It was announced today that the Jim Carrey dark comedy I Love You Phillip Morris secured domestic distribution with Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment, and will hit theaters in the U.S. on December 3, 2010.

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Judging from the extremely positive response at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Catfish is one of those films that the less you know, the better. The social networking/relationship documentary is directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Universal has picked it up for a theatrical release this fall and judging from the trailer below (via Apple), you won’t want to miss it. Read the full story

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Rodrigo Cortés, the director who premiered his thriller film, Buried to great acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival is already getting ready to make his next film, Red Lights. Sigourney Weaver has been confirmed in the lead role of Margaret Matheson, a para-psychologist who attempts to debunk a very reputable psychic who has just returned to the limelight after 30 years. Read the full story

One film that really stood out at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Carlos, a five and a half hour epic by French filmmaker Oliver Assayas, who could be argued is one of the pioneering provocateurs in the emerging new wave of controversial French cinema alongside the likes of Gaspar Noe. The film centers on Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal and is said to be a mix of The Bourne Trilogy with a touch of Munich. Interestingly enough, the star of the film Édgar Ramírez, who speaks fluent English, German, French, Spanish and phonetic Arabic throughout, is best known for his work as the CIA assassin in The Bourne Ultimatum.

Originally intended as a mini-series for French TV audiences, the film will have a limited three part early release in the US courtesy of Sundance followed by the full unedited release by IFC on VOD in the fall. The trailer below is a TV promo taken from the French network where it will air. It is slightly NSFW (nipple slip) but has all the hallmarks for a potentially riveting terrorist drama that has definitely peeked my interest.  Check it out and let us know what you think. Read the full story

There’s been a considerable amount of preliminary backlash against Joel Schumacher‘s upcoming young-rich-people drug drama Twelve, starring Gossip Girl‘s Chace Crawford as a drug dealer with a heart of gold and an especially gravelly Kiefer Sutherland as the narrator.

It’s Sundance performance was not particularly flattering, and Mr. Schumacher will never fully survive Batman & Robin, giving any new film of his a critical uphill battle.

That said, this is the same visually-fused filmmaker who gave us The Lost Boys, Flatliners, The Client and A Time To Kill back in the day and, more recently, stripped-down dramas like Veronica Guerin, Tigerland (featuring one of Colin Farrell’s best turns) and Phone Booth (another Farrell gem).

In fairness, he has also offered the dull Phantom of the Opera adaptation, the Jim Carrey misstep The Number 23 and possibly his worst film next to Batman & Robin, Bad Company.

Here’s the new trailer for Twelve:

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The Greatest, the directorial debut of screenwriter Shana Feste, does the incredible feat of being heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, drawing the audience into this deeply moving film. Read the full story

Banksy, notorious UK artist, has been an enigmatic force in the ever changing scene of illegal yet exciting street art. His style is recognizable around the world yet very little is known about the mysterious masquerader, who is rarely heard from in public forum. However, that all changed when a little documentary gem appeared out of the blue earlier this year at Sundance and became the closet thing to a surprise hit at the festival. Now, the film is getting a wider release but with a uniquely Bansky twist. Read the full story

Vincenzo Natali, the horror auteur behind the cult hit Cube and the less popular but equally interesting Cypher, is gaining some underground word-of-mouth hype for his new horror sci-fi hybrid Splice, which was an audience favorite at this year’s Sundance. The film is scheduled to be released this summer for your genetic-splicing pleasure.

Vincenzo Natali’s film Splice, which was a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will be coming to a theater near you this Summer. Joel Silver’s Dark House Entertainment and Warner Bros will be releasing this odd “gene-warping creature feature” on June 4th 2010. Dark Castle are in the end stages of a deal to give Splice a 3000-screen summer release, with a P&A (print and advertising) commitment of at least $25m and perhaps as high as $40m. [/Film]

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/Film has brought word that the Sundance horror hit Splice is being opted for a summer release by a proposed deal between Joel Silver and Dark Castle. The deal will reportedly give Splice a 3000-screen summer release with a print and advertising deal costing as much as $40 million. That’s a lot of dough for such a small flick. Read the full story

Rumors are swirling about one of the most talked about films at Sundance, a on the fly social media documentary following the real life story of two filmmakers and how one of their brothers becomes entranced in an online romance called ‘Catfish‘. The buzz this documentary has received from Sundance has probably been the best of any film to come out of this year’s festival, with many audience members consensus that this might have the most mainstream potential of most of the Sundance flock. Yesterday it was reported by First Showing, that the film was being screened at a Paramount lot where that attendees should “have seen and enjoyed” films like Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity, Slumdog Millionaire or An Inconvenient Truth. Seems like Paramount could be potentially positioning this film to be their next big indie hit. To add fire to these allegations, additional mumblings about Paramount heavyweights J.J Abrams and Jason Blum are also said to be pushing for the film to be released through their studio. However at 1am, Deadline reported that Brett Ratner has made an offer for ‘Catfish‘ with no need for test screenings. The race for the film is heating up and I’m sure filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost are enjoying their options.

Do you want to see “Catfish“?