See new images from two eagerly anticipated Focus Features' "Taking Woodstock," starring Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber as well as "Away We Go" with John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Allison Janney and Catherine O’Hara.
"Taking Woodstock" is helmed by Academy Award winner Ang Lee. This reteams Lee with his "Brokeback Mountain" screenwriter James Schamus who adapts the the historic 1969 memoir written by Elliot Tiber who Demetri Martin ("The Daily Show With Jon Stewart") will protray.
Story follows a Greenwich Village based interior designer who now turns to running a motel in Catskills; a family-owned business. In 1969 he volunteered his motel to be the home for concert designers of Woodstock after his neighbor Max Yasgur have given his farm to be used for the massive, historic-making event.
Release date is on August 14th.
Focus' "Away We Go" dramedy is directed by Sam Mendes ("Revolutionary Road," "Jarhead," "Road to Perdition") from the screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. The Sam Mendes, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub and Edward Saxton-produced release sees limited theatres on June 5th.
This funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski [“The Office’] and Maya Rudolph [“Saturday Night Live’]), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down roots and raise their family. Along the way, they have misadventures and find fresh connections with an assortment of relatives and old friends who just might help them discover “home” on their own terms for the first time. The movie features the music of Alexi Murdoch.