Newmarket Films has sent us the press kit for The Nines, the upcoming film from John August starring Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis, and Elle Fanning.

View the final one sheet here at right and click for larger view. Here after the jump are production photos, official synopsis, trailer, and a segment of AOL Moviefone’s Unscripted, with stars Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, and Elle Fanning. We’ve also included three of the nine available links to the online cross media puzzle game for those who want to play along.

August wrote the screenplays for three Tim Burton films — Corpse Bride, Big Fish, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — and is currently writing the script for the Shazam! movie. The Nines, which August also wrote, is the noted screenwriter’s directoral debut.

iFilm has an exclusive clip of the first nine minutes of The Nines, so catch now while it’s still there. The Nines opens in New York and Los Angeles on August 31, 2007.

Online Puzzle Game

As a companion piece to the film, Newmarket Films’ has developed a cross media game consisting of nine puzzles. The answers form a trail to the grand prize. Mirroring the tone of the film, The Nines game blends the virtual and the real. Here are links to the first three puzzle clues:

www.ugo.com/a/the-nines/
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=23106
http://www.movieweb.com/news/04/21904.php

Production Photos

Official Synopsis

John August, the acclaimed screenwriter of GO, BIG FISH, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and THE CORPSE BRIDE, makes his directorial debut with THE NINES, an intricately constructed intriguing blur of reality, virtual reality and metaphysical fantasy. The film unfolds in three parts, featuring the same actors in different (and in some ways overlapping) incarnations.

Ryan Reynolds stars with Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis and Elle Fanning as:

Gary (Reynolds) – a TV actor who finds himself under house arrest after one too many benders. He is tended to by an impossibly chipper publicist (McCarthy) and a sexually tempting new mother next door ( Davis ).

Gavin (Reynolds), a show-runner who is the subject of a reality TV show about the thorny process of creating a network series (not dissimilar to August himself). His show stars his (and August’s) best friend, the actress Melissa McCarthy, much to the chagrin of the network’s development executive ( Davis ). He also happens to own the house where Gary is imprisoned (John August’s actual home).

Gabriel (Reynolds) – a successful video game designer who runs into car trouble with his wife (McCarthy) and daughter (Fanning) in the woods and then into even greater trouble when he seeks help from an attractive hitchhiker (Davis).

Together, the three stories form a single narrative that explores the relationships between author and character, actor and role, creator and creation. Alternately funny and unsettling, The Nines is like a riddle where the answer may just lead to another question.

Official Site: lookforthenines.com

Trailer (from AOL Moviefone)

Unscripted Video Segment
Interview segment of AOL Moviefone’s Unscripted with Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, and Elle Fanning.