The great James Gandolfini may be gone, but the iconic actor left behind two completed movies awaiting release: a romantic dramedy and a crime thriller he filmed in Brooklyn earlier this year.
A spokesman for Fox Searchlight Pictures, which is distributing both films in the United States, said neither had a release date yet.
“Enough Said,’’ shot in Los Angeles late last summer, stars Gandolfini as a gentle TV archivist and ex-husband of Catherine Keener. His character becomes romantically embroiled with her new friend, a fellow divorcée played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Industry insiders said they wouldn’t be surprised if “Enough Said’’ debuted at January’s Sundance Film Festival, which has showcased several films by its director, Nicole Holofcener.
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What turned out to be Gandolfini’s last film, “Animal Rescue,’’ was shot in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn as well as in Forest Hills, Queens, this spring.
He’s cast as a worldly bar owner who employs and counsels his younger cousin, played by British actor Tom Hardy.
Gandolfini also shot a role as an ambulance-chasing lawyer in the pilot for the proposed HBO miniseries “Criminal Justice.’’
He was scheduled to begin filming “Bone Stars,’’ in which he and Steve Carell were to play real-life paleontologists who discover the fossils of more than 160 dinosaurs after the Civil War.