Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Oct 3, 2017 9:54:38 GMT -6
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Christian Bale Drama 'Hostiles' Sells to Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios
Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Jesse Plemons, Ben Foster and Timothee Chalamet also star in Scott Cooper's big-budget Western.
Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios has acquired U.S. rights to the Christian Bale Western Hostiles.
Sources say the film will get an Oscar-qualifying release in December, followed by a wide January rollout.
Directed by Scott Cooper, the film is set in 1892 and stars Bale as Captain Joseph J. Blocker who, after stern resistance, reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back home to tribal lands. Making the harrowing and perilous journey from New Mexico to the grasslands of Montana, the former rivals encounter a young widow whose family was murdered on the plains. Together, they must join forces to overcome the punishing landscape, hostile Comanche and vicious outliers encountered along the way.
Wes Studi also stars as the escorted Chief Yellow Hawk, and Rosamund Pike plays the young widow they meet. Jesse Plemons, Ben Foster and Timothee Chalamet round out the cast.
Cooper, who also directed Bale in the 2013 drama Out of the Furnace, produced the epic-scale indie -- said to have cost $50 million -- along with Ken Kao and John Lesher. He also rewrote the script first penned by the late Donald Stewart, who won an Oscar for co-writing the 1982 Jack Lemmon drama Missing.
Hostiles made its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter's review called it "an estimable piece of work grounded by a fine-grain sensibility and an expertly judged lead performance. ... Potent dramatic dynamics and the filmmaker's self-evident deep immersion and investment in his material enrich this vivid account of the last spasms of Native American resistance in the 1890s."
“Hostiles is an incredibly powerful and entertaining film, a masterpiece,” said Allen. “Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike deliver flawless performances in this excellent movie.”
The film marks the third acquisition for Entertainment Studios out of the Toronto market. The upstart distributor also nabbed the Jason Clarke starrer Chappaquiddick, which will get an Oscar-qualifying release in December, as well as the Keanu Reeves-led sci-fi pic Replicas.
CAA and WME repped the filmmakers. Chris Charalambous negotiated on behalf of Entertainment Studios. Bloom is selling international territories.
Christian Bale Drama 'Hostiles' Sells to Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios
Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Jesse Plemons, Ben Foster and Timothee Chalamet also star in Scott Cooper's big-budget Western.
Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios has acquired U.S. rights to the Christian Bale Western Hostiles.
Sources say the film will get an Oscar-qualifying release in December, followed by a wide January rollout.
Directed by Scott Cooper, the film is set in 1892 and stars Bale as Captain Joseph J. Blocker who, after stern resistance, reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back home to tribal lands. Making the harrowing and perilous journey from New Mexico to the grasslands of Montana, the former rivals encounter a young widow whose family was murdered on the plains. Together, they must join forces to overcome the punishing landscape, hostile Comanche and vicious outliers encountered along the way.
Wes Studi also stars as the escorted Chief Yellow Hawk, and Rosamund Pike plays the young widow they meet. Jesse Plemons, Ben Foster and Timothee Chalamet round out the cast.
Cooper, who also directed Bale in the 2013 drama Out of the Furnace, produced the epic-scale indie -- said to have cost $50 million -- along with Ken Kao and John Lesher. He also rewrote the script first penned by the late Donald Stewart, who won an Oscar for co-writing the 1982 Jack Lemmon drama Missing.
Hostiles made its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter's review called it "an estimable piece of work grounded by a fine-grain sensibility and an expertly judged lead performance. ... Potent dramatic dynamics and the filmmaker's self-evident deep immersion and investment in his material enrich this vivid account of the last spasms of Native American resistance in the 1890s."
“Hostiles is an incredibly powerful and entertaining film, a masterpiece,” said Allen. “Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike deliver flawless performances in this excellent movie.”
The film marks the third acquisition for Entertainment Studios out of the Toronto market. The upstart distributor also nabbed the Jason Clarke starrer Chappaquiddick, which will get an Oscar-qualifying release in December, as well as the Keanu Reeves-led sci-fi pic Replicas.
CAA and WME repped the filmmakers. Chris Charalambous negotiated on behalf of Entertainment Studios. Bloom is selling international territories.