Warner Bros Pictures willhandle domestic rights and Pandora will handle international sales on A HomeAt The End Of The World, the secondfilm to be made from a novel by Michael Cunningham (The Hours) which is currently in production in Toronto, NewYork and Arizona.

The film, which stars ColinFarrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts and Sissy Spacek, is directed byMichael Mayer and produced by John Wells Productions, Killer Films, Hart SharpEntertainment and Oscar-nominated actor Tom Hulce. Pandora and HartSharp's True Film Fund are financing the film; John Wells Productions andCinetic Media coordinated the financing.

The Warner/Pandoraarrangement is a co-distribution deal between the two companies. Pandora is theinternational sales arm of Gaylord Films, which is based at Warner Bros and hasco-financed several Warner projects including The Divine Secrets Of TheYa-Ya Sisterhood, White Oleander, Welcome To Collinwood, A Walk To Remember and current hit What A Girl Wants.

The film marks the first timeCunningham himself has written a script and the first film for Mayer, whoseaward-winning Broadway productions include Thoroughly Modern Millie and Side Man. Wells, who worked with Pandora on White Oleander, is executive producer.

The book, published in 1990,is Cunningham's first and preceded The Hours by nine years. It spans three decades from the 1960sto the 1980s and tells the story of an orphaned boy called Bobby who develops aclose friendship with Jonathan which starts in childhood in Cleveland and isrekindled when the two are in their twenties in New York City. Although Jonathan is gay, they develop a bizarre love triangle with Jonathan's roommateClaire. Farrell plays Bobby, Roberts is Jonathan and Wright-Penn is Claire.

Although Warner Bros has yetto finalise plans for a specialized division, the film would certainly be anappropriate candidate, should anything be formalized by the time of itsdelivery. Like The Hours, itdeals with issues of homosexuality, AIDS and unconventional parenting whichwould be challenging for the studio's mainstream releasing apparatus sobusy this year with the two Matrixsequels, Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines and The Last Samurai.

A Home At The End Of TheWorld marks a reunion for Killer andHart Sharp, which last teamed up on the Oscar-winning Boys Don't Cry. Hart Sharp COO Michael Hogan said that theco-financing structure is an unusual one for the company whose other creditsinclude You Can Count On Me and NicholasNickleby.

"Since we typicallyfinance films prior to securing distribution, this deal represents a differentrisk profile than bringing a finished film to a festival in order to securedistribution," said Hogan.

"We see this as aproving ground for new production investment opportunities and are excited tobe working with such premiere companies as Warner Bros. and Pandora."

"We're delightedto be doing another movie with Killer Films, the most innovative, excitingproduction company in the business," said Wells. "No one does itbetter." Wells formed a financing alliance with Killer in 2001 and hasexecutive produced Killer productions including Camp, Party Monster, FarFrom Heaven, The Grey Zone and OneHour Photo.

"A Home At The Endof the World, with its extremelytalented cast and creative team, fits perfectly within our special partnershipwith Warner Bros. Pictures," said Hunt Lowry, the president and CEO ofPandora.

"This partneringbetween Killer Films and Hart Sharp, along with Tom Hulce and John WellsProductions, represents yet another powerful example of the versatility of theNew York independent film community in getting movies made," added JeffSharp of Hart Sharp.