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Save this ‘Dance’ for WIP

Published on August 24, 2007

Little Miss Sunshine demonstrated the probable causes for the syndrome called “parents who push their kids to perform in the sports”. Variety reports that Warner Independent Pictures will back a project that will most likely tap into that psyche.

Evan Greenberg has been given the go ahead in a deal that will see the unknown screenwriter direct his own project. Dance of the Mirlitons is a dark comedy is about an ambitious yet overweight ballerina with an overbearing mother who will stop at nothing to become a star. Title comes from “The Nutcracker Suite”. Original Films' Neal Moritz and Tania Landau are producing.

Greenberg is currently rewriting Dramarama for WBros.

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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).