Berlin: Radius-TWC Pays $2 Million For Pablo Escobar Pic 'Paradise Lost'
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EXCLUSIVE: Radius-TWC has closed a deal to pay $2 million to Pathe for North American rights to Paradise Lost. The Andrea Di Stefano-directed film stars The Hunger Games' Josh Hutcherson as a young surfer who visits his brother in Colombia and falls in love with the country, especially when he meets and marries the gorgeous girl of his dreams. Then he finds himself sucked into the family business. She's the niece of notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, who's played by Benicio Del Toro. The film also stars Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene's Brady Corbet and newcomer Claudia Traisac.
The film has been slated for release later this year by Radius, whose presidents Tom Quinn and Jason Janego have now made three deals during an otherwise sluggish Berlin (not counting TWC's $7 million acquisition of The Imitation Game). Radius also snapped up the Salma Hayek thriller Everly and the Danish horror pic When Animals Dream. The label's got some momentum, with two Oscar nominations for the docus 20 Feet From Stardom and Cutie And The Boxer.
Paradise Lost is produced by Dimitri Rassam and and co-produced by Romain Le Grand on behalf of Pathe and Frédérique Dumas on behalf of Orange Studio. Miguel Angel Faura from Spain's Roxbury and Belgium's uMedia also co-produced.
Quinn and Janego confirmed the deal. "We have been tracking this project for months and could not be more energized by Benicio's outstanding performance, Josh's extraordinary turn and Claudia Traisac's star-making role," the pair said. "Di Stefano has delivered the goods and we feel privileged to be working alongside him on this fantastic film." (more…)
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