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Universal and Focus Features won a worldwide rights auction for an untitled film that Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and will direct, re-teaming him with There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day Lewis. Focus won the deal after a ferocious bidding battle with Fox Searchlight. The deal puts the lie to press reports speculating that buyer appetite has vanished going into Toronto. I’m told that Focus will finance the film’s $35 million budget on a negative pickup deal, with a big back end component for the talent. All told, the financial commitment that CAA brokered dwarfs two recent watermark worldwide rights deals at festival: the $17.5 million commitment that Searchlight made for The Birth of A Nation at Sundance last January, and the $20 million that Focus paid for the Tom Ford-directed Nocturnal Animals at Cannes 2015. The picture is set in the fashion world in London in the 1950s, and the plan is to start production early next year and release it in late 2017.
http://deadline.com/2016/09/paul-thomas ... 201814870/

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Can't wait.

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Bad luck for Oldman. What are the odds!

Also, any potential best director line-up looks crowded.

Well, Nolan can always get the honorary Oscar.

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Next year is gonna be bonkers. Doubt this will release on time though.

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Offical Press Release:
LOS ANGELES, September 8th, 2016 – Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled new film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Focus will distribute the film in the U.S. with Universal Pictures handling international distribution. Annapurna Pictures is producing the movie, with Mr. Anderson and Joanne Sellar producing through his Ghoulardi Film Company. The film will begin production in January for release in 2017.

Continuing a creative collaboration following 2007’s There Will Be Blood, which earned Mr. Day-Lewis the Best Actor Academy Award, and the film nominations for Best Picture, Directing, and Screenplay, Mr. Anderson will once again explore a distinctive and surging milieu of the 20th century through the new movie – the couture world of 1950s London.

Mr. Day-Lewis has also won the Best Actor Academy Award for his performances in Lincoln and My Left Foot, while Mr. Anderson has also received Academy Award nominations for his screenplays of Inherent Vice, Magnolia, and Boogie Nights, all of which he directed. Ms. Ellison has received three Academy Award nominations for her work as producer of the Best Picture nominees American Hustle, Her, and Zero Dark Thirty; she was also producer alongside Mr. Anderson and Ms. Sellar on his film The Master, which was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Focus chairman Peter Kujawski commented, “Paul Thomas Anderson is a singular storyteller who has the ability to mesmerize audiences by creating complex and fascinating characters. It is our privilege to bring Daniel Day-Lewis’ reteaming with Paul to movie lovers who have hoped for their reunion.”

Added Ms. Ellison, “Amongst their contemporaries, Paul and Daniel truly represent the highest tier of artistry in film. We are thrilled to partner with Peter and his team at Focus and collaborate once again with Paul on this ever original, visionary story. We cannot wait to see this lush world come to life with Daniel at the center.”

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PTA doing a film set in London is very interesting. All his other films take place in U.S.

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Oh wow... PTA never gets enough appreciation for his costumes in his movies, like with Boogie Nights, The Master and obviously Inherent Vice. Seeing DDL return with PTA just adds another cherry to the cherry on top.

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Can't wait!

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