"Mistress America" picked up at Sundance

Really looking forward to this. From IndieWire:

"Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the comedy Mistress America, directed by Baumbach and cowritten by Baumbach and Greta Gerwig. Here's the official synopsis for Mistress America, which will be released theatrically in 2015.

"In 'Mistress America, Tracy (newcomer Lola Kirke) is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon-to-be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig) – a resident of Times Square and adventurous gal about town – she is rescued from her disappointment and seduced by Brooke's alluringly mad schemes."

Mistress America confirms Gerwig as one of the great, fearless screen comediennes of her generation — a tall, loose-limbed whirligig who careers through scenes with the beatific ditziness of a Carole Lombard or Judy Holliday. This time around, she and Baumbach have cooked up a doozy of a role in Brooke, a self-styled interior designer/aerobics instructor/social-media maven who takes on life at such high velocity that no one — least of all Brooke herself — has time to notice that she’s barely hanging on by a thread."