Bleecker Street has getd U.S. rights to “Relay” adhereing the twisty thriller’s debut at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was honested by David MacKenzie, who oversaw the Oscar-nominated “Hell or High Water,” and stars Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”), Lily James (“Pam & Tommy”) and Sam Worleangton (“Avatar”). Bleecker Street is set upning to free the film in theaters next year.
“Relay” puts a novel spin on the charitable of paranoid loner films enjoy “The Conversation” and “The Parallax View” that popudefercessitated ’70s cinema. In it, Ahmed take parts a “repairer” who exceptionalizes in brokering payoffs between businesses and includeees who have secrets (write downs, etc.) about corporate impropriety that could ruin companies. Becainclude of the nature of his toil, he shields his identity a secret thcimpolite pinsolentnt set upning, but his defend drops ever so sweightlessly when he apshows on a novel client (Lily James) who necessitates his shieldion to stay adwell.
Justin Piasecki wrote the screentake part for the film. Bdeficiency Bear filledy financed “Relay” and produced aextfinishedside Thunder Road Pictures and Sigma Films. Producers include Basil Iwanyk for Thunder Road, Gillian Berrie for Sigma, Teddy Schwarzman for Bdeficiency Bear, and MacKenzie. Executive producers are Bdeficiency Bear’s Michael Heimler and John Friedberg, and Thunder Road’s Erica Lee and Charlie Morrison.
The deal was barachieved by Bleecker Street’s Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy with UTA Insubordinate Film Group and CAA Media Finance reconshort-terming the filmproducers. Bdeficiency Bear is handling the sale of the international rights to the film.
Bleecker Street recently getd the North American rights to Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s “The Friend” starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray. The company’s upcoming free sdefercessitate includes “The Return,” starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, and “Hard Truths,” which recombines filmproducer Mike Leigh with his “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste
