… On the subject of ‘Juno’

You can get free tickets to a pre-screening of the film at foxsearchlight.com/juno. This looks to be one of the funniest films to hit theaters this year and you have the chance to catch it before it’s officially released on December 14th.

We lucked out and got tickets to it at the 30th Starz Denver Film Festival and we’ll be posting a review here.

And on the subject of Jason Reitman…

The Hollywood Reporter had this article up and I thought I’d share:

Reitman’s YouTube attachment
2 October 2007 (The Hollywood Reporter)
NEW YORK — Google’s YouTube will hold a short film contest that will be judged in part by director Jason Reitman.

The Hewlett-Packard-sponsored competition, dubbed Project Direct, will start on Oct. 7 and will be accepting entries until Nov. 9. The videos must be between two and seven minutes in length and feature a character facing “a situation above his or her maturity level,” among other guidelines.

Reitman, director of the 2005 Fox Searchlight release Thank You For Smoking and the upcoming Searchlight film Juno, will judge the initial entries along with a panel and will narrow the field down to 20 videos. The YouTube community will then vote on a winner, which will be revealed on Dec. 5.

The winner will spend nine days at a “top international film festival” where they will meet with Fox Searchlight executives. He or she also will receive a $5,000 debit card and have the video played on YouTube’s homepage.

The competition is open to residents of the U.S., U.K., Brazil, Canada, France, Italy and Spain, and the videos must be in English or have English subtitles.

I know this blog has become very Jason-Reitman-centric for the past few posts, but he’s a great director and when I met him in DC for a TYFS screening, he was a really cool guy too. I support anyone who can be brilliantly funny and also such a nice dude in person.