Happy Wednesday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Abigail Breslin takes the Virgin route … Auction mania for Liz Taylor and John Wayne devotees … The jewel of post-communist Bulgaria is awaiting your low-budget genre/schlock movie endeavors … and more.
“We just need a little adventure. A big year to do everything we never could,” explain the trio of lead characters in the trailer for David Frankel’s The Big Year . Because 365 days worth of adventure-seeking and ticking off bucket-list items will surely drive the crises right out of Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. And at the very least, that “big year” will give the comedic actors a reason to goof around on skis, forge meaningful bonds and, most likely, realize that the cure to their middle-aged woes have been in plain view the entire time. Or am I missing the plot entirely?
Nick Broomfield’s documentary Sarah Palin: You Betcha! , which premieres this week at the Toronto Film Festival, has made a domestic theatrical deal with Freestyle Releasing. The crowd-funded film is said to scrub away the sheen of the miserably received pro-Palin doc The Undefeated , trickling into limited release in New York and L.A. on Sept. 30 — not long after when the ex-governor’s long-rumored presidential bid would likely launch, if it launches at all. Intrigue! [ Deadline ]
The new Dior short film/luxury ad starring celebrity spokesmodel Charlize Theron makes a number of assumptions off the bat. First and foremost, that you’d believe screen icons Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, and Marilyn Monroe would shill for any designer even in death, but more so? That Theron, statuesque living goddess that she is, is the natural glam heir to those ladies’ legacy. Then again, it was filmed inside of Versailles . Point, Charlize!