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Warner Bros’ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, about a precocious boy whose father is killed on Sept. 11, hits theaters in limited release on a crowded Christmas Day. Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel stars Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, James Gandolfini and Viola Davis. Newcomer Thomas Horn plays 9-year-old Oskar Schell.
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How are they gonna make a trailer that barely shows the top billed cast?
My thoughts exactly.
This looks awesome and if you snark about that preview you need an enema
Glad to see Hanks has found himself a winner. Smart to be paired with Bullock. This looks great to me – well-directed and commercially viable.
I agree. This film looks like a winner to me. Emotional, yes, but not schmaltzy. I’ve loved all of Stephen Daldry’s films. He’s a great choice for this film.
Love the book, love Daldry, love the actors… but this trailer scares me.
Agreed. It looks alot more commercially dramatic than the book. And no mention at all of the Grandfather’s story in Dresden? We’ll see, maybe it’s just a commercial trailer and they’re trying to sell it to the masses?
It looks like a Nancy Meyers movie.
So brutal… and so accurate.
No, no… I don’t think so. Too soon. I was there. Not something I care to go back in to no matter how lovely Hollywood makes it seem. I guess Hanks & Bullock gotta work at something. It will be interesting to see if this is 9/11′s “Pearl Harbor.”
Too soon! Totally.
(nobody tell him the book came out in 2005, lord knows what would happen.)
Trailers are usually no reflection on the film itself but this was schmaltzy AND tacky.
For the love of God, when will the studio ditch this “late LIMITED release” nonsense ? A family film with mass appeal like this, HAS TO capitalize on the Holiday Season. Send it to 500-800 theaters on November 11, up against Immortals and Jack and Jill, it will probably deliver a very decent limited OW (5-10M), THEN it could continue its semi-limited run the next two weeks up against Happy Feet, Twilight, Hugo etc. BUT despite the crowded marketplace, it will STILL get a slice of the lucrative Thanksgiving-cake and THEN expand it on the always weak post-Thanksgiving weekend (1500-2000 theaters), when it could actually WIN, and THEN expand it to another 1000 theaters (3000) on Christmas Day. If it is really as good as early word suggests, the film needs a better marketing plan. Sure, if it will be a contender, it WILL make money during the otherwise bleak January-February season BUT considering it IS a moving family film it simply HAS TO capitalize on the Holiday Season, as crowded as it is. If it is really THAT good, it won’t be hurt…the other films will be. It simply has to make money and NOT go up against OTHER moving family films like War Horse, We bought a Zoo, Young Adult, The Descendants, The Artist, all of those are expected to go WIDE around the same time the studio plans to release ‘Loud’ limited. THESE films ARE competition; Immortals, Jack and Jill, New Year’s Eve etc. are NOT…
Just ask yourself this : would The Blind Side – also a moving family film – have made 250M if it had been released late December ? I don’t think so…
Ok, The Artist isn’t a family film, but it IS a charmer, just like ‘Loud’ apparently + if ‘Loud’ reached its widest release (3000+) around Christmas Day, it WILL be still in theaters/voters’ minds late February when the Oscars actually ‘happen’.
Its a shoo-in for best picture. But man I hope ‘Dragon Tatoo’ pulls a rabbit out of a hat. I’m tired of the sentimentality of the Help and stuff like this.
2.5 hrs of oscar begging. daldry/roth are two of the best, but this just looks like a trailer to a film to an oscar campaign.
Stop exploiting September 11. Oh and it was incredibly sunny and warm that day, No one was wearing a hat.
Good catch, chinanski. The weather was amazing that day in NYC. The next day there was a huge thunderstorm and the thunder claps that sounded like bombs were scary as hell.
Actually that huge storm was on the night of Sept. 10. We had our wedding reception in the University Club night of 9/10–pouring, scary thunder. Next morning was crisp, beautiful, but when I left to catch an 8am plane out of Laguardia, it was autumn chilly. Coulda worn a hat.
Yes please make movies that are FICTIONAL!!
I go to movies to forget real tragedies, not to be reminded and have to deal with the emotions a real event like that would have on an individual.
Also, the plane shown briefly overhead in the trailer is an MD-80 or a regional jet.
Looks promising. Haven’t read the book, but based on the trailer the title sounds like a tough sell.
To be honest, this trailer sucks. With the U2 music in the background it reminds me of Fearless but with a kid in the lead. Only indication this is going to be worth the money is the talent involved. Btw, isn’t there a true 9/11 story out there (other than United 93) the studios can make. This movie, Remember Me, that Adam Sandler stinker all seemed to be emotionally false compared to say a 9/11 documentary on the History channel. Maybe because we all lived through 9/11.
U2!
A lot of sap, but maybe a big crowd pleaser too? Will be interesting to see how it turns out.
How can you go wrong with that song? Really effective trailer for a tough-to-market subject.
well, i am probably the target demo for this type of movie and it looks alot better to me than some of the other stuff that hanks and bullock have been in lately
I have really mixed feelings about this. Love Hanks & Bullock, but the trailer does make me wonder which parts of the book will actually make is on screen. I was hoping to see even a little glimpse into one of Oskar’s many “creations” or a flashback to his Grandfather’s story.
Granted, I’m already doomed to be a particularly harsh critic as the novel is one of my favorites. I’d have much more faith if Foer had been in involved in the adaptation (to my knowledge, he was not).
That being said, I’ll see you all in the theatre on Christmas Day.
sorry, but the kid looks incredibly irritating. he should’ve just stuck with his jeopardy winnings. i hope he doesn’t narrate the entire film. but bullock and hanks look great.
But does Tom Hanks always have to be the noble guy? Doesn’t this get old after awhile? Been there. Done that. I’ll pass on this one. Reality is grim enough as it is.
Sandra Bullock doesn’t have a line in her face. HOW DOES SHE DO IT?!
This looks soooo good. I had heard the title but knew nothing about it. I am so looking forward to this. I am ready for the next three months of good movies…it’s been a long summer of crappy ones.
I reviewed the book when it came out in 2005, and found that it boiled down to these words: “You want to talk about it?”
It’s not really about 9/11, but about a random tragedy that hurts a boy and how he works his way through it. His father could have died from a heart attack, or eating badly prepared fugu.
So judging from the trailer, this looks like a case where the movie will be better than the book (which I still remember, even though I must not have liked it much, so there’s something good about it, right?).
In fact, if I have the opportunity, I’d go see it. That’s how much this trailer affected me.
I have a feeling 9/11 is the new holocaust as far as sacred cow movies go. Throw out a maudlin 9/11 movie two weeks before the end of the year, let it get nominated 10 times, then put it in wide release.
Hmmmmmm.
Wow, this manipulates me by using U2′s classic song and 9/11, which I was there for. Something feels wrong about it, especially since the book isn’t really about 9/11 and they’re capitalizing on it TOTALLY in the trailer. oh warner brothers. what class.
Great trailer.
Yeah, sick of 9/11- 24/7 coverage…but love movies.
Know the exploitation and am inured but can’t get my hate on.