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Sneak Peek footage from writer/director Rita Merson's 2014 musical romance comedy, "Always Woodstock", starring Jason Ritter, Allison Miller, Brittany Snow, Katey Sagal, James Wolk and Rumer Willis, available on DVD April 21, 2015 from Anchor Bay Entertainment:

"...aspiring singer, 'Catherine Brown' (Allison Miller), finds herself living a life she never imagined. Stuck at a dead end job in New York City at a mega music record label, Catherine spends her days as the wrangler for the label's most difficult star (Brittany Snow).

"But when Catherine is unceremoniously fired, and then comes home to find her long time fiance (Jason Ritter) in the arms of another woman, she decides that it's time for a change.

"Selling her engagement ring, Catherine moves back to her family home in Woodstock, to get back to what she has always wanted to do: write music.

"Then one night at a local bar, Catherine...

  Always Woodstock (2014) Film Review, a movie directed by Rita Merson, and starring Katey Sagal, Brittany Snow, Ryan Guzman, Rumer Willis, Allison Miller, Richard Riehle, James Wolk, Alexie Gilmore, Anna Anissimova, Sean McNabb, Richard Reid, Finesse Mitchell, Jim Klock, and Kate Lacey. Always Woodstock is delightful, upbeat, happy, and I would [...]

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There’s always something magical about Woodstock for all musicians.

“Always Woodstock” is a coming of age story for an aspiring singer, Catherine Brown, who was stuck at a dead end job in New York City at a mega music record label. She spends her days as a wrangler for the company’s most difficult star. After she was fired for an incident with the company’s most important talent, she came home to her long-time fiancée in the arms of another woman. It triggered a change for her to move back home to Woodstock where she meets a handsome doctor, Noah, and writes music with the help of a local musical legend Lee Ann. As she starts to learn about love again, she realizes that becoming successful means becoming your true self first.

The film has a good well known cast with Allison Miller (“Selfie”), James Wolk (“Mad Men...

Though Allison Miller may be best known for TV roles such as Michelle Benjamin in Kings, Skye in Terra Nova and Carrie in Go On, the actress is starting to make some waves on the big screen as well. After starring in the thriller Devil's Due earlier this year, the actress takes on a far less frightening role as the eccentric Catherine Brown in the indie Always Woodstock, which is available in select theaters and on VOD formats starting today, November 14.

The actress portrays Catherine Brown, who has a soul-sucking job working for a major record label, but she really wants to write her own music. After she catches her boyfriend Garret (Jason Ritter), an emotionally unstable actor, cheating on her, she decides to move back to her childhood home in Woodstock, New York. "Quirky" is almost an understatement when describing Catherine, who has a bizarre habit of screaming silently,...

This weekend’s onslaught of smaller new films will have awards contenders and big names to jostle with at the box office. Awards hopefuls Foxcatcher and The Homesman begin their theatrical runs in limited New York and L.A. rollouts, with the former a likely winner in the first weekend when the numbers come in Sunday. The films from Sony Pictures Classics and Roadside Attractions, respectively, tell particularly American stories, though from very different eras. The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart took time off in 2013 to work on his directorial debut. Open Road’s Rosewater, starring Gael García Bernal, will begin its theatrical rollout this weekend. It will be the biggest opener of this weekend’s cadre of specialty newcomers, playing in several hundred locations in the U.S. and Canada. Actor Chris Lowell also makes his filmmaking launch with Beside Still Waters. The project had smooth sailing until it came time for distribution,...

In just four years, since his breakout roles in 2010's You Again and the critically-acclaimed but short-lived drama series Lone Star, James Wolk has put together an impressive string of performances. While he's best known, of late, for playing Bob Benson on AMC's Mad Men, he has also showed off his diverse talents in For a Good Time, Call..., Shameless, Happy Endings, Political Animals and The Crazy Ones. The actor returns to the big screen this weekend in the charming indie Always Woodstock, opening in select theaters and on VOD formats November 14.

The story centers on the quirky Catherine Brown, stuck in a miserable job at a New York record label, who decides she needs a change of pace. She packs up everything and moves to her family home in Woodstock, New York. It's there she meets charming local doctor Noah Bernstein (James Wolk)

I recently had the chance to...

2014 has been a good year for redemption-through-music stories, with high points such as God Help the Girl and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls — Rainbow Rocks and lesser efforts such as Rudderless.

Rita Merson's Always Woodstock lands somewhere higher up on the list, and not just because any film justifies its existence when it gives Katey Sagal a chance to sing. After a very bad day in which she gets fired from her position as a burgeoning executive at a major New York record label — this right before discovering her fiancé with another woman — twentysomething Catherine (Allison Miller) decides to move upstate to the family home in Woodstock.

She intends to follow in her late parents' footsteps and become a songwrit...

Refresh for latest There’s Always Woodstock has added several new actors to its cast. Rumer Willis, Brittany Snow, Parenthood’s Jason Ritter, Jimmy Wolk, Finesse Mitchell and Anna Anissimova have all joined the romantic comedy directed by Rita Merson. There’s Always Woodstock stars Katey Sagal and Allison Miller of NBC’s Go On. The film centers on Catherine Brown (Miller), a would-be songwriter who returns to her dead parents’ home in Woodstock, New York for the summer. Ritter will be playing the self-absorbed actor and unfaithful fiance of Brown. Willis will be playing a Goth waitress at the coffeehouse owned by Sagal’s character who becomes friends with Brown. Merson, Sunrise Pictures’ Peter Schafer as well Jenny Hinkey are producing the film. Joe Dain and Jim Klock are executive producers with manager David Guillod serving as Co-Executive Producer Matt Barr has joined the cast of Parkland. The Hatfields...

The Faithful

Matthias Schoenaerts ("Rust and Bone," "Bullhead") has joined Michael R. Roskam's film noir "The Faithful" at Savage Film and Stone Angels.

The story deals with a crime gang in Brussels. Roskam is currently co-writing the script while Pierre-Ange Le Pogam will produce. Shooting kicks off Spring 2014. [Source: Variety]

There’s Always Woodstock Katey Sagal ("Sons Of Anarchy") has joined the cast of the indie rom-com "There’s Always Woodstock". Sagal will play a suffer-no-fools owner of the Shop coffeehouse in the upstate New York town.

Allison Miller plays a would-be songwriter who returns to her dead parents’ home in Woodstock, New York for the summer. Rita Merson makes her feature directorial debut. [Source: Deadline]

Walking on Sunshine Samantha Barks ("Les Misérables," "Groove High") is in talks to join Kylie Minogue and others in the musical comedy "Walking on Sunshine" which is set to 1980s pop songs.

The story deals with a...

The Faithful

Matthias Schoenaerts ("Rust and Bone," "Bullhead") has joined Michael R. Roskam's film noir "The Faithful" at Savage Film and Stone Angels.

The story deals with a crime gang in Brussels. Roskam is currently co-writing the script while Pierre-Ange Le Pogam will produce. Shooting kicks off Spring 2014. [Source: Variety]

There’s Always Woodstock Katey Sagal ("Sons Of Anarchy") has joined the cast of the indie rom-com "There’s Always Woodstock". Sagal will play a suffer-no-fools owner of the Shop coffeehouse in the upstate New York town.

Allison Miller plays a would-be songwriter who returns to her dead parents’ home in Woodstock, New York for the summer. Rita Merson makes her feature directorial debut. [Source: Deadline]

Walking on Sunshine Samantha Barks ("Les Misérables," "Groove High") is in talks to join Kylie Minogue and others in the musical comedy "Walking on Sunshine" which is set to 1980s pop songs.

The story deals with a...

Exclusive: Katey Sagal is going from biker matriarch to coffeehouse proprietress. The Sons Of Anarchy actress has joined the cast of There’s Always Woodstock. Sagal will play Lee Ann, the suffer-no-fools owner of the Shop coffeehouse in the upstate New York town. The character, also a musician, is the close friend of Catherine Brown, the romantic comedy’s lead character. Allison Miller of NBC’s Go On was recently named to the role of Brown. There’s Always Woodstock follows would-be songwriter Brown as she returns to her dead parents’ home in Woodstock, New York for the summer. In her feature directorial debut Rita Merson is helming There’s Always Woodstock. Merson, Sunrise Pictures’ Peter Schafer as well Jenny Hinkey are producing the film. Joe Dain and Jim Klock are executive producers with manager David Guillod serving as Co-Executive Producer. Katey Sagal is repped by Wme and B&B Management.

Get Hard

Kevin Hart has signed on to star in the comedy "Get Hard" at Warner Bros. Pictures. No director is yet onboard, but Gary Sanchez is attached to produce.

Will Ferrell plays a wealthy investment banker sentenced to a maximum security prison for a crime he didn't commit. He enlists the help of the man who usually washes his car (Kevin Hart) to prepare him for doing hard time before he has to report to prison in thirty days. [Source: Deadline]

The Muppets 2

Ty Burrell ("Modern Family") will replace Christoph Waltz as an Interpol inspector in Disney's sequel "The Muppets 2." James Bobin is returning as helmer and shooting kicks off in winter in London.

Waltz was forced to back out due to scheduling conflicts. Two other key roles still to be cast are a Russian femme fatale and a mysterious male lead. [Source: THR]

Guardians of the Galaxy

Lee Pace has confirmed...

Super-cute Allison Miller is probably best known from NBC’s Go On, but I’m sure you also remember her from that 17 Again movie where she starred next to Zac Efron, right? Ok then, it’s time for us to report that Miller is now attached to play the female lead in an upcoming romantic comedy titled There’s Always Woodstock, which comes from director Rita Merson!

Merson is making her feature directorial debut on the project, and at this moment we know that Miller is set to star as a girl named Catherine Brown, described as:

…a young wannabe songwriter whose big city life in Manhattan falls apart and she returns to spend the summer in her childhood home in Woodstock.

Unfortunately, that’s basically all we know about There’s Always Woodstock so far, but I guess that we’ll soon have more casting updates to share with you.

Allison Miller is heading to Woodstock. The Go On series regular will play the lead role of Catherine Brown in the Rita Merson-directed romcom. There’s Always Woodstock follows would-be songwriter Brown as she returns to her dead parents’ home in Woodstock, New York for the summer. This is Merson’s directorial feature debut. Merson, Sunrise Pictures’ Peter Schafer as well Jenny Hinkley are producing There’s Always Woodstock. Joe Dain and Jim Klock are executive producers with manager David Guillod serving as Co-Executive Producer. Formerly on Fox’s now cancelled Terra Nova, Miller currently stars alongside Matthew Perry on his new NBC comedy. The actress also has created Michael Bolton’s Daughter Is Destroying My Life, which ABC has put in development. How I Met Your Mother producer Tami Sagher is writing the comedy pilot with the singer himself starring. Miller is repped by ICM Partners and managed by Thruline Entertainment.