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‘Killer Joe’ Gets NC-17; Planning To Appeal Rating

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 4:56pm PSTTags: Killer Joe, LD Entertainment, NC-17, Tracy Letts
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Another movie has gotten an NC-17. Killer Joe, the Billy Friedkin-directed adaptation of the Tracy Letts play just got an NC-17 rating. That is one of the first releases by LD Entertainment, the new distribution company started by Mickey Liddell and run by David Dinerstein. They will appeal the rating and it’s unusual; Letts is the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning playwright of August: Osage County.This one is a garish, sexy black comedy that stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gerson and Thomas Haden Church and it’s slated for a summer release.

The pic premiered at Venice and it has been called Tennessee Williams meets Quentin Tarantino. It played Toronto, where it was acquired by LD, and will makes its US premiere at SXSW. It’s racy and violent, but LD thinks it’s an R film. “We will use our best efforts to overturn this decision,” Dinerstein said. “We stand by our filmmakers and remain faithful to their visions.” Stay tuned.

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Hot Trailer: ‘Shame’ Red Band

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 4:12pm PSTTags: Carey Mulligan, Fox Searchlight, NC-17, Shame, Steve McQueen

Fox Searchlight today posted on Facebook another trailer for Steve McQueen’s Shame. The movie starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan opens Friday; it was nominated earlier in the day by the Spirit Awards for Best International Film.

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‘Shame’ Slapped With NC-17 As Predicted

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 25, 2011 @ 7:21pm PDTTags: Michael Fassbender, NC-17, Shame, Steve McQueen
Mike Fleming

The MPAA has given an NC-17 rating to the Steve McQueen-directed Shame, which is exactly what Deadline told you would happen back when we broke the story that Fox Searchlight had acquired it at the start of the 2011 … Read More »

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Toronto: ‘Descendants’ Premiere Gets Big Reaction, Searchlight Has No Shame About Pickup Of Controversial ‘Shame’

By PETE HAMMOND | Saturday September 10, 2011 @ 11:54pm PDTTags: 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Barrymore, Carey Mulligan, Christopher Plummer, Fox Searchlight, George Clooney, Jane Fonda, Michael Fassbender, NC-17, Shame, Sony Pictures, The Descendants
Pete Hammond

Fox Seachlight’s annual party at the Thompson Hotel for the Toronto International Film Festival seemed especially ebullient Saturday after its growing Oscar contender, The Descendants, premiered to a standing ovation. Exactly a week earlier, the film received a similar enthusiastic response in Telluride. On top of that, Searchlight’s co-presidents Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula had just won rights over The Weinstein Company and Sony Pictures Classics to the controversial Steve McQueen-directed Shame, which missed out Saturday on the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival but did nab star Michael Fassbender the Best Actor prize for his raw, let-it-all-hang-out performance as a sexually addicted man in freefall.

Shame Michael Fassbender Carey MulliganUtley confirmed that Searchlight will release Shame this year in time for the Oscar race, possibly December. Although they have not dated it, they do want enough time to put a campaign together. She was thrilled that Fassbender got the Venice prize for the film, which premieres in Toronto tomorrow night, after Read More »

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