Row K snaps up Maude Apatow’s ‘Poetic License’, fourth film out of TIFF

Another day another acquisition for hungry new distributor Row K, which confirmed on Thursday it had taken North American rights to Maude Apatow’s feature directorial debut Poetic License starring Leslie Mann, Cooper Hoffman, and Andrew Barth Feldman.

The coming-of-age comedy centres on best friends who vie for the attention of an attractive middle-aged mother auditing their college poetry workshop.

Nico Parker, Martha Kelly, Maisy Stella, Will Price, and Cliff ‘Method Man’ Smith round out the cast on the recent Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Special Presentations selection.

Apatow hails from comedy royalty. Her mother Mann stars, while her father Judd Apatow produced alongside Josh Church for Apatow Productions, Benjamin Hung and Thalia Daniel for August Night (formerly Levantine Films), Maude Apatow and Olivia Rosenbloom for Jewelbox Pictures, and Will Greenfield.

Row K has now picked up four films out of TIFF: Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire; Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge’s Charlie Harper; and market screening Cliffhanger directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Pierce Brosnan and Lily James.

Row K negotiated with WME Independent, which represents global rights.

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