PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 17, 2013
ANCHOR BAY FILMS
PICKS UP THE RAMBLER
AT THE 2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Starring Dermot Mulroney, The Rambler Set to Premiere at
Sundance’s “Park City at Midnight”
PARK CITY, UT – Anchor Bay Films kicks off the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with the pick-up of The Rambler starring Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Grey).
Written and directed by Calvin Lee Reeder, the film is set to premiere
on Monday, January 21st (11:59pm) during Park City at Midnight. The
agreement covers theatrical, home entertainment, television and digital
distribution rights in the North America, the U.K. and Australia.
Today’s announcement was made by Anchor Bay Entertainment’s President
Bill Clark.
“Anchor Bay is the perfect partner for Calvin’s film The Rambler,” stated Kevin Kasha, Executive
Vice President, Acquisitions and Co-Productions. “It has all the
elements that our fans truly love and we look forward to working with
Calvin.”
XYZ
Films’ (“The Raid”) co-founder Nate Bolotin produced alongside Brooklyn
Reptyle Films’ Roger M. Mayer and Christo Dimassis. Clayton Young of
Benaroya Pictures is also producing on behalf of AKA Pictures along
with James Lesjek. The
film is an AKA Pictures presentation and was financed by Michael
Benaroya through his genre label, AKA Pictures. AKA/Benaroya Pictures
head of production Joe Jenckes is also serving as executive producer
along with his Bow Street Films partner, David Dickson, under a new
partnership between AKA and Bow Street. Nick Spicer and Aram Tertzakian from XYZ are also executive producers.
After
being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler (Mulroney)
stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey
through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting
with his long lost brother. The Rambler co-stars Lindsay Pulsipher (“True Blood”, “Hatfields & McCoys”) and Natasha Lyonne (American Pie).
The
film is based on Reeder’s critically-acclaimed short of the same name
that screened at the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW back in 2008.
Reeder was also named as one of the 25 new faces of independent film
in Filmmaker Magazine for 2007.
“I've always loved Anchor Bay Films. Repo Man, Holy Mountain and El Topo
make my top 10 all timers for sure. I am so excited to be working with
the company that revived those legendary midnight movies, it's a real
honor,” said Reeder.
The deal was negotiated by Kevin Kasha and Marc Barson for Anchor Bay Films and by Nate Bolotin for XYZ Films.
Foreign sales will be handled by Celluloid Nightmares, the partnership between XYZ Films and Celluloid Dreams.
About AKA/Bow Street Films and Benaroya Pictures
AKA/Bow Street
Films is a new production outfit that allows filmmakers to produce high
quality product with great stars for a sensible price. Currently,
AKA/BSF has just completed shooting Brian Horiuchi’s ensemble film PARTS PER BILLION
with Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett, Teresa Palmer, Penn Badgley and
Frank Langella. Benaroya Pictures, as the parent company, also focuses
on producing and financing larger budget films, such as the highly
anticipated KILL YOUR DARLINGS, starring Michael C. Hall,
Daniel Radcliffe, Jack Huston, Ben Foster and Elizabeth Olsen, which
bows in competition at the upcoming Sundance festival. Other recent
titles include the romantic mystery THE WORDS starring Bradley
Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, and Ben Barnes, which
was released by CBS Films earlier this year. Also released recently was
the thriller LAWLESS, staring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica
Chastain and Mia Wasikowska from the Weinstein Company. The company’s
financial thriller MARGIN CALL was recently nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Best First
Feature Award at last year’s Independent Spirit Awards.
About XYZ Films
XYZ FILMS is an
LA-based film production and sales company founded in 2008 by Nate
Bolotin, Nick Spicer, and Aram Tertzakian. XYZ is a leader in the
global film space, with a particular focus on elevated genre films with
broad international appeal. A recent example of XYZ's model is Gareth
Evans' sub $1M Indonesian action film, THE RAID, for which XYZ
acted as Executive Producers and Worldwide Sales Agents. The film is
approaching $15M in global box office, after premiering at the 2011
Toronto International Film Festival (where it won the audience award
for TIFF's Midnight Madness section). The film also went on to play at
Sundance and SXSW, before enjoying a US release by Sony Pictures
Classics. XYZ and Evans' PT Merantau Films are currently in
pre-production on a sequel to THE RAID, in development on a remake of THE RAID
at Sony Screen Gems, and in development on a heist thriller which Evans
will direct for Universal. Other recent XYZ productions include the
recently wrapped FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY, which was directed by
Dutch filmmaker Richard Raaphorst and shot in Prague. Since the
company's inception, XYZ has grown to include partner Todd Brown, Head
of Development Kyle Franke, Director of Sales Sarah Gabriel, and
Acquisitions Consultant Simon de Bruyn (based in Melbourne, focused on
Australia & New Zealand).
About Anchor Bay Films
Anchor
Bay Films is a division of Anchor Bay Entertainment and provides
quality distribution with operations in the United States, United
Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and offers distribution capabilities in
other key territories. Anchor Bay Films uniquely offers the creative
community a fully integrated distribution capability on all platforms
and an international solution extending beyond the United States. The
company focuses on a platform release strategy for its films with an
eye toward maximizing their potential across all ancillary distribution
platforms. Upcoming theatrical releases include Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison and genre favorite Ken Foree, Billy Bob Thornton’s Jayne Mansfield’s Car starring Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon and Ray Stevenson and No One Lives with Luke Evans. Films in its library include the recent theatrical release 10 Years starring Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson, the critically-acclaimed comedy City Island starring Andy Garcia and Solitary Man starring Michael Douglas as well as Kill the Irishman starring Ray Stevenson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Val Kilmer and Christopher Walken, Toronto Film Festival award-winner Beautiful Boy with Maria Bello and Michael Sheen and Cannes 2011 premiere Corman’s World. Anchor Bay Entertainment (www.anchorbayentertainment.com) is a Starz (NASDAQ: STRZA, STRZB) business, www.starz.com.
About Brooklyn Reptyle Films
Christo Dimassis and Roger M. Mayer started Brooklyn Reptyle Films in 2001 and serve as the core production team. Brooklyn Reptyle is a production company specializing in feature-length films, both narrative and documentary, as well as award-winning shorts, music videos, webisodes, and commercials. Brooklyn Reptyle Films is a multimedia production company with the primary goal of creating compelling content. Their latest feature film The Rambler, premieres at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, directed by Calvin Lee Reeder and starring Dermot Mulroney, Lindsay Pulsipher, and Natasha Lyonne. Some of their credits include the feature-length award-winning films The Oregonian (2011 Sundance Film Festival, also directed by Reeder and starring Pulsipher), Big River Man (2009 Sundance Film Festival winner for Best Cinematography - World Documentary), Inside Irvin (Best Actor and Audience award, SLFF), Boppin’ at the Glue Factory (Best Feature Film, STIFF and Tregor Film Fest, France), Audie and the Wolf (Cinequest Film Festival) and the upcoming Carlos Spills the Beans and The Bang Bang Brokers.
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