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Rivulet Films Co-Heads Rob Paris & Mike Witherill Talk Fully-Financing David Gordon Green’s TIFF Opener ‘Nutcrackers’ With Ben Stiller
The film, which sees Ben Stiller star in his first lead movie role in seven years after Brad's Status and The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017, is world premiering tonight at TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: One year ago in Toronto, with the dual writers’ and actors’ strikes still in full swing, Rivulet Films co-founders Rob Paris and Mike Witherill were in the throes of packaging a project with David Gordon Green attached to direct a WGA script. But Paris, a former CAA talent agent who segued into production with credits such as Osgood Perkins’ breakout films The Blackcoat’s Daughter and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, saw an opportunity and was keen to “thread the needle.” Witherill, whose background is in finance and has produced a raft of titles ranging from John Wick to Joe Swansberg’s Drinking Buddies, adds: “This business is wrought with risks on a bunch of different levels, in different places throughout production and we want to back director-driven films so this felt like a perfect fit.”
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