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» Wednesday November 03, 2010 - 05:52 am
Magnet Releasing Takes US Rights To Black Death
The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired US rights from HanWay Film to Christopher Smith's BLACK DEATH. Starring Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings), BLACK DEATH is a creepy, pitch perfect medieval period film that expertly channels such UK classics as The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General. Christopher Smith's cult hit Severence was distributed by Magnolia in 2007.
BLACK DEATH made its US debut last week at LA's Screamfest, where it took home several major awards: Best Director (Chris Smith), Best Actor (Sean Bean), Best Cinematography (Sebastian Edschmid) and Best Musical Score (Christian Henson).
Bean stars as Ulric, a grim emissary from the Church, who leads a young monk (Eddie Redmayne) and a band of violent vigilantes and war veterans through the English countryside. Armed with blood-chilling torture devices, their mission is to stamp out suspected paganism in a village that remains untouched by the black plague, even as the rest of Europe grimly succumbs to the pestilence.
"BLACK DEATH simmers with a kind of terror that's all the more haunting cause it's real," said Magnet SVP Tom Quinn. "It's another great example of why
Chris Smith is one of the most versatile directors working today."
"BLACK DEATH is a film that I am immensely proud of, and I'm so pleased it has found such a great home for its US release," said director Smith. "On the one hand it is a violent historical drama and on the other, a terrifying horror movie, in which the more realistically I shot the past, the more it reflected the present. A time when in spite of the fact people were dying of the plague, they still found the time to torture and kill each other."
The US deal was negotiated by Magnet/Magnolia SVP Tom Quinn with Tim Haslam from Hanway. Magnet is planning a first quarter 2011 theatrical release. BLACK DEATH marks Magnet's third major acquisition announcement this week, following André Ovredal's The Troll Hunter on Monday, and Brad Anderson's Vanishing on 7th Street on Tuesday.
Check out BLACK DEATH online:
About Magnet Releasing
Magnet is the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, specializing in films from the vanguard of horror, action, comedy and Asian cinema, and is home to such films as Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In, Neil Marshall's sword and sandals bloodbath Centurion, John Woo's historical epic Red Cliff, Ti West's terrifying The House of the Devil, Tony Jaa's Ong Bak trilogy, Nicholas Winding Refn's Bronson, the Spanish horror film [Rec]2, and George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead. Coming soon is Gareth Edwards' highly anticipated sci-fi masterpiece Monsters, Brad Anderson's Vanishing on 7th Street, Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins, Alex de la Iglesia's The Last Circus, KIM Jeewoon's I Saw the Devil, André Ovredal's The Troll Hunter, and Quentin Dupieux's Rubber, featuring a killer tire on a murder spree. Magnolia Pictures is the theatrical and home entertainment distribution arm of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, a vertically integrated group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that also include the Landmark Theatres chain, the production company 2929 Productions, and high-definition cable network HDNet.
About HanWay Films
HanWay Films' current slate includes David Cronenberg's upcoming "A Dangerous Method" starring Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel, Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Heights", Steve McQueen's "Shame" starring Michael Fassbender, Venice Award winner "Essential Killing" by Jerzy Skolimowski ( Special Jury Prize and Best Actor ), Takashi Miike's '13 Assassins', (winner of the Audience Award at Sitges Film Festival) "Made In Dagenham" starring Sally Hawkins, soon to be released in the US by Sony Classics, and "Super" starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Paige and Liv Tyler.
                    
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