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CELLULOID DREAMS ACQUIRES WORLDWIDE RIGHTS TO HIGHLY
ANTICIPATED ‘GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY’ STARRING
PENN BADGLEY & IMOGEN POOTS
Hengameh
Panahi’s Production and Sales Outfit also Handling
CHICKEN WITH PLUMS from the directors of the acclaimed
film PERSEPOLIS, and Jacques Audiard’s RUST AND
BONE starring Academy Award-winner Marion Cotillard
Company
to Present Slate at the Upcoming 2011 Toronto International
Film Festival
TORONTO,
ON (September 13, 2010)—International production
and sales outfit Celluloid Dreams, headed by Hengameh
Panahi, has acquired worldwide rights to the highly
anticipated film GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY starring
Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, Frank Wood, Norbert Leo
Butz, Jessica Stone, Bill Sadler, and Frank Bello. Dan
Algrant (People I Know, Naked in New York) is directing
the script he co-wrote with Emma Sheanshang and David
Brendel.
GREETINGS
FROM TIM BUCKLEY follows artist Jeff Buckley’s
(Badgley) eminent 1991 performance at his father’s
tribute concert in St. Ann’s Church. Through a
romance with a young woman working at the concert, he
comes to understand the father who abandoned him. Culminating
in a cathartic performance of his father’s most
famous songs, Jeff’s debut stuns the audience and
launches his career as one of the greatest young musicians
of his time.
“We
are thrilled Celluloid Dreams came on board. We are
truly proud of this project and knew they were the perfect
partner in making sure GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY found
the right home.” said Patrick Millings Smith of
Smuggler Films.
The
film is currently shooting principal photography in
New York City. The production entities behind the movie
are SMUGGLER Films and A-Z Productions. It is being
produced by Patrick Milling Smith, John N. Hart (Revolutionary
Road, You Can Count On Me), and Fred Zollo (Quiz Show,
Mississippi Burning). Executive Producers are Brian
Carmody, Jill Footlick (Boys Don’t Cry, The Private
Lives of Pippa Lee) and Ben Limberg.
Nate
Bolotin of XYZ Films acquired the film on behalf of
Celluloid.The two companies are partnered on the elevated
genre label, Celluloid Nightmares, which will be premiering
the Indonesian action film The Raid as the opening night
film in Toronto’s “Midnight Madness”
program. Recently, the two companies have broadened
their agenda to include acquiring prestige titles like
Greetings from Tim Buckley for sales under the Celluloid
Dreams banner, including the Adrien Brody starrer Detachment
which premiered earlier this year in Tribeca.
©2001 Celluloid
Dreams
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