Little, not so little, bigger and biggest versions of the current Grace is Gone trailer can be yours for the taking. The Clint Eastwood tunes aren't in place yet, but that's possibly for the best.
I'd watch John Cusack read the phone book at a Beatnike java dive - providing Johnny Depp isn't reading it in the coffee shop just down the road. Or Paddy Considine. Or...
I could go on.
The Hollywood Reporter sez: James Strouse's Grace is Gone has been snapped up by the Weinsteins at Sundance. The film stars John Cusack as the widowed husband of a soldier in the Iraq war. Strouse was the screenwriter of Steve Buscemi's Lonesome Jim - which, oddly, features one of my former students in a tiny role.
While nobody has reported how much the Weinsteins shelled out but the film cost less than 5 million dollars, so it's bound to turn a profit on Cusack's rep alone.
Apparently, negotiations went on until 4.30am on Sunday morning with Fox Searchlight and Sony Picture Classics reps staying up late too, to no avail.
