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Bay Area Film Buzz: Hemingway, 'Moneyball' Redux, and Pixar


Hemingway and Gellhorn
via HBO

Long-simmering HBO biopic "Hemingway & Gellhorn," which filmed around the Bay last year, finally has a trailer. The nearly five-minute peek at the project, which leaked online and was apparently taken down by request from HBO, gave us our first looks at Clive Owen as big Papa himself and Nicole Kidman as his wife Martha Gellhorn. The film boasts A-list talent behind the camera as well: co-writers Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl were responsible for "Pollack" and "Permanent Midnight", respectively. Meanwhile, director Phillip Kaufman wrote and directed the similarly literary-minded "Henry and June", as well as "The Unbearable Lightnness of Being", and "The Right Stuff." (He also wrote "Raiders of the Lost Ark", so maybe there's hope of Owen-as-Hemmingway running from a giant boulder ?) I think I caught a glimpse of Marin in there—did anyone else who caught the trailer see a familiar spot?

"Mosquita y Mari", San Francisco-born filmmaker Aurora Guerrero's Sundance debut, has just been acquired by Wolfe Releasing. The film tracks the romance between two young Chicanas growing up in the Huntington Park neighborhood of LA. Check out the trailer here.

Deadline Hollywood has an interesting interview with Rachael Horovitz and Michael De Luca, the producers of "Moneyball". They talk about the film's sometimes contentious path to the big screen (one-time director Steven Soderbergh was even left off the DVD's special features.)

Over at Indiewire, Eric Kohn thinks that Pixar's entry "La Luna" will not win the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. The Emeryville animation giant has dominated the short film category, winning seven times in the last 25 years. Kohn's pick for the category is "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," which you can watch yourself here. For what it's worth, my pick is "A Morning Stroll", which also won the Jury Prize for Best Animated Film at Sundance this year.

Jon Korn
Jon Korn is a Shorts Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. He is also a Shorts Programmer at Outfest, where he was Programmer for the 2009 festival. Previously, Jon worked as an Associate Programmer at ... View Profile
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