“A Beginner’s Guide to Endings … ” starts well, ironically, but expires long before the home stretch. This relentlessly paced and mostly unfunny comedy — about three brothers who are told they’re ...

Stepping into the Toronto fray, Focus Features has picked up U.S. and most territory rights to Mike Mills‘ Ewan McGregor-Christopher Plummer dramedy “Beginners.” Pic will be released in 2011. Pact for ...

Mike Mills is not a prolific filmmaker. In the last 16 years, he’s directed (and written) just four scripted features: “Thumbsucker” (2005); “Beginners” (2010); 2016’s “20th Century Women” (which ...