2012 SXSW: Anchor Bay Buying ‘Girls Against Boys’

COMMENTS (9)

• Congrats, Aimee and Clay!

  Comment by nice — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 3:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Would it be in poor taste to respond to these scenes by trying to direct people to Truffaut’s THE BRIDE WORE BLACK instead? It’s witty, cast with spectacular actors, and is about 95% less self-important.

  Comment by takeitoutsidemimi — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 3:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Anyone know any numbers on this?

  Comment by Stamos — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 4:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Anchor Bay seems to be Paradigm’s one and only distribution relationship.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 5:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Awesome news! Congrats to Aimee and Clay!

  Comment by northbye — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 7:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “An Eye for an Eye makes the whole world blind” (Ghandhi)

  A revenge story is only as good as the motive for the character that is attempting to seek revenge

  What motivates these two women to torture these men?

  This trailer makes the film seem like snuff…and I dislike the characters because they appear to be cold blooded killers.

  Comment by USC Film Student — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 8:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Danielle Panabaker is a great young actress but these clips are boring and don’t really reveal anything, or showcase her DOING anything except weilding a gun and swinging it. They’re not enticing and make you think the whole film is a yawn…

  Pretty disappointing…!

  Comment by George — Monday March 12, 2012 @ 10:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • I agree, the clips don’t reveal much but I’m pretty sure that in anticipation of a film of this nature, the last thing they want to do is spoil the scarier/gorier, more suspenseful scenes. An exec from my studio was in attendance and said the film totally delivered (people were freaking out in their seats but I also heard that it was darkly comedic in places). There were multiple offers over the weekend so I’m not surprised that the film sold so quickly…

    Comment by Tim — Tuesday March 13, 2012 @ 9:52am PDT  Reply to this post

• So far, this is one of the worst films I’ve seen at SXSW. I almost walked out, but ended up staying to the end. It looks terrific (the cinematographer does a great job of making this production look way more expensive than it actually was), but it’s all style over substance. I hated the leads and never cared at all what happened to them. If you find yourself rooting for the lead actress to be re-raped, you’re probably doing it wrong.

  Comment by Mark — Tuesday March 13, 2012 @ 7:35am PDT  Reply to this post