Martin McDonagh's feature directorial debut In Bruges will open the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on January 17.
Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the film, which stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as London hitmen ordered by their boss Ralph Fiennes to go on an event-filled holiday in the Belgian city of Bruges.
Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin produced and Jeff Abberley, Julia Blackman and Tessa Ross served as executive producers.
'In many ways In Bruges is a quintessential Sundance film - it's brutal, philosophical, funny, and totally original,' Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore said.
'Martin McDonagh is a masterful storyteller, a tremendously gifted playwright and provocative risk-taker, and we are thrilled to showcase his feature length directorial debut.'
'I'm stunned and thrilled that In Bruges will be opening a festival as prestigious, and as cool, as Sundance, and I simply can't wait to attend,' McDonagh said.
'No film-maker I know has made the English language, in all its profane - and here, quite Celtic - glory, such a purely, joyously cinematic medium,' Focus CEO James Schamus said.
McDonagh's plays The Lieutenant Of Inishmore and The Pillowman both won Olivier Awards in England. He previously directed the short film Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for best live-action short in 2006.
In Bruges is a Focus Features presentation in association with Film4 of a Blueprint Pictures production in association with Scion Films.
The festival is scheduled to run from January 17-27, 2008. For further information visit www.sundance.org.
Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the film, which stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as London hitmen ordered by their boss Ralph Fiennes to go on an event-filled holiday in the Belgian city of Bruges.
Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin produced and Jeff Abberley, Julia Blackman and Tessa Ross served as executive producers.
'In many ways In Bruges is a quintessential Sundance film - it's brutal, philosophical, funny, and totally original,' Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore said.
'Martin McDonagh is a masterful storyteller, a tremendously gifted playwright and provocative risk-taker, and we are thrilled to showcase his feature length directorial debut.'
'I'm stunned and thrilled that In Bruges will be opening a festival as prestigious, and as cool, as Sundance, and I simply can't wait to attend,' McDonagh said.
'No film-maker I know has made the English language, in all its profane - and here, quite Celtic - glory, such a purely, joyously cinematic medium,' Focus CEO James Schamus said.
McDonagh's plays The Lieutenant Of Inishmore and The Pillowman both won Olivier Awards in England. He previously directed the short film Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for best live-action short in 2006.
In Bruges is a Focus Features presentation in association with Film4 of a Blueprint Pictures production in association with Scion Films.
The festival is scheduled to run from January 17-27, 2008. For further information visit www.sundance.org.
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