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Aaron Eckhart and Tommy Lee Jones’ ‘Wander’ Lands at Saban

Saban Films has acquired North American rights to director April Mullens’ conspiracy thriller “Wander” starring Aaron Eckhart and Tommy Lee Jones.

In the already completed movie, Eckhart performs an unstable non-public detective employed to analyze a suspicious dying in a small city named Wander who begins to seek out connections to the dying of his daughter in an elaborate conspiracy. The solid additionally consists of Katheryn Winnick (“Vikings”) and Heather Graham.

Tim Doiron wrote the script. Producers embrace Mullen, Doiron, VMI Worldwide’s Andre Relis, Verdi Productions’ Chad A. Verdi, Don Kee Productions’ Jason Allison, Aloe Entertainment’s Mary Aloe, Falconer Picture’s Douglas Falconer and James van der Woerd.

Executive producers are VMI Worldwide’s J.D. Beaufils, Verdi Productions’ Michelle Verdi and Chad A. Verdi Jr., Don Kee Productions’ Michael S. Smith and Franchesca Lantz, Tamer Abaza, Jeffrey Bohn, Angie Pack, Charles Saikaley, Siren Studios’ Craig Chapman, Roger Dorman, Circle 4 Entertainment’s Adam Falkoff, Phoenicia Pictures’ Ameer Fawaz and Christelle Conan from Ingenious Media.

Saban Films has been on a shopping for streak. Earlier this week, the distributor acquired Seth Savoy’s directorial debut “Echo Boomers” starring Michael Shannon and Patrick Schwarzenegger forward of its debut on the Toronto International Film Festival. The firm additionally picked up “Pixie,” which stars Olivia Cooke, Alec Baldwin and Ben Hardy.

Deadline was first to report the sale.

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What the Cannes digital market proved earlier this 12 months is that even with out the in-person conferences, the crimson carpet galas and all of the press hype, there’s nonetheless room for a profitable gross sales market surrounding these digital occasions. While that is true of this 12 months’s Toronto International Film Festival, the hybrid bodily and digital fest is working on a slimmed-down lineup of films. And with Oscar eligibility necessities pushed again to 2021, there is not the identical want for all of those films to make a splash. That stated, we’re wanting ahead to fairly a bit at this 12 months’s TIFF, and so are consumers.
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