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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Pulcini and Berman’s The Extra Man

I think American Splendor fans are willing to let bygones be bygones, as their sophomore pic The Nanny Diaries didn’t cut it. I’m not sure what to make of this project, but I’m usually a fan of whatever producer Anthony Bregman attaches himself to.

IONCINEMA.com Top 100 Films

#93. The Extra Man

Director: Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman
Writer(s): Pulcini, Bergman and Jonathan Ames
Producers: Stephanie Davis and Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: Based on Jonathan Ames’ novel of the same title, Louis Ives (Paul Dano) fancies himself a hero in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. He favors neckties, blue blazers, and sport coats. After an embarrassing incident involving a brassiere fetish, he loses his teaching job at a Princeton prep school and heads to New York to fulfill his dream of becoming a writer…(more)

Cast: Katie Holmes, Paul Dano, John C. Reilly and Kevin Kline.

Why is it on the list?: I think American Splendor fans are willing to let bygones be bygones, as their sophomore pic The Nanny Diaries didn’t cut it. I’m not sure what to make of this project, but I’m usually a fan of whatever producer Anthony Bregman attaches himself to.  

Release Date/Status?: Sundance premiere followed by a sale from Wild Bunch followed by eventual release this year.

 
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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).

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