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This makes for a pretty solid awards-season bookend for AFI Fest, which last week announced that Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln will be the closing-night film. The world premiere for Hitchcock comes ahead of the film’s November 23 wide release. The festival runs November 1-8, and the event’s full lineup will be announced next month.
LOS ANGELES, CA, September 27, 2012 – The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today that HITCHCOCK, starring Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as Vera Miles and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins, will have its World Premiere on Thursday, November 1, as the Opening Night Gala of AFI FEST 2012 presented by Audi. The film is directed by Sacha Gervasi and also stars Toni Collette, Danny Huston and Michael Stuhlbarg. From a screenplay by John J. McLaughlin, the film is based on the book “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho” by Stephen Rebello. HITCHCOCK is produced by Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck of Montecito Picture Company, along with Tom Thayer and Alan Barnette. Fox Searchlight Pictures will release the film this November.
HITCHCOCK, a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner, Alma Reville, takes place during the making of the distinguished director’s seminal 1960 movie, PSYCHO.
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Can’t wait!
Lincoln? Hitchcock?
Real creative, Hollywood! Would it kill you to do a movie about someone who wasn’t already dead before the Industrial Revolution?
And I am tired of seeing “actors” like Roberto DeNiro and Christian Bale and now Sir Anthony Hopkins putting on and taking off dozens of pounds because it helps “their craft”. You don’t have to “be” fat, you have to “act” fat.
Simply, put: I want to watch actors, not eaters!
I’m hoping and praying this was sarcasm, Grace…because both were dead after the Industrial Revolution. Obviously dead. Hitchcock died in the ’80s. How old are you, sweetie, and when was the last time you actually went to History Class.
Don’t talk to me like I’m one of the girls from the steno pool who bring you your lunch every day, Robert. I am most certainly not your “sweetie”.
I know full well when the First Industrial Revolution was, I am a graduate from an Ivy League collage (I don’t want to say the name here because I am still paying back some student loans. Thanks for nothing, Obama.)
My point is the we are living in a time of digital cameras and iPads and Xboxxes. We don’t need to be a slave to celluoid. That’s what Hulu is there for!
I’m happy for Stephen Rebello.
—With ALLLL that’s coming down and coming apart and waiting
to be looked at —–WHY???? this piece of stale cultural incest?
Unless you know the details of Hitchcock’s marriage – or how he had to write a personal check to get this movie made because the studio said no way – you don’t know this film.