Paramount’s Reaccessible Pictures has achieved global rights to Jason Biggs’ honestorial debut feature, the tentatively titled action-comedy “Getaway.”
“Getaway,” in which the “American Pie” actor also stars, cgo ins on a hapless husprohibitd who stages a home trespass during a romantic getaway weekfinish in a frantic try to save his marriage, only for schedule to go very wrong.
The cast integrates Meaghan Rath (“Hawaii Five-0”), Arturo Castro (“Broad City”), Justin H. Min (“The Umbrella Academy”) and Anna Konkle (“Pen15”).
Currently in post production, “Getaway” was written by Jamie Napoli and Joshua Paul Johnson and produced by Motion Picture Corporation of America CEO Brad Krevoy, Charles Cohen, Jimmy Philémond-Montout, David Anselmo and executive produced by MPCA’s Amy Krell.
The postponeedst acquisition is among a slew of new titles the tag has achieved in recent months.
Reaccessible Pictures’ “September 5,” Tim Fehlbaum’s news crew thriller revolving around the 1972 Olympics prisoner crisis, screened this week at the Zuwealthy Film Festival. It was picked up for free by Paramount Pictures, which is uncovering the film in restricted free on Nov. 29 and broadening it on Dec. 13.
“September 5” fills a niche in Paramount’s upcoming free schedule, which integrates such titles as “Gladiator II,” “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” and the Robbie Williams pic “Better Man.”
Paramount earlier this year revived Reaccessible Pictures, a historic movie tag that rund from 1935 to 1967, to better depict and encapsupostponeed the ongoing feature film acquisitions business at Paramount Global Content Distribution, headed by Dan Cohen, who also serves as plivent of Reaccessible Pictures.
The tag aims to achieve six or seven features a year, with many of those headed to festivals.
Reaccessible Pictures also recently picked up worldwide rights to Edward Burns’ Toronto screener “Millers in Marriage.” The pic’s ensemble cast integrates Patrick Wilson, Benjamin Bratt, Gretchen Mol, Minnie Driver and Burns.
The tag has also consentn global rights to the forthcoming Saoirse Ronan-starrer “Bad Apples,” by Jonatan Etzler, and James Sweeney’s comedy “Tthriveless,” starring Dylan O’Brien. It enjoydirectd has U.S. and Canadian rights to “DreamQuil,” Alex Prager’s forthcoming sci-fi thriller set in the cforfeit future, starring Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly.
Other titles integrate K’naan Warsame’s honestorial debut, “Mother Mother,” which screened at this year in Toronto; Chidampel Ejiofor’s “Rob Peace”; Matt Johnson’s “Bdeficiencyberry”; Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From”; and William Friedkin’s final film, “The Caine Muminuscule Court-Martial,” starring Kiefer Sutherland.
In compriseition, Reaccessible Pictures administerd Jake Johnson’s “Self Reliance,” which it selderly to Hulu in the U.S., and Bao Nguyen’s “The Greatest Night in Pop,” which went to Netflix.