Exclusive: Following a strong response from buyers, Aaron Sorkin’s starry drama The Trial Of The Chicago 7 is now being fast-tracked for an early summer start after pre-production was put on pause last December.
Rocket Science was selling the $30M-budgeted drama at the Efm in Berlin last week and closed significant pre-sales for France (Metropolitan), Spain & Latin America (Sun), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Japan (Hakuhodo), Benelux (Searchers), Canada (Vvs), Australia & New Zealand (Madman), Israel (United King), Greece & Cyprus (Odeon), Portugal (Lusomundo), Eastern Europe (Spi), Middle East (Front Row), Singapore (Shaws), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Hong Kong (Panorama), India (PVR) and Airlines & Ships (Echo Lake). Multiple were seven figure deals.
Sorkin’s meetings with distributors in Berlin proved a hit and significant deals are also percolating for U.S., UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Baltic States. Rocket Science reps international with CAA Media Finance repping U.S.
As we updated ahead of the Efm,...
Rocket Science was selling the $30M-budgeted drama at the Efm in Berlin last week and closed significant pre-sales for France (Metropolitan), Spain & Latin America (Sun), Scandinavia (Nordisk), Japan (Hakuhodo), Benelux (Searchers), Canada (Vvs), Australia & New Zealand (Madman), Israel (United King), Greece & Cyprus (Odeon), Portugal (Lusomundo), Eastern Europe (Spi), Middle East (Front Row), Singapore (Shaws), Taiwan (Moviecloud), Hong Kong (Panorama), India (PVR) and Airlines & Ships (Echo Lake). Multiple were seven figure deals.
Sorkin’s meetings with distributors in Berlin proved a hit and significant deals are also percolating for U.S., UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Baltic States. Rocket Science reps international with CAA Media Finance repping U.S.
As we updated ahead of the Efm,...
- 2/18/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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