With Roofman , Paramount’s true-crime dramedy starring Channing Tatum, producers Lynette Howell Taylor , Jamie Patricof , and Alex Orlovsky departed from their usual territory mined alongside Oscar-nominated filmmaker Derek Cianfrance .

Previously, they’d collaborated on a pair of richly directed and performed, and very serious dramas — Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines . Both starred Ryan Gosling, who led their first film as a producing trio, in 2006’s Half Nelson . Whereas Blue Valentine looked at a crumbling marriage, Pines meditated on two intertwined, tragic tales of fatherhood. And Cianfrance’s I Know This Much Is True — a Mark Ruffalo HBO miniseries backed by Taylor and Patricof — was similarly weighty.

The producing trio knew, after these exper

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