Whew! SIFF Winner Ed Norton Gets His Film Released

Edward Norton won the SIFF 2010 Golden Space Needle Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Acting, but the new film he screened, Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass, only got him fourth runner up for the Best Actor Golden Space Needle Award.

Critics are evenly divided on the movie, in which he plays dual roles as a pot dealer and his philosophy prof brother. The Playlist Web site claimed that Leaves of Grass was going direct to DVD on October 12, a humiliating bad break on top of Norton's badmouthing by the powers that be at The Hulk franchise.

But Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood column reports that it ain't so: Leaves of Grass opens September 17 in New York and Tulsa (director Nelson's home town). TOH posts the flick's trailer and a Nelson interview where he says what the Coen brothers thought of the film and claims Tulsa is "where the best pot in the world is grown."