AceShowbiz.com: The 59th Berlin International Film Festival has been kicked off and with it comes a promo trailer for “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee”. Shown at the festival, the preview of the drama movie, which narration is in Italian, displays the main character, Pippa Lee, in her present and past days as being portrayed by Robin Wright Penn and Blake Lively respectively.

A drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller, “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” centers on Pippa Lee’s present and past. When she finds out that her husband falls for a younger woman, 50-year-old Pippa, who is addicted to methamphetamine, indulges herself in an array of erotic adventures while heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.

Aside from Robin Wright Penn and Blake Lively, the drama film also stars Keanu Reeves, Alan Arkin, Winona Ryder, Monica Bellucci, Julianne Moore and Maria Bello. This movie which is yet to have its release date has been screened at the Berlinale festival 2009 as one of the out of competition films.

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Here is the schedule for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee at Berlinale:

Screenings
Mon, Feb 9 15:30 CinemaxX 7 press screening
Mon, Feb 9 22:30 Berlinalee Palast
Tue, Feb 10 12:00 Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin
Tue, Feb 10 17:30 Urania
Tue, Feb 10 23:15 Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin

Press Conference – The press conference room in the Press Centre on the first floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel
Mon, Feb 9 17:10 Photo Call
Mon, Feb 9 17:20 Press Conference

Winona won’t attend it.

FromScreenDaily.com:

As US specialty buyers prepare for the world premiere of Rebecca Miller’s official selection comedy drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee on February 9, IM Global Acclaim has reported strong international sales.

Icon has taken rights for the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Tri Pictures has acquired in Spain, CDI in Italy, CP Digital in Russia, Playarte in Brazil, RCV in the Benelux, Ablo for Eastern Europe, Forum in Israel and Maple in Canada.

In total 26 territories have pre-sold on the picture, based on Miller’s own novel about a former wild child whose serene existence is threatened after her elderly husband has an affair.

Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Alan Arkin, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder, Blake Lively, Maria Bello and Monica Bellucci star. Brad Pitt’s Plan B produced.

“The buzz is already out there on the movie and the pre-sales tally is reassuring,” IM Global CEO Stuart Ford said. “Hopefully we’ll finish the job after the film screens here in Berlin. It deserves this kind of large scale platform.”

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee will have it’s world premiere on Berlinale, the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. The festival will run from February 5th to the 15th. More informationon the festival aswell as the screenings can be found at www.berlinale.de.

Thanks to Chris from Winona Fanz Refugee for this heads up.

I saw his note and just came across to the website of the company that is producing “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee”, Salt., and they’re using this pretty poster in the movie’s page.

There’s no other size, but I’m glad Winona has her own.

Can’t wait to see more about this movie, since I never saw a single picture of Noni at the set, so I’m really curious about this one.

NEW MILFORD — At least for one day, Jillian Alps felt like a star.

The general manager of the Heritage Inn on Bridge Street played hostess to film stars Keanu Reeves, Alan Arkin, Winona Ryder and Robin Wright Penn on Monday when scenes from the movie “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” were filmed in town.

The film crew rented four of the property’s 20 guest rooms for the day so the actors and actresses could relax between takes. All gave autographs and were gracious with the staff, said Alps, who couldn’t pass up getting her picture taken with Reeves. (more…)

From Variety: Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Keanu Reeves have joined the already starry cast of Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.”

Pic, which is produced by Elevation Filmworks and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, already features Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder. Robin Wright Penn stars as a dutiful wife whose husband falls for a younger woman, freeing her to explore her buried sensuality and leading to “a very quiet nervous breakdown.”

Miller (”The Ballad of Jack and Rose”) directs from her own novel of the same title. Lensing is skedded to begin in April 2008 in Connecticut.

Samantha Horley’s London-based Lumina Films is executive producing the pic and handling worldwide sales, with CAA partnering on the sale of North American distribution rights. Jean-Luc De Fanti and Winchester Capital Partners provide finance and take exec producing credits.

Pic is the fourth collaboration between Lemore Syvan of Elevation and Miller, following “Jack and Rose,” “Personal Velocity” and “Angela.”

EW.com – Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore, and Winona Ryder will star in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Elevation Filmworks and Plan B Entertainment’s movie adaptation of Rebecca Miller’s novel. Wright Penn will play the title character in the film, which goes through Pippa’s past and present as a methamphetamine-addicted mother whose husband leaves her for a younger woman. The newly single character experiences a number of erotic adventures while heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown. Miller is also directing. She previously directed The Ballad of Jack and Rose, also produced by Elevation. Shooting on Pippa is scheduled to start in April. Wright Penn recently signed on to join Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Jason Batemen in Universal’s movie adaptation of the British miniseries State of Play. She will next be seen in Beowulf and the Barry Levinson-directed comedy What Just Happened?.