Bleecker Avenue has acquired U.S. rights to “Relay” following the twisty thriller’s debut at this 12 months’s Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant.
The movie was directed by David MacKenzie, who oversaw the Oscar-nominated “Hell or Excessive Water,” and stars Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metallic”), Lily James (“Pam & Tommy”) and Sam Worthington (“Avatar”). Bleecker Avenue is planning to launch the movie in theaters subsequent 12 months.
“Relay” places a brand new spin on the type of paranoid loner movies like “The Dialog” and “The Parallax View” that populated ’70s cinema. In it, Ahmed performs a “fixer” who makes a speciality of brokering payoffs between companies and staff who’ve secrets and techniques (paperwork, and so on.) about company malfeasance that might spoil firms. Due to the character of his work, he retains his id a secret via meticulous planning, however his guard drops ever so barely when he takes on a brand new consumer (Lily James) who wants his safety to remain alive.
Justin Piasecki wrote the screenplay for the movie. Black Bear absolutely financed “Relay” and produced alongside Thunder Highway Footage and Sigma Movies. Producers embrace Basil Iwanyk for Thunder Highway, Gillian Berrie for Sigma, Teddy Schwarzman for Black Bear, and MacKenzie. Govt producers are Black Bear’s Michael Heimler and John Friedberg, and Thunder Highway’s Erica Lee and Charlie Morrison.
The deal was negotiated by Bleecker Avenue’s Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy with UTA Unbiased Movie Group and CAA Media Finance representing the filmmakers. Black Bear is dealing with the sale of the worldwide rights to the movie.
Bleecker Avenue lately acquired the North American rights to Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s “The Buddy” starring Naomi Watts and Invoice Murray. The corporate’s upcoming launch slate contains “The Return,” starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, and “Onerous Truths,” which reunites filmmaker Mike Leigh together with his “Secrets and techniques & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste
