Movies
New Path For Dimension’s ‘The Road’
Some Disappointing news via THR as it looks like Dimension Films’ The Road might be heading down a new path. The Viggo Mortensen dark thriller was originally set for a November 14 limited and November 26 wide release. Now it quietly has been shifted until at least December — and might be moved out of 2008 altogether. Execs are scheduled to meet with “Road’s” producers Thursday to discuss whether the movie will bow this year. The film is based on Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic tale about a man and his son wandering a bleak landscape. It has been noted as a possible Oscar contender.
Steve Guttenberg will open up a Dybbuk box in the upcoming movie The Dybbuk, with Beth Grant (No Country For Old Men) and Craig Bierko (Cinderella Man) also starring.
Deadline reports, “The contemporary adaptation of S. Ansky’s play comes from writer-director Lee Amir-Cohen and writer-producer Ashley Bua. Filming has recently wrapped in LA.”
Steven Guttenberg plays Rabbi Azrael in the upcoming Jewish folklore-based horror movie. The character is described as “a spiritual leader and mystic, forced to perform a dangerous exorcism when the spirit of a dead man possesses a young woman in his congregation.”
“Tony-nominee Craig Bierko plays Sender, the young woman’s father, while Beth Grant plays Frayda, her grandmother,” Deadline notes in their exclusive report this morning.
Lee Amir-Cohen makes his feature directorial debut with The Dybbuk.