Fox Searchlight picks up Saoirse Ronan’s Sundance drama “Brooklyn”January 28, 2015 - 16:16 AMT 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. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |