Tag: Magnolia Pictures

  • ‘Serena’ finally gets a release date

    ‘Serena’ finally gets a release date

    MUMBAI: Two years after finishing pre-production, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence starrer Serena is finally gearing up for an early 2015 release.

     

    According to media reports, Magnolia Pictures took US distribution rights to the film this week, more than two years after production wrapped up in the Czech Republic. The movie was produced by their sister company 2929 Entertainment.

     

    The movie was filmed back in 2012 before either of Lawrence and Cooper’s other collaborations, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, were released.

     

    Serena is a depression-era-set drama about newlyweds running a timber business. The pair will play married couple Serena and George Pemberton, who run a powerful timber empire in the North Carolina Mountains in the 1920s.

     

    The movie’s narrative revolves around the emotional turmoil resulting after Lawrence’s titular character discovers she is unable to bear children and takes her anger out on her husband’s illegitimate son.

     

    In US, the movie will first hit VOD on 26 February 2015 which will be followed by a theatrical release on 27 March 2015. But overseas, Serena will premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 13 October2014. The movie will then be released on 24 October 2014 in UK and will begin rolling out internationally afterwards.

  • Fox to have limited release of Ben Zeitlin film

    Fox to have limited release of Ben Zeitlin film

    MUMBAI: Fox Searchlight has decided to give Ben Zeitlin‘s Beasts of the Southern Wild a limited platform release beginning 29 June. The same day, Magnolia Pictures will release Take This Waltz, a film by writer-director Sarah Polley.

    The director‘s debut feature won the narrative grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival last January.

    Written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar, the film follows a six-year-old girl in a poor southern Louisiana bayou as she struggles to survive with her father south of the levees as the ice caps melt and the seas rise.

    The film, produced by Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey and Josh Penn, also won a cinematography award at the Sundance Film Fest where Fox Searchlight purchased the film‘s US rights for around $1 million.