Shooting is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which sees the writer-director reuniting with recent collaborators Cornerstone, Bleecker Street, STUDIOCANAL (UK) and Film4. Desmar will come on board as an equity financier. Georgina Lowe of Leigh’s production company Thin Man Films will again produce.
Bleecker Street released Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS nationwide in the US on January 10 after an awards qualifying run on December 6, with STUDIOCANAL releasing in the UK today (January 31). Cornerstone handled international sales.
As is customary with Leigh, the new film will shoot as UNTITLED 2025, with plot and casting kept under wraps.
HARD TRUTHS premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and has since won many major awards including Best Actress for Marianne Jean-Baptiste from the critic “trifecta” of New York Film Critics Circle, LA Film Critics Circle and National Society of Film Critics, Best Lead Performance at the British Independent Film Awards, as well as Best Original Screenplay from the US National Board of Review. The film received BAFTA nominations for Outstanding British Film and Leading Actress.