Apple Closing WW Deal For John Carney’s ‘Flora And Son’ After Spirited Sundance Auction; Pic Marks Breakout Turn For U2 Bono’s Daughter Eve Hewson & Joseph Gordon-Levitt
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: After a fierce bidding battle that followed the rousing premiere Sunday Sundance premiere, Apple is closing a deal for Flora and Son, the John Carney-directed film that stars Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Oren Kinlan and Jack Reynor.
Streamers Apple, Amazon battled to the end, and Netflix and Searchlight were all in the mix. Haven’t got a final number yet, but the bidding landed in the vicinity of just under the $20M Netflix paid for Fair Play, I’m told.
Carney unveiled his first film Once at Sundance years ago, and shown he is a master craftsman at telling stories about the healing power of music.
All of his films carry the theme, Can A Song Save Your Life?, which was the title of his second one before Harvey Weinstein unfortunately retitled it Begin Again after buying the 2013 Keira Knightley-Mark Ruffalo starrer many Toronto Festivals ago.
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