When the first international trailer for “Basmati Blues” dropped last fall, it was so bad and borderline offensive, producer Monique Caulfield and filmmaker Dan Baron had to issue an apology. Well, a much more smoothed out domestic trailer has landed, but one thing it can’t solve is how utterly bonkers this movie looks.
Brie Larson is unfortunately roped into the lead role of this movie — which co-stars Donald Sutherland, Scott Bakula and Tyne Daly — which follows a young woman who is sent to India to peddle some kind of new way to grow rice.
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Brie Larson is unfortunately roped into the lead role of this movie — which co-stars Donald Sutherland, Scott Bakula and Tyne Daly — which follows a young woman who is sent to India to peddle some kind of new way to grow rice.
Continue reading ‘Basmati Blues’ Trailer: Brie Larson’s Weird Romantic Musical Comedy Agribusiness Drama at The Playlist.
- 1/5/2018
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Ambi Distribution has come on to represent international rights in Cannes to the musical starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson.
Basmati Blues will gets its market debut screening on the Croisette and also stars Cannes competition juror Donald Sutherland, Scott Bakula and Utkarsh Ambudkar. Paradigm handles Us rights.
The film centres on a starry-eyed scientist who teams up with a local farmer and uncovers corporate wrongdoing when she is sent to India to sell genetically modified rice.
Tyne Daly, Saahil Segal, Dalip Tahil, Bugs Bhargava and Lakshmi Manchu round out the cast.
Dan Baron directed Basmati Blues from a screenplay he wrote with Jeff Dorchen.
Monique Caulfield and Jeffrey Soros produce and Ruedi Gerber, Jeff Kleeman, Elliott Lester and Randy Paul serve as executive producers.
Basmati Blues will gets its market debut screening on the Croisette and also stars Cannes competition juror Donald Sutherland, Scott Bakula and Utkarsh Ambudkar. Paradigm handles Us rights.
The film centres on a starry-eyed scientist who teams up with a local farmer and uncovers corporate wrongdoing when she is sent to India to sell genetically modified rice.
Tyne Daly, Saahil Segal, Dalip Tahil, Bugs Bhargava and Lakshmi Manchu round out the cast.
Dan Baron directed Basmati Blues from a screenplay he wrote with Jeff Dorchen.
Monique Caulfield and Jeffrey Soros produce and Ruedi Gerber, Jeff Kleeman, Elliott Lester and Randy Paul serve as executive producers.
- 4/28/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Monique Caulfield, who is producing the feature Basmati Blues, is the recepient of Film Independent's first annual Sloan Producers Grant and will receive a $25,000 development grant and admission to FIND's 2007 Producers Lab.
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the grant was announced Sunday at FIND's Filmmaker Forum at the DGA.
Honorable mentions went to Gretchen Somerfeld and David Baxter's Face Value and Minh Nguyen-Vo and Julien Favre's Point of Reference. FIND also announced that producer Ram Bergman will lead this year's Producers Lab, which begins Monday.
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the grant was announced Sunday at FIND's Filmmaker Forum at the DGA.
Honorable mentions went to Gretchen Somerfeld and David Baxter's Face Value and Minh Nguyen-Vo and Julien Favre's Point of Reference. FIND also announced that producer Ram Bergman will lead this year's Producers Lab, which begins Monday.
- 10/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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