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Morena Baccarin Joins XYZ Films’ Untitled Scripted Documentary about John DeLorean

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Morena Baccarin is revving up for a new project…

The 38-year-old Brazilian actress has joined XYZ Films’ untitled scripted documentary about John DeLorean.

Morena Baccarin

Baccarin will join the documentary as Christina Ferrare, the wife of the titular automaker played by Alec Baldwin.

The film will document DeLorean’s rise to stardom, as well as his shocking fall from grace. It will merge scripted narrative scenes with real-life interviews with colleagues, employees, lawyers, friends and family who knew DeLorean best.

Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce will direct, while Tamir Ardon will produce alongside XYZ Films and 9.14 Pictures.

Sundance Selects is distributing the film domestically. The film is slated for a 2018 release.

Baccarin can next be seen reprising her role as Vanessa in Deadpool 2 and currently stars in Fox’s Gotham.

Sundance Selects Releases Trailer for Silva’s “Crystal Fairy”

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Sebastián Silva is turning up the quirky charm in his new road trip-themed movie.

Sundance Selects has released the trailer for the 34-year-old filmmaker’s latest project Crystal Fairy.

Sebastián Silva

In the film, Michael Cera stars an American expat road tripping with three Chilean brothers in Crystal Fairy.

It’s one of two Chile-set Sundance 2013 debuts starring Cera and directed by Sebastián Silva.

Their other film, Magic Magic, hits home video August 6 via Sony.

Gaby Hoffman co-stars as a free spirit who unexpectedly joins the group’s quest to find a legendary hallucinogenic cactus.

Sundance Selects will release Crystal Fair in select theaters on July 12.

García Bernal’s “The Loneliest Planet” Opens in Limited Release

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It’s the loneliest time for Gael García Bernal…

The Loneliest Planet

The 33-year-old Mexican actor/filmmaker’s latest film, The Loneliest Planet, opens in limited release this weekend.

Directed by Julia Loktev and co-starring Hani Furstenberg, the suspenseful film centers on a local guide who takes a young couple through a twisted, pre-wedding backpacking trip across the wilderness in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. But the lovers find their amor tested when the threat of violence enters their calm journey.

Sundance Selects will open the film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 AFI Fest in Los Angeles, at the IFC Center in New York and the NuArt in Los Angeles this weekend. It’s also now available On Demand.

AMC Networks Acquires Braga’s “On the Road”

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It looks like Alice Braga’s latest film will be released in theaters this fall…

The 29-year-old Brazilian actress’ On the Road has been acquired by AMC Networks a week before it premieres in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Buying all U.S. rights to Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel of the same name, AMC Networks announced that its distribution labels IFC Films and Sundance Selects will release the film later this fall in theaters.

Along with Braga—who rose to fame following her starring role opposite Will Smith in I Am Legend—the film stars Twilight’s Kristen Stewart, TRON: Legacy’s Garrett Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Elisabeth Moss and Viggo Mortensen.

Alice Braga's On the Road Poster

Jose Rivera wrote the screenplay for the film, which brings to life the classic novel based on the spontaneous cross-country adventures of Kerouac and his friends during the middle of the 20th century.

On the Road is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry and drug experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac’s experiences are changed for the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts.