Weinstein saves ‘Act’ for last

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Known for his aggressive buying tactics – The Weinstein Co.
co-head Harvey Weinstein locked up the rights
to Gillian Armstrong’s fictionalized Harry Houdini biopic during the final hours of the American Film Market. Variety reports that the film should preem at the Festival de Cannes in May and hit theatres in fall of 2007.

Written by Tony Grisoni and Brian Ward, Death Defying Acts is based on true events during the escape artist Harry Houdini’s 1926 tour of Britain, the film chronicles the tumultuous love affair between the famed magician (Guy Pearce
) and a psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who tries to con him by holding a seance to contact his dead mother.

Gillian Armstrong the director behind Charlotte Gray, My Brilliant Career and The Last Days of Chez Nous has just wrapped principal photography and is now in postproduction with the project.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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