Kenneth Lonergan's 'Margaret' gets September release date after six years of legal battle

It´s been quite an eventful fortnight in terms of cinematic news since I last posted an entry here and jumped on a flight in search of two weeks of self-inflicted isolation. Some of the news were expected (the announcement of the lineups of the Venice and Toronto film festivals), some were sad (Silvio Narizzano's death), but the piece of news that has truly cushioned the always painful end of my holiday has been the announcement of a September release date for Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan's sophomore effort, after six years of seemingly never-ending post-production wrangles, including countless film cuts and two lawsuits.

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Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret to be released in 2011

It's probably the best piece of cinematic news of the year: Kenneth Lonergan's second film Margaret will finally be released in 2011 after five years of legal disputes.

The film, which stars Anna Paquin, Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo, was shot in three months back in 2005, but it has been tied up in several lawsuits ever since. It tells the story of a teenager indirectly involved  in a traffic accident and the unforeseeable aftermath the event has in her life.

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