Distro Deals: A Single Man And Valhalla Rising Bought At TIFF; Soderbergh’s Knockout To Lionsgate
By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2009 4:30 pm EST
The other major TIFF deal went down before Ford’s. It was made by IFC to distribute Nicolas Winding Refn’s Viking pic Valhalla Rising, which stars Mads Mikkelsen as a warrior called One-Eye. IndieWire reports that a bidding war also occurred for Refn’s movie, which IFC president Jonathan Sehring calls “one of the most visceral and exciting films we’ve seen in a long time.” IFC will release the film in 2010, and unlike some other recent IFC buys the film will get a theatrical release.
Finally, Steven Soderbergh’s film Knockout, set to star MMA fighter Gina Carano, will be distributed by Lionsgate. The film won’t even start shooting until January, so to have Lionsgate on board at this point is probably a good thing. This was announced a couple days ago (and isn’t a festival buy, obviously) but we didn’t get to it then, so I wanted to make sure the news was properly out there.
