'Truth' comes out via SPHE, ThinkFilm deal
'Truth' revealed
July 14, 2005
ThinkFilm and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have finalized a deal with producer Robert Lantos of Serendipity Point Films to release Atom Egoyan's mystery thriller "Where the Truth Lies" in the U.S. and Canada.
The deal was announced Wednesday by ThinkFilm president and CEO Jeff Sackman. Lantos also is chairman of ThinkFilm.
ThinkFilm will distribute the film and handle television sales in North America, with home entertainment being handled by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Egoyan directed "Where the Truth Lies" as well as adapted Rupert Holmes' novel. The film stars Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth as a young 1950s comedy team who split after a girl (Rachel Blanchard) turns up naked and dead in their hotel suite. Alison Lohman plays a journalist who investigates the duo 20 years later.
The film premiered as a Competition entry at this year's Festival de Cannes and will receive an official gala presentation at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
"We are looking forward to celebrasting with everyone at the Toronto film festival in September," Sackman said.
ThinkFilm will open the movie in limited release Oct. 7 in New York, Los Angeles and other major markets.
"Truth" marks the sixth collaboration between Egoyan and Lantos, who is "happy to have my own company release one of my films in the U.S.," he said. "And I am delighted to be in business with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for the first time."
The deal was negotiated by Sackman on behalf of ThinkFilm, while John Sloss of Cinetic Media negotiated with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on behalf of Serendipity Point Films, the production company Lantos founded seven years ago after he sold his Canadian studio, Alliance Communications Corp.
Serendipity produced Istvan Szabo's "Being Julia," Norman Jewison's "The Statement," Egoyan's "Ararat" and "The Sweet Hereafter" and David Cronenberg's "Crash" and "Existenz."
A privately held film distributor with offices in New York and Toronto, ThinkFilm was founded by Sackman in September 2001. Mark Urman is head of the U.S. theatrical division. ThinkFilm recently released the wheelchair rugby docu "Murderball," which the company fully financed.
The deal was announced Wednesday by ThinkFilm president and CEO Jeff Sackman. Lantos also is chairman of ThinkFilm.
ThinkFilm will distribute the film and handle television sales in North America, with home entertainment being handled by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Egoyan directed "Where the Truth Lies" as well as adapted Rupert Holmes' novel. The film stars Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth as a young 1950s comedy team who split after a girl (Rachel Blanchard) turns up naked and dead in their hotel suite. Alison Lohman plays a journalist who investigates the duo 20 years later.
The film premiered as a Competition entry at this year's Festival de Cannes and will receive an official gala presentation at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
"We are looking forward to celebrasting with everyone at the Toronto film festival in September," Sackman said.
ThinkFilm will open the movie in limited release Oct. 7 in New York, Los Angeles and other major markets.
"Truth" marks the sixth collaboration between Egoyan and Lantos, who is "happy to have my own company release one of my films in the U.S.," he said. "And I am delighted to be in business with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for the first time."
The deal was negotiated by Sackman on behalf of ThinkFilm, while John Sloss of Cinetic Media negotiated with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on behalf of Serendipity Point Films, the production company Lantos founded seven years ago after he sold his Canadian studio, Alliance Communications Corp.
Serendipity produced Istvan Szabo's "Being Julia," Norman Jewison's "The Statement," Egoyan's "Ararat" and "The Sweet Hereafter" and David Cronenberg's "Crash" and "Existenz."
A privately held film distributor with offices in New York and Toronto, ThinkFilm was founded by Sackman in September 2001. Mark Urman is head of the U.S. theatrical division. ThinkFilm recently released the wheelchair rugby docu "Murderball," which the company fully financed.
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