Neil Burger’s excellent comedy, “The Upside,” has found a home. STX has partnered with the Weinstein Company’s assets buyer, Lantern, to release the film. No date has been set yet, but it feels like a March movie.

“The Upside” is the American version of the French hit “The Intouchables.” Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Nicole Kidman, and Julianna Margulies star in this beautifully made comedy that has potential for a lot of business.

Harvey Weinstein released “The Intouchables” and kept the US rights. He came up with the plan to bring in Hart and Cranston, and certainly Kidman. The Weinstein Company screened “The Upside” in Toronto almost a year ago to a rapturous audience. The plan was an Oscar eligibility run in December and then open in February.

But literally three weeks after the standing ovations at Roy Thomson Hall, Weinstein’s world came crashing down. Within a month his company was gone. “The Upside” became a bankruptcy asset.

I really hope “The Upside” gets a great marketing plan and opening. The people who made it deserve that, and so does the film.

Raise your hand if you thought Jack Nicholson would never actually make the American version of “Toni Erdmann.”

Nicholson’s last film was in 2010, and it was a disaster. James L. Brooks’s “How Do You Know” just didn’t work, and Nicholson was lost. I’m sure he wanted to make more movies, but it’s not possible. He’s still a giant in Hollywood, but at 81, he’s human. He suffers from mental infelicity.

Now he’s officially out of “Toni Erdmann” and the charade is over. The movie will be directed by Lisa Cholodenko and co-star Kristen Wiig as the daughter. A new actor will be found to play the rambunctious father. Jack would have been  a great choice ten years ago. Robin Williams would have been very, very good. The producers will find someone.

Jack Nicholson has won three Oscars. He has a resume of films to die for. He’s a legend. We love seeing him at Lakers games. God bless him. He doesn’t have to act anymore. We knew he was done in 2010 even if he didn’t. Gene Hackman retired a long time ago. Robert Redford just announced he’s giving up acting. These guys have given us cinematic gems for the movie canon.

Whether it’s “The Shining” or “Chinatown” or “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” or “About Schmidt”– or “Carbal Knowledge,” which holds up so well– Jack Nicholson is forever. Thank you, Jack.

John and Yoko’s “Imagine” is back.

Yoko Ono is releasing a newly spiffed up version of the film she and John Lennon made back in 1971 to accompany the “Imagine” album. The film has been hand cleaned, and the soundtrack is remixed in Dolby 7.1

Performances begin September 18th. “Imagine” features not just John and Yoko, but also George Harrison (who was still talking to John after the Beatles break up).

Lennon said of the making of the film:” The one we’re making now [Imagine] is very loose; they just bring the camera every day and we just decide what to do that day, almost. We’re just making it up as we go along. It will show some of the recording sessions, but I’m not going to do a lot of that like Let It Be because they’re all boring, those things. But there is one song that we can show bits of all the way through, which is ‘How?’ from nothing to the finished thing.

And there might be one I’ll sing all the way through, which is ‘Give Me Some Truth’, because they’ve taped it at the right speed. Others I’ll use as background songs – I don’t know how many to put in yet – backgrounds to Yoko’s artworks downstairs, and there’ll be some shots of us in the house, and the garden, and then the contrast with some of the New York stuff which was shot by other people – and the guy [Jonas Mekas] that always shoots very fast with stills and single-frame stuff. There’s scenes of the party and on the boat, and some from Yoko’s session.”