Fox Searchlight picks up Saoirse Ronan’s Sundance drama “Brooklyn”

Fox Searchlight picks up Saoirse Ronan’s Sundance drama “Brooklyn”

PanARMENIAN.Net - In the biggest deal of the Sundance Film Festival, Fox Searchlight has won a bidding war for John Crawley’s “Brooklyn” which stars Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson and Jim Broadbent, TheWrap reports.

An insider close to the negotiations told TheWrap the deal will be for $9 million, the biggest deal of the festival so far. Searchlight previously closed a deal for “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” at the festival, for around $4.7 million.

“Brooklyn” is based on the novel by Colm Toibin, and follows a young woman in 1952 who travels to New York from Dublin and gets caught between two different cities and two different men.

The film premiered Monday, Jan 26 at the Sundance Film Festival.

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