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The film was recently picked up for distribution at the Sundance Film Festival. Russell stars as a Jane Austenphile who spends her entire savings to visit an English fantasy camp that recreates the gender and social mores of the writer’s times.
The film was based on the novel by Shannon Hale, was directed by Napoleon Dynamite co-helmer Jerusha Hess, and produced by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer.
Photo: EW.com.
Update 1: Austenland is not the only indie that secured distribution at Sundace.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut Don Jon’s Addiction did, too. As did The Way, Way Back, a coming-of-age comedy from the Oscar-wnning scribes of The Descendants, Nat Faxon (TV’s Ben and Kate) and Jim Rash (TV’s Community), and the documentary Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer, among others.
Ditto Kill Your Darlings starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Update 2: The Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy threequel Before Midnight also has secured distribution (like, duh).
And Ain’t Them Bodies Saints – starring Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, and Ben Foster – also has been snatched up.
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