Helen Hunt’s Family Day at the Beach
Helen Hunt’s Family Day at the Beach
Showing off her six pack abs, Helen Hunt was all smiles during a Thursday afternoon trip to the beach in Venice, California.
Accompanied by daughter Makena Lei and boyfriend Matthew Carnahan, the “As Good As It Gets” actress kept busy building sand castles with her daughter in between brief sunning sessions.
As for her career in film, Hunt is in the middle of the worldwide release of her directorial debut film, “The She Found Me”.
Out in the States in limited release beginning last month, the film tells the story of “a New York schoolteacher hitting a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.”
Helen Hunt Promotes “Then They Found Me”
Helen Hunt Promotes “Then They Found Me”
She’s stepped away from the spotlight for quite some time, but Helen Hunt is ready for a comeback on the big screen.
The Mad About You actress was in attendance at last night’s Miami International Film Festival to promote her latest work, Then They Found Me.
In the film, which is based on the Elinor Lipman novel by the same name and co-stars Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick, Hunt took on three roles - actress, director and co-adapter.
The film, which hits theaters in the States on April 25th, “A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.”
Big Names, Slow Sales At Toronto Film Festival
Big Names, Slow Sales At Toronto Film Festival
Film aficionados and industry insiders awoke Sunday morning to a cold dreary overcast day that seemed to reflect the overall mood at the Toronto International Film Festival. “We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the quality of films here, but there hasn’t been anything we’ve seen with broad commercial appeal just yet,” Lionsgate production head Tom Ortenberg said.
At one point, it appeared that potential buyers were fleeing the preview of the school shooting drama In Bloom, but it turns out they were not running from the dark drama, but rather running to one of the hottest properties, “Nothing Is Private”. This disturbing drama is directed by Alan Ball and looks into the sexual abuse that a 13 year old Arab American girl suffers.
One of the most notable sales during the festival was Helen Hunt’s directorial debut with Then She Found Me, which raked in an impressive $3 million between distribution rights in the US and Canada. This romantic comedy is about a troubled woman, and the buyers seemed to validate the positive buzz it generated.
With an extremely heavy concentration of political commentaries, it was not surprising to find conflicting opinions about the same movie. And the slow sales reflected a lack of interest in such controversial projects. However, sales did pick up as the festival drew to a close, so we can only hope that the late boost pushed it over the edge as both a financial and cultural success.
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