Jessica Alba shows a new side of herself opposite Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson in the new thriller ‘The Killer Inside Me,’ in select theaters now, and we have an exclusive look behind the scenes!

Based on Jim Thompson’s pulp novel, ‘The Killer Inside Me’ takes place in West Texas during the 1950s and follows a charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy (Affleck) juggling his long-term girlfriend (Hudson) and a prostitute (Alba) he falls for while grappling with the sociopathic tendencies inside him.

‘The Killer Inside Me’ is now playing in New York, L.A., San Francisco and Chicago, and will expand to additional cities in the upcoming weeks. It is also available on IFC’s Video on Demand.

Source: ETonline.com

Jessica Alba went for high-wattage glamour at the ‘The Killer Inside Me’ Paris Premiere at UGC Cine Cite des Halles on June 24, 2010 in Paris, France. Click on the previews below to view more photos.

With her hair swept up in the a bouffant style and wearing a little black dress to show off her toned figure, the actress cut a glamorous figure on the red carpet. (DailyMail.co.uk)

New posters and trailer for ‘The Killer Inside Me‘ have been released ahead of its Limited US release date (June 18, 2010). I’ve also added HD screencaptures to the gallery which you can view below.

Artwork & Posters

HD Screencaptures

Jessica Alba looked amazing at  the ‘The Killer Inside Me‘ premiere during the 9th Annual Tribeca Film Festival at the SVA Theater on April 27, 2010 in New York City. Click on the previews below to view more.

2010 Tribeca Film Festival – “The Killer Inside Me” Premiere – After party

The official “The Killer Inside Me” website was launched this week, with alot of new stills from the movie and much more. I;ve added the stills to the gallery, and check out the website below.

WWW.KILLERINSIDEME.COM

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.”

Source: Collider.com

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.”

Source: Jam! Showbiz

“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)

Source: Variety.com

“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

An Invisible Sign of My Own – For those who don’t know the story, Mad Hat Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo’s doc film wasn’t good enough to get into Sundance, but was the hot title pick up from Slamdance. Based on Aimee Bender’s book, Jessica Alba, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina and Sonia Braga star in the film that “centers around Mona Gray (Alba) is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill (Simmons). As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises”. Sundance Selection Forecast: 70% Chance. With Alba in a parka, Kimmel International will want to use the fest to close up final sales and production co. Silverwood Films have been provided Sundance fair since 2006.

The Killer Inside Me – With Michael Winterbottom already coming to the fest for The Shock Doctrine, I’m thinking that he might bring this film in the same suitcase. Written by Robert Weinbach and John Curran and based on Jim Thompson’s novel, the story follows a West Texas sheriff (Casey Affleck) and his downward spiral from a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer. Jessica Alba plays a prostitute. Sundance Selection Forecast: 50% Chance. Low budget pulp film is available for domestic pick-up. Look for the title to end up in Berlin as well.

Source: Ioncinema.com