The Counselor

The Counselor‘s official website went live, make sure to check it at the link. along with the extended second trailer, see below. Thanks Mark.

Dayum this looks promising to me!

Let’s start with Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor, shall we? While the film packs an absolutely brilliant all-star cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and more, it was originally set to debut on November 15th, the same day as Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (a movie that will be targeting the exact same demographics). It was only a matter of time before one of the two projects blinked and switched dates, and it appears that The Counselor has made the move. Fox has now moved the title to October 25th, where it will battle for audience attention with Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake and the latest installment of the Paranormal Activity franchise.

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Paramount Pictures is currently filming “The Counselor,” which opens this fall, in South El Paso. The movie stars Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz. (Aaron Bracamontes / El Paso Times)

Scenes for an upcoming Brad Pitt movie were shot in El Paso on Monday; however, the actor was not present.

Paramount Pictures movie studio trucks were parked on Fourth Street between Oregon and Santa Fe streets in the morning for some “pick-up” shots that will be featured in the movie “The Counselor,” which opens this fall.
In August, Yahoo Movies released photos of Pitt holding a prop copy of the El Paso Times on the set of “The Counselor.”

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Two upcoming films have set themselves for release this fall. November 15 will see the release of both Ridley Scott’s The Counselor and Peter Segal’s Grudge Match.

The Counselor, starring Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Dean Norris, John Leguizamo and Natalie Dormer, was scripted by Cormac McCarthy and tells of a present-day Southwest lawyer who gets in over his head in the drug trade.

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