What would you do if you knew the end of days was a mere three weeks away? If you are Steve Carell, you will probably set off to find the greatest love of your life. Focus Features has released a trailer for the R-rated apocalyptic dramedy Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World and it looks like this movie could be equally funny, romantic and touching.

Keira Knightley co-stars in the movie as a woman who decides to help Carell’s character find his high-school sweetheart while the excellent supporting cast includes the likes of Rob Corddry, Melanie Lynskey, Adam Brody and Patton Oswalt.

While the high-concept premise might be the stuff of big-budget blockbusters, this actually looks it could work as a modest character-driven story with a nice mix of comedy, drama and romance. It’s hard to tell whether this will be compelling enough to work as a whole, given that Carell is playing his usual loveable sap character and Knightley isn’t really known for her comedic chops.

In any case, check out the trailer below or head over to Yahoo for HD. Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World will be released on June 22.

Set in a too-near future, a man searches for a meaningful connection as humanity’s last days are at hand. Can he find his greatest love at the worst possible time? As the respective journeys of Dodge and Penny converge, the two spark to each other and their outlooks – if not the world’s – brighten.

Sounds like a wild premise, doesn’t it? “The comedy elements in this one are probably stronger or more to the forefront than In Bruges,” said McDonagh to Entertainment Weekly. The magazine has a piece on Seven Psychopaths and we have the first pictures from the movie which you can see below. The movie will also star Tom Waits, Gabourey Sidibe, Abbie Cornish, and Olga Kurylenko.

Seven Psychopaths is will hit theaters this fall.

Rebel soldiers kneel and/or crouch in position, ready their guns, waiting for the enemy to inevitably enter, and the camera finds a particular Rebel, an older gentleman, gray hair clearly visible below that cheap plastic helmet, a face quizzical as he listens to scary sounds emanating just above and then just outside the door at which his useless weapon is pointed. Then the music on the soundtrack picks up speed and the enemy starts frying its way through that door and the camera finds the Old Rebel again, still quizzically watching, as if he’s thinking, concocting a master plan to fend off the odds and repel whoever is about to come charging at him and his pals. I can still vividly remember seeing this scene for the first time as a child and knowing enough to think: “They’ve shown this guy TWICE! He’s the main character, right? He HAS to be! He’s gonna fight back against the bad guys with everything he’s got and get outta there and figure something out and-” And then the Stormtroopers make their entrance and start firing lasers every which way and within about 7 seconds all the Rebels are splattered or have fled except for the Old Rebel who’s still fighting back valiantly……except blam! Down he goes, face in agony, just another lifeless body on the spaceship floor. No one, it seemed, was safe.

One of the finest elements of High Commander George Lucas’s original saga was starting it in the middle – Episode Four, not Episode One (though it wasn’t officially deemed Episode Four until 1981), which not only gave it the sensation of an age-old struggle but a fantastic allure of mystery. How did the rebellion begin? What were The Clone Wars? What was the Imperial Senate? These enigmatic and unknowable queries left each viewer with an opportunity to imagine and fill in the blanks, and I stand firmly behind the belief that NOT knowing is always preferable TO knowing. The Loch Ness Monster will always be better served by just leaving the depths of the loch alone and letting people believe as they wish. And The Old Guy In Star Wars exists best as simply The Old Guy In Star Wars, some nameless dude who died right at the start of the whole 30 year plus ordeal after a couple lingering close-ups hinted at the fact he may have been integral.

Except today I discovered he’s not The Old Guy In Star Wars. He’s (egads) Pello Scrambas, a lieutenant in the service of the Royal House of Alderaan and part of the family Organa’s personal guard. He didn’t even die at the start of A New Hope! He was wounded, taken prisoner and killed shortly after! (Also, did you know the Tantive IV, the ship at the start of A New Hope, housed living quarters, formal dining rooms, conference rooms, and an engine room?!) At the risk of being over-dramatic (who, me?), this crushed my soul.

This isn’t officially High Commander Lucas’s fault. This is the fault of Wookiepedia which, according to Wikipedia, “was conceived by Steven Greenwood and created at the request of hosting site Wikia by Chad Barbry” in March 2005. And the “unnamed extra” of the very first Star Wars film was fleshed out as “Pello Scrambas” by one Aidan Hennessy (damn you, Aidan Hennessy). Yet it speaks directly to the heart of the dilemma that has undermined the memory of these much beloved movies in recent years.

What a crummy looking Senate chamber.

If we set aside the storytelling quality, CGI and Jar Jar infusion of the prequels what we find above all else is High Commander Lucas utterly destroying that fantastic allure of mystery the original trilogy cultivated. That’s how the rebellion started? Those are The Clone Wars? This is the Imperial Senate? Is this really how you always dreamed the Imperial Senate would look? It’s like finding out a bunch of BC-era teenagers who were just bored and looking for something to do built Stonehenge. The ultimate ruining of the Star Wars brand turned out to be its utter lack of ambiguity.

On The Official Star Wars Blog, High Commander Lucas himself is quoted as saying: “There is a lot of imaginative science in Star Wars. It shows you that by imagining things, you can imagine things that will eventually come through.” In those early films he gave us just enough to let audiences go home and imagine the rest. But with each revision, each addition he (and, in turn, the rabid fans) filled in every conceivable blank.

Now there is nothing left to go home and imagine.

ARE YOU PLANNING TO SEE THE PHANTOM MENACE IN 3D? DO YOU FEEL STAR WARS HAS LOST ALL SENSE OF MYSTERY AND MAGIC?

Why is it that Denzel Washington has been one of the very most popular actor in Hollywood for the past two decades? Is it the rare charisma he oozes in every single one of his performance? His strikingly handsome looks? The commitment he brings everyday on the set of each of his film? In his new movie Safe House, opening Friday, the 57-year old actor displayed the latter quality when he voluntarily subjected himself to waterboarding for a scene in which Robert Patrick tortures Washington’s character.

Waterboarding, which consists of pouring water over the face of an immobilized captive, causes severe sensation of drowning and hence has proven to be an effective form of torture. “I wanted to see what it would be like. It’s strange. You can’t breathe in, because the water comes in, and it’s filling up your mouth. And that was just one time for a short time. Imagine having that done for 20, 30 seconds? You will give up the answers! You may not necessarily tell the truth, but you will tell [your captors] whatever they want to hear,” Washington tells Vulture.

Patrick felt new-found admiration for Washington, who went through the stunt take after take, ”It’s a brutal, brutal scene, and I wanted to work with Denzel. And then to find out what we had to do to him, and that he was willing to go through with it? It shocked me, because the more I checked it out, the convulsions, body parts breaking — arms, legs, as you convulse, trying to get out from the restraints — and the psychological damage that was done, I just said, ‘To hell with it, I would never do that.’”

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ScreenDaily has word that the young actress will star in The Darkness, a psychological thriller which will be directed by Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism). The script by Megan Holley (Sunshine Cleaning) will center on an American student working for a charismatic English tutor who becomes convinced that she and the children she is warding are being haunted. Peekaboo!

The screenplay is actually an adaptation of Henri James’ classic Turn Of The Screw so sadly, I wouldn’t expect anything groundbreaking or remotely original. Winstead was last seen in yet another horror movie, the 2011 remake of The Thing. She will appear next in Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Production is set to start this summer in Europe.

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