Whew. We were worried that Charlie Kaufman’s meta-vision directorial debut, “Synecdoche, New York,” was going to get stranded. Earlier this week there was talk that Sony Pictures Classics was going to buy the film. They just did; it comes out in October (which is earlier than the late-season Oscar season first mentioned).
Anne Thompson has the full press release on her blog, but bought and October release are all you really need to know. Variety says, SPC has been actively pursuing the film for two years, ever since “Kaufman described it to them over dinner” over 24 months ago. We just started digging into the script today, we’ll give a review soon.