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Luke Grimes and Haley Bennett have landed the younger leads on the FX drama pilot Outlaw Country, joining previously cast Mary Steenburgen. Additionally, Michael Dinner has come on board to direct the pilot, a crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty. Grimes (Brothers & Sistsers) will play twentysomething Eli Larkin, a half-cowboy, half-modern guy who tries to get out of the crime ridden life he has grown accustom to in order to help his siblings, however he finds out that it is much harder than he expected.  Bennett (Marley & Me) will play twentysomething Annabel Lee, a gorgeous country singer who is living in the shadow of her overprotective mother (Steenburgen).

Read the full article at Deadline.com.

Luke Grimes (“Shit Year”) has been set as the male lead opposite Chloe Sevigny and Jena Malone in director/writer M. Blash’s “The Wait.”Neil Kopp and Ryan Crisman are producing with principal photography beginning this week in Portland, Ore.

The film follows two sisters who decide to keep their deceased mother in the house after receiving a call that she will come back to life. Grimes will portray a philosophical and enigmatic man who becomes smitten with Malone’s character.

Sevigny and Malone also starred in Blash’s drama “Lying.” Grimes recently starred on “Brothers and Sisters.”

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- Events > May 16, 2010: “Shit Year” portarits, 63rd Cannes Film Festival (+13)

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If anyone would like to help us translating the interview on the site from German to English, please drop me a line.

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- Events > May 15, 2010: “Shit Year” premiere in Cannes – Captures (35)

Videos of Luke at the “Shit Year” presentation on Saturday are coming soon, stay clicked.

Screen Daily’s Howard Feinstein:

[...] When Archer shoots Harvey, whether in extreme close-up or, with the young man clad only in tight swimming trucks, in long shot, the director reveals a compulsion as intense as [Colleen's]. More ethereal than earthy, Harvey comes across like one of Warhol’s androgynous young men. [...]

The Hollywood Reporter’s Ray Bennett:

[...] She also toys with a pretty boy (Luke Grimes) who looks a bit like the young Elvis but when invited to speak says either “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure.” [...]

Variety’s Jay Weissber:

[...] What she has, besides her former career, is the memory of a recent affair with 22-year-old actor Harvey (model-pretty Luke Grimes) and a cottage in the woods. Neither her obsession with Harvey nor her newfound isolation help fill the hole left by portraying other people her entire life. [...]

Harvey is largely decorative, part real and part Colleen’s fantasy creation of a young lover, and as such he’s underdeveloped, though Grimes is able to carve out a presence. [...]

Indie Wire’s Eric Kohn:

[...] Shot on grainy 16mm, the black-and-white story drifts around through several disconnected parts, all of which put Barkin front and center. While she constantly displays a rawness and depth to the character, the big picture never comes together. [...]

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I could only locate these 4 photos, apparently there was no outside photocall or red carpet event before the premiere.

One video from the presentation was uploaded to ION Cinema’s Vimeo account. Click the link to watch it.

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Renowned actress Colleen West (Ellen Barkin) abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the quiet and peace of mind she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she really can’t stand herself now that she has given up the only thing that she has ever truly been passionate about. As an alternative to isolation, she reluctantly befriends her jubilant, whimsical neighbor (Melora Walters) and reconnects with her estranged brother (Bob Einstein) who drops by unannounced after hearing about her retirement. Haunted by loneliness and past desires, Colleen begins to feel as if she has lived her life through the characters she has played on stage and screen. Ultimately, she is forced to confront loss, her failures and mistakes, by reliving a recent affair with younger actor Harvey West (Luke Grimes) whom she met during her final stage performance. Reality becomes inseparable from Colleen’s unhinged obsessions in a hallucinatory struggle to accept her own vulnerability and reclaim herself.

Format: 1:1,85 / Black & White / Dolby SR
Original Language: English
Length: 95 min

The list of Cannes screening has also been released:

SAT, 15 MAY / 09:00 AM / THEATRE CROISETTE / PRESS SCREENING
SAT, 15 MAY / 05:00 PM / THEATRE CROISETTE / PREMIERE
SUN, 16 MAY / 05:30 PM / STAR 4 / MARKET SCREENING I
SUN, 16 MAY / 07:30 PM / STUDIO 13 / PUBLIC SCREENING I
MON, 17 MAY / 11:30 AM / ARCADES 1 / PUBLIC SCREENING II
TUE, 18 MAY / 10:00 AM / OLYMPIA 4 / MARKET SCREENING II

New stills of Luke from the movie are coming in a few minutes, stay clicked.

The preliminary lineup of panels and discussions consists of:
– May 16: “Shit Year,” with Archer, Ellen Barkin, Luke Grimes, Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen.

Fingers crossed we’ll get some new photos soon!

Gilles Marini, who plays Sarah’s Harlequin-esque French beau, will be returning next season as a full-time series regular, according to showrunner David Marshall Grant. But while Sarah will be gaining a steady companion, she’ll be losing a sibling: Grant also confirms that Luke Grimes has completed his run as Walker half-brother Ryan.

The site will of course remain open and I’ll try to update as often as possible, but as we all know Luke tends to avoid the photographers so the site probably won’t be updated as much as you (and I) would like to.

[...] The sole U.S. feature film, Shit Year (directed by Cam Archer, who made the visually enticing but underseen Wild Tigers I Have Known) stars Ellen Barkin and Luke Grimes [...]

You can read full articles over at The Hollywood Reporter, MovieLine and The Guardian.

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