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3 October 2008 12:04 AM, PDT | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news

Flash of Genius

Starring Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, and Alan Alda

Directed by Marc Abraham

Rated PG-13

Every time The Insider is on cable, I'll watch whatever is left of it by the time I channel surf by. It seems that it's been on more in the last six months than it was previously, or maybe I'm just lucky enough to catch it.

The reason, I think, that I sit through a three-hour movie I've seen over a dozen times is because so many things about it are compelling. Russell Crowe's first American leading man role (he deserved the Oscar here, not for Gladiator), Al Pacino showing the strength and volatility that made him one of the best actors of his generation, Michael Mann's gorgeous, steely direction, Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace, and that distinctly American ideal that truth will out.

Watching Flash of Genius is a bit

Colin Boyd

2 October 2008 10:00 PM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news

Flash of Genius Directed by: Marc Abraham Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Alan Alda Time: 1 hr 59 mins Rating: PG-13 Plot: A small-town Michigan inventor’s idea for an intermittent windshield wiper is promptly gobbled up by the Ford Motor Company. Perpetually downtrodden, Robert Kearns risks everything (including his family) to take the automakers to court. Who’s It For? Fans of the based on a true story genre who appreciate a filmmaker who can authentically encapsulate an era in the past. Anyone with relative interest in the time period that separated the optimism of the 1960s, and the self-absorbed 1980s should most definitely tune in. Expectations: Early Oscar talk circulated the industry regarding Kinnear’s performance. A long-time producer who has had a hand in everything from The Hurricane to Dawn of the Dead, Marc

2 October 2008 10:00 PM, PDT | From The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news

Towelhead Directed by: Marc Abraham Cast: Summer Bishil, Maria Bello, Aaron Eckhart, Peter Macdissi Time: 1 hr 56 mins Rating: R Plot: A tale a troubled Arab girl who forges through the tumultuous tweens amidst amplified adversity. Along with reaching her sexual awakening, young Jasira learns the yings and yangs of bigotry and racism without much help from her anti-role model parents. Who’s It For? This is film based on the novel written by Alicia Erian. It’s interesting to see how successful books are morphed into feature films. Also, anyone interested in witnessing what could be the most provocative coming age story about a thirteen-year-old girl. Yes, I’ve seen Thirteen. Expectations: Those of you expecting the rumored controversy this film with initiate should ready yourself. It’s difficult to fully assert how far this film goes with the material. Far past previously set standards for what’s expectable, especially

2 October 2008 12:03 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Flash Of Genius is one of those films that's most remarkable for all the things it doesn't do. There's a big courtroom scene, but no gavel-pounding, witness-twisting, or grandstanding lawyers. The real-life figure at the center of the lawsuit, inventor Robert Kearns, loses his family because he insists on doing the right thing year after year after agonizing year, and yet there's no shrieky "You're tearing this family apart!" confrontation. First-time director Marc Abraham chooses to give Kearns' story a serious, thinking-viewer gloss, creating a film that's unlikely to provoke cheering or nail-biting. It lets audiences think they might actually be watching history as it happened. Greg Kinnear carries the film with his stellar, controlled, slightly abrasive performance as Kearns, a Detroit electrical-engineering professor with a wife (Lauren Graham), six reasonably well-behaved but chaotic kids, and an idea. As of the film's opening '60s setting, car windshield wipers only.

Tasha Robinson

1 October 2008 2:14 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

In celebration of the theatrical release on October 3rd, Universal is giving away two movie posters to two Toxic Shock TV forum members from the upcoming film “Flash of Genius” by director Marc Abraham and starring Lauren Graham (The Dream of the Romans), Dermot Mulroney, Greg Kinnear (Ghost Town, Green Zone) and Alan Alda (M*A*S*H). The contest ends on October 15th, 2008. Only active members qualify, Click Here to sign up today. Synopsis: Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’s (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer [...]

Brian Corder

29 September 2008 6:11 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

At the multiplex this week, we have some pre-Halloween gothic fancy, films about the two things guaranteed to start a fight in any elevator . religion and politics . and a little music from Nick and Norah and Jonathan Demme's infinite playlists.

"Allah Made Me Funny"

When Albert Brooks went looking for comedy in the Muslim world, he perhaps didn't consider that it was alive and well inside our shores. Filmmaker Andrea Kalin picked up her camera and hit the road with Muslim American stand-up comics Azhar Usman, Mo Amer and Preacher Moss, who started the tour in 2004 to combat the negative stereotypes associated with their faith by sharing their unique brand of humor. The film intersperses their routines with personal vignettes that show how the comedians employ laughter as a tool of information to entertain, to educate and to show that a good mother-in-law gag simply knows no boundaries.

Neil Pedley

16 September 2008 12:48 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Latino Review snatched up filmmaker Marc Abraham, who funded such flicks as the Dawn of the Dead remake, Air Force One, The Hurricane and Slither, who talked about the foreseeable remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece, The Thing. In the interview, Abraham says the remake will be a prequel to Carpenter’s film. “It’s going to be taking place in the same time frame,” he states. Translation? The new installment is going to end where Carpenter’s picks up, which could actually give better insight and understanding to the cult hit horror fans know and love. Carpenter’s The Thing, a remake of 1951’s The Thing from Another World, centers around a team of American scientists living in Antarctica who discover a mysterious Norwegian helicopter. [...]

Tessa Petrocco

14 September 2008 5:38 PM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Director Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius) told Latino Review that progress has been slow but steady on his prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing.

"This is more of a prequel than a sequel, there is your exclusive. Its going to be taking place in the same time frame,"he told the site. These are the events leading up to the 1982 film.”

The Thing from Another World was originally a novella by the great science fiction author and editor John W. Campbell.  Published as Who Goes There? in 1938, the novella was adapted into The Thing by Charles Lederer, Howard Hawks, and Ben Hecht into the 1951 thriller.  While the film was credited to Christian Nyby, Hawks did a great deal of unaccredited work behind the camera as well.

Carpenter remade the film in 1982 sticking closer to the original story and it starred both Kurt Russell and the effects from wizard Rob Bottin.

Robert Greenberger

13 September 2008 10:05 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

Marc Abraham is currently on a press tour promoting a very serious, adult-type biopic called Flash of Genius, but that doesn't mean interviewers can't get him talking about things like body-stealing aliens. Abraham, also a producer, is attached to an adaptation of the 1982 horror movie The Thing, and The Latino Review got him to spill the beans on exactly what kind of adaptation this is going to be. "This is more of a prequel than a sequel, there is your exclusive," Abraham said, being up-front about how badly interviewers want to get the exclusive goods. "Its going to be taking place in the same time frame." Wait, what? It's a prequel that takes place at the same time? The Latino Review's George Roush managed to clear things up for people, like me, who missed the original movie. "The film is about a shape-shifting alien that is revived after being frozen

13 September 2008 8:27 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

I have no idea how this one passed me by.

As a huge fan of John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Howard Hawks, The Thing is one of my favorite films. I have vague memories of rumblings about sequels and remakes, but I never knew that anything even remotely concrete was beginning to form. Well it turns out that a story is in place that sets the film before the events of John Carpenter’s film.

Producer Marc Abraham had this to say to Latino Review:

“This is more of a prequel than a sequel, there is your exclusive. It’s going to be taking place in the same time frame.”

He went on to say:

“These are the events leading up to the 1982 film.”

The first film is set in an Antarctic research station where a shape-shifting alien kills the men stationed there one by one. The opening of the film,

Niall Browne

13 September 2008 6:20 AM, PDT | From firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news

We've known about the remake of John Carpenter's The Thing that's been in development for a while, but we haven't ever actually written about it before, what a shame. So now that Latino Review has brought some exciting news on the remake today, I thought it would be a great time to write about it. George Roush talked with producer Marc Abraham recently and was able to chat with him about the remake -- but wait, it's not a remake. So what is it? "This is more of a prequel than a sequel... it's going to be taking place in the same time frame." So what exactly does that mean we'll see? Abrams explained that this film will show "the events leading up to the 1982 film." Very smart move on Abraham's part. I've you've been living a secluded life and haven't ever actually seen The Thing, it's about scientists

Alex Billington

13 September 2008 4:45 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

For years we’ve been hearing about sequels and/or remakes of John Carpenter’s horror/sci-fi classic The Thing being in various stages of conceptualization. But the one thing that always made sense to horror fans was a film that depicted just what happened to the Norwegian research team who were attacked first.

Finally someone’s seeing it our way, specifically producer Marc Abraham, who told Latino Review that a new idea is being developed to run in the time leading up to the 1982 film. Hopefully that means we’ll see the team who pulled The Thing out of the ice and thawed it out and just what kind of damage it caused before jumping in the body of a dog and infiltrating MacReady’s camp.

Hopefully we’ll be hearing more about this soon; it’s been a long freaking development time for anything Thing-related and this is the most exciting advance yet.

Johnny Butane

12 September 2008 4:25 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

It appears that The Thing isn't dead as Latino Review chatted with director Marc Abraham, who is producing the inevitable remake of John Carpenter's 1982 classic. "This is more of a prequel than a sequel," he tells the site. "It's going to be taking place in the same time frame." In other words, These are the events leading up to the 1982 film. Could this mean we finally get to find out what Norwegian research team went through? Only time will tell, but at least it sounds like this really isn't much of a remake. The film is about a shape-shifting alien that is revived after being frozen in ice. The alien infiltrates a scientific research station in the Antarctic and kills a Norwegian research team. A nearby American research team investigates the incident and is in turn attacked by the alien.

12 September 2008 2:00 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Universal sent us the latest movie trailer from the upcoming film “Flash of Genius” by director Marc Abraham and starring Lauren Graham (The Dream of the Romans), Dermot Mulroney, Greg Kinnear (Ghost Town, Green Zone) and Alan Alda (M*A*S*H). Synopsis: Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’s (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. The Kearns were a typical 1960s Detroit family, trying to live their [...]

Brian Corder

11 September 2008 9:33 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

A series of pictures from the forthcoming "Flash of Genius" has been brought forward. They are focused on the two cars, the brown Ford and the blue Continental Mark, used in the Universal Pictures drama starring Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham and Dermot Mulroney. The images display the cars from several angles and in different situations in the film.

Robert Kearns is a college professor as well as a part-time inventor. Marrying the love of his life and having six kids, Kearns lives his version of the American Dream. When one day he invents intermittent windshield wiper, he thinks that he has struck the gold. But, he soon finds out the harsh reality of business as he is shunned off from his creation by auto giants. Refusing to be ignored and silenced, he takes the corporate titans into a battle nobody thinks he could win.

Directed by Marc Abraham, "Genius" is

AceShowbiz.com

11 September 2008 1:12 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Universal just sent us the latest movie poster and a full synopsis from the upcoming film “Flash of Genius” by director Marc Abraham and starring Lauren Graham (The Dream of the Romans), Dermot Mulroney, Greg Kinnear (Ghost Town, Green Zone) and Alan Alda (M*A*S*H). Synopsis: Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’s (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius tells the tale of one man whose fight to receive recognition for his ingenuity would come at a heavy price. But this determined engineer refused to be silenced, and he took on the corporate titans in a battle that nobody thought he could win. The Kearns were a typical 1960s Detroit [...]

Brian Corder

4 September 2008 1:31 PM, PDT | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news

Greg Kinnear continues to show his versatility with strong performances in the comedy and drama genres. This time around, he's under the guidance of director Marc Abraham; a producer of thirty of so films including "Slither" and "Children of Men" who now makes his directorial debut. Kinnear stars in the film based on a true story of Robert Kearns. Kinnear is in post production for Paul Greengrass' "Green Zone" written by Academy Award® winner Brian Helgeland and Rajiv Chandresekaran. He can also be seen in "Ghost Town" with Ricky Gervais.

28 August 2008 8:40 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

As Summer is coming to an end and Fall is fast approaching, Universal Pictures have let out their complete Fall Preview Line Up. The list contains a diverse selection of movies from based-on-true story drama "Flash of Genius" to children fantasy book adaptation "The Tale of Despereaux".

All of the information of those six films can be viewed below.

Flash of Genius

Based on The New Yorker Article Flash of Genius by: John Seabrook

Release date: October 3, 2008

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Dermot Mulroney, Alan Alda

Directed by: Marc Abraham

Written by: Philip Railsback

Produced by: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Michael Lieber

Executive Producers: Jon Glickman, J. Miles Dale, Eric Newman, Tom Bliss

Official Site: www.flashofgenius.net

Synopsis:

Based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns' (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, Flash of Genius

AceShowbiz.com

19 August 2008 1:17 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Universal Pictures releases the first official movie trailer from the upcoming film “Flash of Genius” by director Marc Abraham and starring Lauren Graham (The Dream of the Romans), Dermot Mulroney, Greg Kinnear (Ghost Town, Green Zone) and Alan Alda (M*A*S*H). Synopsis: Greg Kinnear stars in director Marc Abraham’s man-against-the-system docudrama Flash of Genius as inventor Robert Kearns, the visionary who developed the modern intermittent windshield wiper. Kearns submitted the invention to each of the big three auto companies, each of which promptly rejected it; the companies then turned around and put the device to use. The enraged inventor spent several decades attempting to collect on his patent, and mounting lawsuits that traveled all the way to the Supreme Court; he eventually [...]

Brian Corder

18 August 2008 11:39 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Two of Universal Pictures' based-on-true-story feature films have undergone schedule changes for their theatrical release. While one of them, the Greg Kinnear-starrer drama "Flash of Genius", has been pushed forward, the other, football biopic "The Express", has been moved a week back from its original slate.

Originally set for October 17 debut, "Genius" will take the October 3 date and thus is going to be screened alongside Michael Cera's romcom "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" and Robert B. Weide-directed comedy "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People". Meanwhile, "Express" has been bumped to October 10, along with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe- starring spy thriller "Body of Lies", from its initial October 3 date.

Chronicling Robert Kearns' long battle with the U.S. automobile industry, "Genius" follows the college professor and part-time inventor as he struggles to gain recognition for his stolen invention, the intermittent windshield wiper. Directed by Marc Abraham

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