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Exclusive: Reid Scott has joined his Veep co-star Matt Walsh in the upcoming romance Under The Eiffel Tower, from director Archie Borders. Co-written by Borders and David Henry, the film was picked up by The Orchard, with plans to release it sometime next year. Walsh stars as a bourbon salesman who is fighting off 50 and unexpectedly proposes to and is rejected by his best friend's 24-year-old daughter under the Eiffel Tower. Scott plays Liam, a rough, outspoken former…...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– The Orchard has acquired the rights to “Kings,” the drama starring Halle Berry and Daniel Craig and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Deadline reports. The film focuses on a foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Ergüven previously directed “Mustang,” which received an Oscar nomination in 2015 for Best Foreign Language Film. Charles Gilbert and Vincent Maraval served as the producers on “Kings.”

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– Lionsgate has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the crime-thriller “Dragged Across Concrete” The film will be released by the...

Matt Walsh, Judith Godrèche to star in coming-of-age tale.

The Orchard has finalised a deal in Cannes for all worldwide rights to Archie Borders’ upcoming Under The Eiffel Tower.

Matt Walsh from Veep, Cesar Award-winner Judith Godrèche and Ryan Eggold lead the cast in the coming-of-age story about a middle-aged bourbon salesman who goes on a wine-fuelled jaunt across the French countryside where he finds love.

The cast includes Ary Abittan, David Wain, Gary Cole, and Michaela Watkins. Borders and David Henry co-wrote the screenplay.

Producers Godrèche, Michael Fitzer, Stacey Parks and Erin Roark have earmarked a July production start on Under The Eiffel Tower and The Orchard is targeting a 2018 release.

The Orchard’s executive vice-president of film and television Paul Davidson, Danielle Digiacomo and Brad Navin serve as executive producers.

“Under The Eiffel Tower represents the perfect combination of France, wine and a stellar ensemble cast,” Davidson said. “We are thrilled...

Review by David Henry

The Korean film My Way is an ambitious, continents-sprawling epic set against the backdrop of World War II, and simultaneously an intimate drama about two men who find themselves swept up in the tsunami of history, with their destinies intertwined. In some ways it is not unlike Ben Hur, minus the Christian elements. Filmmaker Kang Je-kyu, known in his native land as a top-notch director of action films, demonstrates an uncanny ability to juggle both of these normally disparate elements in a way that seems effortless, so that the movie feels big and small at the same time. In a way, it almost feels like three or four films playing back-to-back, or even an epic miniseries. Kang is telling a very episodic story here, one that eschews the traditional Western 3-act model of filmmaking and adapts a 4-act structure which makes the film seem longer than its 143 minute running time,...

It can be a lot of fun to see American popular culture refracted through the prism of another country. "Rabies," is the first Israeli movie made in that quintessential American genre, the slasher film. And it does feature many of the slasher cliches we've come to know and love: the dog that wanders off too far into the forrest, the killer who can magically sneak up people without making a sound, the car full of nubile hotties that gets lost in the woods. But what starts as a rather typical slasher film with Israeli accents eventually reveals itself to be something a bit more complicated. "Rabies" has a point beyond exploitation, I'm just not sure I agree with it. Or maybe what I really disagree with is the way that point is made.

We'll get to that in a second. First, the plot, which, to my disappointment, does not contain any actual rabies.

Jann Wenner and Tom Wolfe speak at the Norman Mailer Center 2nd Annual Benefit Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street. Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Norman Mailer Center The abrasive energizing spirit of Norman Mailer enveloped the Cipriani 42nd Street last evening as family, friends, and colleagues of Norman packed into the great domed ballroom to celebrate the second annual benefit for the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony. As I moved about from table to table, saying hello to master of ceremonies Gay Talese, historian Doris Kearnes Goodwin, photographer Annie Leibovitz, and playwright David Henry Wong, I couldn’t help but remember how much Norman loved parties. He liked nothing better than throwing together friends and acquaintances—priests with labor leaders, fashion designers with journalists, gangsters with politicians and spies—and goading them to argue out their differences.