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Two new films: Twelve Years a Slave, Along the Highways

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Just when you thought the day couldn’t possibly get any better:

Deadline writes that Garret has been cast in Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave. Between McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor, who stars in the film, I’ve been keeping an eye on that one for a while now, so this is quite a nice, er, heart attack. Okay, info:

Filming is about to get underway in New Orleans. Dillahunt will portrays Armsby, a fellow field hand who works alongside Solomon Northup, a free black man who’s brought South against his will and sold into slavery. New Regency is backing the film and River Road and Plan B are producing.

^ Yeah, that’s gonna be porn.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Paul Dano, Adepero Oduye, Scoot McNairy, Ruth Negga and Taran Killam are also in the film.

Deadline also reports that Garret has joined Along the Highways, an indie film written and to be directed by Zac Stanford:

Dillahunt was also cast as Julia Stiles love interest in the indie film Along the Highways. He plays the guy who takes her mind off of her late husband.

Not much info about the film out there, except that it was supposed to be made with different people last year, and there is this synopsis from Production Weekly:

Spurred by the death of his brother, an unadventurous video-game programmer is forced to overcome latent issues in his psyche relating to the death of his parents as well as to romantic relationships, and thus come to peace with his life and love.

First reviews of Killing Them Softly

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Killing Them Softly was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and the first reviews showed up on Variety and THR today. Hit the links to read the articles. And you can watch the press conference with Andrew Dominik and the main cast at Festival-Cannes.fr.

That’s the official poster to the right.

If you’re skimming, here is the essential paragraph from The Hollywood Reporter review (about Brad Pitt stealing Cromartie’s music):

What matter more are style and attitude, which Dominik ladles on like sauce on ribs. Russell’s drug-addled disorientation is represented by multiple distortions of time, visual perception and sound; the pursuit of one victim is imaginatively covered entirely from the outside of the building in which the chase is consummated; Cogan arrives on the scene to the accompaniment of Johnny Cash’s “When the Man Comes Around;” the just-scraping-by 21st century hoods drive late-‘60s-early-‘70s cars like a Riviera and Toronado, and one man’s execution is rendered from many angles in a slow-motion explosion of breaking glass and penetrating bullets so elaborate and prolonged that it resembles a self-standing art installation.

New film: The Scribbler

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This just in from Deadline:

Katie Cassidy (TAKEN) will topline as the title character in the mind-bending thriller feature, THE SCRIBBLER, which begins production this week in downtown Los Angeles. Starring alongside Cassidy will be Garret Dillahunt (WINTER’S BONE), Michelle Trachtenberg (Gossip Girl), Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse), Gina Gershon (KILLER JOE), Michael Imperioli (THE LOVELY BONES), Billy Campbell (The Killing), and Sasha Grey (THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE). Rounding out the supporting cast are Ashlynn Yennie (THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE), Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory), and T.V. Carpio (LIMITLESS).

THE SCRIBBLER concerns Suki (Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using “The Siamese Burn”, an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being “cured”, she’s haunted by a thought… what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?

NAA Founder Gabriel Cowan will produce alongside NightSky productions Ken F. Levin. Caliber’s Dallas Sonnier and Jack Heller will executive produce the film alongside NAA’s Kerry Johnson. Daniel Schaffer adapted the screenplay adapted from his own graphic novel, which Image Comics originally published in 2006 and is going to be re-released by First Comics in conjunction with the film’s opening.

Any Day Now wins audience award at Tribeca

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Big congrats to Travis Fine and the cast & crew!

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Travis Fine’s Any Day Now won the Heineken [Audience] Award for narrative film, and Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez’s BURN received the audience award for documentary at a wrap party held by the 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday Night.

Traditionally, the festival has handed out one audience award, but this year it moved to two awards, one for narrative and one for documentary. Each award included a cash prize of $25,000. Additionally as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program, Any Day Now received the sculpture Ascension courtesy of Nathan Sawaya and BURN received Jacobs #16 “Blue Skies” courtesy of Peter Dayton & Winston Wächter Fine Art.