Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films Wins Rights To A24 & Ari Aster’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’ In UK & Other Markets: EFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In a seven-figure deal finalised over the last week, Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has beaten out competitors for UK rights to Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid, which A24 is releasing in the U.S.
on April 21. Stage 6 also acquired rights from A24 in Middle East, worldwide ships and airlines and pan Asia pay TV. As we revealed last week, Leonine has picked up German rights.
Russia (Volga), Switzerland (Ascot Elite) and Australia (Roadshow) have also been sold. Ari Aster’s (Midsommar) third feature for A24 stars Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Denis Ménochet, Kylie Rogers, Armen Nahapetian, Zoe Lister-Jones, Parker Posey, and Patti LuPone.
Described as a “bold and depraved film”, the big-budget movie will chart the story of a paranoid man who embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother.
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