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Hot Stoner Trailer: ‘High School’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 6, 2012 @ 10:57am PDTTags: Anchor Bay, High School
Mike Fleming

Anchor Bay shortly adds to the Stoner movie genre when it releases High School on June 1. The trailer below will be attached to the Universal release American Reunion in about 25 markets this weekend. One part of me eyeballs this and thinks Adrien Brody has certainly veered since his Oscar-winning turn in The Pianist, but the premise does look like a fun Stoner effort and Brody is a convincing crazed weed dealer. While the Harold & Kumar trilogy has been the most popular of recent pot pics, if I had to choose a favorite, the top dog would be Fast Times At Ridgemont High, and I would have to put the unsung but silly 1994 film The Stoned Age in there as a sleeper choice. What’s the best stoner film?

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‘Juno’ Reteam Puts Charlize Theron At Center of Jason Reitman-Diablo Cody Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 2, 2010 @ 6:07pm PDTTags: Charlize Theron, Diablo Cody, High School, Jason Reitman, Jason Reitman Young Adult, Mandate Pictures, Young Adult
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Juno team of director Jason Reitman, screenwriter Diablo Cody, Mandate Pictures and the production company Mr. Mudd are teaming again on Young Adult with Charlize Theron starring. The film’s being produced by Cody, Mason Novick, Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith of John Malkovich’s Mr. Mudd banner. Mandate’s Nathan Kahane and Malkovich are exec producers. I’m told that Reitman has brought in Indian Paintbrush’s Steven Rales to possibly co-finance with Mandate and he will be an exec producer as well. Several studios are interested in making the picture, but it hasn’t crystallized yet. The plan is to get the film into production in New York on November 10 if all works out, with Reitman directing. Cody won an Oscar for her Juno script and Reitman was also nominated. Read More »

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Fox 2000 Sees Film Potential In Teen Novel

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday July 15, 2010 @ 8:43am PDTTags: Book Rights, Fox 2000, High School, Jon Shestack, Lauren Oliver, Maria Maggenti, Monte Carlo, Scripts
Mike Fleming

before-i-fallEXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 has optioned the rights to the Lauren Oliver teen novel Before I Fall, with Maria Maggenti set to adapt it. The book brings a Groundhog Day approach to high school. A female student finds herself living what may … Read More »

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