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What is so refreshing about the new film Blackbird and sets it apart from other movies about euthanasia is that the debate about the morality of that act is already over before the first frame of the film. In other words, it has already been decided, and agreed to, by all the family members who now are gathering for a…

Screen Media has acquired all North American rights and select foreign territories to Roger Michell’s Blackbird ensemble movie which made its world premiere at TIFF last year. A September release is planned. The pic, which Screen Media picked up from Millennium Media, stars Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia…

EXCLUSIVE: Christine and Simon Killer director Antonio Campos has set up his next film just in time to be a hot Toronto sales package. Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Chris Evans and Tracy Letts are in talks to star in The Devil All the Time. The pic is an adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s 2011 novel…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton and Mia Wasikowska have been to set to star in Blackbird, an English-language remake of Bille August’s 2014 Danish-language pic Silent Heart. The Millennium Films pic will be directed by Notting Hill and My Cousin Rachel helmer Roger Michell and penned by the original movie’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie, star of Paul Greengrass’s upcoming thriller Norway and Netflix series Nobel, has joined Greta Gerwig, John Turturro and Mia Wasikowska in the cast of Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island, I can reveal. Shoot is due to get underway July 16 in Farö (the remote island in…

Magnolia Pictures and Great Point media have teamed in a U.S. co-distribution deal for Damsel, the Sundance Film Festival pic starring Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska. The deal for the comedic Western written and directed by David and Nathan Zellner comes as the pic screens today at SXSW. A summer theatrical…

Making a big splash at Sundance two years ago with The Eyes of My Mother, writer/director Nicolas Pesce hopes to do the same this year with Piercing, a two-hander thriller starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska. The film follows Reed (Abbott), who kisses his wife (Laia Costa) and baby goodbye with the…

With over a billion dollar worldwide gross, not to mention a couple of Oscars, it was probably inevitable that Disney would try to turn 2010’s Alice In Wonderland  into a franchise, and that is exactly what they have done with the follow-up, Alice Through The Looking Glass. This time around director Tim Burton is…

Highlighting Pink’s version of Jefferson Airplane’s psychedelic chestnut “White Rabbit” — and ending with a look at Humpty Dumpty and his sad fate — Disney’s new trailer for Alice Through the Looking Glass lends some ultramodern sheen to the classics. The new clip for the 3D movie (opening May 27) was included in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures has acquired Lyndsay Faye’s acclaimed novel Jane Steele along with Ocean Blue Entertainment and Prescience in association with Altus Media. The book, which has received ecstatic critical notices across the board, will be published by G.P. Putnam's Sons on Tuesday. Inspired by…

Curiouser and curiouser indeed. Disney released two new TV spots for Alice Through The Looking Glass tonight during the 2016 Grammys. The first is a featurette revealing that pop singer Pink will be contributing two songs to the film’s soundtrack: a cover of the Jefferson Airplane acid rock classic “White Rabbit” and…

Mia Wasikowska’s Madame Bovary Sells For Radiant Films Radiant Films International has completed multiple sales deals in territories worldwide for Madame Bovary starring Mia Wasikowska including all French-speaking rights to Jour2Fête and Italy to Paco Pictures. Additional sales include Benelux to A-Film, Scandinavia…