Chloë Sevigny currently has the following movies coming up, in production or recently released:

• Barry Munday (2010): Jennifer Farley
• Mr. Nice (2010): Judy Marks
• My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009): As Ingrid
• The Killing Room (2009): As Ms. Emily Riley
• The Wait (TBA): TBA

• Big Love Season 5 (TBA): As Nicolette “Nicki” Grant

Please Note: Chloë Sevigny’s involvement in all of the above listed films has been confirmed by authoritative sources. However, as long as a project is only announced or in production, changes to casting, filming schedule and locations, script etc. remain possible, if not likely. Information may be subject to change.

Genre: Comedy
Role: Jennifer Farley
Director: Chris D’Arienzo
Additional Cast: Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Colin Hanks, Malcolm McDowell, Emily Procter, Cybill Shepherd, Missi Pyle, Billy Dee Williams, Rasaaq Adoti
Status: Completed; looking for U.S. distribution.
Release Date: March 13 2010 (SXSW Festival premiere)

Plot Outline:

Barry Munday wakes up after being attacked to realize that he’s missing his family jewels. To make matters worse, he learns he’s facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman he can’t remember having sex with. (Credit: Internet Movie Database)

Barry Munday marks Chloë Sevigny’s first collaboration with director D’Arienzo. Her involvement in the film was announced already in March 2008, when movie news website The Hollywood Reporter broke the story:

Sevigny will play the woman’s flirtatious sister [Jennifer Farley], who has a secret life and no compunctions about coming on to Munday.

Barry Munday premiered at the SXSW 2010 March 13, some two years after filming had wrapped, and the response was largely positive. The film is currently looking for a U.S. distribution deal.

Off-site Links:
• Internet Movie Database: Barry Munday
• IonCinema.com: “Predictions 2010 Sundance Film Festival: Agrelo, D’Arienzo, Gibney”
• THR: “Judy Greer takes lead in ‘Munday’”

Genre: Drama
Role: Judy Marks
Director: Bernard Rose
Additional Cast: Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis, Nathalie Cox, Elsa Pataky
Status: Production completed.
Release Date: 2010 (UK)

Plot Outline:

Ifans will play Britain’s one-time most wanted man, a late-’60s-era Oxford grad and teacher who turned to drug smuggling out of boredom and to impress his future wife Judy (Sevigny). While enlisting the help of an Irish Republican Army boss (Thewlis) for a hashish job, he was recruited by a British intelligence officer for a loose network of informants. The charming criminal assumed the alias Mr. Nice. After encounters with the Mafia and CIA and nearly 30 tons of pot smuggling, he spent seven years in prison. (Credit: Reuters)

Mr. Nice is a Bernard Rose-directed biopic about Welsh drug smuggler Howard Marks aka. “Mr. Nice”. Chloë Sevigny stars in the film as Judy, Marks’ wife. According to Empire Online, filming took place in Wales, UK in January 2009. Although an official trailer for the film was released in May 2010, a release date is yet to be set.

Off-site Links:
• FlicksNews.net: “‘Mr. Nice’ trailer”
• Internet Movie Database: Mr. Nice
• Reuters: “Ifans and Sevigny spy roles in UK drugs movie”

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Role: Ingrid
Director: Werner Herzog
Additional Cast: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Brad Dourif, Michael Peña, Grace Zabriskie
Status: Production completed; out on Region 1/2 DVD September 2010.
Release Date: December 11 2009 (US, limited)

Plot Outline:

The story is loosely based on events surrounding a San Diego man who acted out a Sophocles play in his mind and murdered his mother with a sword. (Credit: Screen Daily)

Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword. (Credit: Internet Movie Database)

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is a Werner Herzog-directed horror drama loosely based on actual events in San Diego, California. Chloë Sevigny stars in the film as Ingrid, the girlfriend to Michael Shannon’s killer in the film. Filming began in San Diego January 2009.

Following the film’s New York and Los Angeles premieres and numerous festival screenings, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done has received a mixed and largely negative response, and the film currently holds a rather mediocre 39% “fresh” rating at review collection site Rotten Tomatoes, earning it an overall “Rotten” rating.

Off-site Links:
• Internet Movie Database: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
• Rotten Tomatoes: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
• Screen Daily: “‘Cast lines up for Werner Herzog and David Lynch horror”

Genre: Thriller
Role: Ms. Emily Reilly
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Additional Cast: Mike Cannon, Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall, Timothy Hutton
Status: Production completed; out on R1/R2 DVD.
Release Date: October 13 2009 (US, DVD)

Plot Outline:

Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program. (Credit: Internet Movie Database)

The Killing Room is Chloë Sevigny’s first movie with director Liebesman. In the film, Chloë portrays Ms. Emily Reilly, a military behavioral analysis expert, who is “emotionally torn by her first assignment.”

Originally titled the “Untitled Manbreak Project”, according to The Shreveport Times, production began in October 2007 in Shreveport, Louisiana and wrapped up shortly thereafter. Although premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January, The Killing Room was unable to land a theatrical release, and eventually went straight to DVD in the US.

Off-site Links:
• Internet Movie Database: The Killing Room
• Rotten Tomatoes: The Killing Room

Genre: TBA
Role: TBA
Director: M. Blash
Additional Cast: Luke Grimes, Jena Malone
Status: Principal photography begins late June 2010 in Portland, Oregon, US.
Release Date: TBA

Plot Outline:

The film follows two sisters who decide to keep their deceased mother in the house after receiving a call that she will come back to life. Grimes will portray a philosophical and enigmatic man who becomes smitten with Malone’s character. (Credit: Variety)

Chloë Sevigny’s involvement in The Wait was first reported by Variety in June 2010. The film will reunite Chloë with writer-director M. Blash and actress Jena Malone, both of whom she worked with on the 2006 drama Lying. Principal photography is set to begin late June 2010 in Portland, Oregon, US; additional details remain TBA.

Off-site Links:
• Variety: “Grimes set for Blash’s ‘Wait’”