EXCLUSIVE: Filming is predicted to begin later this 12 months on Mike Leigh’s subsequent venture, which can 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 saved beneath wraps. It’ll mark the primary in a protracted whereas with out common DoP collaborator Dick Pope who sadly handed this 12 months.
Exhausting Truths premiered on the Toronto Movie Pageant in September, and has since received 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 Greatest Lead Efficiency on the British Unbiased Movie Awards, and Greatest Unique Screenplay from the US Nationwide Board of Evaluation. The movie obtained 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 lady wracked by concern, affected by afflictions and liable to tirades towards her husband, son and anybody who appears to be like her means, and her youthful sister (Michele Austin, from Leigh’s One other Yr), 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 via 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.
