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Sundance: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore wow the fest with Gay Marriage drama
Lumière:
Ooh!
Thanks for posting this, John! :)
I too admire both Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as actresses and it would be amazing to see them together as an onscreen couple.
I'll definitely be on the lookout for this one. I hope it gets good distribution and exposure.
Lumière:
I just found this bit of news on Imdb: :)
Julianne Moore and Annette Bening's 'The Kids Are All Right' goes to Focus
The second big acquisition of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival occurred today as Focus Features acquired U.S. rights to Lisa Cholodenko's acclaimed dramedy "The Kids Are All Right" for reportedly just under $5 million.
Focus and Summit were the most intense bidders for the picture which centers on a Los Angeles lesbian couple (Annette Bening and Julian Moore) dealing with their children's introduction to their sperm donor, aka biological father (Mark Ruffalo). The film drew raves after its Monday night screening and could be a strong commercial and awards season player depending on when Focus decides to release it.
While Summit was extremely interested in the film it appears they weren't willing to go as high as Focus to win the rights. Additionally, Focus has had a tremendous amount of success with gay-themed films such as "Brokeback Mountain" and "Milk" which give them insight how to market it broadly. That was no doubt a reassurance to the producers and the filmmakers that they would be in good hands. Other reported suitors included Fox Searchlight, The Weinstein Company and Sony Pictures Classics.
It should be noted Focus hasn't picked up any films at Sundance since they paid $10 million for "Hamlet 2" in 2008. That film was a commercial disappointment and the mini-major has been very careful on the festival circuit since then. Considering the company's weak 2009 (where only "Coraline" was a true break out hit), taking a chance on "Kids" may have been just what the NBCUni division ordered.
Other films still working on closing deals include "Catfish," "HappyThankYouMorePlease," "The Company Men," "The Tillman Story," "Splice" and "Winter's Bone." The first big deal of the festival occurred when Lionsgate bought the Ryan Reynolds thriller "Buried" for a little over $3 million on Sunday.
http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2010-1-27-julianne-moore-and-annette-bening-s-the-kids-are-all-right-goes-to-focus
southendmd:
Focus is all right!
Sorry, but Hamlet2 and Coraline were pretty awful.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
:-*
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Aloysius J. Gleek:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/movies/29sundance.html?8dpc
Don’t Smirk, Sundance’s Roots Do Show
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Mr. Ruffalo, who plays a priest in “Sympathy for Delicious,” also shows up in “The Kids Are All Right,” from Lisa Cholodenko, the director of “High Art” and “Laurel Canyon,” who returned to Sundance with her best work yet. Pitched between drama and comedy, the movie centers on two lesbians, exquisitely played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, whose world is rocked, with equal amounts of dread and pleasure, when their children (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson) contact their biological father, a sperm donor turned restaurateur (Mr. Ruffalo, as excellent as the rest of the cast). With characters who are as honest as the movie’s Los Angeles locations, Ms. Cholodenko has created a generous, nearly note-perfect portrait of a modern family that is, as its title suggests, political and insistently independent.
Also re: from the same NYT Sundance article:
THE RUNAWAYS Kristen Stewart, right, as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie.
Ms. [Tamra] Davis’s intimate knowledge of the art and music world of that legendary scene gives her documentary the authentic tang missing in a fiction movie about a different 1970s legend, the rock band the Runways. Directed by Floria Sigismondi, “The Runaways” traces the rough and ready days of this all-girl band, primarily through the relationship between its two star teenage attractions, Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart, very fine) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning, often just as good). While the movie opens on a suitably punk note with a close-up of a drop of menstrual blood hitting the ground, a hopeful sign of some bad-girl attitude, it soon settles into a middle-of-the-road groove turning down the volume when it should go to 11.
Also, looking very, very good:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/21/movies/0121-sundance_index.html
Inside Sundance
The 2010 Sundance Film Festival runs from Jan. 21-31 and opens with the Allen Ginsberg biopic "Howl,"
with Aaron Tveit and James Franco.
"8: The Mormon Proposition" focuses on the role the Mormon church played in the the passing of
California's Proposition 8, which banned same sex marriages.
Cool!
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