Sophie’s starring in “Two Mothers”, alongside Naomi Watts and Robin Wright, who play middle aged best friends who fall in love with each other’s sons. Production wrapped up a couple of months ago and is due for release early 2013. Here are her thoughts:

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And Xavier Samuel plays your boyfriend – what’s he like to play opposite?

Xavier’s great, we’re really great friends. We have a child together in the film, so we were in heaps of scenes together – it was certainly something different having a little kid around while shooting!

Remstar Films is pleased to announce that is has acquired Canadian rights for DON JON’S ADDICTION written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and TWO MOTHERS written by Academy-Award winner Christopher Hampton and directed by Anne Fontaine. These new acquisitions are expected to be released in 2013.

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Remstar Films continues to focus on bringing premium films to Canadian audiences, TWO MOTHERS lining-up to Remstar upcoming theatrical 2013 line-up. Written by Oscar-winner Christopher Hampton (ATONEMENT, DANGEROUS LIAISONS), TWO MOTHERS is directed by Anne Fontaine (COCO BEFORE CHANEL) and will star Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, James Frecheville and Xavier Samuel (TWILIGHT). The film is adapted from the work of Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winner in Literature. TWO MOTHERS tells the story of childhood friends and neighbors falling for each other’s sons.

DON JON’S ADDICTION and TWO MOTHERS are quality features films adding up to Montreal-based Remstar’s strategy to distribute Canadian and international quality content to a coast-to-coast audience. …

This isn’t a confirmed video of Xavier on The Grandmothers/Two Mothers set, but the clothing of the guy following Naomi out of the building does look remarkably similar to the ones featured in these pics.

From NAOMI WATTS steandric BLOG:

[NW2005 FirstLOOK] Naomi making a scene in “Two Mothers” (video clip)

The first productions from Hopscotch Features certainly meet the company’s key aims: to make films in Australia with Australian talent and international scope. Los Angeles-based Aussie Stuart Beattie (Tomorrow, When The War Began) is directing the gothic epic I, Frankenstein starring Aaron Eckhart and Bill Nighy, and France’s Anne Fontaine is directing Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville in the Australia-France co-production The Grandmothers(working title).

“There is no better indication of the spread of films we will make than these two,” says Andrew Mason, a producer on both. “The Grandmothers is a performance and character piece based entirely around that director and that cast. I, Frankenstein is a very high-concept film… it has another layer.”

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The Grandmothers (sold internationally by Gaumont) came to Hopscotch via French producer Philippe Carcassonne, who had another project simmering with Mason at the time he began considering Australia as a location. The Grandmothers is about two lifelong friends who fall in love with each other’s teenage sons. “It is a story that breaks social taboos but everyone looks good, the landscape looks ravishing and it all seems very natural,” says Lum.

This film has investment from Screen Australia and, while difficult to predict, Hopscotch Features executives hope to secure finance for up to half of its projects from the government agency.

Gaumont sells Aussie pic in slew of territories

(Note: It appears the title of The Grandmothers has been changed to Two Mothers.)

French mini-major Gaumont has closed a raft of sales on Anne Fontaine’s “Two Mothers,” a Australia-set drama-romance toplining Naomi Watts and Robin Wright.

In the runup to Cannes, the $16 million pic sold to Italy’s BIM, Israel’s United King Films, Hungary’s Budapest Film, Singapore’s Cathay and Lithuania’s Acme. Gaumont previously sold the film to Switzerland (Pathe) and Canada (Remstar). Hopscotch and Gaumont will release in Australia and France, respectively.

CAA, which reps Watts and Wright, is representing the film’s sales in the U.S.

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