Fox Searchlight acquires “The Way, Way Back” Sundance hit January 23, 2013 - 11:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Fox Searchlight has acquired the Sundance coming-of-age story “The Way, Way Back” the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriters Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, TheWrap said. The film debuted at Sundance and immediately drew significant interest from buyers. Searchlight brought the rights for North America and several other territories and will distribute it in the summer. Faxon and Rash, who won an Academy Award for writing “The Descendants,” also wrote this coming-of-age tale, which follows 14-year-old Duncan on summer vacation with his mother, her boyfriend and the boyfriend’s daughter. Initially unhappy, Duncan befriends Owen, the manager of a local water park. Owen helps Duncan relax and start to fit in with the people around him. Liam James plays Duncan, while Toni Collette plays the mother and Steve Carell her boyfriend. Sam Rockwell plays Owen.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity  The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization.Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia.Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |
