Scott Monahan directs and stars within the street journey thriller about two brothers making an attempt to drive a trunk filled with stolen opioids from Florida to Alaska.
Display screen Media has picked up North American rights to Anchorage, a drug-fueled street journey thriller from first-time director Scott Monahan. The Mise En Scéne Firm, which is dealing with worldwide gross sales on the movie, additionally signed a cope with Bulldog for U.Okay. rights.
Anchorage premiered on the Oldenburg Worldwide Movie Competition, the place it received the German independence award for greatest movie, in addition to one of the best actor nod for co-star Dakota Loesch, who additionally wrote the screenplay.
Within the movie, Loesch and Monahan play brothers Jacob and John who try to drive a trunk filled with stolen opioids from Florida to Alaska to money in massive. However a split-second act of violence within the California desert derails their plans and units them on a crash course with tragedy. Since its Oldenburg premiere, the movie has traveled the competition circuit, increase word-of-mouth and successful quite a few awards.
“Anchorage is a real American indy exposé on sociological points in American society instructed by means of the lens of two brothers touring cross-country,” mentioned Lev Avery-Peck, acquisitions govt for Display screen Media. “The uncooked character-driven performing dropped at the display screen through Scott and Dakota powerfully communicates beneficial classes to the viewers, which we’re excited to assist carry into distribution in collaboration with Mise En Scéne.”
“We have now been affected person in inserting Anchorage as a result of we consider strongly within the filmmaking expertise of Scott and Dakota and we wished to make sure that the movie was dealt with by distributors who care in regards to the movie and the longer term artistic expertise as a lot as we do,” added Mise En Scéne CEO Paul Yates. “We’re actually excited to be teaming with these two firms to carry this excellent movie to the general public.”
Display screen Media will launch Anchorage theatrically by means of Double Publicity Distribution in affiliation with Discordiacine within the U.S. beginning June 16 on the Laemmle NoHo 7. The movie’s U.Okay. theatrical launch is about for August.
The deal was negotiated between The Mise En Scéne Firm’s Paul Yates and Rory MacDonald, who're dealing with worldwide gross sales, and Display screen Media’s acquisitions govt Lev Avery-Peck and Bulldog’s Philip Hoile.