Momentum/Alliance Films takes UK and Canada rights to John Hillcoat’s crime-drama The Wettest County In The World from FilmNation and Morten Tyldum’s thriller Headhunters from TrustNordisk.
Momentum/Alliance FIlms has taken UK and Canada rights to John Hillcoat’s The Road follow up The Wettest County In The World – currently shooting in US - from FilmNation.
The crime-drama centred on a family of Depression-era bootleggers in the American South features an all-star cast of Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Guy Pearce and Tom Hardy, with a script written by Hillcoat’s The Proposition collaborator Nick Cave.
Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick are producing with Michael Benaroya of Benaroya Pictures and Megan Ellison.
In a bid to replicate the success it achieved in the UK and Canada with the Millenium trilogy, Momentum/Alliance Films has also acquired UK and Canadian rights to the latest high-end Scandinavian crime thriller Headhunters, the anticipated adaptation of Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo’s best-selling novel.
Produced by Millenium producer Yellow Bird Films and Norwegian outfit Friland, Headhunters - currently in post production - tells the story of a notorious corporate headhunter who moonlights as an art thief. Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) stars as protagonist Roger Brown.
The film will be released by Magnolia in the US.
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