One of the big Oscar contenders this year is Lost In Translation writer/director Sofia Coppola‘s next film, Somewhere. We debuted the trailer earlier this summer and now we have the first clip. It has quite an interesting cast including Elle Fanning, Stephen Dorff, Michelle Monaghan, Benicio Del Toro and Chris Pontius. It was also nice to spot The Office‘s Ellie Kemper in the first clip below. Check it out via Reelz Channel. Read the full story

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When there is a poster premiere, you know a trailer is soon to follow. Such is the case with Sofia Coppola‘s next film, Somewhere. The trailer, which debuted on Apple, features music from her current partner (and father of her two children), Thomas Mars, lead singer of Phoenix. Like Lost In Translation and Marie Antoinette he is contributing to the score for this film. The film also stars Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning and Chris Pontius. Check out the trailer below. Read the full story

Having had a pretty quiet filming and post-production process, we haven’t heard or seen, well, anything from Sofia Coppola’s next film, Somewhere.

All most people have seemed to hear is that it stars Stephen Dorff as a Hollywood actor who reconnects with his true self when his eleven-year old daughter (played by Elle Fanning) visits him in Los Angeles. Other than that, there’s really been nothing newsworthy. But now we have a poster, which can be seen below: [/Film]

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For all those reading with their fingers crossed for a promising fall season to counter what looks to be an underwhelming summer season coming up, here’s some hope. The Playlist Nation comes bearing gifts, as Sofia Coppola‘s much-anticipated, Stephen Dorff-led Somewhere gets a December 22nd release date while Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden‘s (Half Nelson, Sugar) next film, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, will come to a theater (kind of) near you on September 24th, pushed up from an initial November release date. Story stars Zach Galifianankis, Emma Roberts and Lauren Graham and will concern “A clinically depressed teenager (who) gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.” [IMDB]

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Hollywood loves a comeback story. Just ask Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Iron Man 2) and Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, The Expendables). Stephen Dorff, once a young, charismatic risktaker who turned heads in films like The Power of One, I Shot Andy Warhol and Blood and Wine, made a name for himself as bad guy Deacon Frost in the first Blade film. That was 1998. Since then, the best Dorff has given us is John Waters’ Cecil B. Demented.

That is, until last year, in which he made solid appearances in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies and Tony Kaye’s Black Water Transit. 2010 only looks better, with a leading role in Sofia Coppola’s much-anticipated Somewhere. Dorff will play Johnny Marco, a has-been Hollywood actor whose discovery that he has a daughter changes his life in more ways than one. It sounds like something akin to Affleck’s turn as George Reeves: a role so close to home it makes perfect sense.

The hype has Dorff back on people’s minds, and now into Tarsem Singh’s next epic, War of the Gods, alongside Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Freida Pinto and Kellan Lutz.

Here’s taste of what Tarsem’s film will concern:

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Sofia Coppola, the Oscar-winning writer/director of Lost in Translation, has bought out the option to her next project. As The Playlist has reported, it comes in the form of Francis Prose‘s (is there any better last name for a writer?) acclaimed 2008 novel “Goldengrove“, which follows the 13-year-old Nico as she deals with the drowning of her sister, Margaret, and her growing relationship with Margaret’s boyfriend, Aaron. Coppola‘s specific involvement with this project is still unknown, however. Whether she will write, direct, or produce will wait to be seen. Read the full story

Sofia Coppola‘s (Lost In Translation, Marie Antoinette) next film, Somewhere is about a hard-living Hollywood actor who re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit. Prefix tells us that the popular French band Phoenix is working on the score/sound design for the film. Here is what frontman of the Grammy-winning group, Thomas Mars had to say: Read the full story

Focus Features, the art house films division of NBC Universal’s Universal Pictures, have given us a detailed glimpse at their 2010 lineup. They have actually produced and distributed some of my favorite films this year including Away We Go, Coraline, Sin Nombre, and A Serious Man. Check out their 2010 queue: Read the full story