Rodrigo Garcia’s (“Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her,” “Nine Lives”) $4.5 million female-focused ensemble drama, which he has been working on for seven years, focusing on the intersecting storylines of a fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption, and a black woman who wants to adopt a baby, can count its lucky stars. Garcia’s cha cha cha friends, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu, are set to produce the film, currently in the casting stages, for Focus Features and without them there was a very good chance it would never see the light of day. Cha cha cha’s first production will be a soccer drama “Rudo y Cursi” starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. Filming for “Mother and Child” is set to begin in LA in late December or January, and Garcia’s first major studio film “Passengers,” starring Anne Hathaway, is set to open this month. The only thing I am wondering is, are there any other men in Mexico involved in the film industry and when are these big shots going to learn to delegate? Sure there are good and all, but a little diversity wouldn’t hurt. [THR]
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