Ryan Gosling's "Lost River" Gets Limited Theater Run

Variety now reports that actor Ryan Gosling's directorial debut "Lost River" WILL get a limited theatrical bow in New York and Los Angeles after all. Warner Bros also has plans for a disc and VOD release in April.

The film aka How to Catch a Monster.at one point is described as a "modern day fairytale" with suspense and fantasy noir elements weaved in, the story is set in a vanishing city where a single mother of two (Christina Hendricks) is "swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while her teenage son (Iain De Caestecker) discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town". The pair must solve the mystery if they're all to survive.

Gosling also penned the script.

Doctor Who star Matt Smith is the male lead Eva Mendes plays 'Cat', a prominent figure of the Big Bad Wolf Club. Rob Zabrecky plays a cab driver. Ben Mendelsohn and Saoirse Ronan also star.

Marc Platt Michel Litvak Gosling and David Lancaster produced the film that  had its debut at this year's Cannes Film Festival and was met with mostly negative reviews.