Magnolia Pictures acquires Bel Powley thriller “Detour”May 16, 2016 - 11:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired U.S. rights to Christopher Smith’s “Detour”, a thriller starring three emerging stars, TheWrap reports. Bel Powley (“Diary of a Teenage Girl”), Emory Cohen (“Brooklyn”) and Tye Sheridan (“Mud”) round out the cast in director Smith’s (“Severance,” “Black Death”) latest. “We’ve been big fans of Christopher Smith for a long time and we’re excited to work with him again on ‘Detour,” Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles said. “Like its classic noir predecessors, the film keeps you guessing until the very end.” “Detour” sees Sheridan as a troubled young grad student, grieving the loss of his mother in a terrible car accident and convinced his step-father had a hand in the tragedy. He drunkenly stumbles on a volatile grifter and his stripper girlfriend, played by Cohen and Powley, who draw shady alliances to help Sheridan get to the bottom of his mom’s death. The deal was negotiated in Cannes by Magnolia SVP of Acquisitions Dori Begley and Magnolia VP of Acquisitions John Von Thaden with CAA and Bankside Films on behalf of the filmmakers. Julie Baines of Dan Films and Jason Newmark of Newscope Films, together with Phil Hunt and Compton Ross, are producing. Head Gear Films provided production finance and Bankside Films is handling international sales. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. 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 | Yerevan reacts to Baku’s proposal to see Minsk Group abolition Alen Simonyan has declared that Armenia is taking steps aimed at concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State to travel to Armenia Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs James C. O’Brien will travel to Yerevan on June 10-12. Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life, Strong Mind IDBank and Idram summarize the results of the May program of “The Power of One Dram”. Yerevan State University, Ucom sign Memorandum of Cooperation Rector of Yerevan State University Hovhannes Hovhannisyan and General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian signed the memorandum. |