UPDATE, WRITETHRU: France’s biggest movie awards night has drawn to a close with Custody (Jusqu’à La Garde) crowned Best Picture. Originally screened in Venice and Toronto in 2017, the Xavier Legrand-directed drama is a story of domestic abuse that stars Denis Ménochet and Léa Drucker, the latter won Best Actress…
France's Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma unveiled its nominations for the César Awards this morning in Paris. The races for the country's Oscar equivalent are led by Xavier Legrand's feature debut Jusqu'à La Garde (Custody) and Gilles Lellouche's Le Grand Bain (Sink Or Swim) with 10 mentions each. They are…
When two-time Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat goes about his work, he spends a lot of time imagining, striving for a score and a sonic world unlike any heard before. With Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs—set in a dystopian near-future Japan, and following a boy in search of his dog on an island of refuse—this…
As a producer-actor, giving carte blanche to an auteur can be a dangerous thing, as John C. Reilly found when he and his wife Alison Dickey began shopping their passion project, and Reilly's first producorial feature outing—an adaptation of Patrick DeWitt's 2012 novel The Sisters Brothers—to some of the world's most…
EXCLUSIVE: Universal has taken rights in multiple key markets to Jacques Audiard’s Annapurna-backed western The Sisters Brothers, I understand, following local intrigue over its UK distributor.
Universal will distribute in UK, Italy and Australia/NZ and is lining up an April 2019 release in the former (which seemingly…
The marketplace can handle multiple robust openings on the specialty side. Bleecker Street's Sundance debut Colette starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West and Denise Gough is estimated to have topped out the weekend with a $156,788 gross in four locations in New York and L.A. this weekend, averaging $39,197…
Another busy post-summer lineup of specialties are heading into theaters this weekend, including Sundance and Toronto's period bio-drama Colette by filmmaker Wash Westmoreland, opening in New York and L.A. via Bleecker Street. And fresh off of its Venice and Toronto debuts, Annapurna's The Sisters Brothers by French…
Many Europeans flounder with their first English-language feature, but France's Jacques Audiard took Venice's Silver Lion for his, winning Best Director at this year's festival. Based on the book by Canadian novelist Patrick Dewitt, The Sisters Brothers stars John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as Eli and Charlie…
Jacques Audiard wrapped up the press conference for The Sisters Brothers this afternoon with a resounding call to action on the gender equality issue that has been front-and-center here on the Lido. And in the process, he took a shot at festivals themselves.
The Palme d'Or winner said he was surprised when he saw the…
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 21-29) has pulled together an impressive lineup for its competitive Audience Award section, including Damien Chazelle’s First Man, Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born.
Also among the ten new films announced today for the ‘Perlak’ selection are Jacques…
Annapurna will co-produce and co-finance award-winning filmmaker Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers with Why Not Productions, and Megan Ellison’s indie also has domestic distribution rights for the film. Page 114 also is on board as a producer.
The film is Audiard's follow-up to his Palme d'Or-winning Dheepan,…
