Barfing Not Boffo: Trade Roughage, 08/18/07

By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago

Nicole Kidman’s streak of high-profile disappointments looks like it’ll continue with The Invasion. Dennis Harvey’s review confirms the bad buzz: “Perhaps the sole distinguishing element in this Invasion is that it provides a new transmission oh-so-characteristic of our filmic era: projectile barfing.”
Jennifer Aniston will join Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly and Kevin Connelly in He’s Just Not Into You, making the New Line project surely the most star-studded movie based on a self-help book ever made.
Rosario Dawson is teaming with the creative team behind the hit animated sci-fi web video series Afterworld to star in and produce The Gemini Division, a 100-episode “live-action/motion-capture animation online sci-fi series.”
Emerging Pictures is calling on students at historically black universities around the country to help promote Honeydripper, John Sayles’ upcoming musical starring Danny Glover. EP, in partnership with Clark Atlanta University, is creating a college course through which “students from participating schools will help develop and implement a grassroots marketing campaign with their professors and the film’s distribution team.” The film will make its debut at the Toronto Film Festival.

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