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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #61. Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

He might have gone a good decade between films, but The Directors Bureau label creator, American Zoetrope co-owner and scribe Roman Coppola has remained acutely integrated in both the writing (Wes Anderson) and filming process (video work and helping out his sis). Charlie Sheen can kiss the shoes that Coppola walks in for the role of Charlie Swan, and we can kiss our future ticket stub for what should pan out to be a delicious comedy noir number. Winning!

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#61. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Director/Writer: Roman Coppola
Producers: Coppola and Youree Henley
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: A graphic designer’s enviable life slides into despair when his girlfriend breaks up with him…(more)

Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bill Murray, Charlie Sheen, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Patricia Arquette and Katheryn Winnick

List Worthy Reasons…: He might have gone a good decade between films, but The Directors Bureau label creator, American Zoetrope co-owner and scribe Roman Coppola has remained acutely integrated in both the writing (Wes Anderson) and filming process (video work and helping out his sis). Charlie Sheen can kiss the shoes that Coppola walks in for the role of Charlie Swan, and we can kiss our future ticket stub for what should pan out to be a delicious comedy noir number. Winning!

Release Date/Status?: Producers of the the film will want to showcase this at a major film festival and since CQ was first launched in Cannes back in 2001, my thinking is France first, North American rights pick-up and then theatrical release all within a six month stretch.

 
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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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