NEW YORK -- This year's Tribeca Film Festival will close with Lions Gate Films' upcoming period piece Stage Beauty -- starring Billy Crudup, Claire Danes and Rupert Everett -- to be screened May 8 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. The screening will mark a world premiere for Beauty, directed by Richard Eyre and based on a real-life actor in 1660s London who made a successful career portraying female characters but whose livelihood was threatened when men were banned from playing women onstage. The move to bring Beauty to the Tribeca fest marks a homecoming of sorts for the film: Tribeca fest founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro are the film's producers, along with Hardy Justice. Jeffrey Hatcher penned the screenplay, based on his own stage play, and Eyre, Michael Kuhn, James Stern, Rachel Cohen and Amir Malin executive produced Beauty. The cast also features Ben Chaplin, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Griffiths and Zoe Tapper. Beauty was originally on the Artisan Entertainment slate before the company's takeover by Lions Gate. The film is slated to hit theaters in October. This year's Tribeca Film Festival will run May 1-9 in various locations throughout Lower Manhattan.
- 4/13/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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