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SPC tapping into ‘Youth’ market

Published on March 23, 2007

We’ve been wondering out loud for a while now who would distrbute Francis Ford Coppola’s newest project. Wonder no more. Today, Sony Pictures Classics that they’ve acquired Youth Without Youth for a Fall 2007 release.

Based on the novella by Romanian author and intellectual Mircea Eliade. This stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an elderly professor whose mysterious rejuvenation heightens his intelligence and whose apparent immortality makes him a target for the Nazis in this World War II-era parable. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India. The also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Andre M. Hennicke, Marcel Iures, and introduces Alexandra Pirici. Son Roman Coppola directed the second unit.

The move shows that SPC is flexing a little muscle – slightly more aggressive in finding material for their slate and on Coppola’s part, it announces that the filmmaker (who hasn't made a film in more than a decade) was perhaps looking for the right shoe to fit. This debunks rumors of Coppola going over to Tom Cruise’s United Artists.

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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).