Distribution made for TV: Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon (with indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez) chatted about Loverboy last month at the Hamptons International Film Festival (Photos: STV)

Please forgive the terrible transgression, but some deferred maintenance around Reeler HQ has caught up with the operation and must be addressed today. In my stead, please stagger the following nuggets of New York film news as you see fit to get you through the day:

--ThinkFilm just picked up the Kevin Bacon-directed Loverboy for North American distribution, a transaction pretty much everyone saw coming as the film marathoned through this year's festival circuit. But Variety also notes that the film--produced by and starring Bacon's wife Kyra Sedgwick--will be released next spring to coincide with season two of Sedgwick's TNT cop show, The Closer. Rumor has it that to complete the NBC/Universal Promotional Incest Model to a tee, The Closer's writers will have Sedgwick's character breaking down tough perpetrators with particularly wicked games of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, all of which will feature Loverboy.

--Variety also has the latest on another actor crawling behind a camera in NYC, where Justin Theroux apparently has the green light to direct a film called Dedication. Filming begins "early next year" here in NYC, and Lord almighty, I do not how my hard-on will abate until then: The story spotlights "a misogynistic children's book writer (Billy Crudup) who is forced to collaborate with a young female illustrator (Mandy Moore) when his writing partner and only friend (Harvey Keitel) dies." Mia Farrow and Bob Balaban co-star, while Plum Pictures will produce.

--Magnolia Pictures will distribute the French action flick District 13 early next year, bringing to American theaters what Magnolia boss Eamonn Bowles calls "some of the most incredible stunts I've ever seen." Which really means something, considering how Bowles just distributed Rodrigo Garcia's single-take stunt Nine Lives only a couple of months ago. I guess The District's crazy-ass "Parkour" athletic stylings--combining gymnastics, martial arts, running and dance in the service of a storyline that has an undercover cop trying to defuse a neutron bomb--are somewhat more sophisticated than filming Dakota Fanning climbing a tree, but only slightly. And then the whole thing is in French, which makes it hard to understand what anybody is saying, except that as long as you know that the bad guy has "le bomb neutron," the rest probably takes care of itself.