We all know that the Weinsteins had some financial difficulties trouble and regardless if they are in the red or green, and despite reading headlines such as this one (All Good Things being bought out by Jarecki) today Michael De Luca Productions has agreed to a distribution deal with the distributor looking for a couple of consecutive home runs. The trades report that the Weinstein Co. have melted for the small-town America war of the butter sculptures comedy starring Jennifer Garner and the newly added Kate Hudson.
Butter, scripted by first-time scribe Jason Micallef, is set in a small Midwest town, this follows a young orphan who named Destiny, after being adopted by a Midwestern family, discovers she has an uncanny talent for butter-carving. She eventually finds herself up against the ambitious wife (Garner) of the retired reigning champion in a town’s annual butter-sculpting contest. Jim Field Smith is helming the comedy, a 2008 Black List script that is pretty good on paper because of the neurotic nature and obsessiveness of Garner’s Laura Pickler character.
