Paul Giamatti, Sarah Polley and Michael Pitt will head the cast of "The Hawk Is Dying," which Julian Goldberger is directing for Antidote Films and This Is That. Hope will serve as exec producer, while Antidote's Mary Jane Skalski and Jeff Levy-Hinte will produce the project, which they plan to shoot in Florida in the fall with a budget raised from private equity sources. Upcoming films include Tod Williams' "The Door in the Floor" and John Waters' "A Dirty Shame."

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