Searchlight Pictures Closes Big World Rights Deal For Olivia Wilde’s Olympic Gymnast Biopic ‘Perfect’
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deadline.comBy Andreas Wiseman International Editor EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Wilde’s Perfect, about Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug, has pre-sold to Searchlight Pictures in a big deal after negotiations began at the EFM in Berlin last month.
This was one of the hottest scripts at the market and we understand the global deal has closed at $15M. The Riverstone Pictures and Pulse Films-produced movie sparked a frenzy among buyers with A24, WB, Paramount and HBO Max among those hot for it last month.
The streamer is understood to have offered significantly more for the movie, almost double, but the lure of theatrical and Searchlight’s prestige track record won out.
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