Movie buzz: Hamptons fest, Woody's 'Paris'

THE EVENT The 19th annual Hamptons International Film Festival

THE DEAL The festival's usual run during Columbus Day weekend will be pushed back this year so it won't coincide with Yom Kippur, organizers announced. The new dates, from Thursday, Oct. 13, through Monday, Oct. 17, could have an impact. In recent years, the festival was moved to Columbus Day weekend to make travel easier for attendees and has since seen a marked increase in its celebrity quotient. In October, for example, "127 Hours" star James Franco, "The King's Speech" producer Harvey Weinstein and "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky all took time off to make appearances. "The concerns about moving the dates a week later for just one year are rather minimal," said executive director Karen Arikian. "I think the festival is established, and people want to be at the festival for the festival."

WHO Woody Allen

THE FILM "Midnight in Paris"

THE DEAL Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to the director's latest movie, the studio announced earlier this week. Allen's first film shot in the French capital stars Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen and Owen Wilson. Few plot details have been revealed, but Allen has said the film "explores the illusion people have that a life different from their own is better." A U.S. release date has not been announced.

WHO Pippi Longstocking

THE DEAL The freckle-faced Swedish tomboy, made famous in a series of children's books by Astrid Lindgren, may be coming to the big screen. Debra Granik, the writer-director of last year's harrowing Ozarks drama, "Winter's Bone," is working on a treatment for a live-action version of Pippi, according to the Los Angeles Times. Past film adaptations have failed to attract a wide American audience, though the Swedish television versions, awkwardly dubbed into English, have become enduring family favorites.