Zak Penn’s The Grand Gets a Poster and Website

Posted by on January 31st, 2008   Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Internet, Posters and Marketing
Source: I Watch Stuff

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At the beginning of last year, when we talked about our most anticipated movies of 2007 on the Film Junk Podcast, I’m pretty sure Zak Penn’s The Grand was somewhere near the top of my list. This is another improvised mockumentary in the vein of Incident at Loch Ness, only this time it’s about a professional poker tournament. With a cast that includes Woody Harrelson, David Cross, Cheryl Hines, Chris Parnell, and Werner Herzog, how can you go wrong? (That’s David Cross in the big ass sunglasses there.)

The only problem is, 2007 came and went and the movie never got a theatrical release. It did premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, though, where Anchor Bay picked it up for distribution. Now it appears that The Grand will finally get a limited release on March 21st. A new website and poster have turned up online, and although there’s no trailer yet, there is a short video of Woody Harrelson’s character in the Gallery section. Follow the link below and explore the website while we await the trailer premiere.

» Related Link: The Grand Official Site



  • It’s a little “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”-ish

  • Pocket Aces

    This movie is very good. Highly entertaining. Good actors, good acting, good plot, very realistic. I never really thought about how the poker players you see on tv lives might be…. but in this movie, theyre either freakin nuts, or just plain weird! This movie isnt SPECTACULAR or PHENOMENAL or anything like that, but very entertaining, and never a dull moment. In a way, its sort of like the movie crash. They show you a little bit of each of the poker players’ lives, and of course their lives then intersect at “The Grand”, the national poker championship. I didnt like this movie because I play poker, in fact I dont play poker at all… but I liked the movie for what it is.