FREEMAN BRANDON MILLAN TO PRODUCE ALEXANDER PAYNE’S DOCUMENTARY DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

On the heels of The Holdovers, two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne has found his next project ,the story of Jeanine Basinger, "a supernova in the firmament of cinema" and it will mark the esteemed filmmaker’s documentary directorial debut. Brandon Millan is set to produce with New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson. (Their publishing shingle, Felix Farmer Press, will also release an updated version of Basinger’s classic 1994 book American Cinema under the new title I, The Audience.) They told The Hollywood Reporter, “We are so excited to help the greatest filmmaker of his generation tell the story of the greatest film historian of hers.”