Rules Don’ t Apply
FOX • 11 / 11 / 2016 • Wide • Flat
Cast: Warren Beatty, Alden Ehrenreich, Lily Collins, Martin Sheen, Candice Bergen, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Oliver Platt, Dabney Coleman, Annette Bening, Steve Coogan, Chace Crawford, Haley Bennett, Patrick Fischler, Megan Hilty, Taissa Farmiga
Director: Warren Beatty Screenplay: Warren Beatty Website: rulesdontapplymovie. com
Synopsis: The unconventional love story of an aspiring actress( Lily Collins), her determined driver( Alden Ehrenreich), and the eccentric billionaire( Warren Beatty) who they work for. It’ s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist Marla Mabrey( Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes( Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her personal driver Frank Forbes( Ehrenreich), only two weeks on the job and also from a religiously conservative background. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ # 1 rule: no employee is allowed to have an intimate relationship with a contract actress. But Hughes’ absurd behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Marketing / Promotion: Play up the star-studded cast, director Warren Beatty, positive reviews and critical buzz. Promote on-line viewing of the very appealing and funny trailer. Work with area merchants and offer a fun trivia contest with appealing prizes that focuses on the cast and the film( with some of the answers revealed in the trailer).
Films attracting similar target audience: The Accountant, Inferno, Loving Facebook: facebook. com / RulesDontApplyMovie Twitter: @ rulesdontapply Instagram: @ rulesdontapply
Shut In EUR • 11 / 18 / 2016 • R • Wide • Scope
Cast: Naomi Watts Director: Farren Blackburn Screenplay: Christina Hodson
Synopsis: Shut In is a heart pounding thriller starring Naomi Watts as a widowed child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England. Caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.
Marketing / Promotion: Promote as a thriller with twists and turns that will keep audiences guessing. Play up the cast led by Naomi Watts.
Films attracting similar target audience: The Disapointments Room, Ouija, Morgan Tag Line:“ They should have left her alone”
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