Today on indieWIRE: 'My Week With Marilyn,' 'Gun Hill Road' Star & More

Today on indieWIRE, we sitting lower using the breakout star of 'Gun Hill Road,' the brand new You are able to Film Festival designed a large announcement, plus much more. Harmony Santana, a transgender actress, provides a breakout lead performance in Rashaad Ernesto Green's coming-of-age scorcher 'Gun Hill Road.' Santana plays Michael, a male teen on the right track to transition to some lady. When his father returns from the lengthy stint imprisonment, Michael finds themself facing off against a guy not able to comprehend his son's dilemma. The Bronx-set drama opened at Sundance to positive notices, snagged a distribution cope with Motion Film Group and continued to spread out Outfest and close NewFest. Visit here for the interview with Santana. The Planet Premiere of Simon Curtis' 'My Week With Marilyn' will screen because the Focal point Gala in the approaching New You are able to Film Festival on March. 9, the Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center stated Thursday. Last Friday, FSLC introduced that Roman Polanski's 'Carnage' will open the 49th NYFF Sept. 30. For additional visit here. Stretching from This summer 14-August. 7, Montreal's marathon genre-film lovefest the Fantasia Worldwide Film Festival began using the Canadian premiere of 'Red State' (without Kevin Cruz) and featured other festival faves like 'Another Earth.' The closing film screens Friday evening using the Guillermo del Toro-created 'Don't Hesitate from the Dark' and also the world premiere night time screening from the fifth installment within the 'Final Destination' series. However, inside a festival that has a lot to like, they were not the very best reasons for Fantasia. They were. Legendary director Raoul Ruiz gave audiences the very first film of his sixth decade of filmmaking with 'Mysteries of Lisbon,' which capped four other niche openers a few days ago to become the criticWIRE pick each week. An adaptation of the famous 1800s novel by Portuguese author Camilo Castelo Branco, the film targets the kid of the ill-fated romance between two wealthy who're forbidden to marry. Many thought 'Lisbon' could be Ruiz's final film, but fortunately surgery for liver cancer saved his existence. Visit here for additional. U.S. and Canadian privileges to actor-author-director Edward Burns' "comedy relationship drama" 'Newlyweds' happen to be acquired by Tribeca Film. The feature, which closed the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival where it had its world premiere, is going to be launched via multiple platforms at the end of 2011. Visit here for additional particulars. Approximately last month the promising teaser for that anticipated spy flick 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' dropped and bode very good stuff in the future. No large surprise really, considering the fact that it marks the very first British language film from 'Let the correct one In' director Tomas Alfredson and motorboats an incredible cast which includes the kind of Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Sturdy, Mark Strong and Ciaran Hinds. When the first preview did not curently have all of you riled up, the film's fleshed out trailer that hit the net today will make sure to have the desired effect. The IFC Center, among New York's finest independent film theaters, has introduced its August-September selection, which launches a few days ago using the opening of Raul Ruiz's much-talked about 'Mysteries of Lisbon' and includes 10 U.S. theatrical premieres in addition to IFC's regular slate of night time repertory films and weekend classics. Visit here for that selection. The planet premiere from the French comedy 'Intouchables,' from company directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, will close the 59th edition from the San Sebastian Worldwide Film Festival, it had been introduced today. Visit here for additional. FLICKERS: The Rhode Island Worldwide Film Festival (August. 9-14) introduced the selection because of its 15th annual fest. This is actually the only Oscars-being approved festival in Colonial. Visit here for that selection. Warner Bros. is constantly on the get bold because it will get its Oscar dance cards in position. 2011 is stuffed with Stephen Daldry's 'Extremely Noisy and extremely Close' and Clint Eastwood's 'J. Edgar' starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The studio is thinking of getting 2012, and remarkably, has tossed a sci-fi genre picture into Academy Award contention. Visit here for particulars.