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The Beatles might be long gone, but Eleanor Rigby has been located in New York City.

A 40-day shoot for the Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy starrer “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” wraps this week in the Big Apple in time for sales agent Myriad Pictures to present footage to buyers for the first time at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. As it stands, the double-sided project has already racked up a number of sales ahead of that showcase.

Two films have been made: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His” and “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers,” focusing on one married couple, the first film told from the husband’s perspective and the second from the wife’s. Written and directed by Ned Benson, the films star James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain as the main couple.

Myriad has pre-sold the film to a number of different territories, including Wanda for Spain, Transmission for Australia, Swen in Latin America, Eagle in the Middle East, D Productions in Turkey, Aurora in the Ukraine, Five Stars in Israel, Koch in Italy and Lanterna in Portugal. Kim and Jim Productions will release the film in the U.S.

The cast includes Isabelle Huppert, William Hurt, Viola Davis, Bill Hader, Ciaran Hinds, Jess Wexler and Nina Arianda. Chastain produced the film alongside Cassandra Kulukundis. Myriad's Kirk D’Amico serves as an executive producer.

Just FYI: Now there's another poster floating around on Tumblr and elsewhere. I guess it appeared for a few hours on the Myriad Pictures web site but was subsequently taken down. It also seems to be a work in progress...better but it clearly needs work (Jessica's arm looks very strange). So, not a final poster.

The first poster that appeared (see above) was actually a quickie that Myriad put together to sell the film at Cannes. It looked a bit amateurish and was never meant to be anything more than a temporary visualization for industry sources.

James revealed a big plot detail about the film in the interview he did with DIY, so I'm cross posting it here. It seems a bit spoilerish, but since Empire also published this info, it seems that they're intentionally putting it out there. He also revealed that he was asked to do the film before Joel Edgerton became involved!

Talk then turns to his role as a father in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Ned Benson's project about a married New York couple told from both perspectives in two films - His and Hers (Jessica Chastain). "They offered me that about three years ago," reveals McAvoy. "But I said no, because I'd just had my first kid and thought there's no chance I'm doing this film about the death of a kid. No way! And then summertime last year they phoned up and said Joel Edgerton has pulled out and we've got exactly four days to get someone else in who can help us get us the same kind of funding that he was getting us - you interested now? And you know, my kid was a couple of years old at that point and doing very well and I felt more philosophical about it. I loved the script, it was beautiful... It's fucking harrowing emotionally, but that's kind of why, hopefully, it'll be good. Because we're talking about harrowing circumstances, and adult love and the trauma that adult love can inflict upon each other because it's such a powerful thing."

Well, Division Films uploaded this poster on their FB page...don't know if it's official, but here it is. They also say to look for the film this fall.




JAM Session found that Film Ink says it has an Aussie release date of Oct. 17. These things can change, but fingers crossed. I haven't seen anything that looks remotely official yet, but hopefully this points to a screening at TIFF.