Deauville to Honor Brian Grazer, Premiere Nicole Kidman's 'Before I Go to Sleep' — hollywoodreporter.com

Producer Brian Grazer will join Jessica Chastain, Will Ferrell and Ray Liotta in Deauville, while Shailene Woodley’s White Bird in a Blizzard and Reese Witherspoon’s The Good Lie will compete for the top prize at the film festival that kicks off Sept. 5, according to the full competition lineup organizers announced Wednesday. The festival, which puts the spotlight on American film every year, will also host the French premieres of the Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth mystery Before I Go to Sleep and director Chris Messina’s Alex of Venice, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and the European premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s television series The Strain.

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