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Jason Reitman Pic ‘Labor Day’ Gets Christmas Release

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday May 17, 2013 @ 4:47pm PDTTags: Jason Reitman, Labor Day, Paramount Pictures

Another Jason Reitman movie is getting prime awards-season placement. Paramount said the Juno and Up In The Air director’s latest, Labor Day, will open in limited release December 25 this year before expanding January 10 and going wide January 31. Tobey Maguire, Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, J.K. Simmons, James Van Der Beek, Brooke Smith, Gattlin Griffith, and Brighid Fleming star. The studio is also co-financing the pic, which Reitman also wrote as an adaptation of the Joyce Maynard novel. The story centers on a 13-year-old boy (Griffith) from New Hampshire who learns valuable life lessons over a five-day Labor Day weekend after an escaped convict (Brolin) seeks shelter with the boy’s single mom (Winslet). Mr. Mudd’s Lianne Halfon and Russ Smith are producing along with Helen Estabrook and Reitman. Indian Paintbrush is exec producing. The date obviously is chock-full of big pics including Paramount’s own Jack Ryan, Universal’s 47 Ronin, and Fox’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty as well as expansions for The Weinstein Company’s Grace Of Monaco and Fox Searchlight’s Twelve Years A Slave.

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Tobey Maguire Joins Jason Reitman’s ‘Labor Day’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 12:46pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Indian Paintbrush, Jason Reitman, Labor Day, The Great Gatsby, Tobey Maguire
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Tobey Maguire has joined the cast of the Jason Reitman-directed Labor Day, which begins shooting this month in Massachusetts. Mr. Mudd’s Lianne Halfon and Russ Smith are producing along with Helen Estabrook and Reitman. Indian Paintbrush … Read More »

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Paramount Takes On Jason Reitman’s Next Film ‘Labor Day’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 9, 2011 @ 9:09am PDTTags: Jason Reitman, Josh Brolin, Kate Winslet, Labor Day, Paramount
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has come aboard to distribute Labor Day, the adaptation of the Joyce Maynard novel that was scripted and will be directed by Jason Reitman, who is making this his next film. The studio joins Indian Paintbrush and Reitman’s Right of Way to produce the romantic drama, which stars Kate Winslet as a single mother who takes in a stranger with a dangerous past, played by Josh Brolin, and she falls in love with him over the course of Labor Day Weekend. Production is expected to start in June 2012. Paramount and Indian Paintbrush already have partnered on Like Crazy and Jeff Who Lives at Home, the latter of which is playing here at Toronto. UPDATE: Paramount just made it official with a release: Read More »

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Wrinkles: ‘Cars 2′ Returns, ‘Warrior’ Sneaks

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 2, 2011 @ 4:38am PDTTags: Apollo 18, Box Office, Cars 2, Labor Day, Shark Night 3D, Warrior

This Labor Day box office, The Weinstein Co opens Dimension Films’ Apollo 18 in 3,328 theaters while Relativity Media chums Shark Night 3D in 2,806 locations. But also Disney/Pixar is expanding the run of Cars 2 this Friday for special end-of-summer return engagements at a total of 2,043 theaters. (The … Read More »

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Kate Winslet To Star In ‘Labor Day’ For Jason Reitman

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 16, 2011 @ 8:29am PDTTags: Film Casting, Jason Reitman, Kate Winslet, Labor Day
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Josh Brolin’s reps tell me he will be in the movie, too, playing the guy who engages in the weekend affair with Kate Winslet’s character.

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that Kate Winslet will be set shortly to star in … Read More »

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