Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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Rebecca Hall is Neighborly in ‘Everything Must Go’

What happens when you become box office poison? You make adjustments to the career path and hope that an indie role in a dark comedy that was a featured as a 2008 Black List does the trick. That's what Will Ferrell did late last year, by signing up for Dan Rush's Everything Must Go - which was supposed to receive a green light early this year, but is obviously still in the casting stages. Today's add-on in Rebecca Hall points to a probable Spring start date.

Jessica Chastain to Tend ‘The Fields’

You might not know it yet, but Chastain is the next best thing - especially if Terence Malick's The Tree of Life turns out to be golden. She has now been added to Ami Canaan Mann's The Fields as the film's co-lead.

Jennifer Connelly, Kinnear and Tomei Find ‘Salvation’ in Religious Thriller?

Jennifer Connelly might rejoin her What's Wrong with Virginia? co-star Ed Harris in George Ratliff's Salvation Boulevard. Variety reports that Connelly, Greg Kinnear and possibly Marisa Tomei might join the already cast Pierce Brosnan, Jim Gaffigan and Harris in the film which will begin shooting next month.

McGregor Marries into Madonna’s ‘W.E’

Way before Elizabeth Taylor made it fashionable to go down the alter on multiple occasions, it was considered a lack of etiquette to get divorced and remarried, especially for 1930's British Royalty. Screen Daily reports that Madonna has added the counterpart (Ewan McGregor) to the attached Vera Farmiga's Wallis Simpson character.

Quebec in Cannes: Villeneuve, Dolan and co. Headed to the Croisette?

Will the Cannes Film Festival continue their love affair with Quebecois filmmakers? Last year was an specially strong year, the Director's Fortnight section loaded up, inviting a trio of titles from auteurs such as Denis Villeneuve, Denis Côté and the discovery of the section, in Xavier Dolan and his debut film I Killed My Mother.

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