James McAvoy's UK Hit Filth Acquired By Magnolia Pictures

James McAvoy could coast on nothing but X-Men movies from now until retirement. (Heck, that’s what the older Xavier, Patrick Stewart, practically has been doing.) But the Scotsman doesn’t settle, testing his abilities in genre fair that sometimes has a hard time finding proper, wide distribution. So it’s encouraging to hear that his latest, Filth, has a distributor, and a possible window of release. Magnolia Pictures stepped up and agreed to release the black comedy Filth in North America,...