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‘Last Chance’ for Hoffman & Thompson

This is for those who enjoyed their same sequence non-pairing pairing in Stranger Than Fiction, veteran actors Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are getting one of those rare opportunities to play romantic leads while very much past the middle age point. Variety reports that the pair will star in Overture Films' newest project set to start in London in September and produced by Tim Perell and Nicola Usborne with Jawal Nga exec producing. Last Chance Harvey will be Joel Hopkins.
  

Written by Hopkins and Usborne, this is about a man down on his luck finds an unlikely female companion while in London attending his daughter's wedding.


I’ve yet to hear about this particular Brit filmmaker, but
Hopkins won a BAFTA award for most promising newcomer five years ago for their work on Jump Tomorrow (2001).

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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