Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: The largest film festival acquisition deal in film history is now closed.
Apple Studios has acquired world rights to Emancipation, the film package with Antoine Fuqua directing Will Smith in a Willam N.
Collage-scripted action thriller about the harrowing escape of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey North where he joined the Union Army.There were seven bidders when the package was brought to market last week as the signature film in the Virtual Cannes market.
Bidding zoomed past $75 million, and the field got down to Warner Bros and Apple, and the latter finally closed the deal last night.
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