Moonrise Kingdom reunion in Tuscany

From Edward Norton’s Instagram account: When we made ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, Wes, Roman, Jason, Bill Murray and I all shared a big old house in Newport. It was about as fun as it gets. Like making home movies with your friends in middle school, except it ends up Opening Night at Cannes. We didn’t want it …

Moonrise Kingdom… in Paris

Meet Alki and Mick. She is a Greek-American living in Paris for 8 years, addicted to stinky cheese, bicycles, and boys with freckles. He is a French computer nerd that can recite all NBA and soccer statistics from 1950 onwards. In 2010, they met on OkCupid.  Both fans of movies and fonts, there was an …

Moonrise Kingdom Takes Best Feature at Gotham Awards

Wes and co. had a good night last night in New York at the IFP Gotham Awards. Moonrise Kingdom took home the top prize of the evening, the Best Feature award, which was accepted by Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman, Sam and Suzy themselves. We’ll have more, including pictures of the night, and hopefully the …

Moonrise Kingdom Oscar Considerations. And KanyeWesAnderson

Oscar season is coming, when December movies will be dumped on us to make the breaking point for an Academy Award consideration. But let’s take a step back and not forget our friend Wes Anderson and his critically acclaimed film Moonrise Kingdom. Slant Magazine has written a terrific article detailing the possible nominations MK might …

Moonrise Kingdom DVD Preorder!

Yes, you read that right. Despite the fact that many of you are seeing Moonrise for the first time in theaters, MR is now available for preorder on Amazon. A release date hasn’t been set yet, but you can be the first on your block to add the film to your Wes Anderson collection. No …

Moonrise Kingdom and the Success of the Platform Release

The most frequent question that we’ve seen on tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook has been, “When is Moonrise Kingdom opening in my hometown?” If you yourself have asked this question, you are part of the success story of Moonrise‘s platform release strategy. First, let’s turn to wikipedia for a definition of a platform release: A platform …

New Animated Shorts Released to Accompany “Moonrise Kingdom”

Wes Anderson has released enchanting animated shorts to accompany the film, “Moonrise Kingdom”. In the film, Suzy (Kara Hayward) packs six ficticious storybooks. Wes wrote passages read from each of the storybooks and decided in April to animate these passages. You can watch them on EW.com here, or in the embed below. More details below from EW.com: …