Team Todd, Plum Pictures, Benaroya Pictures and Four Of A Kind Productions announced today that Paramount Famous Productions has picked up all U.S. and Canada rights for “The Romantics.” The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, was written and directed by Galt Niederhoffer, and produced by Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Michael Benaroya, Ron Stein and Daniel Hendler. Featuring an all star cast including Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Malin Akerman, Adam Brody, Dianna Agron with Candice Bergen and Elijah Wood, “The Romantics” is about a tight knit group of college friends who reunite for a wedding of two of their own.

Daniela Taplin Lundberg said, “The response to the film has been extraordinary and I am delighted to have Paramount Famous Productions as our domestic distribution partner.”

“We are thrilled to be in business with the talented team at Plum Pictures and their partners. We have been tracking several of Plum’s projects and “The Romantics” is a great way to start,” said Louis Feola, president of Paramount Famous Productions.

The film was repped domestically by John Sloss of Cinetic Media.

The finished version of the film will screen in Cannes. Simon Crowe of SC International will sell the remaining territories.

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Despite gathering storm clouds before the ceremony, literally and figuratively, this is a pretty light genre film with the occasional juicy confrontation to spice up the party. Theatrically, “Romantics” will be embraced by the over-25 set primarily, though wedding movies seem to play across many age groups. Box office potential appears to be modest.
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by USA Today

The tone is a little more subtle than (500) Days of Summer, but you could imagine them as a double feature. If The Romantics found its way to the right studio, it could make a great date movie. Teenagers may be bored by it, but those who are a little older, perhaps ready to take the next step in a relationship, will find a lot to like.
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The only female director to receive a top prize at Cannes, Campion’s classic ‘The Piano’ is a truly breathtaking film
There’s a striking photograph taken at the Cannes film festival in 2007. It shows 35 of the world’s leading directors, almost all in black suits and bow ties, standing on a podium. In their midst, if you look closely, you can see just one woman: Jane Campion, her greying blonde hair a sobering contrast, a white horse on a dark male sea. Campion, now 55, was among cinema’s auteur elite because her 1993 film, The Piano, was the first directed by a woman ever to win the coveted Palme d’Or (although it shared the prize with the Chinese film Farewell My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige). Holly Hunter, playing Ada, the film’s mute heroine, who finds expression and identity through the piano she plays, took the best actress award.

Nine months later, Campion received a best director Oscar nomination for the film, becoming only the second woman ever put up for cinema’s ultimate prize. She didn’t win. In fact, no woman has ever won the best director Oscar — although Campion’s latest, Bright Star, a tender study of the doomed but enduring love between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, is in the frame for nominations this year. It was at least some consolation that The Piano, which received eight nominations in all, including best picture, won three Oscars: best actress for Hunter, best supporting actress for Anna Paquin (who was just 11 when she appeared in the film) and best screenplay for Campion. The film was an international box-office hit, taking more than $100m worldwide.

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Shock’s Top 25 Horror Films of the Decade
#5 – Trick ‘r Treat: Horror anthology films became something of a rarity post-”the new millennium,” so not only did writer-director Michael Dougherty’s love letter to the Halloween holiday succeed in bringing something original and unique to the format, but it managed to perfectly encapsulate all the things we love about Halloween by telling a beautifully-crafted story in which all the segments intertwine, connect and share characters. Each story showcases the point of view of Halloween from four different stages of each character’s ages, hence making it appealing to everyone that’s ever celebrated All Hallow’s Eve. It also introduces us to the wicked little Sam (short for “Samhain”), a mascot worthy of the holiday. This fan favorite will often be referred to as the “Pulp Fiction of horror”, or, “A Christmas Story for Halloween”. And multiple generations will celebrate Trick ‘r Treat for years to come by watching it every Halloween. – RobG.

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Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer will both make an appearance in Andrew Paquin’s latest movie “Open House“. With the horror thriller “Open House” Andrew Paquin makes his writing and directing debut, previously he was involved as a producer in projects like New in Town, Humanzee, Blue State (starring Anna Paquin), My Feral Lady and Balkanization.

The movie, shot in Los Angeles, tells the story of a wealthy couple in a strained marriage that hosts an open house in order to sell their palatial home. They are horrified to find out days later that one potential buyer never left their house.

In a recent live chat with the LA Times Anna said she shot her scenes for Open House in her brother’s garage: “We shot it this morning!! In his garage “poor mans process”. Also Stephen has finished shooting his scenes and the project is currently in post-production. Anna and Stephen will be playing the characters named Jennie and Josh.

Other cast members are Brian Geraghty (Easier with Practice, The Hurt Locker, I Know Who Killed Me, When a Stranger Calls, Jarhead), Rachel Blanchard (“The Flight of the Conchords,” Snakes on a Plane, “7th Heaven,” “Clueless”) and Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Gallactica: The Plan, “Battlestar Gallactica,” Them, “Burn Notice,” “Supernatural”).

No release date is currently known.

Filmnut – Interview with Andrew Paquin, at about 34 minutes into the interview he talks about Open House.

OMG! I can´t wait for this movie! I hope the trailer will be soon. More information on Imdb.