"A Single Man" gets a distributor AND a 2009 release date!

I'm so happy about this. Obviously the trailer was an indication of a very strong whole, which is always nice. It also makes me think that the reports of "Creation" struggling to pick up a US distributor may not have too much to do with its content, but perhaps lukewarm reception to the film (Variety's Anne Thompson did say it was something of a bore, and she wasn't the only one).

Source: Indiewire

Tom Ford’s “A Single Man” came to the festival last night with significant buzz after a rousing welcome at the Venice fest last week where it was an unexpected hit. The fact that the film wasn’t in Telluride, and won’t be at the New York Film Festival, made it a rare, high profile Toronto fest exclusive with heat. Based on a Christopher Isherwood novel of the same name, it stars Colin Firth as a fifty-something man at a turning moment in his life after the death of his longtime lover. Writing about the film over the weekend for indieWIRE, Shane Danielsen praised the movie, Firth won the best actor prize in Venice on Saturday and buzz intensified leading to Monday’s debut.

Last night, at Ford’s intimate and beautifully crafted party for this stylish and striking movie, groups of buyers worked the room and, despite a distinctly gay storyline, there was little doubt that this universal story of middle-aged lonliness and isolation in the 1960s would quickly find a home.

Harvey and Bob Weinstein were at one end of Jamie Kennedy’s restaurant at the Gardiner Museum, while Daniel Battsek and a team from Miramax were in another, Howard Cohen and Eric D’Arbeloff from Roadside Attractions and Eamonn Bowles from Magnolia Pictures rounded out the roster of industry folks who casually mingled with celebrities including Firth, Julianne Moore, Clive Owen and others. CAA sold the film quickly for a U.S. release; IM Global is handling international.

“We sold it last night and I made back my money,” Ford told indieWIRE today. “We’ve sold it in America and we’ve also sold it in most of the rest of the world. It will be out this year.”