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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life', ‘The Last Rodeo', ‘Friendship' Counterprogram ‘Lilo & Stitch' & ‘Mission: Impossible' Holiday Weekend
Sony Pictures Classics is out with Jane Austen Wrecked My Life in limited release, Angel Studios' The Last Rodeo opens wide and A24's Friendship added screens with few new indies braving the double whammy of live action Lilo & Stitch and Paramount's Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning. The former may have set a Disney record for Memorial Day weekend previews, Deadline reports, while Tom Cruise's high octane eighth outing as Ethan Hunt may have set a record preview night for a Mission: Impossible. More from Deadline 'Friendship' Rocks As Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd Bromance Expands - Specialty Box Office 'Friendship' Moves To Top Ten Markets, Star Tim Robinson's Hometown Detroit; 'Sister Midnight', 'The Old Woman With The Knife' - Specialty Preview 'Friendship' Skyrockets To Top Limited Opening Of 2025 For Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd Comedy - Specialty Box Office Jane Austen in her own right 'has become a bit of a rock star in the marketplace,' SPC brass rightly noted when the distributor acquired the feature debut by Laura Piani ahead of its TIFF world premiere last year. It's opening on 61 screens in select markets including Lincoln Square and Angelika Film Center in New York and the AMC Grove and Laemmle Royal in LA. SPC is planning a nationwide bump next week to about 500 runs. Stars Camille Rutherford as Agathe, a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. She dreams of being a successful writer and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel but finds herself desperately single and plagued by writer's block. When Agathe's best friend (Pablo Pauly) gets her invited to the Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England, she finally has her Jane Austen moment. Certified Fresh at 85% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Angel Studios opens by Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes, Black Swan, Risky Business) on 2,205 screens. Stars Neal McDonough (who also co-wrote) as a retired rodeo legend who risks it all to save his grandson. Facing his own painful past and the fears of his family, he enters a high-stakes bull-riding competition as the oldest contestant ever. Along the way, he reconciles old wounds with his estranged daughter Sally (Sarah Jones) and proves that true courage is found in the fight for family. Produced in association with the Professional Bull Riders Association. Also stars Christopher McDonald and Ruve McDonough. Written by Avnet, Neal McDonough and Derek Presley. This is Angel's third partnership with faith-based McDonough Company after 2023 thriller The Shift and post-apocalyptic drama Homestead, slated for release December 20. A24s starring comedian Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave) and Paul Rudd has a big week 3 expansion to about 1,200 screens from 60. After a great limited opening at 6 theaters it rocked an expansion to 60 last week with $1.4 million and a no. 7 spot at the domestic box office. The R-rated directorial debut of Andrew DeYoung follows a bromance gone bad between two suburban dads. Comedy from Menemsha Films opens on four screens in NYC with Q&As at the Quad. Follows a $17k week and $110k run in Florida and a $225k cume from select showings. Expands to San Francisco May 30 and LA the following week. Directed by Daniel Robbins, it star Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff 'Method Man' Smith, David Paymer, Milana Vayntrub, Jon Bass, Meghan Leathers, Theo Taplitz, Catherine Curtin, John Bedford Lloyd and Ashley Zukerman. David and his fiancée Meg are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner on New York's Upper West Side when an accidental death (or murder?) gets in the way. With Meg's Catholic parents due any moment, this family dinner soon spirals into disaster. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2024 Tribeca Festival. from Vertical, written and directed by Warwick Thornton, produced by and starring Cate Blanchett, is having a 7-day limited theatrical run before hitting VOD May 30. Set in 1940s Australia at a remote monastery with a mission for Aboriginal children run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen (Blanchett). A new charge (Aswan Reid) is delivered in the dead of night, a boy who appears to have special powers. But the boy's Indigenous spiritual life does not mesh with the mission's Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat. Sister Eileen is faced with a choice between the traditions of her faith and the truth embodied in the boy. Premiered at Cannes in 2023, see Deadline review. Restoration: Akira Kurosawa's , the director's re-imagining of Shakespeare's King Lear transposed to medieval 16th century Japan, starts a run at New York's IFC Center and Laemmle Royal in LA to celebrate the epic's 40th anniversary. The 4K restoration is being re-released by New York-based Rialto Pictures. Resting after a wild boar hunt, warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to divide his domain among his three sons. A battle ensues between color-coded armies, a castle burns to the ground. Designed from the director's own watercolor storyboards, the film had four Oscar nominations including Best Director, Cinematography and Art Direction, with Emi Wada winning for costumes. 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Winnipeg Free Press
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Hence the sensibility
This muted, somewhat melancholy and very French approach to the Jane Austen update (mostly in French with English subtitles, with a smattering of English) has many low-key charms. The settings, central characters and lead performances are all lovely, in an understated way. Still, considering Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is partly a love letter to writing and writers, this romantic comedy from debut French filmmaker Laura Piani is a bit patchy when it comes to story. Agathe (Camille Rutherford of Anatomy of a Fall) is a would-be novelist who works at Paris's historic English-language bookshop Shakespeare and Company. (Bibliophiles will be happy to see the bookish scenes are shot at the actual store.) Sony Pictures Classics Agathe is a would-be novelist looking for inspiration. Finding herself stalled out, both in her love life and her attempts to write a love story, Agathe compares herself to Jane Austen's Anne Elliot, the heroine of Persuasion who fears her chance at happiness has passed. This could change, though, when Agathe is pushed by her best pal, Félix (Pablo Pauly of The French Dispatch), into attending the Jane Austen Residency, a two-week writers' retreat at a beautiful Georgian house in the English countryside. Agathe finds herself experiencing some romantic confusion when Felix sees her off at the cross-Channel ferry with a surprisingly passionate kiss. This perplexity is compounded when she's picked up on the British side by the arrogant but attractive Oliver (Charlie Anson, who's done offbeat Austen before in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). Oliver, who works at the Residency, happens to be Jane Austen's 'great-great-great-great nephew,' though he finds Austen's writings 'a little overrated and limited in scope.' Piani, who has worked mostly in French TV (Spiral, Plan B), is dealing with the gambit faced by all Austen-related projects: her film has a built-in audience, but that audience has very exacting standards. Here Jane Austen functions mostly as a hook, which might disappoint some superfans. Agathe's story holds a generalized Janeite spirit, but the specific literary references are slight. (It should also be noted that the movie is not related to the 2009 novel Jane Austen Ruined My Life by American author Beth Pattillo. Confusing!) Agathe, like Austen herself, is a doting aunt and fond sister, and like many Austen heroines, she finds herself choosing between two men while trying to figure out her own moral and emotional development. Sony Pictures Classics Félix (Pablo Pauly, left) and Agathe are just friends, or are they? There's certainly a Pride and Prejudice vibe to Agathe and Oliver's frosty initial meeting, with Oliver channelling a bilingual Mr. Darcy with just a touch of Hugh Grant's Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility. And while Félix is a great best friend, Agathe worries he's maybe a bit too much like Mansfield Park's Henry Crawford, a compulsive charmer who can't commit. Still, for all the callbacks to Austen's early 1800s canon — Piani even supplies a Regency-costumed ball, with much dancing and glancing — this is a very 2020s work. Agathe sometimes feels as if she was 'born in the wrong century,' but her story is modern and French, with a lot of striped shirts, good coffee, alcohol and cigarettes — and also a bit of nudity and sex. There is some sisterhood with Bridget Jones. Agathe doesn't quite reach Bridget's level of comic klutziness, but she can be awkward and a little self-effacing. (When Félix suggests Agathe suffers from impostor syndrome, she tells him she's 'a genuine impostor.') And as with many modernized Austen heroines, Agathe is not dealing with social constraints — with not enough choice — but rather with too much choice. This especially applies to the wide-open options of what she calls 'Uber sex' and 'digital dating,' which she finds mostly involves guys tiptoeing out of her bed at night and trying not to wake her up. As a contemporary woman, Agathe is also struggling with work, in this case the writer's horror of the blank page, compounded by a past trauma she hasn't come to terms with. Sundays Kevin Rollason's Sunday newsletter honouring and remembering lives well-lived in Manitoba. This outline of Agathe's character arc sounds good, but with the film's swift 98-minute runtime, the outline is never quite filled in. Agathe's relationships with the other Residency participants, with the two men and even with herself remain vague. Sony Pictures Classics Like many Jane Austen heroines, Agathe (Camille Rutherford) finds herself choosing between two men. At one point, Agathe is arguing with an aggressive critical theorist about the purpose of literature, and she says she wants novels to reflect back to her what it means to be human. The film has bits of quiet humour, some less successful attempts at slapstick and some poignant scenes, but these beautiful moments don't quite add up to a fully developed story. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life could use a little more reflection. arts@ Alison GillmorWriter Studying at the University of Winnipeg and later Toronto's York University, Alison Gillmor planned to become an art historian. She ended up catching the journalism bug when she started as visual arts reviewer at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1992. Read full biography Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. 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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
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‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life', ‘The Last Rodeo', ‘Friendship' Counterprogram ‘Lilo & Stitch' & ‘Mission: Impossible' Holiday Weekend
Sony Pictures Classics is out with Jane Austen Wrecked My Life in limited release, Angel Studios' The Last Rodeo opens wide and A24's Friendship added screens with few new indies braving the double whammy oflive action Lilo & Stitch and Paramount's Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning. The former may have set a Disney record for Memorial Day weekend previews, Deadline reports, while Tom Cruise's high octane eight outing as Ethan Hunt may have set a record preview night for a Mission: Impossible. More from Deadline 'Friendship' Rocks As Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd Bromance Expands - Specialty Box Office 'Friendship' Moves To Top Ten Markets, Star Tim Robinson's Hometown Detroit; 'Sister Midnight', 'The Old Woman With The Knife' - Specialty Preview 'Friendship' Skyrockets To Top Limited Opening Of 2025 For Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd Comedy - Specialty Box Office Jane Austen in her own right 'has become a bit of a rock star in the marketplace,' SPC brass rightly noted when the distributor acquired the feature debut by Laura Piani ahead of its TIFF world premiere last year. It's opening on 61 screens in select markets including Lincoln Square and Angelika Film Center in New York and the AMC Grove and Laemmle Royal in LA. SPC is planning a nationwide bump next week to about 500 runs. Stars Camille Rutherford as Agathe, a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. She dreams of being a successful writer and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel but finds herself desperately single and plagued by writer's block. When Agathe's best friend (Pablo Pauly) gets her invited to the Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England, she finally has her Jane Austen moment. Certified Fresh at 85% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Angel Studios opens by Jon Avent (Fried Green Tomatoes, Black Swan, Risky Business) on 2,205 screens. Stars Neal McDonough (who also co-wrote) as a retired rodeo legend who risks it all to save his grandson. Facing his own painful past and the fears of his family, he enters a high-stakes bull-riding competition as the oldest contestant ever. Along the way, he reconciles old wounds with his estranged daughter Sally (Sarah Jones) and proves that true courage is found in the fight for family. Produced in association with the Professional Bull Riders Association. Also stars Christopher McDonald and Ruve McDonough. Written by Avnet, Neal McDonough and Derek Presley. This is Angel's third partnership with faith-based McDonough Company after 2023 thriller The Shift and post-apocalyptic drama Homestead, slated for release December 20. A24s starring comedian Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave) and Paul Rudd has a big week 3 expansion to about 1,200 screens from 60. After a great limited opening at 6 theaters it rocked an expansion to 60 last week with $1.4 million and a no. 7 spot at the domestic box office. The R-rated directorial debut of Andrew DeYoung follows a bromance gone bad between two suburban dads. from Vertical, written and directed by Warwick Thornton, produced by and starring Cate Blanchett, is having a 7-day limited theatrical run before hitting VOD May 30. Set in 1940s Australia at a remote monastery with a mission for Aboriginal children run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen (Blanchett). A new charge (Aswan Reid) is delivered in the dead of night, a boy who appears to have special powers. But the boy's Indigenous spiritual life does not mesh with the mission's Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat. Sister Eileen is faced with a choice between the traditions of her faith and the truth embodied in the boy. Premiered at Cannes in 2023, see Deadline review. Restoration: Akira Kurosawa's , the director's re-imagining of Shakespeare's King Lear transposed to medieval 16th century Japan, starts a run at New York's IFC Center and Laemmle Royal in LA to celebrate the epic's 40th anniversary. The 4K restoration is being re-released by New York-based Rialto Pictures. Resting after a wild boar hunt, warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to divide his domain among his three sons. A battle ensues between color-coded armies, a castle burns to the ground. Designed from the director's own watercolor storyboards, the film had four Oscar nominations including Best Director, Cinematography and Art Direction, with Emi Wada winning for costumes. Best of Deadline Every 'The Voice' Winner Since Season 1, Including 9 Team Blake Champions Everything We Know About 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' So Far 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out?
UPI
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Camille Rutherford: 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' captures creative turmoil
1 of 5 | Camille Rutherford stars in "Jane Austen Wrecked My Life," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics LOS ANGELES, May 20 (UPI) -- Camille Rutherford says her new movie Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, in theaters Friday, captures artistic struggles. Rutherford plays Agathe, an aspiring French writer who attends a Jane Austen workshop in England. In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Rutherford said she related to Agathe's creative struggles. Though Rutherford has been acting since 2010, including in the critically-acclaimed film Anatomy of a Fall and TV's Paris Has Fallen, she related to Agathe's imposter syndrome. "Whenever I start a new job as an actress, I always feel like I'm not going to be good enough, like Agathe when she's trying to write novels," Rutherford said. "We all have moments in our lives where we feel we're not intelligent, funny, witty, intelligent, cool enough for anything, in our career, in our relationships." Rutherford said she has friends and family who are authors. She confirmed that the film's depictions of Agathe procrastinating, even while at the exclusive retreat, are accurate in her experience. "It demystifies writing," Rutherford said. "You see Agathe looking at her phone instead of writing, looking out the window having fantasies about men. I could relate to that." When someone else has written dialogue for her, however, Rutherford is committed to learning her part. "I always have my phone next to me, I'm not going to lie," she said. "It's always there and every ten minutes I'm like oh, I want to look at my phone but I try and look at it every half an hour." Laura Piani, who wrote and directed Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, confirmed Rutherford always knew her lines. Furthermore, Piani said the film is inspired as much by Austen's career as an author as it is the romantic works she wrote, such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma. "It was also important for me, for us to do a rom-com that would embrace the genre and play with the formula, that would not be a film about a woman saved by a man or saved by love," Piani said. "It's only because she reached this dream and she writes a book that she can actually be able to recognize love and go for it." Outside of writing, Agathe struggles with dating apps and works at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore with her friend, Felix (Pablo Pauly). Though the methods have evolved, Piani and Rutherford agreed people still long for Jane Austen romance. "We all want to fall in love," Rutherford said. "Solitude is not natural. People like being alone but there's a moment where we all need relationships. We all need to fall in love, to have sex, to be in a relationship. That's why we still need her romance. Not only her romance but any artist's vision of romance and romance in general." Piani added that Austen's sense of humor contributes to her works standing the test of time. "What she was hiding on the plate was the sense of humor, though," Piani said. "She was so ahead of her time that it's still talking to us today because she's timeless." Comedy in Jane Austen Wrecked My Life includes a nude scene featuring Rutherford. Agathe is preparing to bathe when she accidentally opens the door to the adjoining room instead of the bathroom. Oliver (Charlie Anson), one of Agathe's potential suitors, sees her naked, but Rutherford preferred being the butt of the joke to having a love scene. "I hate it when I have to be naked if it's a sex scene or it's about desire or seduction," Rutherford said. "It didn't have to be sexy. It was funny and my body could be wobbly wobbly wobbly."
Express Tribune
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Jane Austen wrecked no one's life
In the two centuries or so since her soothing observations of the pains of repeated dinner invitations were unfurled before us, has Jane Austen ever managed to wreck anyone's life? We Austen fangirls (and fanboys; we do not shun the small handful of male readers keen to join our esteemed subset) already know the answer - but for anyone wishing to dig deeper, French director Laura Piani's aptly named feature-length debut Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, ready for a global release on May 23, provides further clues. Of course, some of you may already have more exciting events pencilled in on your calendar, filmwise. The more adventurous amongst you may be counting down the minutes until you can fully appreciate Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt dangling off yet another moving vehicle in the upcoming Mission: Impossible (The Final Reckoning) come May 21. One can only hope that this truly is Ethan's final reckoning, because he is running out of vehicles from which it is humanly possible to dangle from. (If the trailers are to be believed, Ethan opts for a biplane this time, although he may need to move on to a tricycle or push chair in future if he wants to keep this up.) Action fans, step aside However, for those of you who remain obtuse to the appeal of Ethan's exhausting cardio activities over the course of his spy career, a gentle rom-com whose title appears to apportion all sorts of blame at poor Austen's door is the balm to a soul battered by senseless sequels and pithy prequels. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life speaks to the heart of every fan of the original mistress of chick lit. Parisian aspiring writer Agathe (Camille Rutherford) aches to be wooed by a hero inhabiting Austen's pages, and takes one giant step closer to this wispy dream by accepting a place at a Jane Austen Writers' residency in England. Being received by a man who we are informed is Austen's great-great-great-something nephew, Agathe's disgust is palpable when her host makes the unspeakable declaration, "I find her work overrated." Looking not unlike one who has found a slug nestled in her salad, Agathe declares in French, "He is unbearable." As well she ought to. If you are amongst those who loathe subtitles with a sulphurous passion, by the way, you can temporarily shelve that loathing for this half-English, half-French love triangle. With the great-great-great-something nephew full of prejudice against the mistress of chick lit and our heroine nursing wounded pride at his idiotic taste in prose, there is no Sherlock-esque mystery in working out which hero Agathe will be persuaded to join forces with. But of course, like anything crafted by Austen, the joy lies in not the destination, but the journey. Another Austen film? Really? By now, those of you who have yet to watch the trailer may be hosting dreamy visions of a modern-day Pride and Prejudice with a touch of Persuasion sprinkled in. You are strongly advised to reign in such flights of fancy. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is a love letter to the woman who provided a blueprint for all chick lit to follow, much in the same way way that La La Land paid homage to a Hollywood that died decades ago - but beyond that, it will pay no more homage Austen's Regency period than Bridgerton pretends to. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life notwithstanding, there is no gap in the market waiting to be filled by Austen mania, and, the further filmmakers stay away from it, the better it is for us all. There is not a single Austen fan who needs to see another heroine who can produce nosebleeds on command (Emma 2020), nor an Anne Elliot who waxes lyrical about exes (Persuasion 2022). Going even further back, die-hard Emma Thompson fans may channel their inner fire-breathing dragon upon encountering anyone who dares speak ill of the 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility, but perhaps it would have been no bad thing had we been spared Thompson's Eleanor Dashwood being courted by a wooden Hugh Grant who looks as though he wandered off the set of Four Weddings and a Funeral. And since are already treading these dangerous grounds, let it also be known that whilst director Ang Lee's version may have been wrong to inform a young and terrified Kate Winslet that she would "get better", there are not many of us who needed to watch Winslet's Marianne paired up with Alan Rickman's awkward Colonel Brandon, with both actors having as much chemistry as two north-facing magnets forced together. Sorry, Sense and Sensibility. You deserved so much better. Are all adaptations bad? Heavens, no. Where would pop culture be without the original Bridget Jones' heavy leanings on Pride and Prejudice? What would the '90s have looked like without the Emma-inspired American teen drama Clueless starring a blonde Alicia Silverstone and a Paul Rudd who, now, looks barely half a day older than he did back in 1995? Despite Netflix's latest disastrous attempts, it would be scandalous to write off all Austen adaptations on the basis of random nosebleeds and like magnets, because - as we all know by now - the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth, a lake, and a wet shirt exists to prove otherwise. The gold standard against which all adaptations ought to be measured, this work of art may be thirty years old, but with dialogue lifted straight from the text capturing Austen's wit like a genie in a bottle, this BBC miniseries is the key to unlocking a delight of literature that may otherwise forever have been guarded by the fortress of a deeply uninviting cover. Meanwhile, Gwyneth Paltrow's take on Emma (1996), released the following year, proved that you do need neither six hours nor a floppy-haired blank-faced Hugh Grant to successfully transfer page to screen. For those of you who have not yet discovered this almost three-decade-old treasure and are put off by Paltrow's take on lifestyle matters, try to forget about this actor-turned-lifestyle-blogger's painful lessons on bed-making. With Paltrow assuming a flawless English accent, here is the Emma we all deserved, and the one we still have should anyone care to dust it off and rediscover it. Starring a charming, Jeremy Northam as Mr Knightley, a delightfully obtuse Alan Cumming as Mr Elton and a pitch-perfect snooty Juliet Stevenson as Mrs Elton, this gem of an adaptation is laced with wit, humour and a Mr Knightley who sets hearts pounding even as he admonishes his lady love for her wayward antics. No truer words were spoken than when Agathe from Jane Austen Wrecked My Life muses, "I believe that some books become a part of our life, because they reveal to us our true nature." To paraphrase Agathe, some adaptations become the fabric of our lives. They reveal to us a world that may have been lost to time forever. Bring them on - but without the nosebleeds. Please.
