Specialty Arm Acquires Worldwide Rights
PARK
CITY, UT January 20, 2014 – Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Stephen
Gilula and Nancy Utley announced today that the company has acquired
worldwide
rights to the existential drama I ORIGINS. Directed and written by
Mike Cahill, I ORIGINS is his second feature following ANOTHER EARTH
which Fox Searchlight acquired at Sundance in 2011. The film stars
Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey,
Steven Yeun and Archie Panjabi with Cahill, Hunter Gray and Alex
Orlovsky serving as producers. The film is scheduled to be released in
2014.
“Mike Cahill’s impressive second feature makes you question
our very place in the universe by merging the scientific and emotional worlds
in a
deeply affecting way,” said Utley and Gilula.
“The film boasts a superb cast led by Michael Pitt, and it is great to be reunited with Mike and Brit.”
“I
am so excited to once again be home at Fox Searchlight, a place that I
believe embraces creative passion and the future of cinematic
storytelling,”
said Cahill.
“I
ORIGINS is a very special film for us at Verisimilitude. We know that
Fox Searchlight is the perfect home for Mike's innovative and utterly
original
work,” said Gray and Orlovsky.
Written
and directed by Mike Cahill, and starring Michael Pitt, Brit Marling,
and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, I ORIGINS follows a molecular biologist whose
study of the human eye points to evidence with far reaching
implications about our scientific and spiritual beliefs.
The
deal was brokered by Fox Searchlight’s Executive Vice President of
Worldwide Acquisitions Tony Safford, Senior Vice President of Business
Affairs Megan
O’Brien and Vice President of Acquisitions & Co-Productions Ray
Strache with WME Global and Andre des Rochers on behalf of the film and
Shelley Surpin on behalf of the director. I ORIGINS is a Verisimilitude
/ WeWork Studios Production.
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