Title: Margaret Director: Kenneth Lonergan Starring: Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon, Jean Reno, Jeannie Berlin, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Broderick,  Kenneth Lonergan, Rosemarie Dewitt, Allison Janney “Margaret,” the first film behind the camera from writer-director Kenneth Lonergan in more than a decade, is a hot mess. Considering its behind-the-scenes wrangling and long road to release, however, that’s not really that surprising. In 2000, Longergan helped bolster the mainstream careers of Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo with “You Can Count On Me,” the engaging, Oscar-nominated story of a fractured adult sibling relationship. In 2005 he shot his follow-up, “Margaret,” about a troubled high school teenager who witnesses a terrible bus accident…

Dimension’s “The Road”, a dark post-apocalyptic tale starring Viggo Mortensen, has had its release date moved back from the end of November (which a limited release originally set November 14th and wider release November 26th) to hopefully a December 10th opening. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Dimension executives are set to meet with the film’s producers to talk about whether or not the film, still in post-production, can make a cutoff date for a 2008 premier or if they should cut their losses and aim for a 2009 release date instead. Based on a book by Cormac McCarthy, the author of “No Country For Old Men”, “The Road” deals with…