Did you know Claire Danes, Adam Brody and Robert De Niro had movies out this summer? Many summer flicks are pretty much kept secret; some are even purposely kept off screens in favor of the more promising video on demand.
As Cool As I Am
Starring: Claire Danes, James Marsden, Sarah Bolger, Jeremy Sisto
Synopsis: "A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers."
Release Date: June 7 in one NYC theater; June 10 on VOD.
Box Office: Played two theaters, numbers unavailable.
Some Girls
Starring: Adam Brody, Kristen Bell, Zoe Kazan, Jennifer Morrison, Emily Watson, Mia Maestro
Synopsis: "Based on his play by the same name, Neil LaBute's script follows a successful writer (Adam Brody) who, on the eve of his wedding, travels across the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for past relationship transgressions."
Release Date: June 27; also on VOD
Box Office: Unavailable
Fun Fact: This was one of the first movies released on Vimeo on Demand, another competing VOD platform. That was its main release strategy.
Source: movieinsider.com
Killing Season
Starring: Robert De Niro, John Travolta
Synopsis: "Set in the Smoky Mountains, the film follows an American military veteran (Robert De Niro) who has retreated to a remote cabin in the woods. When a rare visitor, a European tourist (John Travolta), appears on the scene, the two men strike up an unlikely friendship. But, in fact, the visitor is a former Serbian soldier bent on revenge."
Release Date: July 12
Box Office $27,000 from 12 theaters in one week.
Source: empireonline.com
Coffee Town
Starring: Glen Howerton, Josh Groban, Adrianne Palicki, Jake Johnson, Ben Schwartz
Synopsis: "Coffee Town is an updated workplace comedy for the generation that works out of coffee shops. Will (Glenn Howerton) is a 30-something website manager who uses a local café, Coffee Town, as his office. When the owners of the shop discuss plans to convert Coffee Town into a bar, Will enlists the help of his two best friends Chad and Gino (Steve Little and Ben Schwartz) to save his freeloading existence. In order to thwart the plans of Coffee Town's owners, the trio stages a robbery to create the illusion of an unsafe neighborhood not suitable for the proposed venue."
Release Date: July 9; streaming online and VOD too.
Box Office: Unavailable
Fun Fact: This is one of College Humor's first full-length features and was purposely made for streaming.
Source: movieinsider.com
