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"...Her name is Megan Ellison. You will, I imagine, be hearing it again – the speed of her rise to prominence, fuelled by family wealth and apparently flawless taste, makes her an intriguing proposition. Only three years ago, she was just another fun-loving billionaire heiress barely out of her teens and having her lifestyle choices ridiculed by gossip sites; a year ago she had a single film to her name as a producer, a low-voltage psychodrama called Waking Madison that went straight to DVD. Now, however, it's been joined not only by one of the most lauded pictures of the last 12 months – the Coen brothers' True Grit, which she co-financed – but a startlingly large chunk of the most interesting movies lurking up the pipeline.
Specifically? Well (you may want to take a breath here), there's the as-yet untitled reunion of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman; director John Hillcoat's 1920s-set The Wettest County in the World; Wong Kar-Wai's martial arts extravaganza The Grandmasters; Kathryn Bigelow's account of the killing of Osama bin Laden; a crime number from Andrew Dominik, starring Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini – and, most alluring of all, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson. Or rather two new films from Paul Thomas Anderson, one an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's woozy crime novel Inherent Vice, the other a resuscitation of The Master, the long-gestating project widely thought to be based on the Church of Scientology's founder L Ron Hubbard, abandoned by its original backer and presumed dead until Ellison's intervention. Every one is now to be either made or distributed by her company, Annapurna Pictures...."
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