Contributed by Jeff Sneider
It looks like the Yari Film Group’s ill-timed bankruptcy has killed the chance of a theatrical release for Brett Simon’s 2008 Sundance hit, “Assassination of a High School President.”
The film, which earned high praise from the notoriously tough Sundance crowd, stars Reece Thompson (the underseen "Rocket Science") as a Woodward-and-Bernstein-loving high school journalism student out to expose a plot concerning stolen SATs. Mischa Barton co-stars as the requisite hot Catholic schoolgirl while Bruce Willis plays a Gulf War veteran who also happens to be the principal. Read more...
There was the Scooby Gang, there was the Buffy gang (who often called themselves the Scoobies), and then there are the Runaways (who don't call themselves anything). One's a witch, one's a mutant, one's an alien -- but they didn't know these things until they discovered that their parents were actually evil super-villains bent on destroying the world. So what did these teens do? They ran away, stealing whatever magical tools they could grab, and in so doing, became a misfit group of super-heroes, pledging to fight their parents and any other big bads who got in their way.