Sundance: Amazon Inks Worldwide Deal to Acquire UNCLE FRANK
January 27, 2020The dominoes continue to fall at the Sundance Film Festival, as yet another film has been purchased, this time in Uncle Frank, a Miramax-distributed film, which sold to Amazon for $12 million.
The worldwide-purchased rights, in what was a competitive bidding war among many other studios, will land the film at the company’s Prime Video platform.
The film centers on Frank Bledsoe (Paul Bettany), an New York University professor, who takes his 18-year-old niece, Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis), on a road trip to Creekville, S.C., to bury his father. Dreading the journey, Bledsoe, whose relationship with his father had been strained since coming out as homosexual, also makes the trip with his lover, Walid, aka ‘Wally’ (Peter Macdissi), to an unforgiving and, seemingly non-accepting, South, in 1973.
The Alan Ball-directed film also stars: Judy Greer, as Kitty Bledsoe, Steve Zahn, as Mike Bledsoe, Hannah Black, as Janice Bledsoe, Margo Martindale, as Mammaw Bledsoe, Rochelle Aycoth and Dave Blamy.
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