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Breaking Upwards Duo Brings Motherf***er and Lola Versus To Fox Searchlight
Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones who just sold Lola Versus with Anne Hathaway attached, then successfully pitched another rom com going by what will be a fun title to market in Motherf***er.
Film in Pictures: Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies
Here's a batch of stills from Guillaume Canet's third film as as a filmmaker. Little White Lies receives its world premiere at TIFF, and follows in the footsteps of Tell No One, which raked in about 6 million U.S -- a monster success for a film with subtitles.
Film in Pictures: Mike Mills’ Beginners
I'm gearing up for TIFF here, and in comes the first wave of pictures from Mike Mill's sophomore feature Beginners - a film that should be at the top of many buyer's lists next month, and is one of my most anticipated features of the year as it's been a long wait since Thumbsucker.
Zeitgeist Films Checkmate ‘Queen of Play’
I sort of lost track on this Euro item which at one point had Bruno Ganz set to star opposite Sandrine Bonnaire. Looks like Queen of Play would eventually pick up Kevin Kline; the actor got to practice his French in a feature film for a first time. A Tribeca 2009 entry, this centers on a hotel chambermaid (Bonnaire) whose growing interest in chess is nurtured by her American employer (Kline).
Cannes Pick-up in August: Biutiful Going to Roadside Attractions?
With strong critical support from Sundance, Roadside successfully launched Winter's Bone this summer and will appropriately handle the Gothams and Indie Spirits Awards, but Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful is a different creature.
