Miramax makes a ‘Smart’ move

Miramax Films are prepping for next year's Oscar race, boarding on filmmaker Noam Murro's Smart People and buying the North American rights. This is one of the first productions from Michael London's new Groundswell Prods. London is of course the producer behind such films as Sideways and The Illusionist.   

Written by Mark Poirier, this sees Dennis Quaid play a professor whose wife's death has turned him into a bitter eccentric. He learns to reconnect with people after falling for a former student. This also stars Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) and Sarah Jessica Parker. Producers are Bill Block, Michael Costigan, Bridget Johnson, Bruna Papandrea and London.

Murro should be boarding the remake of Strangers on a Train
and is attached to direct the novel to screen project All Families Are Psychotic.