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‘Silent House’ Set For March 9, 2012 Bow

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 24, 2011 @ 3:26pm PDTTags: Elizabeth Olsen, Film Release Date, Liddell Entertainment, Open Road Films, Silent House
Mike Fleming

Silent House will be released by Open Road Films and Liddell Entertainment on March 9, 2012, the companies announced today. This is the horror thriller that was part of newcomer Elizabeth Olsen’s coming-out doubleheader at this year’s Sundance Film Festival; her other film there was the critical darling Martha Marcy May Marlene. It was in Park City where Liddell made the deal for Silent House, which is co-directed by Open Water helmers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau; Open Road came in over the summer to help distribute it. The film centers on a woman (Olsen) who finds herself sealed inside her family’s secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around her.

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TORONTO TOLDJA! Mickey Liddell Acquires William Friedkin’s ‘Killer Joe’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 10:47am PDTTags: Emile Hirsch, Killer Joe, Liddell Entertainment, Matthew McConaughey, Mickey Liddell, Toronto Film Festival, Voltage Pictures
Mike Fleming

Mickey Liddell’s Liddell Entertainment closed a U.S. rights deal from Voltage Pictures for Killer Joe, the drama directed by William Friedkin that premiered Sunday night at the Ryerson Theater. This might get CAA bragging rights for the largest sale of the festival so far, with a $4 million minimum guarantee and an even larger P&A commitment. The UTA-brokered Salmon Fishing in the Yemen was also a large deal, said to be in excess of $5 million. Liddell is working on a distribution plan right now for 2012, and he will make a service deal with a distributor. Deadline revealed last night that Liddell was going to get the film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival before coming to Canada. The sexy drama stars Matthew McConaughey as the contract killer title character as well as Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon and Juno Temple. In Killer Joe, Hirsch plays a drug dealer whose cash gets stolen by his mother and has to come up with $6000 or he’s dead. He hires Killer Joe (McConaughey) when he learns mom’s life insurance policy is worth $50,000. Joe usually demands his money up front but is flexible when the drug dealer offers his sister as sexual collateral. Read More »

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HAMMOND: Will Glenn Close Be Challenging Meryl Streep At Next Year’s Oscars?

By PETE HAMMOND | Tuesday July 5, 2011 @ 4:31pm PDTTags: Albert Nobbs, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Glenn Close, Liddell Entertainment, Roadside Attractions, Sunset Boulevard
Pete Hammond

Glenn Close-Starrer ‘Albert Nobbs’ Picked Up By Liddell Entertainment & Roadside Attractions

EXCLUSIVE: It appears Glenn Close may be shaking up the Best Actress Oscar race this year. Today’s announcement that Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment have acquired all U.S. rights to Albert Nobbs, in which Close plays a woman passing as a man in order to survive in 19th century Dublin, and plan a fall release and likely Oscar campaign adds a bit of drama to 2011′s budding Academy race. Meryl Streep, a two-time winner and 16-time nominee, is the presumed front-runner as Margaret Thatcher in the Weinstein Company’s The Iron Lady. Streep hasn’t won since 1982, and many think (sight unseen) that Thatcher could be her ticket back to the winner’s circle. Ironically, that was also the year Close received the first of her five nominations (for her first film, The World According To Garp) in a remarkable run between 1982 and 1988 when she received her last nod for Dangerous Liaisons. Of course she’s won Tonys and Emmys, but the Oscar has famously eluded her.

In fact, 1982 was also the year she first played Albert Nobbs in an off-Broadway production of the play and won an Obie Award for it. Even though that was near the beginning of her career, she’s had her eye on it as a possible film ever since and has been actively trying to get it produced for the past 15 years. In addition to starring, she also co-produced and co-wrote the screenplay, enlisting her Nine Lives and Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her director Rodrigo Garcia to helm.

When I caught up with her today on the phone from her Maine vacation spot, she still couldn’t believe this dream project was finally going to be seen this year. “I’m kind of pinching myself. It’s a story I never ever forgot and an extraordinary character. It’s a simple story that has huge resonance,”  she said, adding that ultimately this is a very human tale dealing in part with the power of secrets that people hide about themselves.

She offered words of praise for Roadside, which had a very big year in 2010 with Oscar contenders Winter’s Bone and Biutiful, saying the film got wonderful response from other potential distributors but that Roadside was the most passionate. “They got it to the depths of the story. No one has been a part of this project without bringing committment and passion to it, so they just extended all that, which was thrilling for all of us,” she said. Read More »

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Glenn Close-Starrer ‘Albert Nobbs’ Picked Up By Liddell Entertainment & Roadside Attractions

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 5, 2011 @ 11:36am PDTTags: Albert Nobbs, Film Acquisition, Glenn Close, Liddell Entertainment, Roadside Attractions

Liddell Entertainment and Roadside Attractions have acquired US rights to Albert Nobbs, which stars Glenn Close as a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Dublin. Rodrigo Garcia directed the drama, which also stars Mia … Read More »

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‘Murderball’ Helmer Henry-Alex Rubin Takes On ‘Disconnect’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 15, 2011 @ 8:59am PDTTags: Brad Simpson, Liddell Entertainment, Marc Forster
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Murderball helmer Henry-Alex Rubin will make his narrative  feature directing debut on Disconnect, a drama being financed by Liddell Entertainment and Wonderful Films. Scripted by Andrew Stern, Disconnect tells the linked stories of a group of contemporary characters searching … Read More »

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Jim Carrey Film ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’ Finds Buyer And Gets December 3 Release

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 26, 2010 @ 10:00am PDTTags: Biutiful, Ewan McGregor, I Love You Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey, John Requa, Liddell Entertainment, Roadside Attractions
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment have acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to I Love You Phillip Morris. Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the fact based film stars Jim Carrey as a married conman who falls … Read More »

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Roadside Attractions And Liddell Entertainment Acquire ‘Biutiful’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 25, 2010 @ 1:23pm PDTTags: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Biutiful, Biutiful Javier Bardem, Biutiful US Rights, Howard Cohen, Javier Bardem, Liddell Entertainment, Mickey Liddell, Roadside Attractions
Mike Fleming

What’s the word I’m looking for? Oh, yeah. Tojdja! Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment just announced they’ve acquired U.S. rights to the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed Biutiful, which won a Best Actor Award for Javier Bardem at Cannes. Roadside Attractions co-president … Read More »

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