Liev Schreiber’s ‘Human Capital’ Sells to Vertical, DirecTV

Vertical Entertainment and DirecTV have acquired the North American rights to “Human Capital,” which stars Liev Schreiber and Marisa Tomei, a person with information of the deal informed TheWrap.

The drama premiered at this 12 months’s Toronto International Film Festival final month. DirecTV can have the unique on pre-release SVOD, whereas Vertical will distribute the movie in theaters within the second quarter of 2020.

Marc Meyers’ movie is an adaptation of each a 2004 novel by Stephen Amidon in addition to the 2013 Italian movie based mostly on the e book and directed by Paolo Virzi. Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) wrote the screenplay about two households, one rich and one poor, that change into intertwined following a tragic hit and run automotive accident.

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The movie is damaged into three chapters which are every considered from the attitude of a unique particular person concerned with the accident, and Wolff doesn’t seem within the movie till its climactic third and closing chapter. Alex Wolff particularly performs a younger man with a troubled previous who has now turned merciless in direction of his girlfriend, performed by Maya Hawke. Schreiber, Tomei, Peter Sarsgaard and Betty Gabriel additionally star.

Bert Marcus, Trudie Styler, Celine Rattray, Schreiber, Moverman, and Matthew Stillman are producers on the movie. Marco Cohen, Fabrizio Donvito, Voula Wolf Duval, Jody Girgenti, Jenny Halper, Cathleen Ihasz, Nicole Ihasz, Hal Kessler, Brian LaMacchia, Nic Marshall, Dov Mamann, A.D. Oppenheim, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Ali Okay. Rizvi, Mike Sobiloff, Jon Wanzek and Henry Wu had been government producers.

Variety first reported the information.