Farlanders

Release date: TBA, 2009
Budget: unknown

Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jeff Daniels
Produced by: Big Beach Films, Neal Street and Edward Saxon Productions
Filming location: Connecticut

There isn’t as much info on ‘Farlanders’ as in our last ‘In production’ post about ‘Bunraku,’ but I’ll work with what I’ve got here. ‘Farlanders’ is Sam Mendes’ sixth movie since he made it big with ‘American Beauty’ in 1999. Yes, it’s almost ten years since you first saw ‘American Beauty,’ which got no less than 5 Oscars.

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It’s quite a striking move by Universal Pictures. While they just released ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ last weekend, this weekend they add ‘Baby Mama’ to their list of comedies. The movie with Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live), is expected to open in the high-teen millions, just like Marshall. Meanly because of the 12- to 16-year-old girl demographic.

Universal isn’t expecting these girls to overlap with Sarah Marshall’s audience. But some say the ‘Baby Mama’ visitors could be taking away some tickets, since it might do well with older women too. Nevertheless, this is another slow weekend at the box office and with all the big budget blockbusters coming up, this could have been the best spot.

Director Sam Mendes, who also made ‘American Beauty’ and ‘Jarhead,’ is starting production on his new romantic comedy in Connecticut this week. The Universal project just added Jeff Daniels and Catherine O’Hara (photoshopped above) to the cast and is about a family trying to find the right place to start a family.

Other than the new cast members above, the movie will star John Krasinski (’The Office’) and Maya Rudolph (’Saturday Night Live’). No release date or year is currently set.