Once director working with U2 on next film
John Carney, the Irish filmmaker best known for directing the low-budget musical Once, is working with U2 for his next project, an autobiographical coming-of-age movie titled Sing Street. The ’80s-set film, which has just been picked up for distribution by The Weinstein Company, “follows a teenage boy named Cosmo as he’s forced out of his comfortable private-school bubble and into a rough-and-tumble public school, where he forms a ragtag band, starts shooting scrappy music videos and falls in love.”