Geoffrey Rush reacted to his Golden Globe nomination for Nat Geo’s Genius, saying that he believed in the  “complexity of humankind”. His nomination comes after allegations of “inappropriate behavior” emerged during an Australian play. Rush was nominated in the Best Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or…

Paolo Virzì came to the Toronto Film Festival having had a fantasy come true—with The Leisure Seeker, his English-language debut, playing to enthusiastic houses, the director came by the Deadline studio with the two stars he'd wanted from the get-go: Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, who both praised Sony Classics…

The Leisure Seeker is Italian director Paolo Virzi’s first English-language feature — and it clearly struck a chord with the local audience here at the Venice Film Festival today. (That’s despite downbeat reviews from mainstream U.S. critics.) Social and local media have also gone mad for the film’s leads, Dame Helen M…

UPDATED, 9:16 AM: Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed Deadline’s scoop out of Toronto that it has acquired The Leisure Seeker, director Paolo Virzi’s road-trip film starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. Read SPC’s official announcement below. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, September 15: Another splashy Toronto deal near…

UPDATED, Sunday, 10:31 AM: The management of The Leisure Seeker film let crew members know today that they will provide rental cars for those whose cars are unusable for the duration of the shoot “as a courtesy” and also “would like to cover” auto insurance deductibles for cars that need repair. This is a similar…

Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are teaming for The Leisure Seeker, a road movie about a retired couple who embark on an adventure in a Winnebago. The project, based on a novel by Michael Zadoorian, is being sold at Cannes by BAC Films. Italian filmmaker Paulo Virzi, whose Like Crazy is playing in Directors…