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Promised Land Giveaway!
Focus Features launched Gus Van Sant’s new environmental drama, Promised Land, into theaters on January 4 and in partnership with Filmmaker, will be giving away some great Focus merch this week. Up for grabs by two lucky winners will be the 15th Anniversary Edition of Matt Damon’s breakthrough collaboration with Van Sant, Good Will Hunting, on blu-ray as well as the Focus Features 10th Anniversary: A Collection of Film Score soundtrack (including scores from movies such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Brokeback Mountain).
Be one of the first two respondents to answer the following questions correctly, and the prizes are yours:
Which previous film, also released by Focus Features, did John Krasinski and Dave Eggers collaborate on?
Email your answers to nick@filmmakermagazine.com.
Here is how Focus Features describes Promised Land:
Promised Land is the new contemporary drama directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk). Matt Damon plays Steve Butler, an ace corporate salesman who is sent along with his partner, Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), to close a key rural town in his company’s expansion plans. With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company’s offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Hal Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (John Krasinski), as well as the interest of a local woman (Rosemarie DeWitt). Promised Land explores America at the crossroads where big business and the strength of small-town community converge.
For more on the film, check out the trailer and click on the poster below to visit the official site!
