Released on: 2007
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The Help Trailer Arrives
The first trailer for The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel, has arrived online, and you can watch it below.Set in the small town of Jackson, Mississippi, The Help chronicles what happens when outspoken, independent college graduate Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone) arrives home with ambitions to become a writer. But when she starts work on an ambitious project to have the local homes’ African-American maids tell their stories, a huge controversy kicks up.See, despite the fact that it’s the 1960s and most of the nation is being swept up in the progressive movement and civil rights, Jackson clings to its unspoken code of behaviour and treats the staff as second-class citizen. Spearheading the move to more segregation is driven society queen Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), who feels that maids should not even be allowed to use the same toilets as the homeowners. And then Skeeter’s book,»
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Matt Reeves Traveling The Passage
You might think that successfully navigating the choppy waters of re-making one of the most acclaimed vampire films in recent years would be enough to make anyone swear off tackling the fang fiends for life. But nope, Let Me In director Matt Reeves has decided that he wants to find more of them, lining up to make an adaptation of Justin Cronin’s novel The Passage. The plot sounds a little like I Am Legend, focusing on a group of terminally ill cancer patients who suddenly recover after being bitten by South American bats. Cue the government seeing the possibilities of this as a cure, and the disastrous results, with a powerful group of telepathic vampires roaming the country and infecting the rest of humanity. And no one sparkles.Cronin’s book, which is the first of a mooted series, arrived last year, but Fox 2000 actually picked the rights up»
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