CBS Films, which has already released the Daniel Radcliffe starrer The Woman In Black and Salmon Fishing In The Yemen this year, has dated three additional titles due out in the next 12 months. The dramatic romance The Words, starring Bradley Cooper as a writer who claims another man’s long-lost work as his own, will be released wide on September 21. CBS Films picked up the film, which also stars Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde and Zoe Saldana, at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko star in the action comedy Seven Psychopaths, which was written and directed by In Bruges’ Martin McDonagh. It’s about a screenwriter whose friends draw him into a dog kidnapping scheme. It will be get a limited release on November 2.
And Gambit, a caper comedy about a British art curator whose scheme to sell a phony Monet painting to a wealthy collector gets complicated by the Texas cowgirl he hired to help him close the deal, gets a wide release on January 11, 2013. It stars Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Stanley Tucci, Cloris Leachman and Alan Rickman. This Berlin Film Festival pick-up was co-written by Joel and Ethan Coen and directed by Michael Hoffman. The film is the culmination of a 14-year odyssey for producer Mike Lobell.


Loved The Words, glad to see it getting full push.
Not exactly a vote of confidence for Gambit with that release date. Btw who exactly is running CBS Films at the moment?
Yeah, not a lot of good buzz on Gambit, considering it’s been in the can for awhile. No talk of releasing it as Oscar fodder either. Yikes.
With a genre description of “caper comedy”, I don’t think it would figure into the Oscar race anyway. But it could definitely figure into the Golden Globes race in the Best Comedy/Musical category.
CBS should do a platform release early enough for this film to be eligible at the Globes. If they secure a nomination, it could help build BO buzz for the film before its wide release in the middle of the awards season fray. Firth, Diaz, Tucci and the Coen brothers all have a history of success with the HFPA. CBS should use that to their advantage.
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN is a great film and worthy of awards consideration. Unfortunately, in the minds of Academy members and others, CBS = television. If CBS Films want to be taken seriously then they need to change their name.