Magnolia Pictures nabs “Little Men” Sundance dramaFebruary 12, 2016 - 14:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The domestic rights to Greg Kinnear‘s drama “Little Men” were acquired by Magnolia Pictures, the distribution company announced Thursday, February 11, according to TheWrap. The Ira Sachs-directed film will be theatrically released this year and also stars Jennifer Ehle (“Zero Dark Thirty”) and Paulina Garcia (“Narcos”), as well as new young stars Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri. Sachs’ sixth feature was praised at the Sundance Film Festival and will make its international premiere this weekend at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film follows the friendship formed between 13-year-olds Jake (Taplitz) and Tony (Barbieri), while also examining the tensions between their parents (Kinnear, Ehle, Garcia) in modern New York. “‘Little Men’ is a true gem of a film,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles. “Ira Sachs has consistently been making beautiful, even-handed stories with rich, real-life characters and we’re really looking forward to working together on this one.” Written by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias, “Little Men” was produced by Lucas Joaquin, Cristos V. Konstantakopoulos, L.A. Teodosio, Jim Lande and Sachs, while Tom Dolby, Dom Genest, Matthew Helderman and several others served as executive producers. The deal was negotiated by Magnolia SVP of Acquisitions Dori Begley and Magnolia VP of Acquisitions John Von Thaden, along with WME Global and Paul Brennan of Bruns, Brennan & Berry on behalf of the filmmakers. 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 | 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. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |