Miramax Lands World Rights On Alexander Payne-Directed ‘The Holdovers’ With Paul Giamatti: Cannes Market

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EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has acquired worldwide rights to The Holdovers, the Alexander Payne-directed film that re-teams him with Sideways star Paul Giamatti. David Hemingson wrote the script, Mark Johns…

as a Cannes Virtual Market buzz title. Here again, the plot: Nobody likes Deerfield Academy teacher Paul Hunham — not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home.

“I called him, told him the idea, and he jumped at it. Ever since I worked with Paul in, I’ve wanted to work with him again, and this role is tailor made for him. I continue to think now as I did then. … I hate to use the term ‘the finest actor of his generation’ because there are so many wonderful actors, but when I worked with him on, I was astounded by his range. As a director you want actors who can make even bad dialogue work, and he can do that. He can just do anything.

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