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The Best & The Brightest news!

By Rach | Published Sat Feb-26-11 -

The Best & The Brightest has some distribution news!

From late August/September (date TBD) the video will be available to purchase via DVD/On Demand/various other forms, thanks to the movie’s new distribution partners New Video (domestic) and Echo Bridge (international). There will also be a theatrical opening in LA and New York, with preview screenings around the world (all those ‘demands’ weren’t for nothing!) over the spring and summer.

For full details, check out the blog.

As previously mentioned, there is a screening at The Bell House in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on Saturday March 19th at 8pm (Tickets $10). Star Bonnie Somerville has been added to the guest list, and additionally, there will also be a screening on Friday March 18th at the same venue. Special guests for this one include Bonnie, Jenna Stern, Kelly Coffield & Steve Park, as well as writer-director Josh Shelov. Tickets are available here and also cost $10.

The Best & The Brightest: More News!

By Rach | Published Wed Sep-29-10 -

The Best & The Brightest’s website is now officially live! Visit bestnbrightestmovie.com to request demand a screening in your area – anywhere in the world – if you can’t make it to the screenings in Philadelphia!

Huge thanks to director Josh Shelov for providing us with the photo above – how awesome does Neil look??

Don’t forget that you can enter a poster in the contest until Sunday, and tickets for all three PFF screenings are still available here at Filmadelphia.org. And if you want to know more about the movie in a spoiler free fashion, check out its very first review, at moviecitynews.com.

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The Best and The Brightest official premiere details!

By Rach | Published Thu Sep-23-10 -

A flurry of tweets this afternoon confirmed that The Best & The Brightest, starring Neil, Bonnie Somerville, Peter Serafinowicz and Jon Hodgman (amongst others), will premiere at the Philadelphia Film Festival on October 16th. The premiere will take place at Ritz Five A on Saturday, October 16th at 7.15pm, with two more screenings during the festival – Monday October 18th (Prince Music Theater, 7.30pm) and Sunday October 24 (Rave, 9.45pm).

Tickets are available now for Philadelphia Film Society members, and will be availble to the general public from September 27th. Visit filmadelphia.org or call (267) 519-3214 from the 27th to purchase tickets. Single movie tickets cost $12 each – $10 for PFS members. Various multi-movie packages are available, see the website for details.

From the festival’s guide:

New York City is the home of many privileged circles, perhaps none more cutthroat than the culture of early childhood education, as Jeff (Neil Patrick Harris) and Samantha (Bonnie Somerville) learn after relocating from Delaware to the Big Apple following a sudden financial boost courtesy of Jeff’s deceased aunt’s will.

Previously known for scripting the edgy British soccer romp Green Street Hooligans, The Best and the Brightest’s co-writer/director Josh Shelov directs Harris. Harris is one of today’s most beloved comedic performers of the small screen, in a hilarious farce about yuppie inclinations to be among the elite… via selecting a prestigious kindergarten for their unknowing five year olds. Shot partially in Philadelphia, this film does a tremendous job capturing the enchantment of East Coast city life. The brown stones of their upper-echelon neighborhood woo not only Jeff and Samantha —but the audience as well — without a fight. Somerville is dead-on as an earnest young mother giving her dreams one last chance, while Harris proves the perfect choice for Jeff. Self-conscious about their new lifestyle tied up in the insecurity over their daughter’s schooling, we laugh uneasily at Jeff and Samantha effortless unraveling. Perhaps some dreams are best left un-pursued. Delightful and honest, Shelov adroitly nourishes the script’s charm to deliver enormous laughs.

The Best and The Brightest is competing in the Filmadelphia Feature Competition at the festival. Information about cast & crew attendance at the premiere will be coming, and you can follow the movie and the director Josh Shelov on Twitter at @BestNBrightest and @ShelovJ to be among the first to hear that info.

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Neil Patrick Harris Confirmed For ‘Harold and Kumar 3

By Rach | Published Wed Jun-23-10 -

While his return was never really in doubt (would they dare make an H&K movie without NPH?!), Hollywood.com has confirmed that Neil will be returning in A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, due in Theaters Christmas 2011. Check out the full article here for a few snippets on Glee, Dr Horrible and his return to H&K, and expect a few articles to pop up over the next week or so as it seems it was press day at the Smurfs this week, with Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello also stopping by the set on Tuesday.

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“Beastly” release date change

By Rach | Published Mon Jun-7-10 -

CBS Films have confirmed that Beastly is moving from a release date of July 30 this year, to March 18, 2011. It was moved from the original release date in order to avoid a clash with Zac Efron’s new movie, Charlie St Cloud – the reason given being that “we’ve been hearing from fans, so we know that having both Zac and Vanessa’s movies opening on the same day could be a real dilemma for people.”

Expect new trailers or featurettes to be announced in the coming months to keep up the publicity momentum they’ve already gathered.

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First trailer for “Rio”

By Rach | Published Fri May-21-10 -

Moviefone has released the first trailer for the upcoming animated feature, Rio, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Anne Hathaway. You can view it here. The Fox movie is due for release “some time in 2011″.

ETA: Thanks to Pikka for pointing out that Neil is no longer listed by IMDB as part of the project, and his voice isn’t in the trailer. We’ll keep you updated if we get confirmation either way, but at the moment it looks like Neil’s super-packed schedule has left him unable to participate in this one!

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Neil defends Vanessa Hudgens casting

By Rach | Published Tue Apr-13-10 -

OnTheRedCarpet.com caught up with Neil in a short video interview at the Academy of Magical Arts awards on Sunday.

Actor Neil Patrick Harris is directing a special production of Rent at the Hollywood Bowl this summer. He’s no stranger to the stage or the show, (he played Mark Cohen in the 2nd National Tour), but he’s taken some flak recently for casting High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens for the lead role of Mimi.

On The Red Carpet caught up with Harris, who defended his decision, “Vanessa is awesome. She’s a friend. I asked her to come in and sing to make sure she had the chops for it. And she was very committed and seemed great.”

io9.com reports that the sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is now in development; no official word on if Neil will return as Steve the Monkey just yet.

Neil’s episode of Celebrity Jeopardy, in which he competes against CSI New York’s Hill Harper and former basketball player Rebecca Lobo, will air this coming Thursday, April 15th at 7pm PST on ABC-TV. Visit the show’s website for a short video interview with him. Neil was playing on behalf of Food on Foot.

Finally, NYMag’s Vulture section has read the script for A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas. Mild plot spoilers are in the article, so if you don’t want to know, suffice it to say that the script confirms that Neil has a part to play.

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Neil Patrick Harris Dishes on “Beastly”

By Rach | Published Wed Apr-7-10 -

MTV.com have followed up their interviews with Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer with an interview with Neil from the ShoWest event a few weeks ago. He talks about the plot, his role, and what he thinks of the finished movie.

“Alex’s character gets a hex put on him that turns him physically ugly, and he has [to learn] what true beauty is, because he’s kind of a douche,” Harris explained as only he could. “His dad holds him up in an apartment, and I’m the tutor that’s hired to teach him things, and I’m blind. Therefore, I can’t see his deformities.

“I have a kinship with him, because I also have a physical disability that I have to go beyond,” the star said of his first dramatic role in nearly half a decade. “So I teach him a thing or two.

“This is a very classy movie, actually,” he promised. “It looks great. I think the performances are strong. I think it’s better than your average teen film.

Visit MTV.com to see the full article, and watch a video of the interview.

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Neil Patrick Harris talks “Rent” and “Glee”.

By Rach | Published Sun Mar-21-10 -

While in Vegas for the CBS Films Luncheon at ShoWest (a film/cinema distribution trade show), Neil talked to Tony Potts from Access Hollywood about his directing future and his work on Glee, as well as a little playing a blind man about Beastly, the movie Neil was there to promote. We’ve got a bunch of photos from the event, featuring Neil, Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer, in our gallery.

Dracula’s Daughter’s Vs. The Space Brains had its world premiere at the Cleveland International Film Festival on Friday, and by all accounts was a massive success! Clevescene talks to director Frank Ippolito ahead of the premiere and had this to say of Neil’s casting:

Casting Harris, whom he knew through the magician Teller (the subject of the Teller shorts) wasn’t difficult. “He likes quirky things,” Ippolito says of Harris. “Most of the stuff I see him do is a little weird so he thought it was cool. It wasn’t a struggle to get him to say yes.”

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Glee, Celebrity Jeopardy, Harold & Kumar 3

By Rach | Published Mon Mar-15-10 -

I’ve added a Glee page to the television appearances section of the site. More and more spoilers for Neil’s Glee appearance are being released, but I understand that a lot of people might want to remain as unspoiled as possible. So we’ll update all Glee spoilers here, to give you the choice of reading it or not. We’ll continue to let you know here when that page has been updated, though.

Neil recorded an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy late last week, competing against CSI New York’s Hill Harper and former basketball player Rebecca Lobo. We’ll keep you updated with when that will air.

John Cho talked with Collider about the in-development third movie in the Harold & Kumar series:

The good news for fans of the Harold and Kumar series is the sequel is still moving forward and Cho said the plan is to film this June! He said they’re currently figuring out who will direct the third installment and Neil Patrick Harris is supposed to be in it. He said the film picks up a few years after the second film and it’s a legitimate holiday movie.

Finally, if you didn’t managed to view the Oscars opening before it was removed from the Oscars website, you can view it officially on YouTube, or PopSugar.