Rob Reiner On Re-Launching Castle Rock With ‘Spinal Tap’ Sequel And Shooting Documentary On Pal Albert Brooks: Cannes

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Fresh with an injection of $170 million in Castle Rock financing with a lead investment from Derrick Rossi — the stem cell biologist who is co-founder of the Moderna vaccine — Rob Reiner is here at the Cannes Market for a myriad of reasons.

One of them is to shoot Sharon Stone in Cannes this week, as part of the documentary film Albert Brooks: Defending My Life.Reiner’s in a renaissance, with his breakout film This is Spinal Tap airing on the beach on the Croisette this week, as he takes meetings to create territorial deals for Spinal Tap II, a sequel to the stories rock mockumentary that re-launches Castle Rock, and which CAA Media Finance is selling along with the distribution rights to the original film.

Reiner said he hasn’t shopped his Albert Brooks film, but will do so after he’s shooting. It’s not the only documentary/mockumentary on his slate, as the activist and his wife and Castle Rock partner Michelle are co-financing The Power Worshipers.“It’s the rise of White Christian Nationalism in the country over the last many decades, culminating in what we see now in the stacking of the Supreme Court, Roe V Wade being overturned, all this stuff,” Reiner told Deadline, noting that the tragic murder of 10 Black shoppers and a security guard in a Buffalo supermarket is just part of the polarizing byproduct. “That’s part of it, this white replacement theory.

This is an ongoing thing. We want this to be out in October as we want people to understand the trajectory, so we’ll probably have to fold this in somehow.” As for the Albert Brooks docu, Reiner said he mainly wants people to understand what a seminal comic genius his close friend is.“My dear friend Albert Brooks I met in high school and we’ve been best friends for a