Few actors get to star in a monster commercial smash that is also a zeitgeist hit, but that was Joshua Leonard’s experience with “The Blair Witch Project,” which turned a meager $60,000 production budget into almost $250 million in worldwide theatrical receipts, and owned the summer of 1999 (and beyond, in the form of countless spoofs, homages and far less inspired rip-offs) like no other indie movie of its time. Leonard continued to act over the years, and achieved a second peak of artistic acclaim two years back in Lynn Shelton’s “Humpday,” in which he and a fellow heterosexual friend (Mark Duplass) find themselves locked in a pact/dare to make…

Magnolia Pictures just sent us the release locations for the comedy “Humpday” by writer/director Lynn Shelton, director of My Effortless Brilliance and recipient of the “Someone to Watch Award” at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, expertly mines the biggest ironies of the male ego to hilarious effect. “Humpday” starring Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard and Alycia Delmore is a buddy movie gone wild. “Humpday” opens tomorrow 8/7/2009 in these locations: Tempe, AZ: Valley Art 1 Theatre Palm Desert, CA: Cinemas Palme D’Or Sacramento, CA: Crest Theatre Santa Barbara, CA: Plaza De Oro Santa Cruz, CA: Nickelodeon Theatres Hartford, CT: Cinema City 4 New Haven, CT: Criterion Cinemas 7 University City, MO:…

Title: Humpday Directed by: Lynn Shelton (My Effortless Brilliance) Actors: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard and Alycia Delmore. Scores: Technical: 75, Story: 95, Acting: 95, Overall: 88 Forget what you think you know about “bromances” from major studio movies, such as Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Hangover, even though it was number one at the box office for two weeks. Humpday, the new comedy that was written, produced and directed by Lynn Shelton and is part of the independent mumblecore movement (movies that usually focus on personal relationships between twenty-somethings, have improvised scripts and feature mostly non-professional actors), was expertly made to show what old, partying college friends really do when they…

Apple.com just released an exclusive new HD movie trailer from the upcoming Magnolia Pictures comedy “Humpday” by writer/director Lynn Shelton, director of My Effortless Brilliance and recipient of the “Someone to Watch Award” at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, expertly mines the biggest ironies of the male ego to hilarious effect. “Humpday” starring Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard and Alycia Delmore is a buddy movie gone wild. Click Here to watch the trailer in HD over at Apple.com. Synopsis: It’s been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the…

Magnolia Pictures just sent us the first official movie poster from the upcoming comedy “Humpday” by writer/director Lynn Shelton, director of My Effortless Brilliance and recipient of the “Someone to Watch Award” at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards, expertly mines the biggest ironies of the male ego to hilarious effect. “Humpday” starring Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard and Alycia Delmore is a buddy movie gone wild. Synopsis: It’s been a decade since Ben (Duplass) and Andrew (Leonard) were the bad boys of their college campus. Ben has settled down and found a job, wife, and home. Andrew took the alternate route as a vagabond artist, skipping the globe from Chiapas to…