Sundance may have only kicked off today but there is already sales news emerging from Park City with Curzon Artificial Eye acquiring the UK rights to Whit Stillman’s period drama ‘Love & Friendship’.
The deal was negotiated with UK sales agents Protagonist Pictures who acquired the film at last year’s Berlinale. Amazon Studios also acquired the US rights to the film at last year’s Sundance.
Shot in February and March 2015 in Dublin, ‘Love and Friendship’ is an Irish/French/Dutch co-production between Westerly Films, Blinder Films, Chic Films, Revolver Films, Irish Film Board, Arte and the Netherlands Film Fund.
The Irish producer is Katie Holly of Blinder Films and the Line Producer is Cathleen Dore.
Directed by Oscar nominee Whit Stillman (‘Metropolitan’), the film stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny in the lead roles (re-uniting them with Stillman after 1998’s ‘The Last Days of Disco’).
The film is based on Stillman’s adaptation of the Jane Austen’s Lady Susan – a novella that Austen never submitted for publication which describes the schemes of the main character, the widowed Lady Susan (played by Beckinsale), as she seeks a new husband for herself and one for her daughter.
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