{"id":22046,"date":"2012-09-12T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=22046"},"modified":"2012-09-12T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:59:13","slug":"lionsgate-picks-up-whedons-much-ado-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/12\/lionsgate-picks-up-whedons-much-ado-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionsgate Picks Up Whedon\u2019s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MuchAdo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16911\" title=\"MuchAdo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MuchAdo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MuchAdo.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/MuchAdo-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Joss Whedon\u2019s low-fi <strong>Much Ado About Nothing<\/strong> has been picked up for North American distribution by Lionsgate. The deal was made this week at the Toronto International Film Festival where the Shakespeare comedy adaptation had its premier.<\/p>\n<p>Whedon shot the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/24\/joss-whedon-has-directed-an-adaption-of-much-ado-about-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\">last fall<\/a> over a two week period immediately after production wrapped on<strong> The Avengers<\/strong> with a cast that includes Whedon project veterans Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion and Tom Lenk. The film is the first from Whedon\u2019s low budget Bellwether production company.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, Whedon stated \u2013<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m thrilled to be working with my cronies at Lionsgate again, and with The Roadside team. That they all embrace a Shakespearean romance with the same enthusiasm they had for Cabin in the Woods shows that they\u2019re exactly the mad fools we want to be partying \u2013 I mean working \u2013 with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s no word yet as to when the film will hit theaters though I suspect we won\u2019t see it before next spring.<\/p>\n<p>I have to wonder if we&#8217;ll see this advertised as &#8220;From the director of <strong>The Avengers<\/strong>,&#8221; which would be a rather silly way to advertise a Shakespeare film.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/09\/toronto-lionsgate-acquires-avengers-helmer-joss-whedons-much-ado-about-nothing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Shakespeare adaptation should be in theaters next year.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/12\/lionsgate-picks-up-whedons-much-ado-about-nothing\/\" title=\"Lionsgate Picks Up Whedon\u2019s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1671,4433],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-joss-whedon","8":"tag-much-ado-about-nothing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22046"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=22046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}