Super 8 will have some TV advertising going on tomorrow (Saturday, 7 May)
SATURDAY, May 7th 2011
11:30am ET / 9:30am PT – SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW (REELZ)
Summer Movie Preview hosted by Richard Roeper will air and will include SUPER 8.
SUNDAY, May 8th 2011
9:00am ET / 7:00am PT – CBS SUNDAY MRONING (CBS)
Summer Movie Preview will air and will include SUPER 8.
Super 8 will be using the D-Box Action Seat technology. If you can find a theater that has D-Box, you really want to see Super 8 there!
From Star Pulse:
The summer movie season is here, and that means one thing: AIR CONDITIONING!!! Also, we get to watch some cool movies with our air conditioning ticket.
There will be some familiar if not downright iconic faces to greet us there, but who's not looking to make some new friends? Lucky for us Hollywood is dishing out a promising group of cinematic newcomers who just might have made the leap to stardom by the time school's back in session -- including two sons, one daughter and one cousin of pop culture royalty.
Here's a list of actors on the cusp of becoming big-time screen idols.
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Joel Courtney
Starring In: "Super 8" (June 10)
Summer Heat: In a summer deluged with sequels and comics adaptations, leave it to filmdom's own P.T. Barnum, J.J. Abrams, to add the spice of mystery to the mix with "Super 8." Despite some extended footage screened for reporters, the film and its central creature or force is still shrouded in C.I.A.-level confidentiality. Equally unknown is 15-year-old lead actor Courtney, who makes his film debut as the heroic leader of a team of 1970s kids making an amateur zombie film in Ohio when all hell breaks loose as a… something or other… unleashes chaos.
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From Yahoo! Movies:
We did not find any results for Elle Fanning (center) had her breakout moment with the release of last years Sofia Coppola-directed Somewhere, but two of her Super 8 co-stars, Joel Courtney and Ryan Lee, have yet to see the spotlight. But, come June 10 -- when the J.J. Abrams-directed and Steven Spielberg-produced sci-fi flick opens nationwide -- the youngsters stock will skyrocket thanks to their understated achievements in one of summer 2011's must-see movies.
From Saturday's LA Times:
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From MTV:
MTV News: Obviously the kids are key to this one, and we think about Spielberg working with kids. Were you naturally always comfortable working with kids. Did you rely on Steven in terms of working with younger actors?
Abrams: I don't think working with actors, young or old, is ever very easy or a given. Everyone's different. There are some actors with whom I feel I have this crazy psychic connection and I don't feel like I have to say anything and they get what it is. When you're casting, the most important thing is casting people who don't necessarily have to be told what to do at every turn but will inspire you by coming up with things you never would have thought of. Working with kids is something I had done only sparingly. In "Star Trek," there was a young Kirk and a young Spock. But never really like this, and frankly I was terrified. I was dealing with two main actors who had never been cast before and never been on a set before. They didn't know the most fundamental things about how a crew works. Everything was an alien experience for them. The fun of working with them, partly, is they weren't professional kids. And then there was Elle Fanning, who's from another planet herself. There's a kind of innate brilliance and sophistication, the likes of which I've never seen in an actor, especially an actor who when I worked with her was 12.
