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Had 3 loooong amazing days on the set for the movie unbroken , directed by Angelina Jolie , release date boxing day 2014 .
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Inside the Coen brothers

 
Kaleem Aftab

Saturday 11 January 2014
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The brothers have often written scripts for other film-makers. In 2012, the Colin Firth sleuth Gambit was penned by the brothers, as is Unbroken, the new directorial effort from Angelina Jolie about Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during The Second World War. “We have always taken writing gigs. It’s kind of fun, interesting and... “ almost whispering, Ethan adds, “lucrative. We have always done it and just in the way of Hollywood that 80 or 90 per cent of what is written never gets made, it’s just in the last few years a couple of them have got through.”

It was through Brad Pitt, who appeared in Burn After Reading that Jolie came to them. “Yeah we know her a little. Why did she solicit us? Yeah, because she knows us. There is something good about being able to blithely write whatever you want without having to worry about having to think, even in the back of your mind about the reality of production. It’s really true, especially that movie, which is really a motherfucker, a difficult production thing, there is aerial combat stuff, dogfight stuff, and there is stuff on a lifeboat on an open sea. But you know, it’s from a book, it’s not fiction stuff, so it’s not like Angie can blame us for that.”

The brothers don’t follow the rules you’d find in a screenwriting book when they approach a film: “Generally when we are writing a movie, we don’t know where we are going in advance of writing the script. We don’t do an outline and then start writing it. We just start writing it scene-by-scene and not know where we are going until we get there.”

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Best of the brothers

1. No Country for Old Men 2007
The best big-screen adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel is a violent crime thriller set in the aftermath of a drug-deal gone wrong. Javier Bardem’s hit-man hairdo will live long in the memory, the only airiness in an otherwise sinister tale.

2. The Big Lebowski 1998
The Dude, a brilliantly laconic Jeff Bridges, is the ultimate anti-hero who walks around in a dressing gown and lives to drink White Russians and go bowling with his eccentric friends. His life of chill is ruined when he’s entangled in a kidnapping.

3. Fargo 1996
Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her brilliant portrayal of a pregnant North Dakota police officer Marge Gunderson called to a roadside murder scene. Yeah, she’s unlike any movie cop, but scarily like every real-life police officer.

4. Barton Fink 1991
The Palme d’Or winner, set in 1941, is a psychological examination of an acclaimed New York theatre writer who gets writer’s block when Hollywood comes calling. A searing insight into the artistic and film-making process,

5. Raising Arizona 1987
The brothers’ second outing was the film that introduced the world to their zany brand of goofy comedy and penchant for kidnapping. Nic Cage and Holly Hunter play a childless couple who don’t think the parents of quintuplets will miss one of their babies.

6. Blood Simple 1984
A noir thriller in which a bar owner hires a private detective to kill a wife he suspects of adultery. The plan backfires sending the Austin protagonists into a Hitchcock-ian moral maze.


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Angelina Jolie's WWII film Unbroken 'not easy to shoot' according to screenwriters the Coen brothers

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 18:18 GMT, 10 January 2014 | UPDATED: 22:36 GMT, 10 January 2014

Angelina Jolie is not one to shy away from a challenge and her latest directorial effort is no different.

The Oscar-winning actress is currently in Australia directing the harrowing WWII biopic Unbroken.

I's not an easy feat, according to the film's screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen, who talked to The Independent's Radar magazine, out Saturday.

A big challenge: The Coen brothers, who wrote Unbroken, tell the Saturday edition of the Independent's Radar magazine that Angelina Jolie - seen here in November - faces a tough job directing that WWII film

Off the hook: Joel and Ethan Coen - seen here in 2010 - usually direct their own scripts, but not this time

Inspiration: The drama is based on Louis Zamperini's amazing life

Shooting the life story of World War II hero Louis Zamperini is so challenging because of all the war and water scenes.

'That movie is really a motherf***er ... a difficult production thing,' one of the brothers told the paper.

'There is aerial combat stuff, dogfight stuff, and there is stuff on a lifeboat on an open sea.'

The Coens usually direct their own scripts - think Fargo and The Big Lebowski - but admit they are relieved they didn't have to step behind the camera on this one.

'There is something good about being able to blithely write whatever you want without having to worry about having to think, even in the back of your mind, about the reality of production,' one of the two added.

'But you know, it's from a book, it's not fiction stuff, so it's not like Angie can blame us for that.'

Actor Jack O'Connell, seen here at the Toronto Film Festival, plays war hero Louis

Quizzed why they were hired to make a script of Laura Hillenbrand's book about the hero, they added: 'We know [Angelina] a little. Why did she solicit us? Yeah, because she knows us.'

Last October, Angelina spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the difficulty of the shoot.

'On set, we started to joke and say, "Tomorrow will be easier," knowing full well that on this challenging shoot, there are no easy days,' the fiancée of Brad Pitt told the publication via email.

'Anytime it gets tough, we think of the real men who lived through this, and no one complains. In fact, we all just feel honored to be here.'

Unbroken tells the true story of American Olympic runner Zamperini, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese army during World War II.

The movie stars 'Skins' actor Jack O'Connell, Garrett Hedlund and 'About Time' star Domhnall Gleeson. It is scheduled for release in December this year.

Angelina has been spotted Down Under with Brad and her six children since November.

Garrett Hedlund (top) plays the leader of the prisoners at the camp where Zamperini is being held

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TOH! Ranks the Films of the Coen Brothers from Best, 'No Country for Old Men,' to Worst: What's Your Pick?

Features by TOH!

On the eve of the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" showing at the New York Film Festival, TOH! ranks all 16 films by the Coen brothers.

1. "No Country For Old Men" (2007) Godard said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun, but the Coens, faithfully adapting Cormac McCarthy's bloodstained postmodern western, rewrite that formula with a guy (Josh Brolin) and a bag of cash. 2007 brought two extremely disciplined, formally austere epics from obsessive auteurs  (this, and PTA's "There Will Be Blood"). Hyperbole is hard-earned, but this lean and mean tale of biblical grandeur stands above other films of that year and, for that matter, most films of the decade. If nothing else, "No Country" is the proof-text of cinematic sound design. You'll never witness a performance as evil and shiver-inducing as Javier Bardem's Oscar-winning portrayal of a serial killer. Late at night, it's not Norman Bates' shadow looming over the foot of my bed -- it's Anton Chigurh and his cattle gun. It amazes me to this day that a film so radical, ambiguous and anticlimactic -- though, my god, what an ending -- won best picture. The film's final scene, where Tommy Lee Jones unspools an frightening and understated monologue about his dream, will haunt you forever. -Ryan Lattanzio

2. “Fargo” (1996) Like the snowy whiteout of its brilliant and arresting title sequence, "Fargo" deftly inverts the conventions of film noir and black comedy at every turn. Dim offices and shadowy streets become fluorescent buffets and wide expanses of flat land; the hard-nosed private eye is a warm, thoughtful, very pregnant cop named Marge Gunderson. As one of the recent cinema's great heroines, Frances McDormand invests every inflection ("Prowler needs a jump!") with humane intelligence, steadily following the threads of car salesman Jerry Lundergaard's (William H. Macy) unraveling kidnapping plot. Indeed, McDormand is so effortlessly compelling that you scarcely realize the film's turn into the belly of the beast until you hear the whir of a woodchipper in the distance -- a balancing act of the first order, and a masterpiece of Middle American disquiet. -Matt Brennan   

Cage and Hunter in 'Raising Arizona'

3. "Raising Arizona" (1987) Lest we forget, the Coen Brothers took some getting used to. In the early days an approach to filmmaking in which every punchline cut, zippy tracking shot and fisheye close up is carefully planned and written into the script struck a good many people as lacking in warmth and spontaneity. Now that we've grown accustomed to to the Coens' snare drum precision we're more likely to notice the impulsive shaggy humanity these tight structures just barely manage to contain. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter are warmly human almost to a fault, as a "critter"-less trailer park couple who view kidnapping a rich quint as a bizarre form of redistribution of wealth. ("We thought it was unfair that some people would have so many when others had so few.") Something great hops into view every couple of minutes: As a fugitive prison breaker, here's a younger, somewhat thinner John Goodman ("We don't always smell this way, Mrs. McDunnough"), and as a psycho bounty hunter, get a load force of nature Randall "Tex" Cobb, decked out like the road warrior, lobbing hand grenades at bunny rabbits. With the possible exception of the cultier "Big Lebowski," "Raising Arizona" may be the Coen's flat-out funniest movie. -David Chute

4. "O Brother Where Art Thou?" (2000) The Coens are at their most daring and accessible with this breezy slapstick comedy packed with corn-pone humor and catchy southern roots music that entertained a crossover audience, boosted by a sleeper Grammy-winning score. This rollicking southern fable follows a gang of escaped dull-witted prisoners led by pomaded charmer Everitt McGill (a winning George Clooney), who tries to get back his wife (Holly Hunter) by singing her into submission. (The Coens leaned a bit on both "The Odyssey" and "The Wizard of Oz.") Roger Deakins was the first cinematographer to use digital means to alter the film's color pallette. Along with "Burn After Reading" and "Raising Arizona" this ranks at the top of the Coen comedy oeuvre. -Anne Thompson

5. “Miller’s Crossing” (1990) Don’t mess with Albert Finney, who plays Irish-American bigwig Leo O’Bannon, runner of an unnamed city in Prohibition-era America. His longtime friend and confidant Tom (Gabriel Byrne) has, er, intimate knowledge that Leo’s having the wool pulled over his eyes by his girlfriend (Marcia Gay Harden) and her weasel of a brother (John Turturro). And so the bullets fly from the Tommy guns, and a grey fedora elegantly trips its way along in the Coens’ third film. This neo-gangster picture is superbly put together, with gorgeous period detail in autumnal hues. Composer Carter Burwell delivers one of his best scores. -Beth Hanna

'Blood Simple'

6. "Barton Fink" (1991) The plight of the sellout screenwriter is a familiar narcisisstic movie trope. But this Palme d'Or-winning twist on the Faust fable, written by the Coens while losing sleep over "Miller's Crossing," towers above them all. John Turturro plays the title hack, a disheveled playwright who forgoes his art (a la Faulkner or Fitzgerald) to write screenplays in Hollywood. Mysterious encounters with an insurance salesman next-door (a bawdy John Goodman) and a scorned mistress with a drinking problem (Aussie diva Judy Davis, stunning) set a menacing tone and like the peels of wallpaper in his tawdry motel, Barton's grip on reality loosens, and the film soon devolves into a paranoid psychological horror film. Think Polanski's "Repulsion," in LA, with less repressed sexuality. While Turturro's "Eraserhead" hairdo certainly secures the film's iconic status -- it's the film's final act of narrative disintegration, horrific loneliness and literal hellfire that make this unlike any Coen film to date. -Ryan Lattanzio

7. "Blood Simple" (1984) The Coens’ debut feature, deriving its titles from Dashiell Hammett’s potboiler “Red Harvest,” finds Dan Hedaya as the owner of a saloon who hires a private eye (M. Emmet Walsh, perfectly unsavory) to kill his wife (Frances McDormand) and her suitor (John Getz). Things don’t exactly go according to plan. Corpses begin to accumulate -- while one still has some kick in it. Joel Coen was 30 when the film was released, and Ethan 27, and already their sharply clever visual style and pitch-black humor was vividly apparent. The use of the Four Tops’ “It’s the Same Old Song” in the final sequence may be one of the most inspired soundtrack choices in the history of cinema. -Beth Hanna

Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan in "Inside Llewyn Davis"

8. "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001) "I don't talk. I just cut the hair," says droll and closemouthed barber Ed Crane in late-40s Santa Rosa, played here as a black hole of existential apathy by Billy Bob Thornton. A certain camp might write off this Sartre-by-way-of-Raymond-Chandler neonoir as mere pulpy genre excursion. But they couldn't be more wrong. Elegantly shot in black-and-white by Roger Deakins, "The Man Who Wasn't There" is a fatalistic front row trip to movie heaven. An idiosyncratic ensemble played by Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, Scarlett Johansson and Michael Badulcco rounds out this bleak, blackest of black comedies in which Thornton's jaded cuckold gets swallowed up by a typically Coenesque tapestry of thwarted blackmail, murder, mistaken identity, pyramid schemes and UFO conspiracy theories. There are enough soul-sucking curls of cigarette smoke here to give you contact lung cancer, and enough gloriously cinematic ennui to send you reeling, and humming the doleful notes of Beethoven's sonatas. -Ryan Lattanzio

9. “A Serious Man” (2009). Michael Stuhlbarg is hilarious and suitably pitiable as the serious man of the title, a flimsy-willed academic in 1960s suburbia facing both the disintegration of his marriage and his upcoming bid for tenure. Meanwhile, he approaches a series of rabbis as a means of existential soul-searching, and his pre-teen son has a drug-addled Bar Mitzvah. Fred Melamed turns in a memorable supporting performance as Sy Ableman, the silky-tongued, noxious suitor of Stuhlbarg's wife. A spot-on sendup of academic culture as well as a deceptively haunting look at one man's fear of death. The joltingly apocalyptic final shot makes this one to re-watch immediately. -Beth Hanna

10. "Inside Llewyn Davis" (2013) is as pure as the driven snow, much like the title character played by gifted actor/musician Oscar Isaac. Which is to say that the movie is about an artist who can't be anything but himself. Loosely inspired by New York-born Dave Von Ronk's life in the pre-Dylan Village of the early 60s, the Coens track Davis as he soulfully performs old and new folk songs. And yet he's not a likable fellow, partly because he's trying to make his way without his lost partner, depressed and angry that he's not making the living mustered by many of his peers (Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Adam Driver). "Inside Llewyn Davis" is serious Coens, often funny, but much like the dark "Barton Fink," it's about the serious artist who can't compromise to make art and commerce meet half-way.  The climactic scene where Davis plays an arcane folk song for a club/promoter (F. Murray Abraham) says it all. The songs full of sadness and loss carry the movie's sweetness and emotion. But they are folk songs, and thus the movie is not as satisfying as the Coens' best musical collaboration with musical supervisor T Bone Burnett, "O Brother Where Art Thou?." -Anne Thompson

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Blockbuster has Unbroken listed for 2015 release.  IMDb doesn't have a date.


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Unbroken (2015)

Synopsis of Unbroken

Angelina Jolie directs this true life tale of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in World War II, only to fight for his life against nature and eventually as a prisoner of war. Joel and Ethan Coen provide the script. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi




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40-Minute Documentary On The Coen Brothers

by Ben Brock

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Cannes and the Coens po.st/6s65WN via @hitfix
— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) May 27, 2013

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'Inside Llewyn Davis' has put the filmmaking siblings in rare air at the fest

By Kristopher Tapley Sunday, May 26, 2013 9:12 PM

It wouldn't be too apt to call the Coen brothers the Kings of the Croisette or anything. They have amassed five awards at the Cannes Film Festival throughout their career, but Lars Von Trier, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and, certainly, Ken Loach have all won more. However, with today's announcement of awards at the 66th annual fest, the filmmaker siblings did enter a bit of rare air with their latest film, "Inside Llewyn Davis": Joel Coen joined Haneke as the only filmmaker to have netted a Palme d'Or, a Grand Prix and a Best Director award at the festival. A few have won two of the three, from Buñuel to Clouzot* to Antonioni* to Altman, but only Haneke and Coen have scored the hat trick. Here's a look back at the Coen brothers' history with Cannes…

The first time the Coens found themselves in Competition was at the 44th annual fest in 1991, and things couldn't have gone any better. The film was "Barton Fink" (one of my personal favorites from the Coens along with 2009's "A Serious Man"), and the awards were plenty. It picked up the Palme d'Or in a rare unanimous decision from Roman Polanski's jury (which also included actress Whoopi Goldberg, filmmaker Alan Parker, cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and composer Vaneglis). But the love didn't stop there. The film truly dominated the top honors as Joel Coen won Best Director and John Turturro won Best Actor.

In 1994 "The Hudsucker Proxy" was in Competition but went home empty-handed. 1996's "Fargo" would be the next Coen film to land an award at the festival, with big brother Joel winning Best Director yet again. As for the Palme, the film yielded to eventual fellow Best Picture nominee "Secrets & Lies" from director Mike Leigh. Francis Ford Coppola was the jury president, joined by actress Greta Scacchi, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, filmmaker Atom Egoyan and costume designer Eiko Ishioka, among others.

 "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" played in Competition four years later, though unlike "Hudsucker," it would walk away from the year with a little bit of Oscar recognition (for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography). But a year later, the Coens would be back in the fray with 2001's "The Man Who Wasn't There." Liv Ullmann's jury (featuring actresses Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Ormond as well as filmmakers Terry Gilliam and Edward Yang) ended up torn on Best Director between Joel Coen and "Mulholland Dr." helmer David Lynch. So they conceded a tie. "The Man Who Wasn't There" didn't make a lot of noise outside of cinematography notices during the awards season, but Lynch went on to a Best Director Oscar nomination.

There wasn't much to write home about when 2004's "The Ladykillers" played in Competition, though actress Irma P. Hall was afforded a special commendation by Quentin Tarantino's jury in the form of a Jury Prize. Three years later, "No Country for Old Men" made a big impact on the landscape, though not on Stephen Frears's jury; the group, featuring actresses Maggie Cheung, Toni Collette and Sarah Polley, snubbed it entirely. However, that wouldn't phase the film and its dedicated awards push come Oscar season. The buzz was properly bottled and manipulated until the fall when the film scooped up critics award after critics award en route to Best Picture and Best Director wins at the Oscars.

And now, "Inside Llewyn Davis." It's probably the biggest story coming out of the festival this year as far as those of us with an eye toward awards season are concerned. Steven Spielberg's jury (featuring the likes of filmmakers Ang Lee, Christian Mungiu and Lynne Ramsay, as well as actors Christoph Waltz and Nicole Kidman) handed the film the second place prize -- the Grand Prix -- rounding out the siblings' three big honors over the years and putting them in the company of Michael Haneke in that regard. But it has angles on the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay races, to say nothing of the crafts departments.

As Greg Ellwood pointed out in his analysis of Oscar players coming out of the fest, CBS Films will be particular with this one, and superstar campaigner Terry Press (the former DreamWorks publicity maven who also had a hand in last year's "Lincoln" push), along with the Coens' producer, Scott Rudin, will certainly be gunning for recognition in the season. If the history of the Coens and Cannes awards are any indication, they should find their way to at least a few categories.
We'll see how it shakes out when the season hits in a few months time. The film will likely travel to the Telluride and Toronto fests to stoke the flames a bit more, but for now, it's secured a unique place for the Coens in the history o the Cannes Film Festival.

"Inside Llewyn Davis" is set for limited release on December 6.
*Clouzot won the Special Jury Prize for "The Mystery of Picasso" in 1956, while Antonioni won the Jury Prize for "L'avventura" in 1960 and the Special Jury Prize for "L'eclisse" in 1962. Prior to the creation of the Grand Prix in 1967, these awards served as "second place" honors at the festival.

Was thinking the same. RT @peterknegt 70 min in and CANDELABRA feels pretty vapid considering the pedigree.

— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) May 27, 2013

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Less Is So Much More: Joel and Ethan Coen‘s Inside Llewyn Davis, which just let out, is some kind of brilliant... bit.ly/13wRYgx
— Hollywood Elsewhere (@wellshwood) May 18, 2013

Fresh from Cannes, here's our review of the Coen Brothers' 'Inside Llewyn Davis' blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ca…

— ThePlaylist (@ThePlaylist) May 18, 2013

Inside Llywen Davis is pretty great. Oscar Isaacs is fantastic. Great script. Coens at #Cannes what else would you expect?
— gregoryellwood (@HitFixGregory) May 18, 2013

REVIEW: The Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis" | on.variety.com/18TbxFN
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Inside Llewyn Davis is the latest film written and directed by the Coen brothers.  It was recently picked up by CBS Films and is scheduled for release later this year.  Scott Rudin is a producer together with the brothers.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Have Date Night

Posted by Adam

Thursday February 28, 2013

 

BRAD Pitt and Angelina Jolie left their kids with the nannies to go out and enjoy themselves on a recent night out.
The pair popped up at Sony Pictures Studio in LA for an ultra-exclusive screening of a not yet-released film, Inside Llewyn Davis, a folk-music drama.
“They held hands and stuck close to each other as they mingled,” a source said.
“He pulled out her chair for her, and they held hands at the table.
They sipped wine and munched on dumplings. He ordered the Drunken Fish and green beans, and Angie had the Crispy Beef!”


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Joel And Ethan Coen’s ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Gets Early Showing On Sony Lot

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 11, 2013 @ 2:13pm EST 
EXCLUSIVE: Who says all the hot film acquisition action is taking place in Berlin?
The first screening of Inside Llewyn Davis quietly took place last Saturday night in a screening room on the Sony lot. That’s the new film by Joel and Ethan Coen that takes place in the folk-music circuit in downtown New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960s. Re-teaming with True Grit and No Country For Old Men cohort Scott Rudin, the Coens made Inside Llewyn Davis without a domestic distributor; their only alignment was with Studio Canal, which fully financed. Now, it’s apparently time to hook a distributor for an Oscar-season berth. I’m told that the screening was informal and held for a music crowd by T-Bone Burnett, reps from most of the studios were there, except Paramount and The Weinstein Company. They’ve been in no hurry so far to make a deal, but don’t be surprised if a distributor locks this one down very quickly.
Inside Llewyn Davis stars Oscar Isaac and the cast includes Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Adam Driver, and Garrett Hedlund.

CBS Films Acquires Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 19, 2013 @ 1:01pm EST

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EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films has landed domestic distribution rights to Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis. The film attracted heavy interest after its first screening was held last week on the Sony lot, one that drew a music crowd, a constellation of movie stars and numerous studio execs. The result was, everybody got hot and bothered about the film. I’m hearing there were three bidders for the pic and CBS Films got the film for close to $4 million for U.S. rights.

Oscar Isaac stars in the pic, which takes place in the folk-music circuit in downtown New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960s. Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham and Justin Timberlake co-star.

The Coens and producer Scott Rudin, reteaming after True Grit and No Country For Old Men, made the film without a domestic distributor; Studio Canal fully financed and is releasing in some international territories and brokering offshore deals in other territories. UTA negotiated the CBS Films deal on behalf of the filmmakers.


Last month, CBS Films acquired domestic rights to the coming-of-age comedy Toy’s House during the Sundance Film Festival. While the division has ramped up homegrown projects like the comedy Last Vegas, it has become a real player in the acquisitions part of the game.