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Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire Heading To Overture, Criterion Cover Artist Neil Kellerhouse Handling Promotional Material

Amongst the cavalcade of news coming from the massive news beast that is the Toronto International Film Festival, it looks like we have a hotly anticipated film changing homes instead of finding one, as is the case at the festival to the north.

According to The Playlist, Lionsgate will not be handling Steven Soderbergh’s (Traffic, Schizopolis) upcoming film, Haywire, but instead, the film will be released in North America thanks to Overture.   Apparently, Relativity Media head and producer on the film, Ryan Kavanaugh nabbed up Overture back at the start of the summer, making this move the obvious next step.

Also, the outlet is reporting that the film is currently being slated for a March or April 2011 release, meaning we’ll get to lay our eyes upon this action/thriller sooner, rather than later.   To boot, Neil Kellerhouse, the same designer behind the brilliant posters for films like The Girlfriend Experience, The Social Network, and various Criterion DVD covers (i.e. his stunning Walkabout cover and Dillinger Is Dead cover) will be doing the marketing, so expect some amazing promotional material behind this project.


Some recent Neil Kellerhouse Criterion covers.


Personally, this is one film that I’m really looking forward to, more than most.   I love the idea of Soderbergh working on an action film, something he hasn’t really ever done.   Knowing that it is his follow up to the fantastic Girlfriend Experience, makes me looking forward to the film all the more.

What do you think?

Source: The Playlist

Joshua Brunsting

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