Vantage Point

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13835



Source: Variety (http://www.variety.com/)
March 28, 2006


Dennis Quaid (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13835#) and Matthew Fox (Lost) are close to signing to topline Columbia Pictures' Vantage Point for producer Neal H. Moritz. Pete Travis (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13835#) is directing, says Variety.

The film (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13835#), written by Barry L. Levy, is a Rashomon-style thriller (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13835#) that depicts the attempted assassination of the president from five different points of view. Quaid and Fox will star as secret service agents.

Moritz is producing via his Original Film production (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13835#) company. Original's Tania Landau executive produces.

Quaid can next be seen in Universal's American Dreamz (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=11622) and Fox is currently in pre-production on Warner Bros.' We Are Marshall (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=13261).


Story sounds promising but im not familiar with the director

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15024

Sigourney Weaver is the Point Person

Source: The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/)
June 16, 2006



Sigourney Weaver (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15024#) is in talks to join the cast of Columbia Pictures' Vantage Point, says The Hollywood (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15024#) Reporter.

Dennis Quaid (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15024#), Matthew Fox, William Hurt (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15024#) and Forest Whitaker (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15024#) already have signed on to the thriller.

Directed by Pete Travis from a Barry Levy screenplay, the story chronicles an assassination attempt on the U.S. president (Hurt) and is told from five points of view, unfolding in 15-minute increments.

Weaver will play a TV news producer for a CNN-type network who will do anything to get the story.

Neal Moritz is producing, while Tania Landau is executive producing. Shooting starts Sunday in Mexico City.

[Ronny Shade]

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QUAAAIIIIIIDDDDD!!!!

[Hunter Rider]

First stills from Comingsoon

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[BT18]

I don't expect this movie to be very watchable. Quaid and Fox are both very talented but also somewhat milquetoasty actors. Together with the procedural plot (even if it is done from a multilinear perspective, or whatever) it seems to amount to something in the same family as "The Sentinel", another movie I have no desire to ever see.

[Hunter Rider]

http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/fv.htm??g=7d4b91f3-2fe3-482e-aec8-ce896f8aef7d&f=01/64&fg

Trailer

[Sava]

i really liked this trailer :up:

[green]

http://canmag.com/nw/7954-vantage-point-movie-trailer
Hot damn! Where did this film come from? A thriller featuring a strong cast including Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana, and Edgar Ramirez, Vantage Point has released its terrorizing trailer online.

Movie Trailer: Vantage Point

In Columbia Pictures' Vantage Point, Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox), are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) an American tourist video taping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home. Also there is Rex (Sigourney Weaver) an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference. It's only as we follow each person's perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to and immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed.

What the synopsis doesn't say is that all craziness ensues with explosions to boot.

trailer
http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/fv.htm??g=7d4b91f3-2fe3-482e-aec8-ce896f8aef7d&f=01/64&fg

looks pretty intense.

[Hunter Rider]

Ah the joy of merging two threads on the same page:oldrazz::cwink:


Trailer looks really good,very strong cast and multi layered plotting:up:

[green]

Ah the joy of merging two threads on the same page:oldrazz::cwink:


Trailer looks really good,very strong cast and multi layered plotting:up:

:woot:
I swear I did a search:csad: :oldrazz:
Thanks Hunter, it's early.:woot:

[PhotoJones]

Well, I'd vote for William Hurt for president. :up:

[tzarinna]

Sounds 24-ish. :up:

[Tempest19]

Trailer looks really good,very strong cast and multi layered plotting:up:


Couldn't have said it better myself, especially looks interesting due to the bolded part of your post.

[Hunter Rider]

http://uk.media.movies.ign.com/media/820/820353/vids_1.html

High res QT version

[Halcohol]

This movie is gonna blow my freakin' mind.

[enterthemadness]

I must see this film in theaters.

:csad: if only I could land a job.

When is this coming out?

[Halcohol]

February 2008, so you've got lots of time.

[enterthemadness]

February 2008, so you've got lots of time.

If I can't find a job by then...well, I'll be all :csad:. I did have a job...but my hours were getting cut when we were shorthanded on staff.

Is this set to be a big release that month of next year? Like will...this dominate that month?

[Wolfwood]

Wow, pretty trippy preview, I'm definitely looking forward to that.

[Darth Elektra]

Just saw the trailer and it looks really good.

[L.A.]

looks good:up:

[Hunter Rider]

International Trailer

http://www.sonypictures.se/films/Vantage_Point/trailer/trailer.jsp?tl=UTSATT%20L%C4GE&pd=2008-02-29

[millennium movies]

This movie looks great, i can't stop watching the trailer. I also love the music they used in the trailer! Great cast, suck they have to release it in February! :(

[Halcohol]

Is this set to be a big release that month of next year? Like will...this dominate that month?
I doubt it'll get much in the way of marketing attention, if that's what you mean. I still can't wait for it. :up:

[Penismightier]

I'm always wary when thrillers compare themselves to Rashomon.

[Hunter Rider]

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[tzarinna]

Oh, I kinda like that. :up:

[Hunter Rider]

bigger copy

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[Vapor]

I saw a trailer for this with Superbad. At first it didn't really interest me but then the whole kinda different people/perspective thing kicked in and it looked pretty interesting.

[hammerhedd11]

^ Yeah, that aspect (sp?) and the crazy twists make it look like an awesome WTF? movie. In a good way.


BTW, that trailer pwns.

[Hunter Rider]

http://i12.tinypic.com/82ar2jb.jpg

[TNC9852002]

Yeah, I love the trailer. I probably said this already in this thread somewhere, but the movie almost looks too good in the trailer...With that in mind, I'm keeping my expectations low.

-TNC

[Hunter Rider]

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[NewYorkSpider]

Just saw the trailer for this movie and by the looks of it, it's going to be good.

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[Fran]

It looks okay.

[xwolverine2]

the trailer was beautifully put together....i hope the movie is too

[Sugarculted]

Interested in this film :up: The trailer definitely caught my attention.

[xwolverine2]

best trailer of the year?

[Prison Mike]

Awesome trailer. Really looking forward to the movie. Does anyone know the music played at the end? It sounds really cool.

[Shifty]

Sounds 24-ish. :up:

According to the trivia this was originally pitched as a 24 storyline but dropped since the show had done previous similiar storylines.

I saw this with Across the Universe, something to look forward to in February.
And unlike 24, you won't have to watch 16.5 hours worth of story to get to the end.

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=41479

Vantage Point Gets Lost and Super Bowl Promos
Source: Columbia Pictures
January 30, 2008


In anticipation of Columbia Pictures' new action-thriller Vantage Point (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=16406), in theaters February 22, two of this winter's most highly anticipated television events -- the season premiere of "Lost" and the Super Bowl telecast -- will be the launching ground for an innovative promotion. The immersive, interactive campaign begins with two TV spots providing clues and pointing the way to the film's unique website (http://sonypictures.com/movies/vantagepoint/index.html), which calls viewers to action by asking, Can You Solve the Puzzle?

A multi-platform, groundbreaking challenge, the Can You Solve the Puzzle Sweepstakes kicks off on January 31 during the season premiere of "Lost." Culminating a week of on-air and online promotion on ABC and abc.com, the network will air a sixty-second spot during the highly rated program. Hidden within the spot is a unique numerical clue that will lead web sleuths to WhatisYourVantagePoint.com (http://www.whatisyourvantagepoint.com/) to unlock special "Lost" content.

While also on the site, viewers can sneak a peek at the new thirty-second spot that will air during the Super Bowl pre-game show on Sunday, February 3, on Fox. Additional clues will be hidden in this spot as well. Participants will use the numerical clues to navigate an online mosaic composed of thousands of images from the film. The solution to the puzzle and the special "Lost" content are hidden among the mosaic pictures.

Commenting on the announcement, Valerie Van Galder, president of domestic marketing for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, said, "We're incredibly excited about this multiplatform promotion, a unique marriage between event television and an immersive online environmenthttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/1.gif (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=41479#). 'Vantage Point' is a film about deciphering different points of view to solve a puzzle or uncover the truth, and given this theme, an interactive challenge seemed a natural fit. Whether people are watching the season premiere of 'Lost,' going frame-by-frame on their DVR to check out the Super Bowl spot, or visiting the 'Vantage Point' site, they are interacting with the movie in the way that people consume media today. And while they're at it, they'll have the chance to enter a sweepstakes."

Visitors to the movie site will be able to enter the Can You Solve the Puzzle Sweepstakes for the chance to win eight grand prizes, each consisting of a Sony high definition Handycam video camera as seen in the film, or eight first prizes, each consisting of a high-definition TiVo box and a one-year TiVo subscription.

In Columbia Pictures' action-packed thriller Vantage Point (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=16406), eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Foxhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/4.gif (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=41479#)) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror. When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), an American tourist who thinks he's captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home. Also there, relaying the historic event to millions of TV viewers across the globe, is American TV news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver). As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place -- and it will become apparent that shocking motivations lurk just beneath the surface. The film is directed by Pete Travis, written by Barry L. Levy, and produced by Neal H. Moritz.

[hammerhedd11]

Awesome trailer. Really looking forward to the movie. Does anyone know the music played at the end? It sounds really cool.

I don't know what it is called but it is a remix of one of the 300 songs.

[TNC9852002]

Ahh...This movie comes out in a few weeks. Opening with Be Kind Rewind, Charlie Bartlett and Witless Protection, it's definitely taking the #1 spot for the weekend.

-TNC

[kane9321]

gonna be good

[Prison Mike]

I don't know what it is called but it is a remix of one of the 300 songs.

I found it. Thanks. It's a remix of "To Victory". Awesome track.

[Hunter Rider]

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[Gold Samurai]

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Quaid- OMG! the Monster! Its alive!

[TNC9852002]

Hey! Richard T. Jones is in this one....nice.

-TNC

[DocHoliday]

I hope this film is good It looks liek alot of fun. Also Matt Fox, Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver!! It just has to be!

[GL1]

Great cast... Quaid doesn't do much for me nowadays...

[user123456789]

Hey! Richard T. Jones is in this one....nice.

-TNC
the black dude?

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=42312

Vantage Takes Point at Box Office

With a strong ensemble cast including Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox from "Lost" and Forrest Whitaker, Sony's political thriller Vantage Point (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=16406) carved itself a definitive lead at the box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $24 million for first place in 3,149 theaters, averaging roughly $7,600 per site.

[user123456789]

24 mill = good?

[TLH]

24 mill = good?

$24 million is good tally. Most films like this only tally about $15 million or so.

[The Apocalypse]

I got into the movie for free last night for 5 bucks. Usually I come out of movies saying it was amazing, but this movie let me down big time.

[theShape]

This movie was a joke. It was an interesting concept -- seeing this event happen from the point of view of different characters and seeing how it all came together. However, after each person's vantage point, they felt the need to rewind the movie back to the start and show us the time it started from. This was cool maybe the first two times, but after seeing the movie rewound 8 times it became funny. The whole theater cracked up every time this happened. We were all like, "Here we go again...". It was as if they didn't trust us to figure out when they went back to the beginning, so they had to show us.

Aside from that, the movie got a little ridiculous and corny once Forest Whitaker's character came into play. Overall, a pretty lame movie that had potential.

[user123456789]

I got into the movie for free last night for 5 bucks. Usually I come out of movies saying it was amazing, but this movie let me down big time.
if you paid $5... then it wasn't free

rofl

[Tempest19]

I'd say 6/10. Not that great, not horrible either, but certainly not great. Hell, I knew the ending in the first five minutes of the film. That's how obvious it was.

[theShape]

I'd say 6/10. Not that great, not horrible either, but certainly not great. Hell, I knew the ending in the first five minutes of the film. That's how obvious it was.

I hope you're exaggerating, because that's just not possible. You hadn't met half of the important characters yet.

[SodaPop]

I got into the movie for free last night for 5 bucks. Usually I come out of movies saying it was amazing, but this movie let me down big time.
That's the most expensive free movie ever. Anyways i've heard the movie is decent, but nothing spectactular. But it is the second most buzz worthy movie of the year ( so far), behind cloverfield.

[Tempest19]

I hope you're exaggerating, because that's just not possible. You hadn't met half of the important characters yet.

Well kinda, don't know the exact time but:

When the guy from Lost- forgot his name currently- came and told Quaid's character "don't thank me yet." That's the exact moment I knew. The line was just really odd and the way it was delivered was very ominous.

And didn't know how the ending would play out, only the main 'twist' of the film.

[theShape]

Well kinda, don't know the exact time but:

When the guy from Lost- forgot his name currently- came and told Quaid's character "don't thank me yet." That's the exact moment I knew. The line was just really odd and the way it was delivered was very ominous.

And didn't know how the ending would play out, only the main 'twist' of the film.

Even if you did figure out that...

Matthew Fox was one of the bad guys

...that's not the ending. In fact, that's not even that big of an aspect to the story, which is another reason I disliked the film. The twist was weak, and didn't have that much impact on anything.

[LastSunrise1981]

I saw it on opening night and really enjoyed it for what it was. However, it did leave quite a bit unexplained though.

Why did Matthew Fox's character join the terrorists? Was their a reason for him joining them? Was he trying to destroy it from the inside?

Overall though I found it to be an enjoyable thriller that used a unique style of shooting the film by showing everyones different points of view. I looked on the time sheet and saw it was 2 hours and 20 minutes, it didn't feel like it was that long as the action and the story really made the time fly.

I recommend this movie though.

[theShape]

I saw it on opening night and really enjoyed it for what it was. However, it did leave quite a bit unexplained though.

Why did Matthew Fox's character join the terrorists? Was their a reason for him joining them? Was he trying to destroy it from the inside?

Overall though I found it to be an enjoyable thriller that used a unique style of shooting the film by showing everyones different points of view. I looked on the time sheet and saw it was 2 hours and 20 minutes, it didn't feel like it was that long as the action and the story really made the time fly.

I recommend this movie though.

Yeah, they never explained why. I guess he shared their beliefs? :huh:

[Green Goblin 1964]

So it sucked? Just what I expected...

[Green Goblin 1964]

This movie was a joke. It was an interesting concept -- seeing this event happen from the point of view of different characters and seeing how it all came together. However, after each person's vantage point, they felt the need to rewind the movie back to the start and show us the time it started from. This was cool maybe the first two times, but after seeing the movie rewound 8 times it became funny. The whole theater cracked up every time this happened. We were all like, "Here we go again...". It was as if they didn't trust us to figure out when they went back to the beginning, so they had to show us.

Aside from that, the movie got a little ridiculous and corny once Forest Whitaker's character came into play. Overall, a pretty lame movie that had potential.HAAHHAHAHAHHA! I can imagine it now!:woot:

[theShape]

HAAHHAHAHAHHA! I can imagine it now!:woot:

Lol, yeah. It's said that the gimmick of the movie turned out to be a running joke.

[LastSunrise1981]

I actually liked the rewinding of events and showing it from different characters point of views. For me it was a different type of storytelling that showed some originality with the director, it was no different than the method that's used for 24.

As I said, the only thing that disappointed me about the film is the lack of development for Matthew Fox's character. He just seemed to be placed there with no real indication of what to do with his character.

It would've been nice to have him confront Dennis Quaid's character in a different setting explaining why he sided with the terrorists. Rather than him simply saying with his dying breath "This war will never stop".

It also could've used more blood than what was shown, yeah it was a PG-13 film and all, but with the explosions and all you'd think the reporter, Quaid's character, and Forrest's character would've had more scratches, bruises, and blood on them.

[YJ1]

(5/10)

Vantage Point is a unique film that suffers from the very thing that makes it unique. Seeing events unfold from several different “vantage points” sounds clever but, in reality, it seemed tedious and shallow. NONE of the characters have any possibility for development in this format. When any emotion or character development is attempted (ex: Forest Whitaker’s character) it seems unnecessary and blatantly hammered in to the wrong place. Another problem is that each rewind offers no clues you can follow or solve. Everything is revealed over time but it’s presented to you, there’s no intrigue. The pace was crisp and the car chase was thrilling (even if totally implausible) but the resolution was far too convenient to sell. Overall, a disappointment.

:down

[theShape]

I actually liked the rewinding of events and showing it from different characters point of views. For me it was a different type of storytelling that showed some originality with the director, it was no different than the method that's used for 24.

As I said, the only thing that disappointed me about the film is the lack of development for Matthew Fox's character. He just seemed to be placed there with no real indication of what to do with his character.

It would've been nice to have him confront Dennis Quaid's character in a different setting explaining why he sided with the terrorists. Rather than him simply saying with his dying breath "This war will never stop".

It also could've used more blood than what was shown, yeah it was a PG-13 film and all, but with the explosions and all you'd think the reporter, Quaid's character, and Forrest's character would've had more scratches, bruises, and blood on them.


Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of seeing a single event from different people's perspectives. However, the fact that they had to literally rewind the movie footage, and show us that they were going backwards to the beginning, became very tedious and repetitive. They basically couldn't find any other way to keep bringing is back to the start, or didn't trust the audience to understand that the event was starting again from a different perspective, so they rewinded the movie for us...eight different times.

Like I said, it was an interesting gimmick, but it soon became very tired and laughable.

[The Apocalypse]

if you paid $5... then it wasn't free

rofl

yea woops..one of my friends got in for free..me and my other 2 friends had to pay 5 bucks.

[Untilteld]

Yeah I saw this on Friday, and haaaated it. This movie is really bad, it's real boring. Sure, the idea is cool with the flashbacks but they did nothing with it, such a boring film.

2/10

The 2 is for Matthew Fox. :up:

[Sugarculted]

It was that bad?
Well, looks like I'm avoiding it then :up:

[Downhere]

I didn't think it was that bad. I'd give it a 7-7.5/10. While, the rewinding did get a bit repetitive, it didn't really bother me (although, I could tell it did to some of the audience at the theater). I thought that they did well with keeping the tension between each perspective, even amidst the repetitive nature of what you were seeing. I will say some of the dialog was stale and cliche, especially toward the end, but overall I thought it did well in keeping you on your toes and providing some nice action (although some of it implausible). Overall, I thought it was entertaining.

[GL1]

6.5/10

Same here, rewinding didn't bother me in and of itself... I was more upset by the fact that they didn't milk it... this, like other films recently, feels unfinished, as though it had not been completely developed in concept before being written and shot.


I also knew that Matthew Fox's character was crooked. If that first line didn't sell it, then him running off after a shooter "No, you stay here" certainly did. It also upset me that they didn't go with it anywhere.


The thing that upset me most about the movie was precisely where they decided to put the rewinds, it's as though they decided to hold back every bit of information that might be useful in actually figuring out the storyline... they just yanked your chain around until you gave up trying to figure it out. The accentuate the fact that you don't get any clues as to what's going on, Dennis Quaid has this super-shocked face he gets 3/6 rewinds you go through... you don't get to see what he's looking at, but he gets a sudden revelation and rushes off, and then it's 12:00:00pm again... 23 minutes before the assassination. Really frustrating stuff.

But then, they clinched it... I actually suggested to my girlfriend that it would have been cheaper, and just as painful, for them to make the 23 minute version of the movie, and hire people to come into the theater and pimpslap us personally at the end...


The obvious resolution of having these different perspectives come together (the Newsroom was a PERFECT vehicle for this), and put together the pieces of the Kidnapper storyline that would run in the background obliquely of all the other stories (giving all the different perspectives PURPOSE)... this seemed to escape the movie makers... instead, Dennis Quaid's storyline is the only one that matters, accentuated by his ability to survive all manner of mortal injury, including getting in multiple car accidents while driving on unimpeded... and the fact that every other storyline except the Oscar-winner's ends in pointless unresolved death. Who cares? The president's safe, Dennis Quaid has his dignity back... none of the other Vantage points really matter...

Then why show them to us?



And I was also peeved at the way they killed Zoe Saldana. In a rewind film, just because someone is dead, doesn't mean that you never see them again (except repeats of their earlier part) that's a piece of narrative intensity that they couldn't seem to grasp. Oh, and the fact that I was watching her still breathing and they were like "Oh, no she's dead..." I'm thinking... "Uh... no..."

[Hunter Rider]

Saw it today, I liked the way the rewinds revealed another piece of puzzle, building up to the climactic last 20 minutes as all the strands came together and played out.

All the acting was good and the film had a vibrancy to it, Pete Travis has a good eye and made some great shot selections, the car chase was awesome and the tracking shot of Air force lifting off from the underpass was very effective.

7.5/10

[Dr Lee]

Saw this at the weekend and i have to say i really enjoyed it.

it hit me about three rewinds in that the podium explosion was only ever shown form two angles plus a spilt second shot of whoever's 'vantage point' it was.

I thought that was a nice touch.

While i didn't get the whole fox is a bad guy twist untill the revealed it i did find myself wondering where the hell he'd gone

i found that the whole wait for the podium explosion kept the suspense up for me. each time i was thinking 'ok thats happend, and that, next was the XXX'

Over all i'd give this a 8/10. it loses a point from me because i don't think this is the kind of movie you can watch over and over again

[Lobo]

I'm waiting for the dvd on this the trailers didn't appeal to me enough to justify spending 12 bucks plus train fare on it. From yuo guys review it seems a decent flick though

[Dr Lee]

to be honest had i known what was going to happen after the showing i'd probably not gone and decided to do what you're going to do.