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 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”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
