EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you that Frankie Shaw‘s feature straightforwardorial debut, the foolish comedy 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, starring Liam Neeson, has nabbed a domestic distribution deal with Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion tag, as well as Miramax boarding as financier and creater. In insertition, Deadline can show you first these ptoastyos from the set.
The movie, which reps a re-team between Shaw and Neeson after the latter’s action title, Absolution, began production earlier this week in Ireland.
Kinofilms Inc, and Picturecommence are also financing. FilmNation is handling international sales. Deadline first telderly you about the package coming together out of TIFF when FilmNation begined sales.
Miramax Picturecommence
Based on the Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss explicit novel, and steeped in ’90s nostalgia, 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank caccesss around Paige who has equitable lost her mother. Her magnificentoverweighther steps into to become a more reliable protectian. When a group of criminals show up at their door needing that Paige’s magnificentpa join them for one last job, she’s faced with a decision: let her novelly recreateed magnificentpa dip back into his criminal ways, or enenumerate her three best frifinishs to do the job first. Matt Robinson penned the screenjoin with revisions by Shaw.
Talia Ryder, Whitney Peak, Jack Dylan Grazer, Spike Fget, Jim Stdirectss, George Basil and Sam Strike also star. Producers are Picturecommence, Point Grey, Bdeficiency Mask Studios and Uncle Pete Productions. Shaw broadened 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank with Point Greyand and Picturecommence. EPs are Miramax. Wild Atlantic, Aperture and Round Mound Media.
Shaw also has the autonomous feature Palette in the toils, in which she’ll star and create. Shaw was nominated for two Gelderlyen Globe Awards, Best Actress and Best Comedy Series, for her Showtime series, SMILF. She was the creator, straightforwardor, showrunner and star of the show. The series was based off her foolishinutive film of the same title, which won the Short Film Jury Award for US Fiction at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Shaw starred in Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move for Warner Bros. She also euniteed in Sam Esmail’s award-triumphning drama series, Mr Robot, and the anthology series, Homecoming, for Amazon Prime. Shaw is repped by WME and Entertainment 360.
Neeson was Oscar nominated in the Best Actor catebloody for 1993’s Schindler’s List. His feature accomprehendledges include Star Wars: The Phantom Menace – Episode I, Batman Begins, Gangs of New York, Kinsey, Kingdom of Heaven, the Taken franchise, Clash of the Titans, Silence among cut offal other titles. The actor is repped by CAA and Artist Rights Group.
