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Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts are set for “French Exit”, a surrealist comedy from director Azazel Jacobs. Based on the international bestselling book of the same name by Patrick deWitt, The pic follows 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Pfeiffer), whose plan to die before her money ran out doesn’t pan out. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a modest apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm (Hedges) and the embodiment of Franklin in the form of ‘Small Frank’ (Letts), the family cat. [More…]
“True Blood” alum Evan Rachel Wood will star alongside Jim Sturgess and Shinobu Terajima in “One Thousand Paper Cranes,” the story of Hiroshima survivor Sadako Sasaki and author Eleanor Coerr. Richard Raymond (“Desert Dancer”) will direct from Ben Bolea’s script, the story of Sasaki, who was a 2-year-old in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945. She was later diagnosed with leukemia caused by exposure to radiation from the blast. She drew strength from a Japanese legend that, if she folded 1,000 paper cranes, she would be granted a wish, which in her case was to live. [More…]
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsch, Paz Vega, and Jeremy Piven will star in ”American Night”, a neo-noir thriller helmed by first-time film director Alessio Jim Della Valle. The script, by Della Valle, follows Michael Rubino (Hirsch) who has just become the Don of the New York Mafia, but his greatest dream is to devote his life to painting and become a great artist. John Kaplan (Meyers), an art dealer, may feel like his life is in shambles, but he still has the best eye for spotting fakes in the world. Their paths, apparently distant, cross when Andy Warhol’s Pink Marilyn is stolen, setting off a series of unexpected events that upend their lives. [More…]
Jamie Dornan and Holliday Grainger will star in “Wild Mountain Thyme” from John Patrick Shanley (”Doubt”). The film, which is set against the landscapes of rural Ireland, tells of obstinate star-crossed lovers, whose families are caught up in a feud over a hotly contested patch of land that separates their two farms. CAA Media Finance is handling North American rights. Michael Madsen, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Marco Leonardi, and international popstar Anastacia will all cameo [More…]
