEL TORO: And aren’t you working with, like, a rope or a lasso, too?
ALBA: Yeah. I had a rope guy teach me how to twist it around like a lasso and stuff. I just spent every night in Texas in the Four Seasons in my underwear, knocking overlamps trying to lasso things.
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