EXCLUSIVE: Filming is predicted to begin later this yr on Mike Leigh’s subsequent undertaking, which is able to see the acclaimed writer-director reuniting with current collaborators Cornerstone, Bleecker Avenue, Studiocanal and UK financier Film4.
Desmar will come on board as an fairness financier. Georgina Lowe of Leigh’s manufacturing firm Skinny Man Movies will once more produce.
Bleecker Avenue launched Leigh’s newest drama Exhausting Truths nationwide within the U.S. on January 10 after an awards qualifying run on December 6, with Studiocanal releasing within the UK at the moment (January 31). Cornerstone dealt with worldwide gross sales and is again aboard forward of the upcoming European Movie Market in Berlin.
As is customary with Leigh, the brand new movie will shoot as Untitled 2025, with plot and casting being stored underneath wraps. It’ll mark the primary in an extended whereas with out common DoP collaborator Dick Pope who sadly handed this yr.
Exhausting Truths premiered on the Toronto Movie Competition in September, and has since gained awards for actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste from the critic “trifecta” of New York Movie Critics Circle, LA Movie Critics Circle and Nationwide Society of Movie Critics, in addition to Finest Lead Efficiency on the British Unbiased Movie Awards, and Finest Unique Screenplay from the US Nationwide Board of Overview. The movie acquired BAFTA nominations for Excellent British Movie and Main Actress however was surprisingly missed by the Academy.
The hard-hitting London-set movie facilities on Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy, a girl wracked by concern, stricken by afflictions and vulnerable to tirades in opposition to her husband, son and anybody who appears to be like her approach, and her youthful sister (Michele Austin, from Leigh’s One other 12 months), a single mom with a life as completely different from Pansy’s as their temperaments. As Pansy more and more nears her snapping level, the movie explores how even by means of lifetimes of damage and hardship, households nonetheless discover methods to like each other.
Leigh is a seven-time Oscar nominee, thirteen-time BAFTA nominee and Cannes Palme d’Or winner.
Desmar is an movie and TV firm based mostly in Singapore, with reps in Singapore, London and LA. It was based by Australian-American producer Naomi Despres and Chinese language-Austrian producer Michèle Marshall.
