June
26
Picturehouse vs. Warner Indie
When Warner Bros. shuttered Picturehouse and Warner Independent, it allowed Picturehouse's Bob Berney to release all three of the films he had ready to go: this summer both Mongol and Kit Kittredge: American Girl are showing surprising b.o. strength. And The Women is coming up in October.
On the other hand, unfortunately for WIP, the parent studio is taking over the August release of Alan Ball’s emigre drama Towelhead, a coming-of-age film with challenging sexual content that will need delicate handling, as well as Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, which was scheduled for November.
Some WIP staffers have already left the lot; the balance are expected to exit on Aug. 15 (when WIP prexy Polly Cohen will likely open her own Warners prod shingle). Marketing head Laura Kim is working on the films for now (and fielding many inquiries about her next move). Warners will pick over the development slate, including such once-sizzling-hot projects as Tom Perrotta’s The Abstinence Teacher, with Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris attached, which will likely go into turnaround.
Here's the Towelhead trailer:
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