Film premiered in competition at SXSW under original title Dara Ju.
Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have secured North American rights to first-time filmmaker Anthony Onah’s drama The Price.
The story centres on a young Nigerian-American working on Wall Street who is forced to confront himself after his ambition leads him into morally dubious waters.
Aml Ameen, Lucy Griffiths, Bill Sage and Hope Olaide Wilson star alongside Michael Hyatt, Peter Vack, and Souléymane Sy Savané.
Onah also wrote the screenplay for The Price based on his short film Dara Ju. The film premiered in competition SXSW earlier this year.
Justin Begnaud, Kishori Rajan and Onah produced the film, while Tom Dolby, Susanne Filkins, Abdi Nazemian and Lynda Weinman served as executive producers.
Jennifer 8 Lee, Greg Brockman, Peter Hess Friedland, Aston Motes, and Daniel Davila also served as executive producers.
“We are very excited to be working on Anthony Onah’s feature debut. The Price is...
Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have secured North American rights to first-time filmmaker Anthony Onah’s drama The Price.
The story centres on a young Nigerian-American working on Wall Street who is forced to confront himself after his ambition leads him into morally dubious waters.
Aml Ameen, Lucy Griffiths, Bill Sage and Hope Olaide Wilson star alongside Michael Hyatt, Peter Vack, and Souléymane Sy Savané.
Onah also wrote the screenplay for The Price based on his short film Dara Ju. The film premiered in competition SXSW earlier this year.
Justin Begnaud, Kishori Rajan and Onah produced the film, while Tom Dolby, Susanne Filkins, Abdi Nazemian and Lynda Weinman served as executive producers.
Jennifer 8 Lee, Greg Brockman, Peter Hess Friedland, Aston Motes, and Daniel Davila also served as executive producers.
“We are very excited to be working on Anthony Onah’s feature debut. The Price is...
- 7/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
On the heels of the 39th edition of the Toronto Int. Film Festival (Sept 4-14), Ifp’s Independent Film Week is where a plethora of fiction, non-fiction and new this year, web-based series from the likes of Desiree Akhavan and Calvin Reeder find future coin. Sectioned off as projects at the very beginning of financing to those that are nearing completion, there happens to be tons of Sundance alumni in the names below. Among those that caught our attention we have Medicine for Melancholy‘s Barry Jenkins’ sophomore feature, produced by Bad Milo!‘s Adele Romanski, Moonlight is about “two Miami boys navigate the temptations of the drug trade and their burgeoning sexuality in this triptych drama about black queer youth”. Concussion‘s Stacie Passon digs into the thriller genre with Strange Things Started Happening. Produced by vet Mary Jane Skalski (Mysterious Skin), this is about “a woman who has...
- 7/24/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
IFC Films has acquired Bill Guttentag's Knife Fight political drama Variety reports that the film scripted by Guttentag and political consultant Chris Lehane, stars Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison, David Harbour, Eric McCormack and Carrie-Anne Moss. Knife Fight is about sex, drugs, money and how politics is really played-a knife fight in a telephone booth, where blood is spilled, low blows are common and the best candidate is not always the best person. Pic is produced by Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila, while William Green and Lowe serve as executive producers.
- 8/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
IFC Films has acquired Bill Guttentag's Knife Fight political drama Variety reports that the film scripted by Guttentag and political consultant Chris Lehane, stars Rob Lowe, Jamie Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison, David Harbour, Eric McCormack and Carrie-Anne Moss. Knife Fight is about sex, drugs, money and how politics is really played-a knife fight in a telephone booth, where blood is spilled, low blows are common and the best candidate is not always the best person. Pic is produced by Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila, while William Green and Lowe serve as executive producers.
- 8/10/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New York, NY (August 9, 2012) – IFC Films announced today the company is acquiring all U.S. rights to director Bill Guttentag’s (Soundtrack For A Revolution) political drama Knife Fight. Guttentag wrote the screenplay with political consultant Chris Lehane, who served as White House advisor to President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton andserved as Vice President Al Gore’s press secretary. The film stars Rob Lowe,Jaime Chung, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison, David Harbour, EricMcCormack, and Carrie-Anne Moss. Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila produced the film, with Lowe and William Green executive producing. Knife Fight had its world premiere earlier this year at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. If a political candidate is personally flawed, but stands to make a positive difference in millions of lives, would you help him win? That question looms over the life of “true believer” Paul Turner (Lowe...
- 8/9/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
IFC Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the political drama “Knife Fight,” directed by Bill Guttentag. The film, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, stars Rob Lowe, Julie Bowen, Richard Schiff, Saffron Burrows, Jennifer Morrison and Carrie-Anne Moss in the story of a committed political strategist who must reckon with the truth about his job while working for a trio of flawed politicians. Guttentag wrote the screenplay with Chris Lehane, who served as a White House advisor to President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and as press secretary to Vice President Al Gore. Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila produced the project; Lowe and William Green are executive producers. "The entire IFC Films team is thrilled to be working with Bill Guttentag, Chris Lehane and their all-star cast on the release of ‘Knife Fight,’ ” said Sundance Selects/IFC Films president Jonathan.
- 8/9/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Bill Guttentag's political drama Knife Fight, starring Rob Lowe as an insider strategist. Guttentag (Soundtrack for a Revolution) wrote the screenplay with political consultant Chris Lehane, who served as White House adviser to President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and served as Vice President Al Gore's press secretary. Guerrino De Luca and Catherine and Daniel Davila produced the film, which had its world premiere at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Lowe and William Green executive produced. Lowe plays a political strategist who starts to question his methods while working with a
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- 8/9/2012
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This week, the cast of Bill Guttentag’s Knife Fight descended on the Tribeca Film Festival to turn heads on the red carpet.
In attendance were: Writer/Director Guttnenag, Co-Writer/Producer Chris Lehane, Rob Lowe (Californication, Parks and Recreation), Richard Schiff (NCIS), Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon a Time, How I Met Your Mother), Jamie Chung (upcoming 7500), David Harbour (Pan Am), Alan Dershowitz, David Havok, Michelle Krusiec (Fox’s Touch) as well as Producers Catherine Davilla and Daniel Davila.
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Knife Fight centers on Lowe as Paul Turner, a political strategist. The film takes a cynical look into the political machine, focusing on Turner’s wayward clients.
In attendance were: Writer/Director Guttnenag, Co-Writer/Producer Chris Lehane, Rob Lowe (Californication, Parks and Recreation), Richard Schiff (NCIS), Jennifer Morrison (Once Upon a Time, How I Met Your Mother), Jamie Chung (upcoming 7500), David Harbour (Pan Am), Alan Dershowitz, David Havok, Michelle Krusiec (Fox’s Touch) as well as Producers Catherine Davilla and Daniel Davila.
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Knife Fight centers on Lowe as Paul Turner, a political strategist. The film takes a cynical look into the political machine, focusing on Turner’s wayward clients.
- 4/27/2012
- by Bags Hooper
- BuzzFocus.com
Considering that Salmon Fishing in the Yemen stars Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, wouldn’t it be stranger if it didn’t get picked up? Well, it’s found a home with CBS Films, as THR tells us that the company has acquired the Lasse Halström comedy for distribution — and at a hefty price of $4-to-5 million. After premiering last night to mixed reviews, a bidding war started over the film that centers on a fish scientist asked by an Arab Sheik “to do the seemingly impossible – introduce British salmon to the wadis of the Yemen.”
Based on the novel by Paul Torday, it’s scripted by Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy. It sounds like a wholly inoffensive (if concurrently forgettable) affair, but the cast has me interested enough, so I think I’ll be willing to check the film out whenever it hits.
Another Toronto acquisition has occurred with Myriad,...
Based on the novel by Paul Torday, it’s scripted by Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy. It sounds like a wholly inoffensive (if concurrently forgettable) affair, but the cast has me interested enough, so I think I’ll be willing to check the film out whenever it hits.
Another Toronto acquisition has occurred with Myriad,...
- 9/12/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Jamie Chung ("The Hangover Part II"), Julie Bowen ("Jumping the Broom"), Connie Britton ("The Hand Job"), Jennifer Morrison ("House") and "Lost" thesps Rebecca Mader and Titus Welliver are all in negotiations to join the cast of the indie political drama "Knife Fight" reports Variety.
Bill Guttentag is directing and co-writing the script with Chris Lehane. Rob Lowe stars as a political crisis manager who specializes in playing hardball on behalf of scandal-plagued clients.
Chung plays his savvy assistant, Bowen an ambitious TV reporter who sleeps with him for scoops, and Britton an earthy liberal looking to run for public office.
Mader plays a masseuse/prostitute bent on blackmail, Morrison plays one of her classmates, and Welliver plays a private investigator working for Lowe.
Guerrino De Luca, Daniel Davila and Catherine Davila are producing with shooting kicking off next month in San Francisco.
Bill Guttentag is directing and co-writing the script with Chris Lehane. Rob Lowe stars as a political crisis manager who specializes in playing hardball on behalf of scandal-plagued clients.
Chung plays his savvy assistant, Bowen an ambitious TV reporter who sleeps with him for scoops, and Britton an earthy liberal looking to run for public office.
Mader plays a masseuse/prostitute bent on blackmail, Morrison plays one of her classmates, and Welliver plays a private investigator working for Lowe.
Guerrino De Luca, Daniel Davila and Catherine Davila are producing with shooting kicking off next month in San Francisco.
- 5/26/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Paris -- American producers will break bread with the creme-de-la-creme of Gaul's film industry when French Producers' Guild the Apc, the Deauville Film Festival and the Hollywood Reporter host a star-studded lunch at Cartier's Villa in Deauville on Saturday, Sept 12.
The lunch will focus on the Apc's new "American & International Desk" designed in response to the "Trip" tax rebate for foreign production passed by the French government earlier this year.
The A & I Desk aims to promote an exchange between foreign and French film execs and develop new business opportunities for international projects with locations in France. The Deauville lunch marks the A & I Desk's first official matchmaking event since its launch over the summer.
"We're very happy and proud to be able to launch this collaborative process between French production and international filmmakers, notably from the U.S.," Apc managing director Frederic Goldsmith said in an interview. The A...
The lunch will focus on the Apc's new "American & International Desk" designed in response to the "Trip" tax rebate for foreign production passed by the French government earlier this year.
The A & I Desk aims to promote an exchange between foreign and French film execs and develop new business opportunities for international projects with locations in France. The Deauville lunch marks the A & I Desk's first official matchmaking event since its launch over the summer.
"We're very happy and proud to be able to launch this collaborative process between French production and international filmmakers, notably from the U.S.," Apc managing director Frederic Goldsmith said in an interview. The A...
- 9/10/2009
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French actress Frederique Bel arrives at the premiere of the film 'Like dandelion dust' during the 35th Deauville American Film Festival, in Deauville, France, 07 September 2009. The festival runs from 04 to 13 September. Epa/Daniel Joubert French actor and humorist Jean-Marie Bigard arrives at the premiere of the film 'Like dandelion dust' during the 35th Deauville American Film Festival, in Deauville, France, 07 September 2009. The festival runs from 04 to 13 September. Epa/Daniel Joubert Us director Daniel Davila poses during the photocall before the screening of his film 'Harrison Montgomery' during the 35th Deauville American Film Festival, in Deauville, France, 07 September 2009. The movie is selected in the official competition at the festival running from...
- 9/8/2009
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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