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Sony Think Timing is Best for Ol Parker’s ‘Now Is Good’
Always a good sign when your sophomore project gets picked up at the midway point of production, as is the case for Ol Parker's London-shot Now Is Good. Bought by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, this could possibly follow other pick-ups to be packaged as a Sony Pictures Classics project later down the line. The tear-jerker drama is comprised of Dakota Fanning in the lead, with supporting perfs from Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams and Kaya Scodelario, who we look forward in seeing in Andrea Arnold's upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
Rashaad Ernesto Green
I have always enjoyed Paul Greengrass's work, because watching his films make you feel like you're inside the story. For Gun Hill Road, I employed documentary-style camerawork, and shot in densely populated areas that clearly reflected the world I wished to portray. Motion Film Group
2011 Venice Int. Film Festival: Steve McQueen, Yorgos Lanthimos, Eran Kolirin and Andrea Arnold Among 20 Vying For Golden Lion
Today's announcement for the 2011 Venice Film Festival lineup basically crosses off plenty of sure bets we had been anticipating and makes us circle a bunch of titles we thought had a chance for a 2011 showing but now become hot items for the 2012 campaign. Films such as Juan Diego Solanas' Upside Down, Rodrigo Cortés' Red Lights, Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Headshot, Brillante Mendoza's Prey look more and more like Cannes 2012 items, while acquisition titles such as Antonio Campos' Simon Killer and Nick Cassavetes' Yellow wouldn't be out of place for a Sundance showing.
SPC Searches for ‘Darling Companion’
Sony Pictures Classics knows their market well. Loaded with a cast of actors who were ripe back in the 70's (Keaton, Kline, Shepard, Wiest and Richard Jenkins whose career really took off in the last decade), SPC have picked up Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion and have set it for their 2012 slate.
Janus Films Takes Refuge with ‘Le Havre’
Finally. Perhaps the crowd pleaser of the 2011 Cannes edition has finally found a home - with the provider of retro art-house cinema. Janus Films who make about one theatrical pick-up every 24 months have secured the North American rights to a film that might have gone home empty handed (it was however bestowed with the FIPRESCI Prize), but essentially slayed the majority of the international press with its slow burn, simplistic charm. Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre will be set up for a release in the autumn and will surely premiere at major upcoming North American fests such as Telluride, TIFF and Chicago.
