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Fox Searchlight Finds a Number One Fan in Witherspoon

Seltzer (who hasn’t seen a produced screenplay since One Fine Day) sold Rule #1 to Fox Searchlight – the company who is currently seeing red with the horribly conceived Amelia.

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 30, 2009

Reese Witherspoon, the most commonly used named whenever a film needs to attach a lead actress to a project (Kidman used to own the title) is being linked for her acting abilities and producing capabilities to Terrel Seltzer’s original screenplay. If Reese’s publicist reads this, please drop me a line and let me know which title on this long grocery list is she no longer “attached” to.

Seltzer (who hasn’t seen a produced screenplay since One Fine Day) sold Rule #1 to Fox Searchlight – the company who is currently seeing red with the horribly conceived Amelia. Brad Epstein (Dan in Real LIfe) will produce the pic which centers on a New Yorker who befriends a Puerto Rican girl with attention deficit disorder.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).