Bleecker Avenue has acquired U.S. rights to “The Relay” after the twisty thriller premiered at this 12 months’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.
The movie is directed by David Mackenzie, who directed the Oscar-nominated movie “Hell or Excessive Water,” and stars Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metallic”), Lily James (“Pam and Tommy”) and Sam Worthington (“Avatar”). Bleecker Avenue plans to launch the movie in theaters subsequent 12 months.
“Relay” injects new shade into the paranoid and lonely movies that had been well-liked in Seventies films, akin to “The Dialog” and “Parallax Perspective.” Ahmed performs a “dealer” who mediates between corporations and workers who maintain secrets and techniques (paperwork, and so on.) about company violations that might result in the corporate’s chapter. As a result of nature of his job, he retains his identification a secret via cautious planning, however his guard lets down somewhat when he takes on a brand new consumer (Lily James) who wants his safety to outlive.
Justin Piasecki wrote the screenplay for the movie. Black Bear absolutely financed “The Relay” and is co-producing with Thunder Highway Footage and Sigma Movies. Producers embrace “Thunder Highway”‘s Basil Ivanik, “Sigma”‘s Jillian Berry, “Black Bear”‘s Teddy Schwartzman and Mackenzie. Govt producers are Black Bear’s Michael Heimler and John Friedberg, in addition to Thunder Highway’s Erica Lee and Charlie Morrison.
The deal was negotiated by Bleecker Avenue’s Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy with UTA Unbiased Movie Group and CAA Media Finance representing the filmmakers. Black Bear is dealing with the sale of the movie’s worldwide rights.
Bleecker Avenue not too long ago acquired North American rights to Scott McGee and David Siegel’s Buddies, starring Naomi Watts and Invoice Murray. The corporate’s upcoming movies embrace “The Return,” starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, and “Secrets and techniques and Lies” from filmmaker Mike Leigh with Marianne Jean-Baptiste Particular Reunion of “The Brutal Fact”
