"August News"

[Plastic Flute]

Film
Friday, July 6, 2007
Josh Hartnett's New Flick
ContentFilm International has officially signed on to manage the international rights to alumni director Austin Chick's flick, August. (We screened his feature film XX/XY at the 2004 Gen Art Film Festival.) This new movie, which stars Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott, and Rip Torn, explores a young man's venture into the dot-com world during the 2001 stock market collapse and proves that success and happiness don't always go hand in hand. It began shooting today in New York—we'll keep you in the loop about a release date.

[aloha]

thanks for the news, Hoot

[Plastic Flute]

I dont know that means but, I think Int. rights. maybe?

[aloha]

I´m also not sure, I guess we have to wait until kate tells us

[Jocasta]

I don't seems like old news when they say "It began shooting today in New York".

[Plastic Flute]

True but I think legal hands change a lot.

[Jocasta]

Production has already ended? Wow, they're moving fast on this!

Josh Hartnett just wrapped production 10 days ago on a film called August, which tackles the great dot-com crash of 2001. I just had a power meeting with producer Charlie Corwin, who was also behind The Squid and the Whale and Half Nelson, and I have to say, I'm pretty psyched about this.

Loosely based on a real-life Internet start-up called RazorFish, the film centers around two brothers who start a website and make millions before the company goes public in August of 2001. Also starring in the film are David Bowie, Naomie Harris and Rip Torn.


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[aloha]

thanks Kate

[Ophelia]

I'm so interested to see how 911 is portrayed in ths movie. I hope he's on the directors commentary. I'd love to hear his thoughts,

[annieHARTNETT]

thanks for that.. this would be an interesting film

[Casey Anne]

Let's hope so. I wonder it's clichéd as Antitrust with Ryan Philippe from a couple of years ago.

[aloha]

yeah, good question, let´s see

And welcome Casey

[Cexy]

I wish there was more "news" on August. Like when's it coming out ?
Anyway, thanx Kate and Hoot for the starters !

[Italia6]

ty for news

[Plastic Flute]

I keep forgeting Bowies in it.

[Jocasta]

A more detailed synopsis...

:: August

Meet Tom Sterling (Josh Hartnett), CEO of Landshark, a revolutionary new dotcom company that’s going to make him a millionaire many times over. That is, if it can stay afloat long enough to get out of stock market ‘lock-up’.

On paper, Tom’s got it all: A flash car, a loft apartment and his own hip, one-of-a-kind start-up business. He’s got style, charm and an ego the size of Manhattan. He’s the ‘Jerry McGuire’ of the internet set, with enough self-confidence to back it all up. Enough of it to get through a crucial business meeting with major Wall Street investors without so much as a concept of a proposal on paper. Enough of it to be appointed key-speaker at a conference of fellow internet entrepreneurs, then stand up in front of the smartest people in the industry without even preparing a speech. Enough of it to justify – scratch that – demand, from his accountant the purchase of a brand new Learjet that’ll cost his cash-strapped company upwards of a million bucks a month, before their ‘product’ has even been launched. Tom Sterling thinks he understands business. Tom Sterling is about to get a nasty shock.

When the bottom suddenly falls out of the dotcom industry, Landshark’s shares plummet and the company looks like it won’t survive the weekend. Suddenly Tom is forced to face some unpleasant facts. His brash over-confidence is alienating his family, not least his younger brother Joshua (Adam Scott), the computer-whiz who invented the Landshark model, who has a wife and child to support and is near breakdown on account of Tom’s cocky attitude and lack of respect for investors and business etiquette…

But then Sarrah (Naomie Harris), an old-flame of Tom’s, re-enters his life and soon shows him the selfish, self-centered bastard he’s become, and his walls come crashing down around him, forcing him to make drastic changes – fast.

With a stellar young cast and a rip-roaring screenplay that will grip you right up to its thrilling conclusion, AUGUST is an era-defining story about risking everything to make one’s dreams reality – and the effects that may have on those who truly love you…

[aloha]

that sounds interesting!
thanks for posting Kate

[annieHARTNETT]

thanks kate.. yea it does sound interesting.

and josh plays a cool stylish guy!

[Jocasta]

Plot Summary: "August" is the story of two brothers, Tom and Joshua Sterling (Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott) whose Internet start-up, Landshark, is as hot as a New York City summer – only this is the summer of 2001, their company is in lock up, its stock price is plunging and, in a few weeks, the world will change forever. For now Tom continues the hedonistic life of an Internet star, the kind of guy we might have seen profiled on 60 Minutes II: he dates multiple women, drives a bitchin’ ‘69 Camaro convertible and hangs out at a new club called Bungalow 8. But, like an emo version of Patrick Bateman, it somehow never seems to matter that Tom is not quite able to explain what his company actually does.

Sorry, not clicky;

[aloha]

wow a new pic! I guess we will get to see more very soon