After exploring how sexuality and gender converge in Hedwig... and Shortbus, this will be a notable departure for l'enfant terrible not only in theme and budget size, but it'll be a first for Cameron Mitchell as he is working from the contours of someone else's screenplay.
Nicole Kidman was already signed onto Rabbit Hole, meaning that Mitchell is embarking on a project that might already have a script in place. Production Weekly reports that to Aaron Eckhart has also joined the pic based on David Lindsay-Abaire's Broadway play.
As a result of a bizarre 2009 production year, TIFF is the happy recipient of some premium titles which include the world premieres to some of my most anticipated films this year in: Mike Mill's Beginners, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole, Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go, Andrucha Waddington's Lope and Rowan Joffe's Brighton Rock. Then we have titles that are coming from this year's Sundance, Cannes or both (Blue Valentine picks up the trifecta honor) and then we have titles that come to us from out of nowhere with Michael Winterbottom's The Trip and Richard Ayoade's debut film, Submarine.
Screen Daily made up their own Tips list with some surprise titles that I don't think will make it to Cannes (although I badly want to see Abdellatif Kechiche's Black Venus, I think he might return to Venice), and some titles that have a good shot which I did not mention (John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole) and plenty of their list mimics my picks - such as Julie Bertucelli's The Tree.
Odd Lot International is the foreign sales division of Odd Lot Entertainment and though they don't have a huge inventory, the titles they do have are worth keeping track of beginning with John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole which should be among our most anticipated films to see next year.