EXCLUSIVE: Some have been anticipating Netflix to curb their acquisitions right here in Park Metropolis, however, as we advised you earlier this morning, never count them out of the Sundance marketplace. Earlier than its premiere within the midnight part tonight, the Reed Hastings-Ted Sarandos-run streamer has scooped up a majority of worldwide rights on the Australian horror film, Run Rabbit Run, starring 2x Emmy nominated Succession actress Sarah Snook. XYZ Films, which co-funded the movie, brokered the cope with Netflix on behalf of the filmmakers.
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Directed by Daina Reid off a script by Hannah Kent (The Good Folks, Devotion), Run Rabbit Run follows fertility physician Sarah (Snook). She firmly believes in life and dying. Nevertheless, after noticing the unusual habits of her younger daughter, she should problem her personal values and confront a ghost from her previous.
Run Rabbit Run additionally stars Lily LaTorre, Damon Herriman (Thai Cave Rescue, The Serpent, As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood) and Greta Scacchi (Darby & Joan, The Shepherd).
Producers are Sarah Shaw and Anna McLeish (Relic, Partisan, Snowtown). EPs are Nate Bolotin, Maxime Cottray, Nick Spicer and Aram Tertzakian of XYZ Movies, Deanne Weir, Olivia Humphrey, Jack Christian, D.J. McPherson, Daina Reid, Sarah Snook, Jake Carter and Katie Anderson.
The Netflix offers counts U.S. and offshore territories excluding Benelux, Portugal, Japanese Europe, Center East, Latin America, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Nordics and Taiwan. Along with financing from XYZ Movies, Display screen Australia additionally financed in affiliation with VicScreen, Filmology Finance, Storyd Group, Soundfirm, the South Australian Movie Company, and 30 West. XYZ Movies financed by way of its manufacturing fund backed by IPR.VC, with XYZ additionally dealing with worldwide gross sales.
Final yr out of the digital Sundance, Netflix purchased the documentary Downfall: The Case Towards Boeing and Margaret Brown’s Descendant. One of many streamer’s most notable buys got here in 2017 once they took Dee Rees’ Southern interval drama Mudbound off the desk for $12.5M.
Reid started her movie profession as a comedy author and actor earlier than making the transfer behind the digicam. Latest work consists of The Shining Ladies (Apple TV+) starring Elizabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Story (Hulu), and The Outsider (HBO), to call a number of. Her episode “Holly” of The Handmaid’s Story acquired an Emmy and a Administrators Guild of America nomination.
