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Into The Wild will hit the shelves on March 4, but you can get a sneak peek right now. Movieweb has an exclusive special feature from this DVD, featuring star Emile Hirsch and director Sean Penn talk about Vince Vaughn and the character he portrays, Wayne Westerbeg. Click below to watch this new video.
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights—Hollywood to the Heartland opens in about a week! Here's a schedule of TV appearances Vince and the guys will be making as they promote this new film. (I've seen it and it's fantastic!)
~TV PROMOTION~
ULTIMATE FIGHT NIGHT - SPIKE TV - Bret Ernst, John Caparulo
23-January Re-airs on 25-January
HBO FIRST LOOK - HBO - Entire Cast
25-January @ 10:45 pm
30-January @ 7:30 pm
2-February @ 3:45 pm
5-February @ 12:15 pm
5-February @ 8:30 pm
8-February @ 1:45 pm
14-February @ 8:15 am
14-February @ 12:30 am
TOP 20 COUNTDOWN - CMT - Vince, Dwight Yoakam
31-January, repeats 3 times over weekend"
LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON - CBS - Sebastian Maniscalco
31-January @ 12:35 am
THE MAKING OF… - IFC - Vince, Jon Favreau, Dwight Yoakam, Peter Billingsley, Keir O'Donnell, Ari Sandel and comics
TBD: 30-January or 31-January
VINCE VAUGHN'S WILD WEST COMEDY SHOW WEEKEND - promos and bumpers around shows - CMT - Vince, Dwight Yoakam, Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, Sebastian Maniscalco
Run throughout day on 1-February and 2-February
DINNER FOR FIVE - IFC - Vince, Jon Favreau, Peter Billingsley, Justin Long, Keir O'Donnell
1-February @ 10:00 pm
PROMOS / BUMPERS for FRIDAY NIGHT STAND-UP - COMEDY CENTRAL - Ahmed Ahmed, John Caparulo, Bret Ernst, Sebastian Maniscalco
1-February beginning at 10:00 pm
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN - CBS - Vince
6-February @ 11:35 pm
GOOD MORNING AMERICA - ABC - Vince
6-February @ 7:00 am
REGIS & KELLY - ABC - Vince
7-February @ 9:00 am
LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON - CBS - Jon Favreau
7-February @ 12:35 am
TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO - NBC - Ahmed Ahmed
REEL TALK - WNBC - Vince
9-February
~ARTICLES~
NEW YORK TIMES - Arts & Entertainment - Vince, Jon Favreau, Ahmed Ahmed, Bret Ernst, Sebastian Maniscalco
3-February
BOSTON HERALD - Vince
7-February
PEOPLE MAGAZINE - Vince - 1-page Q&A
8-February
LOS ANGELES TIMES - Calendar Section - Vince, Jon Favreau, Keir O'Donnell, Peter Billingsley, Ahmed Ahmed, Bret Ernst, John Caparulo, Sebastian Maniscalco, Ari Sandel
There will be special screenings of Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show at the following Apple Stores:
January 30, 9:00 p.m. in San Francisco with Peter Billingsley and Bret Ernst
February 6, 9:00 p.m. in Chicago with Peter Billingsley and Sebastian Maniscalco (Nez, this one's for you! :)
After the screenings, they will discuss the making of the film and take questions from the audience.
The Wild West Comedy Show website has been recently updated. Looking forward to seeing what the "Special Events" are going to be.
"Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland" will be released in theatres on February 8th.
By Gregg Goldstein
The Hollywood Reporter
Jon Favreau and country music stars Tim McGraw and Dwight Yoakam are hoppin' in the saddle with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn for New Line Cinema's romantic comedy "Four Christmases."
Favreau and McGraw will play Dallas and Denver, respectively, two bullying siblings who delight in tormenting their brother, Brad (Vaughn), during the holidays.
Yoakam will play Pastor Phil, the overly zealous partner of Brad's new wife Kate's (Witherspoon) mother (Mary Steenburgen). He persuades the young couple to act in his church's nativity play, one of many chaotic events during their visits to different sets of parents.
Sissy Spacek, Kristin Chenoweth and Robert Duvall also star in the Spyglass Entertainment production for director Seth Gordon.
Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson wrote the original screenplay, with revisions by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. Jonathan Glickman, Roger Birnbaum and Gary Barber are producing the film with Witherspoon and Vaughn.
"Christmases" is set for release during next year's holiday season. Michael Disco and Mark Kaufman are overseeing production for New Line.
Favreau appeared with Vaughn in 1993's "Rudy" before their careers took off as co-stars in 1996's "Swingers." The friends later reunited for "Made" (which Favreau also directed) and "The Break-Up." Favreau is repped by CAA and attorney Geoff Oblath.
Between recording albums and touring with wife Faith Hill, McGraw has appeared in such features as "Friday Night Lights" and "The Kingdom." Yoakam has a more extensive screen resume, taking supporting roles in "Sling Blade," "Panic Room," "Hollywood Homicide" and "Wedding Crashers."
McGraw is repped by CAA and manager Scott Simon. Yoakam is repped by WMA.
Here is the interview where fans got to ask Vince and Paul questions. (original post)
Don't forget, the Hollywood premiere of Fred Claus is tomorrow (Saturday, November 3) at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Blvd. Red carpet arrivals begin 3:00PM.
And the Chicago premiere is on Monday, November 5. Fans can view from just outside the Lucky Strike Lanes on the second level of the AMC theater complex at 322 E. Illinois. The red carpet arrivals begin around 5.
Actor will step off the red carpet for meet-and-greet at bowling alley before screening of new movie here (Chicago)
BY BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist
Fans of Vince Vaughn should be happy -- the actor hits town Monday to promote his holiday flick ''Fred Claus,'' largely filmed in Our Town late last year. While tickets to the premiere at the AMC River East 21 Monday night are pretty much spoken for, there will be plenty of space for true Vaughn groupies in a holding area just outside the Lucky Strike Lanes on the second level of the movie theater complex at 322 E. Illinois.
Vaughn, joined by ''Fred Claus'' director David Dobkin (who directed him in ''Wedding Crashers'' and ''Clay Pigeons''), will walk the red carpet around 5:15 p.m. Monday -- promising to greet fans before the 6 p.m. screening of the holiday comedy.
• Though Vaughn owns a condo at the Palmolive Building at Michigan and Walton, don't expect to see a lot of him around the Streeterville digs after his Monday premiere. He's not expected to be in Chicago long, as he's on a media treadmill to boost the Nov. 9 opening of the movie, also starring Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates, Ludacris, Rachel Weisz and Kevin Spacey.
• Vaughn is also expected at the post-screening bash at the Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier.
• As for ''Fred Claus," bound to get lots of guffaws is a scene where Vaughn's title character (the wayward older brother of the sainted Santa Claus) attends a meeting of ''Siblings Anonymous'' as brothers of well-known folks vent about their second-class status. Hearing Roger Clinton (brother of Bill), Frank Stallone (brother of Sylvester) and Stephen Baldwin (brother of Alec, Billy and the rest) all let it rip is a total hoot.
This holiday season, Warner Bros. Records will release the soundtrack to the holiday comedy "Fred Claus" on December 4th, 2007. Filled with traditional Christmas pop favorites by such artists as the Jackson 5, Sinead O'Connor, and Leigh Nash from Sixpence None the Richer, the album will also be available digitally via all online retail outlets on November 13th, a few days after the movie hits theaters on November 9th.
The soundtrack includes classic Christmas tunes such as "Silent Night" from Irish songstress O'Connor, "Santa Claus Is Back In Town" from the legendary Elvis Presley, "Christmas Wrapping" from '80s experimental new wave band The Waitresses, and "Sleigh Ride" by famed girl group The Ronettes. It also features an original piece entitled "Suite From Fred Claus" from film score composer Christophe Beck.
The track-listing for the soundtrack to "Fred Claus" is as follows:
1. Jingle Bells -- Johnny Mercer
2. Santa Claus Is Back In Town -- Elvis Presley
3. Sleigh Ride -- The Ronettes
4. Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) -- Doris Day
5. I Want You For Christmas -- Russ Morgan & His Orchestra
6. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -- Jackson 5
7. Christmas Wrapping -- The Waitresses
8. Silent Night -- Sinead O'Connor
9. Auld Lang Syne -- Guy Lombardo
10. Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What A Wonderful World -- Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole
11. The First Noel -- Leigh Nash
12. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen -- Matt Turk with Matter & Gaby Moreno
13. Suite From Fred Claus -- Christophe Beck
People.com
Vince Vaughn hopes to put the "ho ho ho" back into the holidays with his new movie Fred Claus – in which he plays the older, overlooked brother of the big man in the red suit (Paul Giamatti as Santa). It opens Nov. 9. At a press conference for the comedy, a very unScrooge-like Vaughn, 37, talked of Christmases past, present and future.
What was it like going down the chimney for the movie?
Here is the good news. Sometimes I would come down the chimney, and that was fine, because I would just kind of come down the chimney. [But] when you see people falling and doing weird stuff? That is a stunt guy named Joe Bucaro, out of Chicago. I'm an actor, and it's not fashionable to mention stunt guys. A lot of actors are like, 'Yeah, I do my stunts.' I don't do any of my stuff. I don't like to do my stunts. I like to have a stunt guy do my stuff. So, Joe will go and fall on his head and then we'll do some kind of high five thing or something, and then I will lie on the ground and get up.
What is your secret Christmas wish?
I guess, understanding. As a kid, Christmas is fun because you want toys. Then when you get socks or shirts you kind of don't want those. As you get older that is all you get. It's nice to have kids around, because you kind of get to enjoy Christmas. I have a nephew and some nieces and them opening presents and being excited in that way is fun.
Do you remember when your belief in Santa was first shaken? (SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you still believe in Santa Claus.)
I remember the day I had neighbors that let me know – I was 6 years old – that there was no Santa Claus. They go, 'You know there's not a Santa Claus, right?' – and, of course, covering in front of them I was like, 'Well, yeah. Of course there's not a Santa Claus, guys.' Then I went to my sisters, and they said, 'Okay, now you know the painful truth, there is not a Santa Claus.' I was the youngest. They said, 'Don't tell mom and dad, because then we may not get gifts anymore. You got to keep pretending that you think there is Santa Claus, or you are not going to get any gifts.' I was like 16 going, 'Dad, when is Santa coming down the chimney?' My dad was like, 'Look it's getting weird, you are getting older, you know there's not a Santa, right?' "
What would it take to restore your belief in Santa?
Funny how that works. We just did this fun short [film] for the World Series with these kids. We did Claus kind of coaching. We did the whole thing and it was over, one of the kids was 9 or 10, came running up to me afterwards. He goes, 'Hey, Fred.' I felt like Joe Green in that Coca-Cola commercial. He's like, 'Hey, Fred.' I turned and looked at him, I said, 'Yeah.' He says, 'Tell your brother to get me something this year.' I looked at him and I said, 'Oh, I got you. I got you.' So, now I'm just hoping that this guy is getting something good. Otherwise he's going to hunt me down."
Naughty or nice ... which were you?
I would have been naughty, but in a very nice way.
Bidding ends today! Charity Folks Online Auctions
Warner Brothers has donated 4 Tickets to the Los Angeles Premiere of Fred Claus on November 3, 2007, to support a charity they are very passionate about, the Children's Action Network, which helps use the power of the entertainment community to increase awareness about children’s issues and to make them a top priority in everyday life.
You can find the auction lot live now on the Charity Folks Web site! Bidding ends TODAY, Click here for the live auction link.
ET's KEVIN FRAZIER gets VINCE VAUGHN to weigh in on whether he's naughty or nice, as the two talk about Vince's upcoming film, 'Fred Claus,' set to open in theaters on Nov. 9. The film asks and answers the question: Does Santa Claus have a brother? Naturally, Vince plays Santa's slacker brother, Fred.
Integrated Effort Features Exclusive Extras in HD, Online Games, Sweepstakes
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Time Warner Cable (TWC) is teaming with sister company Warner Bros. Pictures to launch an integrated marketing campaign in support of the new holiday comedy Fred Claus, starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti, opening in theatres nationwide on Friday, November 9.
The integrated effort features “Exclusive Extras” in HD and standard definition on TWC’s On Demand platform, a dedicated website (www.fredclausgiveaway.com) offering a Fred Claus sweepstakes and new original video games based on the film.
“We saw the Fred Claus promotion as a way to provide our customers with free, engaging HD and standard definition content that not only promotes the movie but demonstrates what the Time Warner Cable platform is capable of,” said Lauren LoFrisco, Group Vice President of Marketing Communications. “We are providing additional value to our customers, giving them family entertainment on all of our platforms and enhancing that relationship through the website, which creates additional opportunities for an ongoing dialogue.”
TWC customers can view the “Exclusive Extras,” or video vignettes, on TWC’s Entertainment On Demand and HD Showcase On Demand. The vignettes are introduced by Santa’s Head Elf Willie, played by actor John Michael Higgins in Fred Claus. In each vignette, Willie offers Fred Claus extras, including behind-the-scenes footage and deleted scenes from the film. A new vignette will be added each week for seven weeks. Viewers will also have a chance to enter a Fred Claus sweepstakes to win weekly prizes, including a $10,000 home theater system provided by Circuit City, a retail partner of Time Warner Cable.
Time Warner Cable also leveraged Fred Claus movie assets to create advertising spots promoting their bundle, HDTV and Road Runner High Speed Online. The program will also be promoted at Circuit City stores in Time Warner Cable footprints, as well as through such local market extensions as radio remotes, customizable posters for payment centers, movie screenings for triple play and bundled customers as well as VOD street teams.
“In today’s multi-platform world, where marketing success depends on reaching consumers wherever they are, Warner Bros. Pictures is fortunate to be able to partner with our sister company. Thanks to Time Warner Cable’s integrated platform, we can reach potential fans of Fred Claus whether they are online or watching television,” said Debbie Miller, EVP of Warner Bros. Pictures Domestic Theatrical Marketing.
The vignettes were developed by Ogilvy’s Branded Content and Entertainment group in partnership with RTC Relationship Marketing (RTCRM) who developed the website and promos, and with Don Jagoda Associates (DJA), who managed the development of the games and the sweepstakes program, as well as Fame Retail who developed all of the in-store merchandising materials
About Warner Bros. Pictures’ new holiday comedy FRED CLAUS
Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) has lived his entire life in his brother’s very large shadow. Fred tried, but could hardly live up to the example set by the younger Nicholas (Paul Giamatti), who was just a perfect...well...saint. True to form, Nicholas grew up to be the model of giving, while Fred became the polar opposite: a fast-talking repo man who’s run out of luck and money. Over Mrs. Claus’ objections, Nicholas agrees to help his brother on one condition: that he come to the North Pole and earn the money he needs by working in Santa’s workshop. The trouble is that Fred isn’t exactly elf material and, with Christmas fast approaching, Fred could jeopardize the jolliest holiday of the year. Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Silver Pictures Production, in association with David Dobkin Pictures and Jessie Nelson Productions, a Film by David Dobkin, “Fred Claus.” The film is directed by David Dobkin (“Wedding Crashers”) from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman (“Cars”), story by Jessie Nelson (“I Am Sam”) and Dan Fogelman. Joel Silver, Jessie Nelson and David Dobkin produced the film, with Paul Hitchcock serving as executive producer and Vince Vaughn co-producing. “Fred Claus” stars Vince Vaughn (“Wedding Crashers”), Paul Giamatti (“Sideways”), Miranda Richardson (“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”), John Michael Higgins (“The Break-Up”), Elizabeth Banks (“Spider-Man 3”), with Rachel Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”), with Kathy Bates (“Failure to Launch”) and Kevin Spacey (“Superman Returns”). “Fred Claus” will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. This film has been rated “PG” by the MPAA for “mild language and some rude humor.” Soundtrack Album on Warner Bros. Records. www.fredclaus.net For downloadable information and photos from “Fred Claus,” please visit press.warnerbros.com.
About Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable owns and manages cable systems passing approximately 26 million homes in 33 states. Headquartered in New York City, Time Warner Cable has 14.7 million customers for its various products, including video, high-speed data and residential telephone. This includes approximately 13.4 million basic video subscribers and more than 6.7 million customers who purchase more than one product. Time Warner Cable includes some of the most technologically advanced and best-clustered cable systems in the country, with nearly 85 percent of the Company’s customers located in five geographic regions: New York, Texas, Ohio, the Carolinas and Southern California. It is the largest cable provider in the nation’s two largest cities, Los Angeles and New York. Leveraging its leadership in innovation and quality customer care, Time Warner Cable delivers advanced products and services such as video-on-demand, high-definition television, digital video recorders, high-speed data and Digital Phone.
Contact:
Time Warner Cable Inc.
Alex Dudley, 212-364-8229
Source: Time Warner Cable (TWC)
Moviefone has confirmed Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti, who play Santa Claus and his ne'er-do-well older brother in the holiday comedy Fred Claus, for an upcoming episode of Unscripted.
Unscripted is Moviefone's star-on-star video Q&A show in which celebrities interview each other with your questions and some of their own. So stop stalking and start asking, and please provide your first name plus the city and state you live in! Click this link to submit your questions in the comments of their blog post, or send them to AskCelebs@aol.com brought to you by Verizon Wireless.
The deadline for questions is October 24.
The official website for Fred Claus is almost fully functional now, with wallpapers, buddy icons, videos, photos and games coming soon. The Fred Claus MySpace has been updated, as well. Check them out and add Fred to your friends list!
Also, ComingSoon.net has a Fred Claus soundboard with great soundbytes from the movie.
By Andrew McMains
NEW YORK Online gaming is at the center of an upcoming Time Warner Cable cross-promotional effort to sell its services as well as create buzz around Fred Claus, a major holiday release from sister company Warner Bros. that stars Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti.
The game, Fred Claus Adventure, will feature characters from the movie and encourage players to help Fred—Santa's older brother, played by Vaughn—"save" Christmas in a virtual North Pole. For example, players will be able to prevent other characters from doing "naughty" things or land an elf's sleigh.
Consumers will be driven to the game's Web site (www.fredclausgiveaway.com, still under construction) by traditional ads and a series of weekly video vignettes called "Exclusive Extras" that will be accessible via TWC's digital service offering, Entertainment on Demand. The seven vignettes will feature scenes from Fred Claus, each introduced by the movie's Willie the Elf character. And those scenes will match the setting of each new episode of the game.
The campaign, backed by an estimated $12 million to $15 million, will launch Oct. 19 and include promotional products, giveways and electronic cards. The collaboration is not unprecedented: The two divisions co-marketed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the spring, for example. But while previous efforts used more traditional media, the Fred Claus campaign centers around content. As such, it took roughly 10 months to develop and involved a half-dozen agencies, including TWC lead agency Ogilvy & Mather, which helped conceptualize the content and scripted the 3- to 5-minute vignettes.
The cable company "is providing a lot of support and engagement," said Mimi Slavin, senior vice president of domestic productions at Warner Bros. in Burbank, Calif. "We're making sure that we are focused on the theatrical message, and it is important to us that their customers love movies. So, it's a great target."
Slavin, who worked closely with TWC's senior director of promotion and merchandise, Happy Marino, added that "in our meetings, we narrowed down ideas to those that are appropriate for both the movie and for them. It is important for us that the promotions be compelling all the way through" and not just to open the movie. (Fred Claus, which depicts Fred's attempts to atone for his past bad deeds by helping Santa in the "family business," opens on Nov. 9. The campaign will run through Dec. 31.)
TWC went the content route because it "helps demonstrate the vitality of our platform," said Alex Dudley, senior director of corporate communications for TWC parent Time Warner here. "[Video on demand] is one of our most popular features. You need content to [demonstrate] that, and original content is just a terrific way to give our customers access that others don't get."
Gaming in particular seemed appropriate because it matched the "playfulness" and "comedic nature" of the film, said Doug Scott, executive director of branded content and entertainment at WPP Group's Ogilvy here. And, to make sure the vignettes matched the look, tone and feel of the movie, Ogilvy worked with Joel Silver Productions, one of the production companies on Fred Claus. TWC chose Fred Claus as its marketing vehicle because it's opening during the cable company's peak selling season and it seeks to reach the same core target as TWC: families, said Dudley.
Does anyone have any information for this new addition to Vince's IMDb profile? (originally known as "At Risk" thanks, u) Will this be released on DVD?
Official Website
The Gift: Life Unwrapped on IMDb.
Story by: Rachael Darmanin
"Anderson Cooper and Vince Vaughn will be in town for exclusive Q&A sessions during the Film Festival. Cooper will be presenting Planet In Peril, CNN's Planet In Peril investigates the environmental crisis as it unfolds in real time while Vaughn will keep the mood light with Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show. CMJ's Film Festival is open to badge holders only, so save 10 percent by registering before September 25."
The premiere for Into the Wild is coming up on Tuesday, September 18 at 6:30 PM at the Directors Guild in West LA.
And the Fred Claus premiere will be on Saturday, November 3 at Mann's Village & Bruin Theatres, Westwood. Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Arrivals start at 3.
Check out "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show" Theatrical Trailer in HD!
In the fall of 2005, "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights, Hollywood to the Heartland Tour" traveled across the country, performing 30 shows in 30 days. The entire tour, including all performances, behind-the-scenes action, and interviews with Vince, the comedians and special guests, was captured on film.
Variety
Duo set for New Line's 'Four Christmases'
By DAVE MCNARY
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon will star in New Line's holiday comedy "Four Christmases," set up at Spyglass with Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum and Jonathan Glickman producing.
Vaughn and Witherspoon are also producing the pic, in which a couple visit their four divorced parents on Christmas Day. Script's penned by the writing team of Matt Allen & Caleb Wilson.
New Line execs are meeting with directors and eying a late fall start of production - presumably with aim of getting "Four Christmases" into theaters during next year's holiday season.
Project brings Vaughn following the break-out success of 2005's "Wedding Crashers." Witherspoon, who won the Best Actress Oscar for "Walk the Line" this year, recently wrapped on political thriller "Rendition" opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and set for an October release.
Vaughn will next be seen in Warner's holiday comedy "Fred Claus" and next year's Picturehouse release "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland."
Here are a couple more photos of Vince and Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams from his trip to Belfast in October.
(See here for the story I posted in Oct.)
Click on thumbnails for larger images
Thanks so much to Paula for sending these from her personal collection.
Untitled Belfast Project on IMDb
And here's a new post about the project by blogger, Old Knudsen
At 7pm PST, the new Fred Claus trailer will be premiering on Yahoo Movies.
I just watched it and it looks GREAT! I love love love the cast. Can't wait for this one!
Also, Entertainment Tonight will be previewing some scenes on the show tonight. Check their website for local listings.
Now there are two posters for Fred Claus (with Vince in them. There are 5 in all). I like the new one better. Fits the theme of the movie much more than the first. Vote for your favorite over on the sidebar.
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And here are the other 3 with the elves.
The first trailer for Into the Wild can be found at IGN
It can also be seen on myspace
Here's the movie poster, plus a still and a few screen shots from the trailer. The movie opens September 21, 2007.
Click here if it doesn't play.
Thanks, S!
The film is supposedly being released on February 8, 2008.
VAUGHN FISHIN'
By Dan Vinton
Contributing sources: Variety
It's an understatement to say the Weinsteins haven't had the best luck of late. A string of recent, widely-released films including Hannibal Rising and Grindhouse have failed to make financial impacts and their award push with films like Miss Potter and Factory Girl simply landed lukewarm. There's always the upcoming Sicko and My Blueberry Nights to resuscitate a disappointing 2007/early 2008, but in the mean time, drama abhors a vacuum. There's an interesting story about their loss of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights. While it's yet to be seen if the loss of this project will truly be a loss, it can't be a confidence builder when Vaughn actually campaigns get the movie TWC picked up in Toronto out from under their banner.
While the film was picked up by the Weinsteins back in September, the marketing and rollout scheduled for Wild West Comedy Show wasn't cutting it for Vaughn, who then asked the Weinsteins if he could buy it back to get it redistributed through a partnership that would align more closely with Vaughn's vision. WWCS is to be R-rated, but part of the disagreement stemmed from Weinsteins proposed marketing emphasis around the rating, instead of an emphasis on getting to know your pal Vince Vaughn. To the Weinsteins' credit, they capitulated and WWCS and its world rights have since been picked up by Picturehouse and New Line at a lower price (about $1.5 million to Weinsteins $3 million), with a robust commitment to market the film more heavily. Picturehouse had been actively bidding for the project in Toronto.
WWCS is currently being slated for release in early 2008 (gotta ride that Fred Claus train) and features Vaughn hitching his wagon to not one, not two, not three, but four standups and hitting a 30-city tour in 30 days (which you may have taken part of, even). The film covers the gigs in addition to all the shenanigans behind the scenes. While the Toronoto Film Festival version clocked in at a shade under two hours, it's since been cut to a lean and mean 90 minutes.
Score one for Vaughn and score one for The Weinsteins. Vaughn gets to distribute and market his film the way he wants it to be and the Weinsteins prove they aren't total douchebags when it comes to "artistic vision". That, or it goes to show a certain ineptitude at marketing films that's been an unfortunate Wesinstein hallmark of the last few months (with their Asian film distribution, you could probably spread that out to years).
April 25, 2007
Gregg Goldstein
NEW YORK -- Picturehouse and New Line International have nabbed all international rights to the comedy performance documentary "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland."
The pickup comes seven months after the Weinstein Co. purchased the feature for $2.5 million-$3.5 million after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, part of the new indie studio's pricey acquisitions spree. After tentatively slating the film for release in the spring, the company put the project back up for sale with UTA a few weeks ago.
Ari Sandel's film, produced by Vaughn, follows the actor as he leads a team of unknown comics on a monthlong tour across the U.S.
Picturehouse will release the film domestically in early 2008, and New Line International will handle overseas distribution.
Picturehouse senior vp acquisitions Sara Rose and New Line executive vp business affairs and co-productions Carolyn Blackwood negotiated the deal for their companies. Vince Vaughn is represented by UTA, Eric Gold and Deborah Klein.
There are some great outtakes from the Fred Claus teaser trailer over at mtv.com. That's some funny shit! Looking forward to November 9th.
And here's a nice still from the movie. Don't Paul and Vince look amazing?
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The official release date of Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland is Labor Day weekend.
Y'all better mark those calendars!
I attended to the aforementioned screening of Swingers and Made in Santa Monica tonight--I had such a fantastic time! And what a treat to hear Jon Favreau, Peter Billingsley and Faizon Love talk about their experiences working together, etc. My photos are posted in the gallery.
By JOCELYN ALLISON
Northwest Herald
McHENRY – When Vince Vaughn’s newest holiday movie, “Fred Claus,” opens this Christmas, clients at Pioneer Center for Human Services might recognize a thing or two from the characters’ living rooms.
Crews who recently finished filming the movie in Chicago donated a truckload of furniture, clothes and holiday decorations from the set to a Pioneer Center storage facility in McHenry on Friday morning.
“We’ve had some spectacular donations, but this is really something else,” said Donna Kassens, vice president of funding for Pioneer Center, as crews hauled a string of Christmas trees into the storage facility at 3710 W. Elm St.
Pioneer Center is a nonprofit social-service agency that helps people with developmental disabilities, mental illness, and traumatic brain injury, and victims of sexual assault.
The organization operates 13 group homes for clients in the county. One of the residents, 39-year-old Clark Davidson, has a sister who works for Warner Brothers, which is distributing the movie.
Their late grandmother, Myrtle Davidson, was among 20 people who founded Pioneer Center in 1958.
“I send my brother autographed pictures, anything I can get movie paraphernalia-wise – they all go to him,” said Lisa Davidson, a 35-year-old Johnsburg native who now lives in Los Angeles. “So I thought this was a larger way to contribute.”
“The Pioneer Center is great,” she continued. “It gives [my brother] a place to go and gives so many people a place to go and work and be productive. I just admire the organization.”
The donation that crews delivered Friday included seven couches, six Christmas trees, 19 mattresses and 17 garbage bags full of clothes – including some with designer labels.
Pioneer Center donated the clothes to Sparrow’s Nest, which will in turn provide vouchers for Pioneer clients, Kassens said. The other items will be distributed among the group homes and to Pioneer clients living independently in the community, she said.
Much of the furniture is from 15 different living room sets that crews created for scenes in the movie that feature children opening up their Christmas present, said Scott Troha, a studio mechanic with IATSE Studio Mechanics Local 476 who worked on the movie.
Not all of it was donated. Some has to be kept in case the actors need to re-shoot a scene, Troha said.
And, much to Kassens’ dismay, none of the clothes were worn by Vaughn.
“I already asked,” she said.
On Saturday, February 17, there will be a screening of Made and Swingers at the Aero in Santa Monica. And if you thought it couldn't get any better than that...Jon Favreau and Peter Billingsley will be doing a Q&A in-between the movies. Seating is limited. You can book tix in advance thru the Aero or the American Cinematheque.
Found on Lauren's Pop Culture site
On Sunday, January 7 and Monday, January 8, Warner Bros. will be filming scenes for the upcoming feature film currently entitled Fred Claus at various locations along Michigan Avenue. The majority of the filming will center around Michigan Avenue and Chicago Avenue, and near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Filming will begin at approximately 6:00AM and continue until 5:00PM each day.
The City of Chicago will be posting NO PARKING SIGNS in the following areas:
3:00pm on January 6 through 11:00pm on January 7
3PM ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 6TH, 2007 THROUGH 11PM ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 7TH, 2007:
· SOUTH SIDE OF PEARSON FROM MIES VAN DER ROWE TO LAKE SHORE DR.
· WEST SIDE OF INNER LAKE SHORE DR. FROM PEARSON TO CHICAGO
· NORTH SIDE OF CHICAGO FROM LAKE SHORE DR. WEST ˆ BLOCK
· BOTH SIDES OF SUPERIOR FROM RUSH TO WABASH
· SOUTH SIDE OF SUPERIOR FROM RUSH TO MICHIGAN
· BOTH SIDES OF PEARSON FROM RUSH TO MICHIGAN
5AM - 8 PM, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4TH THROUGH TUESDAY, JANUARY 9TH, 2007:
· BOTH SIDES OF PEARSON FROM RUSH TO MICHIGAN
· EAST SIDE OF LITTLE MICHIGAN FROM CHICAGO TO PEARSON
· EAST SIDE OF CHICAGO FROM MICHIGAN ˆ BLOCK EAST
· EAST SIDE OF RUSH FROM CHICAGO TO SUPERIOR
3PM ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 7TH, 2007 THROUGH 11PM ON MONDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 2007:
· BOTH SIDES OF UPPER ILLINOIS FROM MICHIGAN TO CITY FRONT PLAZA DRIVE
· WEST SIDE OF CITY FRONT PLAZA DRIVE FROM UPPER ILLINOIS TO UPPER NORTH WATER
· SOUTH SIDE OF UPPER NORTH WATER FROM CITY FRONT PLAZA DRIVE TO COLUMBUS
· BOTH SIDES OF RUSH FROM KINZIE TO ILLINOIS
· BOTH SIDES OF HUBBARD FROM MICHIGAN TO WABASH
· BOTH SIDES OF LOWER NORTH WATER FROM LOWER MICHIGAN TO LOWER CITY FRONT PLAZA DRIVE
· BOTH "TURN AROUNDS" AT 410 AND 401 MICHIGAN
· BOTH LOWER "TURN AROUNDS" AT LOWER 410 AND LOWER 401 MICHIGAN
The Chicago Police Department will be on site to ensure that this shoot will be a safe experience for all, with as few inconveniences as possible. Please feel free to contact our office with any questions. In advance, thank you very much for your cooperation and support of this production!
The poster for Fred Claus has been released. How do you like it? Let me know in the comments.
Also, here is the official website. Nothing there yet except for a link to the trailer on MySpace (which totally stalls my computer, btw).
Coming next year.
Fred Claus Trailer Premiere
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One of Hollywood's biggest names proved a big draw for two Northern Ireland politicians on either side of the divide.
Vince Vaughn came face to face with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and loyalist politician David Ervine during a whistle-stop visit to Belfast.
The star of Swingers, Wedding Crashers and Old School interviewed Mr Adams in west Belfast and Progressive Unionist leader David Ervine in the east for a documentary on the city's murals.
Locals in the republican heartland of Andersonstown were stunned to see Mr Vaughn with two cameramen interviewing Mr Adams in front of a mural of the IRA hunger striker Kieran Doherty at Slemish Way.
A passer-by said: "You know what it's like. People see camera crews and they're immediately intrigued. People heard he was filming on the Falls Road yesterday and then they saw him with Gerry Adams.
"Vince Vaughn was really friendly, really open. He talked to the locals, signed autographs and had a bit of craic with them. He seemed really interested in the murals."
Mr Vaughn, who is dating Friends star Jennifer Aniston, then travelled to the east of the city to interview Mr Ervine off the Newtownards Road.
The East Belfast Assembly member said the 36-year-old actor told him he had developed a fascination with the murals during a previous visit to the city.
"He was taking a break from shooting a film in London with Kevin Spacey to do this documentary and came over for this weekend. There's no question he's genuinely interested in the subject. He was telling me his interest was sparked on a previous visit when he took a black taxi tour from the Europa Hotel. He knew nothing about the murals before that trip.
"We did a spot of filming in Dee Street around a mural depicting people coming to the shipyards," the PUP leader said. "I was explaining to him that years ago we would not have a mural like this because it would all have been about politics and our divisions. I told him that, for me, the mural was the epitome of the change process that is going on in Northern Ireland. The murals are changing."
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