Magnolia Acquires Kevin Macdonald's How I Live Now
HomeMagnolia Acquires Kevin Macdonald's How I Live Now
Posted July 25, 2013 03:16 PM by Webmaster
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to acclaimed director Kevin Macdonald's latest film How I live Now (2013), starring Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Harley Bird, Tom Holland, and Anna Chancellor. The studio is planning to have the film in theaters across the United States later this year.
Synopsis: Daisy (Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. Along with Eddie's younger siblings, Isaac (Holland) and Piper (Bird), they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is never far from Daisy's mind but as her journey to find him becomes more desperate, the idea of what she may or may not find consumes her consciousness and haunts her soul.
Note: In 2007, director Macdonald's The Last King of Scotland won Oscar Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. The film is already out on Blu-ray, courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. See our listing and review of this release here.
Synopsis: Daisy (Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. Along with Eddie's younger siblings, Isaac (Holland) and Piper (Bird), they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is never far from Daisy's mind but as her journey to find him becomes more desperate, the idea of what she may or may not find consumes her consciousness and haunts her soul.
Note: In 2007, director Macdonald's The Last King of Scotland won Oscar Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. The film is already out on Blu-ray, courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. See our listing and review of this release here.
