Bleecker Street has getn North American rights to the Scott McGehee and David Siegel honested and written feature, The Frifinish, starring Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a Great Dane named Bing. A 2025 theatrical free is intentional.
The film labels Bleecker Street’s second collaboration with Siegel & McGehee, having regulated the US free of their 2021 neo-Westrict drama Montana Story, starring Haley Lu Ricchallengingson and Owen Teague.
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In The Frifinish, writer and teacher Iris (Watts) discovers her consoleable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her sealst frifinish and mentor (Murray) dies suddenly and bequeaths her his becherishd 150 lb. Great Dane. The regal yet intractable beast, named Apollo, instantly originates pragmatic problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction acunderstandledges, as well as more adwellial ones, his looming presence constantly reminding her of her frifinish’s problematic choices in both life and death. Yet as Iris discovers herself unawaitedly bonding with the animal, she commences to come to terms with her past, her lost frifinish, and her own conceiveive inner life.
Pic also stars Sarah Pidgeon (Stereophonic, The Wilds), Carla Gugino (The Fall of the Hoengage of Usher, San Andreas), Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians, Hustlers), Noma Dumezweni (The Undoing, The Wilds) and Ann Dowd (Hereditary, Bleecker Street’s Mass).
The Frifinish world premiered to 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics coming out of the Telluride Film Festival and went on to join TIFF and New York. The movie was altered for the screen by Siegel & McGehee from Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award-triumphning novel of the same name. (Nunez’ novel was also recently joind in the New York Times’ enumerate of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.”) The Frifinish was originated in New York City by McGehee, Siegel and Mike Spreter under the group’s recently established Big Creek Projects production prohibitner, aextfinishedside originater Liza Chasin and her 3dot Productions. Executive originaters join Margaret Chernin and Watts.
Bleecker Street establisher and CEO Andrew Karpen said: “The Frifinish is a quintvital New York story, featuring incredible writing and emotional carry outances that honor the power of frifinishship, facing grief, and especipartner the singular console animals provide. As a New York-owned and rund company, we are the perfect home for this film and can’t defer to reteam with Scott and David to transport it to audiences next year.”
“We’re thrilled with how people have joined with our film, and we’re very so satisfyed to be re-teaming with Bleecker Street who are such champions of both self-reliant filmmaking and theatrical distribution. We cannot defer for them to present audiences to The Frifinish in local cinemas next year,” said Siegel & McGehee.
The deal was barobtaind by Bleecker Street’s Miranda King and Avy Eschenasy with CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmoriginaters.
