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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jan 21, 2014 23:01:19 GMT -6
Capping a rocking day for deals at the Sundance Film Festival, IFC Films is closing a deal to acquired God’s Pocket, the directorial debut of Mad Men star John Slattery. The black comedy stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, Christina Hendricks, and John Turturro. Slattery wrote the black comedy with Alex Metcalf. Slattery, Sam Bisbee Lance Acord, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Emily Ziff and Hoffman produced. Hoffman plays Mickey, and after his nutty stepson gets killed in a construction “accident,” he tries to hide the truth from a newspaper columnist (Jenkins) who profiles the people of God’s Pocket and though he’s gone to seed, he might uncover the truth unless Mickey can stop him. The film is playing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, and it has been a buzz title since it premiered late Friday afternoon at the Eccles Theater. The film is being repped by Gersh.
The dam finally broke on film deals after a slow start. The numbers aren’t huge, but nobody expected them to be. I’d ask people about films, and they liked many of them. When I asked if they had commercials potential, the reviews weren’t so stellar. Many left the festival today, and those who stayed were “rewarded” with a surprise screening of Lars von Trier’s skinfest Nymphomaniac, which is being brought to the festival to create some buzz.
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