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variety.com - 8/28/2008

Ron Livingston joins 'Company Men' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media

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Raul Sanchez Inglis to write, direct indie comedy Ron Livingston is heading back to the office to topline the indie comedy "The Company Men." Livingston will play an aging businessman who struggles with a collapsing economy as he tries to save a sinking company. Raul Sanchez Inglis will direct from a screenplay he wrote. Film, which is being financed by private equity, starts production in ...

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