SXSW 2011: Anchor Bay Enters 'The Divide'
I've had pretty much all I can take of movies in which people are tied to chairs. But Xavier Gens' The Divide, which features one such scene with Michael Biehn, apparently offers enough of a spin on the overused trope that I think I might have to check it out. The film made such a splash when it premiered SXSW on Sunday night that it's already been picked up by distributor Anchor Bay. And good for them -- lately my movie diet's been suffering a definite lack of Vitamin Biehn. Details after the jump.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "The deal is in the low seven figures."
"Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Lauren German, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Eklund and Courtney B. Vance star in the story of what happens after eight people take refuge in the underground bunker a 9/11 survivor has built beneath their apartment building after a cataclysmic bomb wrecks New York. Xavier Gens directed the screenplay by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean...
"The film first screened at midnight Sunday and was fielding interest pretty much immediately. Sony, IFC, Relativity, Xlrator, E1, Anchor Bay and FilmDistrict all showed interest in the film at some point over the next two days before four offers were whittled down to Sony and Anchor Bay, which secured its deal late Tuesday night.
"Gens is the French filmmaker best known for the equally brutal gore-fest Frontier(s). He also directed the 2007 Fox actioner Hitman."
