Sony Pictures Classics and Black Bear have scheduled October US release dates for the well-received Sundance entries The Only Living Pickpocket In New York and Wicker, respectively.
John Turturro starrer The Only Living Pickpocket In New York will open on October 16 and expand nationwide on October 23. Writer-director Noah Segan’s film from MRC and T-Street follows a small-time career criminal who falls foul of a crime family when he gets his hands on a valuable data stick.
Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Tatiana Maslany and Steve Buscemi round out the key cast. Katie McNeill, Leopold Hughes and Ben LeClair produced and Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman served as executive producers alongside Johnny Holland.
Black Bear has scheduled an October 23 limited release for Wicker from Tango and Topic Studios starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård.
The comedic fable will expand nationwide on October 30 and centres on an ostracised fisherwoman who commissions the local basketmaker to weave her a husband. Peter Dinklage and Elizabeth Debicki round out the key cast.
Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer co-directed and adapted the screenplay from Ursula Wills’ short story The Wicker Husband. Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Ryan Heller and Michael Bloom served as producers alongside South of The River’s Colman, Ed Sinclair, and Tom Carver, and Yoki, Inc’s David Michôd and Brad Zimmerman.
The producer roster includes Justin Lothrop and Brent Stiefel for Votiv, which originated and financed development, as well as Andrea Cornwell and Oliver Kassman. Executive producers include Ian Stratford, Jasmine Daghighian, Jennifer Westin, Neil Shah, Max Silva, and Lina Stroud.
Black Bear also oversees international sales on Wicker and will release directly in the UK, and in Canada through its subsidiary Elevation Pictures.
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