EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics is closing its second Toronto Film Festival deal, this one for Lyrebird, the Dan Friedkin-directed drama that stars Vicky Krieps, Guy Pearce, Roland Moller, and Cl…
. Deal being wrapped up is for North America, Latin American, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Middle East and Asia. FilmNation has made a deal for the rest of the world.
It’s SPC’s second festival deal after it secured U.S. rights to the Michael Winterbottom-directed satire, Bang plays a soldier and member of the Dutch resistance who is tasked with investigating stolen art in the wake of WWII. His focus is on the flamboyant painter Han van Meegeren, who allegedly sold a Vermeer to Hermann Goring. Selling stolen art to the Nazis is a crime punishable by death.
Friedkin, a principal in Imperative Entertainment and 30WEST, makes his directing debut on a drama written by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby and James McGee. Pic is a co-production between Imperative Entertainment and 30WEST, and Ryan Friedkin, Danny Friedkin, and Bradley Thomas produce, and Gino Falsetto, Peter Heslop and Ridley Scott are the exec producers.
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