ElizabethTown
So I saw the preview to this movie in theaters and it looked like a decent movie; infact, the preview contains a clip from "Learning to Fly"--a Tom Petty Song!
As I was going about the rounds of my daily websites (School Email, Hotmail, Live Journal, Cubs, Fark, etc.) I decided to add in TomPetty.com, a site that I'll maybe visit once a week simply due to its lack of updates.
Today, they updated. They said,
"Tom Petty will see four of his songs featured in Oscar-nominated writer/director Cameron Crowe's
upcoming feature film, "Elizabethtown," starring Orlando Bloom, Kristen Dunst and Susan Sarandon, set
for release October 14, 2005.
Petty contributes two brand new Petty compositions, "Jack" and "Square One," as well as the Grammy
nominated "Learning to Fly" from the 1991 "Into the Great Wide Open" album. Also, his track "It'll
All Work Out" will be featured throughout the film as both instrumental and with vocals as a
recurring theme incorporated into the story of an unexpected romance that blossoms between a young
woman and man during an outrageous memorial for a Southern patriarch."
This absolutely excited me! It goes on to mention that "It'll All Work Out" (a Petty song) was a big influence for the movie. It also discusses the fact that the movie is by Cameron Crowe who actually wrote the first Rolling Stone Magazine article about Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. He's a great writer/director and has done movies such as "Fast Times at Richmont High" and "Jerry McGuire." I actually really can't wait to see this movie...the thing is, it definitely looks like a movie made to draw in a female crowd...hell it stars Orlando Bloom ;). But it's a well known fact that I have enjoyed many MANY movies that were probably made with the intention of attracting women, I'm weird like that.
Unfortunately, the movie does not come out until October 14th. Although, even though I have yet to see anything more than a couple trailers, I would have to suggest it and probably will go see it and even if the movie itself lets me down, Tom will not :-D.
The movie's synoposis is as follows, according to trailerdownload.net:
After causing the Oregon shoe company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew
Baylor (Bloom) is fired for his mistake, and promptly also dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen (Biel).
On the verge of suicide, Drew is oddly given a new purpose in life when he is brought back to his
family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown following the death of his father, Mitch, as it
falls to him to make sure that his dying wishes are fulfilled. On the way home, Drew meets a flight
attendant, Claire Colburn (Dunst), with whom he falls in love, in a romance that helps his life get
back on track.
I know I saw the preview in theaters and I'm GUESSING it was before "War of the Worlds." I think this mainly due in part to the fact that Tom Cruise produced Elizabethtown and he was the star of War of the Worlds and previews seem to help advertise for the feature movie's actors/producers/etc. (such as the preview for "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" before "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," also a Tim Burton movie).
A trailer, for anybody interested, can be found here, http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/elizabethtown/
As I was going about the rounds of my daily websites (School Email, Hotmail, Live Journal, Cubs, Fark, etc.) I decided to add in TomPetty.com, a site that I'll maybe visit once a week simply due to its lack of updates.
Today, they updated. They said,
"Tom Petty will see four of his songs featured in Oscar-nominated writer/director Cameron Crowe's
upcoming feature film, "Elizabethtown," starring Orlando Bloom, Kristen Dunst and Susan Sarandon, set
for release October 14, 2005.
Petty contributes two brand new Petty compositions, "Jack" and "Square One," as well as the Grammy
nominated "Learning to Fly" from the 1991 "Into the Great Wide Open" album. Also, his track "It'll
All Work Out" will be featured throughout the film as both instrumental and with vocals as a
recurring theme incorporated into the story of an unexpected romance that blossoms between a young
woman and man during an outrageous memorial for a Southern patriarch."
This absolutely excited me! It goes on to mention that "It'll All Work Out" (a Petty song) was a big influence for the movie. It also discusses the fact that the movie is by Cameron Crowe who actually wrote the first Rolling Stone Magazine article about Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. He's a great writer/director and has done movies such as "Fast Times at Richmont High" and "Jerry McGuire." I actually really can't wait to see this movie...the thing is, it definitely looks like a movie made to draw in a female crowd...hell it stars Orlando Bloom ;). But it's a well known fact that I have enjoyed many MANY movies that were probably made with the intention of attracting women, I'm weird like that.
Unfortunately, the movie does not come out until October 14th. Although, even though I have yet to see anything more than a couple trailers, I would have to suggest it and probably will go see it and even if the movie itself lets me down, Tom will not :-D.
The movie's synoposis is as follows, according to trailerdownload.net:
After causing the Oregon shoe company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew
Baylor (Bloom) is fired for his mistake, and promptly also dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen (Biel).
On the verge of suicide, Drew is oddly given a new purpose in life when he is brought back to his
family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown following the death of his father, Mitch, as it
falls to him to make sure that his dying wishes are fulfilled. On the way home, Drew meets a flight
attendant, Claire Colburn (Dunst), with whom he falls in love, in a romance that helps his life get
back on track.
I know I saw the preview in theaters and I'm GUESSING it was before "War of the Worlds." I think this mainly due in part to the fact that Tom Cruise produced Elizabethtown and he was the star of War of the Worlds and previews seem to help advertise for the feature movie's actors/producers/etc. (such as the preview for "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" before "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," also a Tim Burton movie).
A trailer, for anybody interested, can be found here, http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/elizabethtown/