EXCLUSIVE: Break Out Pictures has acquired UK-Ireland rights for UK filmmaker Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans, about the legendary jazz pianist, with a release planned for 2026.
Mister Smith Entertainment has world sales, with CAA co-repping US rights.
Actors Barry Ward, Valene Kane and Katie McGrath have joined the cast, alongside previously announced Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman and Laurie Metcalf.
The Ireland-UK co-production scheduled to start principal photography in Ireland on May 26.
In June 1961, New York City, legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his perfect musical trio, until tragedy hits, leaving Evans unable to bring himself to play.
The film will be shot partially in black and white, from a script written by Mark O’Halloran, and is based on the book Intermission by Owen Martell. Janine Marmot produces for the UK’s Hot Property Films, with Alan Maher for Ireland’s Cowtown Pictures. Co-producer is Fiona Kinsella.
Financiers are Screen Ireland, Over The Fence Films, Finite Films, Shoni Productions and OnSight, with support from the UK Global Screen Fund.
Ireland-based distributor Break Out Pictures’ slate of UK-Ireland releases includes A Quiet Girl (in partnership with Curzon) and That They May Face The Rising Sun (in partnership with Conic).
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