Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Mike Leigh film picked up by Sony Pictures Classics

British film director Leigh holds up the "Guadalajara Latin American" trophy during a tribute to his career at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Guadalajara By Brent Lang LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the rights to Mike Leigh's next film for North America, Latin America and Eastern Europe. The movie currently carries the placeholder title, "Untitled Mike Leigh 13," but sounds like a change of pace for the preeminent chronicler of English working class comedy and pathos: It portrays the turbulent life of JMW Turner, the great English landscape painter. To help with the verisimilitude, the National Gallery, Tate Britain and the Royal Academy have granted special access to some of Turner's original works. ...








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