{"id":21334,"date":"2011-02-02T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21334"},"modified":"2011-02-02T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:32:58","slug":"bethany-hamiltons-soul-surfer-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21334","title":{"rendered":"Bethany Hamilton&#8217;s Soul Surfer Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"451\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-xPe5cFNpI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The most recent screenings of the <strong>Bethany Hamilton<\/strong> biopic <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulsurferthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soul Surfer<\/a><\/em><\/strong> have been getting some pretty good reviews.  A story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118031260?refCatId=13\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/em><\/strong> yesterday says the pre-release press has been so good that producers have been able to get the film a much wider opening than was originally planned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But something curious happened along the way to the pic&#8217;s April 8 release date. &#8220;Everyone started liking the film,&#8221; McNamara said, &#8220;so we were able to hire better talent above and below the line. Once they saw the finished product, they decided to release it to 2,000 theaters and made a $26 million P&#38;A commitment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film stars <strong>Anna Sophia Robb<\/strong>, <strong>Helen Hunt<\/strong>, <strong>Carrie Underwood<\/strong>, and <strong>Dennis Quaid<\/strong>. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/filmblog\/2011\/feb\/02\/soul-surfer-trailer\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian UK<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is saying (based on the trailer above) that this film has something for everyone. We&#8217;re looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/filmblog\/2011\/feb\/02\/soul-surfer-trailer\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian UK<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent screenings of the Bethany Hamilton biopic Soul Surfer have been getting some pretty good reviews. A story in Variety yesterday says the pre-release press has been so good that producers have been able to get the film a much wider opening than was originally planned. But something curious happened along the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21336,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334\/revisions\/21336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}