While world buyers are jostling at the Cannes Film Festival to acquire films and selling starry international packages, the Orion Pictures label of Amazon MGM has caught a big fish in “The Hole”.
Orion won the global distribution rights on the feature film with Theo James, Breakout Hoyeon, Yeom Hye-Ran and Golden Globe, winner of Golden Globe. The studio has embarked on an important national theatrical version, international deployment plans always meeting. The agreement approached $ 20 million, sources said, and production recently finished thriller in Korea.
Kim Jee-Woon (“I Saw the Devil”, “Cobweb”) makes the film, based on the Korean bestseller of the same name of Hye-Young Pyun. Christopher Chen (“The accidental driver of escapacity”) adapted the script.
“The Hole” follows a successful American professor and writer (James) living abroad in South Korea. Retreed after a devastating car accident that killed his wife, he is left under the care of his Korean mother-in-law, who begins to unravel the truth behind their marriage.
Producers include anthology studios, K. Period Media and Esmail Corp. Department M and Medan funded and serve as executive producers. CAA Media Finance, UTA independent film Group and The Veterans negotiated the agreement. CAA Media Finance and UTA Co-REP Rights US, the veterans who putting international.
James has had enough race since his recording for the second episode of “The White Lotus” by HBO. His success Guy Ritchie-Netflix Crime Series “The Gentleman” was also renewed for a second season. The actor is taken up in UTA.
Hoyeon, Kim and Esmail Corp. are all represented by CAA.
