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CARJACKED BLU-RAY DVD RELEASE NOV. 22, 2011
He took her car. He took her son.
Bad idea.
ANCHOR BAY FILMS GETS
CARJACKED ON BLU-RAY™ AND DVD
Drive For Your Life November 22nd
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Maria Bello (the upcoming “Prime Suspect,” Abduction) and Stephen Dorff (the upcoming November 11th release of Immortals, Blade) headline the Anchor Bay Films thriller Carjacked, premiering November 22nd on Blu-ray™ and DVD. Co-starring Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner, “Six Feet Under”), Catherine Dent (“The Shield,” 21 Grams) and Gary Grubbs (JFK, Ray), Carjacked is an unforgettable ride into suspense and terror! SRP is $26.98 for the DVD, and $29.99 for the Blu-ray™. Pre-book is October 26.
During a routine stop at a gas station, Lorraine (Bello), a vulnerable single mom, and her 5 year-old son (Connor Hill) are overtaken by Roy (Dorff), a vicious bank robber on the run. He forces her to drive to meet up with his accomplice who still has money from the heist. Possibly facing not only her death, but her son’s, Lorraine’s fight for survival summons up an inner strength and courage that she never thought she had.
Bonus features on both the Blu-ray™ and DVD include a behind-the-scenes featurette.
The film is produced by Daniel Grodnik (Powder, Bobby) and Eric Gozlan (Beautiful Boy) and directed by John Bonito. Written by Michael and Sherry Compton, who also are Executive Producers. Composer is Bennett Salvay, and Theo Van De Sande is Director of Photography. Executive Producers are Murray Rosenthal, Jonathan Rosenthal, Richard Iott and Michael Greenfield.
About Anchor Bay Films
Anchor Bay Films is unique in that it offers the creative community a fully integrated distribution capability on all platforms and an international solution extending beyond the U.S. Anchor Bay Films is a division of Anchor Bay Entertainment and is on the ground providing quality distribution with operations in the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, as well as distribution capabilities in other key territories. The company focuses on a platform release strategy for its films with an eye toward maximizing their potential across all ancillary distribution platforms. The company recently released the critically acclaimed comedy City Island starring Andy Garcia and Solitary Man starring Michael Douglas, Kill the Irishman starring Ray Stevenson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, as well as Sundance Audience Award Winner happythankyoumoreplease starring Josh Radnor, Malin Akerman, Kate Mara and Tony Hale. Upcoming releases include, Meet Monica Velour with Kim Cattrall and Toronto International Film Festival award-winnerBeautiful Boy with Maria Bello and Michael Sheen. Anchor Bay Entertainment is a subsidiary of Starz Media, LLC (www.starzmedia.com) which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation attributed to the Liberty Starz tracking stock group.
| CARJACKED | Blu-ray™ | DVD |
|
Street Date |
November 22, 2011 | November 22, 2011 |
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Pre-book Date |
October 26, 2011 | October 26, 2011 |
| Catalog # | BD23013 | AF22264 |
| UPC | 0 1313 23013 96 | 0 1313 22264 91 |
| Run Time: | 89 minutes | 89 minutes |
| Rating | R for language and violence | R for language and violence |
| SRP | $29.99 | $26.98 |
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Format |
2.35:1/16×9 | 2.35:1/16×9 |
| Audio | Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English;
Dolby Digital mono Spanish |
Dolby Digital 5.1 English;
Dolby Digital mono Spanish |
| Subtitles |
English, Spanish |
English, Spanish |
Montrealer Striking Gold With Indie Drama
Montreal Producer Eric Gozlan gets ready for his Montreal premiere July 14th
Producer Eric Gozlan could have his breakout with Beautiful Boy
MONTREAL – Chances are you’ve never heard of Eric Gozlan or his production and film-financing company Goldrush Entertainment. Gozlan is not a guy with a public profile, especially here in his hometown. In a chat this week at a Monkland Village café, he said he has more contacts in Hollywood than he does with folks in the Quebec film industry.
But this Montrealer may not be in the shadows much longer. He is one of the producers of Beautiful Boy, a critically acclaimed indie American flick starring Michael Sheen and Maria Bello that won a prestigious prize at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall following its world premiere there. It nabbed the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize for the Discovery program at the festival and, also at the fest, the American company Anchor Bay Films bought global English-language rights to the film in what was reported to be a seven-figure deal.
Beautiful Boy, a powerful drama exploring the aftermath of a school shooting, opens in Montreal on Friday.
Astonishingly, the film was made for just under $1.5 million, which is peanuts even compared to most homegrown Québécois films and is downright mind-boggling for a film that has a cast headed by actors of the calibre of Sheen and Bello.
Sheen is the fine, fine Welsh actor who has starred in The Queen, Frost/ Nixon and the Twilight franchise, and can currently be seen as the unbearably pedantic professor in Woody Allen’s hit Midnight in Paris. You know and love Bello for her standout role in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, and she is set for a major profile boost this fall when she hits the small screen in NBC’s remake of the classic British cop drama Prime Suspect.
I suggested to Gozlan that it must have been tough to snare actors like Sheen and Bello for an independent movie with a tiny budget and a firsttime feature director, Shawn Ku.
“It was not that hard,” Gozlan replied. “They loved the material.”
Co-writers Ku and Michael Armbruster have penned a sharp, insightful exploration not of the nightmare of a murderous rampage in a college, but rather of what happens afterwards to the parents of the school shooter.
Kate and Bill, played by Bello and Sheen, have no idea how troubled their teen son Sammy (Kyle Gallner) is until the police arrive at the door of their suburban home one day to break the news that their kid has killed a bunch of his fellow students and then turned the gun on himself.
It sounds like a tough slog, but Beautiful Boy is a remarkable film – mostly because Bello and Sheen are so good as this buttoned-down couple who are forced to shed all the defence mechanisms they’ve developed over the years and stare straight into the horror of what’s happened to their family.
The film is of particular relevance here in Montreal, a city scarred by shooting incidents at the Université de Montréal’s École Polytechnique, Concordia University and Dawson College.
“It resonated a lot with me because of the Polytechnique shooting,” Gozlan said. “My brother was studying at the Université de Montréal (at the time) and we couldn’t reach him (that night).”
Gozlan has been producing movies for several years, but until now they’ve mostly been genre, madefor-cable flicks, including several for the Syfy channel in the U.S., notably Never Cry Werewolf and Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon. He and his partners formed Goldrush Entertainment in 2008 with the notion of getting into higherprofile pictures, like Beautiful Boy. But the budget still has to be modest.
“We want to do more story-driven, talent-driven films,” Gozlan said, “but everything we do has to make business sense. For us, it’s about making the right picture at the right price.”
Oddly for a company based here, Goldrush has never shot anything in Montreal. Gozlan says they thought about making Beautiful Boy in Montreal, but Bello wanted to shoot close to home in L.A.
Since Beautiful Boy, Gozlan has produced another movie starring Bello – Carjacked, a thriller that also features Stephen Dorff. North American, British and Australian rights to that film have been sold to Anchor Bay Films.
Goldrush has also recently set up a subsidiary, Nic Nac Films, to develop 3-D animated features, and the division is already at work on the flick Davey and the Bully.
Beautiful Boy opens in Montreal theatres July 14.
