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Sony Pictures Classics Nabs ‘The Duke’ For U.S., Latin America, Scandinavia From Pathe

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Naman Ramachandran Pathé has sold Roger Michell’s Venice title “The Duke,” starring Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent to Sony Pictures Classics for the U.S., Latin America and Scandinavia.Written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, the comedy drama follows a 60-year-old taxi driver who, in 1961, stole Francisco Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.

It was the first, and remains the only, theft in the Gallery’s history. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly.Pathé International had pre-sold the rest of the world rights prior to the Venice Film Festival.

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