“Cliffhanger,” a reimagining of the Sylvester Stallone climbing thriller starring Lily James and Pierce Brosnan, is shoring up a brand new technique for its summer time theatrical launch, a number of insiders instructed Selection.
The destiny of the movie, helmed by motion director Jaume Collet-Sera (“Carry On”), has been a lingering query within the business since March. That’s when its upstart distributor Row K noticed the exit of prime inventive executives and hypothesis about cash hassle after solely eight months of operation.
The Row Okay workforce has been working intently with CAA Media Finance, the packager and gross sales agent on the IP for nearly a decade, to discover a technique that ensures most return. They might have discovered it with Tom Quinn’s Neon –per 4 sources – who would deal with the home launch of “Cliffhanger” via its sub-label Decal on its scheduled August opening date. Ought to the deal shut, which remains to be a perhaps, Decal would additionally deal with all ancillary enterprise for the movie — together with overseas gross sales and different subsequent home windows.
Decal is run by govt Andrew Brown, and was initially conceived as as joint residence leisure enterprise between Neon and fellow indie releaser Bleecker Avenue. Brown joined Neon as president of digital distribution in 2022, and has dealt with releases for a lot of movies outdoors of the in-house slate since.
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