The Lady joins Michael Winterbottom's Trishna, Bennett Miller's Moneyball and Roland Emmerich's Anonymous on confirmed list
Luc Besson's Aung San Suu Kyi biopic, The Lady, will have its world premiere at September's Toronto film festival. The news was announced on Twitter by festival co-director, Cameron Bailey (@cameron_tiff).
Other confirmed world premieres include Bennett Miller's baseball drama Moneyball (starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill), Michael Winterbottom's Trishna (a contemporary remake of Tess of the d'Urbervilles) and Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, a drama based on the theory that Shakespeare's major works may not have been written by the playwright. Joining them will be cancer comedy 50/50 (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogan), George Clooney's comedy-drama The Descendants and Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, an adaptation of Paul Today's best-selling novel by Lasse Hallström,...
Luc Besson's Aung San Suu Kyi biopic, The Lady, will have its world premiere at September's Toronto film festival. The news was announced on Twitter by festival co-director, Cameron Bailey (@cameron_tiff).
Other confirmed world premieres include Bennett Miller's baseball drama Moneyball (starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill), Michael Winterbottom's Trishna (a contemporary remake of Tess of the d'Urbervilles) and Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, a drama based on the theory that Shakespeare's major works may not have been written by the playwright. Joining them will be cancer comedy 50/50 (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogan), George Clooney's comedy-drama The Descendants and Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, an adaptation of Paul Today's best-selling novel by Lasse Hallström,...
- 7/27/2011
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
My Idiot Brother
Opens: 2011
Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan
Director: Jesse Peretz
Summary: Ned is a well-meaning idealist just released from prison for dealing cannabis. In succession, he disrupts the lives and homes of his three sisters: a career-driven journalist about to get her big break; a bisexual hipster whose lies are disrupting her relationship; and a married mother who hasn't noticed that her marriage is falling apart.
Analysis: Scoring a good response over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, this broad light comedy with a sweet heart charmed the pants off The Weinstein Company to the tune of around $6 million for distribution rights. That covers most of its sub-$10 million budget, a number that it could potentially outgross by several factors if the good-natured tone hinted at in the reviews were correct. If anything, the few negatives tended to be because this...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan
Director: Jesse Peretz
Summary: Ned is a well-meaning idealist just released from prison for dealing cannabis. In succession, he disrupts the lives and homes of his three sisters: a career-driven journalist about to get her big break; a bisexual hipster whose lies are disrupting her relationship; and a married mother who hasn't noticed that her marriage is falling apart.
Analysis: Scoring a good response over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, this broad light comedy with a sweet heart charmed the pants off The Weinstein Company to the tune of around $6 million for distribution rights. That covers most of its sub-$10 million budget, a number that it could potentially outgross by several factors if the good-natured tone hinted at in the reviews were correct. If anything, the few negatives tended to be because this...
- 1/28/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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