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‘Greenburg’ Proves that Acting Career in ‘Focus’ for Gerwig
Jay and Mark Duplass are in production with a project for Fox Searchlight, and now Greta Gerwig (who has partnered on many Joe Swanberg items) is going to topline what is now a Focus Features comedy helmed by Noah Baumbach. Focus were circling Greenburg for a while now and have finally landed a deal to distribute the pic.
To ‘Heli’ and Back for Escalante
In many ways the story-line of a pair of young migrant Mexican workers who commit a brutal crime reminded me of certain facets from Haneke's Funny Games. I expect the auteur filmmaker to bring much of the same provocation and similar visual treatment to his next work, Heli.
Tanovic Joins the ‘Cirkus’
No Man's Land was a satire on how people had the ability to lose focus, Danis Tanovic's explores the same problem with his upcoming next project currently being pre-sold by The Match Factory in Berlin. An adaptation of the debut novel by Croatian journalist Ivica Djikic, Cirkus Columbia will look at the new rise of nationalism and facism in Bosnia.
Depp is ‘Strange’
The word during the Sundance film festival was that Tom DiCillo's narration was a little overbearing -- it was this negative buzz that made me eventually lose interest in catching the documentary film as scheduled and perhaps this is part of the motivation behind DiCillo picking Johnny Depp to do some of the same.
Cristian Mungiu Bringing the ‘Golden Age’ to Cannes
It's no big secret that Cristian Mungiu's next project was Cannes bound, yesterday's brief update Palme d’Or winner Mungiu is re-teaming with sales agent Wild Bunch for Tales From The Golden Age is a great indication that the "unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania told in six independent, yet sometimes connected, stories by native directors" will show up on the Croisette in a couple of months from now.
