This has been a great week for movie news. Garrett, if you see this, CONGRATULATIONS!!! – Laura

‘Tron: Legacy’ Star Garrett Hedlund to Join Oscar Isaac in William Monahan’s ‘Mojave’ Movie

Atlas Independent is teaming with Relativity International on the original thriller

Garrett Hedlund is set to join his “Inside Llewyn Davis” co-star Oscar Isaac in William Monahan’s original thriller “Mojave,” which Atlas Independent is producing with the filmmaker’s Henceforth Pictures banner.

Hedlund replaces Jason Clarke in the two-hander, which follows a near-suicidal artist (Hedlund) who escapes into the desert to take an existential crisis head-on, only to encounter a doppelganger-like antagonist in the form of a brilliant, homicidal drifter (Isaac).

In addition to writing and directing, Monahan also will produce, alongside William Green of Atlas Independent, whose Andy Horwitz will exec-produce with Justine Suzanne Jones of Henceforth Pictures.

Relativity International will co-finance and handle foreign sales at Cannes.

An affiliate of Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment, Atlas Independent produces indie-minded movies with budgets of $10 million or less. Its upcoming releases include Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s genre pic “Open Grave,” starring Sharlto Copley.

Hedlund, who is best known for starring in “Tron: Legacy” and “On the Road,” recently wrapped the indie drama “Lullaby.” The Coen brothers’ folk-music tale “Inside Llewyn Davis” premieres at Cannes before opening in the U.S. on Dec. 6 via CBS Films.

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From Deadline.com

‘World War Z’ Scribe Makes Directorial Debut With Garrett Hedlund

Inside Llewyn Davis‘ Garrett Hedlund is on board to play the lead in screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan’s directorial debut Violent Talent. The Wolf Of Wall Street’s Margot Robbie as well as RocknRolla’s Toby Kebbell and Four Lions’ Riz Ahmed will join Hedlund in the drama. Carnahan is directing Violent Talent from an original script he wrote. The film focuses on Eamon (Hedlund) as he and his two oldest friends Angel and Quan (Kebbell and Ahmed) try to build a criminal empire in a contemporary Chicago where he feels crime might be the most honest job around. Robbie’s character is known as Riley. Violent Talent will be produced by Tracy Falco through her Defender Entertainment Banner. Carnahan and Falco previously produced the Robert Redford-directed Lions For Lambs together. Carnahan wrote the script for the 2007 film. Nate Winslow of Defender will serve as an associate producer on Violent Talent. WME Global will represent the movie’s domestic distribution rights.

Before Violent Talent, TRON: Legacy and On The Road star Hedlund next will be seen in early December in the Coen Bros’ Inside Llewyn Davis as well as the indie Lullaby. Inside Llewyn Davis, which CBS Films picked up back in February, is also in competition at Cannes this year. Violent Talent director-scribe Carnahan co-authored the screen story and penned the adapted script for the upcoming World War Z with Brad Pitt. Carnahan also wrote the adaptation of Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman, which Martin Scorsese is producing. Carnahan is repped by WME and attorney Stuart Rosenthal of Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman. Actor-rapper Ahmed is repped by CAA and Kate Bryden of Gordon & French. Kebbell is repped by CAA and Samira Higham in the UK. The female lead in the Scorsese-directed Wolf Of Wall Street (out November 15), Robbie is repped by CAA and Management 360. Hedlund is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

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Great comment on Deadline:

His scripts time after time are literally the most consistently amazing of any current writer i’ve read. I’m talking about the SCRIPTS not the films. Finally we will get to see what happens when his material is not muddled up by a director or studio before getting to the screen.

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There is some new footage near the end.

Ahead of its Cannes debut next week, CBS Films has just released a new red band trailer for their Oscar hopeful “Inside Llewyn Davis,” written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Typically movies get red band trailers to showcase extreme violence or lewd profanity found in comedies like “The Hangover” and “Bridesmaids.” In the case of “Inside Llewyn Davis,” you get to witness Carey Mulligan saying “asshole” and go on about condoms — hardly anything that’s NSFW.

The gorgeous-looking drama centers on an aspiring singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) who navigates the 1960s folk-music scene in New York City’s Greenwich Village. T Bone Burnett produced the film’s soundtrack, which includes music performed by, among others, Isaac, Marcus Mumford and Justin Timberlake.

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Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Dated For Dec. 6

Comedy-drama in competition at Cannes

CBS Films has dated Joel and Ethan Coen’s comedy-drama “Inside Llewyn Davis” for limited domestic release Dec. 6, followed by an expansion on Dec. 20.

Oscar Isaac stars in the title role in the story of an aspiring folk musician in the 1960s in Greenwich Village. Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham and Justin Timberlake also star.

“Inside Llewyn Davis” is screening in competition at Cannes.

The Coen brothers directed and produced along with Scott Rudin. T Bone Burnett produced the soundtrack which includes music performed by Isaac, Marcus Mumford and Timberlake.

Studio Canal is handling international distribution and foreign sales. CBS Films acquired U.S. rights in February.

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The emotional movie “Lullaby”

How do you face your peaceful death? I am not sure whether because the audience who was invited to the test screening of Lullaby was interested in the subject or just because of a free movie, but the test screening was fully booked. Although the subject is very serious, it describes a difficult situation comically. After the screening, the audience gave there approval of the message to the film with a long clap and tears.

Lullaby is directed Andrew Levitas, staring Garrett Hedlund and Jennifer Hudson.

There is still no trailer, no poster, no U.S release date, but the very emotional and touching movie will give you homework “Your rights at the end of life.”

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