Kajillionaire's Starz and Diego Luna
Multi-faceted filmmaker and writer Miranda July’s sexy psychological fiction novel All Fours is being developed as a TV series landing at Starz. All Fours centers on a married woman in her 40s who has a sexual awakening after a brief affair. July is an award-winning author whose newest indie novel seems like a big deviation from Starz’s typical backings, which includes primarily mainstream, more conventional projects like Outlander (2014) or the most recent Hunger Games (2023). Since its publication last summer, All Fours has been on the Indie Bestseller List for 38 weeks and counting. July’s latest feature was the brilliantly odd Kajillionaire (2020), featuring Richard Jenkins as the most bizarre skimmer and schemer (clip).
Praised Juno scribe Diablo Cody is producing Forbidden Fruits, the feature directorial debut of Meredith Alloway (short film Deep Tissue). The latter is co-adapting with playwright Lily Houghton based on her play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die, a dynamic story about the dangers of commercializing millennial femininity.
New Europe Film Sales has presold Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason’s newest project, the family drama The Love That Remains, to multiple territories worldwide. The film captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Pálmason’s last film, Godland, debuted at Cannes and made it in the competitive Oscar shortlist in the international feature film category back in 2022.
Shudder snatches up an 80's inspired horror thriller, Dead Mail, by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy. The film had a very successful festival run and will now debut on Shudder on April 18th.
Diego Luna returns to directing with Ceniza en la Boca, an intimate, unflinching look at migration and identity. Adapted from Brenda Navarro’s novel, the film follows Lucila, a young woman caught between family duty and self-discovery. The film co-stars Adriana Paz (Emilia Pérez). Luna’s poetic yet brutal vision ensures this will be a deeply personal and socially urgent work. Following his films Abel, César Chávez, and Mr. Pig, his latest film continues his exploration of personal and political struggles, capturing displacement’s emotional toll with a raw authenticity that is endemic to his acting work.