New Movies for Penelope Cruz, Robert Pattinson and more
Friday, September 7, 2018 at 5:27PM
by Murtada Elfadl
TIFF is not only about the films that are playing there. It’s also about the deals for the films that we might see next year or the year after. Or maybe never hear of again if they don’t secure financing. We’ve already told you about the Matthias Schoenaerts-Margot Robbie starrer Ruin. Here are three other film - or packages if we were to use the vulgar industry term - that are at TIFF looking for financing:
Phyllis Nagy directing Gemma Arterton as Dusty Springfield
The film is titled So Much Love and Carol’s screenwriter is also writing it. Set in 1968, when at the peak of her popularity, Springfield travelled to Tennessee to record the album Dusty in Memphis. An official synopsis reads:
It will follow her as she navigates her way through the politics of the recording studio and the city, and will also explore her encounter with the music of Motown, her stand against apartheid policies during her aborted South African tour and her thorny brushes with men in the music industry.
Penelope Cruz and Olivier Assayas tackle the Cold War
Gael Garcia Bernal, Edgar Ramirez, Wagner Maura and Cruz will star in Assayas’ next, Wasp Network. The story is about a spy network set up by the Cuban government in the 1980s and ’90s to infiltrate anti-Castro organizations in the United States. It's a reunion for current Versace Emmy nominees Cruz and Ramirez.
Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson are the new Gosling-Stone
We joke but they are working together for the third time after Maps to the Stars (2014) and this year’s Damsel. And again it’s an indie, this time working with Christine’s Antonio Campos in The Devil All The Time. They are joined by superheroes Tom Holland and Chris Evans in a story set in Knockemstiff, Ohio, and being sold as “a storm of faith, violence and redemption.” Sounds intense.
Reader Comments (14)
Meanwhile Mary Pickford is waiting for her long much deserved Biopic....
That cast on Assayas' next is wowza.
I feel like Mary Pickford's life is better suited for the TV mini-series (or limited series) route, à la HBO's Mildred Pierce or Olive Kitteridge.
Gemma Arterton needs a proper starring role; it's just a shame that Nicole Kidman's biopic of Dusty Springfield, like The Danish Girl before it, couldn't get off the ground.
Dusty Springfield
Why the Mary Pickford comments? What does she have to do with the Nagy/Springfield announcement?
PHYLLIS NAGY!! Can't wait to see what she does directing as well as writing.
I think the Pickford comment is because Hollywood is prioritizing Biopics of lesser importance....if you compare them to all the importance of Mary’s achievements and everything Hollywood owes her, plus in the era of the Me Too a biopic about the woman who single handed founded the Hollywood system that provides credit and recognition to everyone involve in the industry would mean something ... don’t get me wrong I Love Dusty and I’m happy she’s getting light to her story, but Mary is waiting for her turn and that is not fair
Is it just me or has Gemma Arterton felt on the verge of a breakthrough into the big leagues for years?
Yasss to Nagy, Dusty n Gemma!!
As one of the founding member of the Academy, the Original American Sweetheart practically gifted herself the Best Actress win for Coquette in the 2nd yr o Academy Awards!
A rather embarrassing win if u ask me.. Pickford is good at Talkie but did not transit well to Talkie, hence her retirement once Talkie hit in the 30s.
Correction: Pickford was gd in Silents, not Talkie
Penelope is rather undervalued. I'm excited to see her work with an actor's director like Assayas.
Dusty is way better topic/artist-wise than Pickford. This is some Volvagia level obnoxious comment tangent/ derailment.
Mary Pickford was more than an actress, she was a director, producer, businesswoman and a creative artist ...the first dramatic close up, development of film acting, they call her the first method actor too, she created highquiality films with sophisticated special effects for the 1910s and 20s, etc
She negotiated the first 1 million contract, her name was the first name on a marquee, she fought for her credits and the credits of her other cast and crew members, she was the one with the idea of founding United Artist and she did, creating the studio system that we have today.. the academy of motion picture is another of her achievements, the Motion Picture country House another of her ideas to help aging actors, and I could go on and on ... so don’t come and tell me that Dusty ( who I love and i don’t have anything against) has a better shot “artistic -wise “ than Pickford... my issue is with Hollywood and the stories that they want to tell, without Pickford there’s no Film industry as we know it, period.. if the academy doesn’t have an award with her name at least some director should be doing a good Biopic big or small screen ...
Meh-ry Pick(someone else)ford
It's all about blond bouffants and pale lipstick for me.