A bunch of new interviews have been released from The Box.

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz), Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella). The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them one million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know. The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

Watch all those interviews after the jump.

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Warner Bros. has released two new TV Spots for Richard Kelly’s The Box.

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz), Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella). The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them one million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know. The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

Watch them both after the jump.

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Check out the UK teaser poster for Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly’s upcoming The Box. Once again the whole focus is on Cameron Diaz whilst co-star James Marsden’s name is completely excluded.

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz), Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella). The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them one million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know. The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

The Box will be released Friday November 6, 2009.

Visit the Official Website: http://thebox-movie.warnerbros.com/

Source: Empire

James Marsden and Cameron Diaz in 'The Box'

Director Richard Kelly’s (Donnie Darko / Southland Tales) new sci-fi film The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz), Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella). The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them one million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know. The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

This article contains five new images from the film (four more after the jump) and although these particular images might be a tad boring make no mistake, The Box is more of a sci-fi film than you might think (to say any more would ruin it).

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James Marsden and Cameron Diaz in 'The Box'

If you’re having trouble remembering when Richard Kelly’s The Box will premiere I don’t blame you.  First it was November 25, then October 30.

Now it seems release of the film has been pushed back by another week to Friday November 6.

Perhaps it’s easier to just say it’ll be released later this year.

Learn more about The Box here.

At the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday July 24 Warner Bros. hosted a 2 1/2 hour panel that included a segment for Richard Kelly’s upcoming sci-fi film The Box.

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella).  The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them $1 million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know.  The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

The Comic-Con segment raised a fair bit of attention for the film which, as a result of exclusive footage being shown, appears to be way more of a sci-fi film than was previously thought. The footage delivered quite a few spoilers and some of them were really quite major.  I’m not going to talk about them here because, to my mind, they are a little too fundamental to the story to risk ruining it for you.

The Q&A session didn’t give away major spoilers so you’re safe to watch those:

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A new poster has surfaced via Twitter for Richard Kelly’s upcoming sci-fi thriller The Box. It’s a slightly modified version of the first poster released with the only changes being the addition of the faces of James Marsden and Frank Langella. Check it out:

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella).  The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them $1 million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know.  The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

Watch the trailer here.

The Box will be released October 30, 2009.

The first full trailer for Richard Kelly’s The Box has been released.  Watch it now courtesy of First Showing:

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger.  The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them $1 million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know.  The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

Read an interview with director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko / Southland Tales) here and learn more about the film here.

The Box will be released October 30, 2009.

Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko / Southland Tales) has told Aint it Cool News that he has kept his sci-fi thriller The Box simple…but complicated.

“I really tried to keep it simple on this,” he said. “It’s under two hours, I don’t have, like, thirty characters and prequel graphic novels. It’s nice to do something simple. But ’simple’ for me always ends up becoming complicated in some way.”

Kelly has also confirmed that the film won’t contain a lot of gore, violence or cuss words.

“I wanted to make a suspense film that was old-fashioned,” Kelly says. “And it’s sort of for my mom, too. The film has a lot to do with my parents, and I wanted to make a movie that they would be 100% behind when they saw it. I thought it would be nice to try to make a suspense film and try to scare people without resorting to gore or violence. I’m sort of trying to be an old-fashioned prude and give myself those restrictions: PG-13, don’t resort to violence and… no foul language as well!(Laughs) I just threw that in there. When you see the MPAA thing on the trailer, it lists, like, ‘Disturbing Images.’ There is some violence in it, but there’s nothing in there about language. In pretty much every PG-13 banner, there’s something in there about language.”

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child, who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger.  The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them $1 million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know.  The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

The Box was originally a 6-8 page short story by Richard Matheson titled Button, Button.  It was published in Playboy in 1970 and then adapted by Matheson for The Twilight Zone in 1985.  Richard Kelly’s version is also set in the 70’s (1976 to be precise), and extends the original short story by delving further into the main characters back stories.

The trailer for The Box will be released this week.  Whilst you wait for it head over and read the entire interview at Aint it Cool News.

The Box will be released October 30, 2009.

James Marsden & Cameron Diaz in 'The Box'

Richard Kelly has confirmed that production on his upcoming sci-fi film The Box is now finished.

The Box tells the story of Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and their young child, who receive a simple wooden box (with a button) as a gift from a mysterious stranger.  The stranger tells them that the box will magically bestow them $1 million dollars if they press the button, but that the consequences of doing so will be the death of another person elsewhere whom they don’t know.  The movie follows the consequences as they face and act upon their moral dilemma.

Kelly states that principal photography on the $30M film was completed in March 2008 and it took eight months of post-production to include more than 300 visual effects shots.  A final cut was officially handed off to Warner Bros before Christmas.

On the music side, newcomer Win Butler, Regine Chassagne (of Arcade Fire) and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) have recorded more than 80 minutes of score for the film.  Additionally songs from Grateful Dead, Derek & the Dominos, Wilson Pickett, The Marshall Tucker Band, and Scott Walker will support the score.

“This is my most personal film to date, and I’m very proud of how it turned out,” Kelly said.

The film will run for 1 hour and 55 minutes and is set for release on October 30, 2009.

Source: Richard Kelly’s Myspace Blog