The Weinstein Company has acquired another film at the Berlin Film festival.
Deadline is reporting that the company acquired the Salma Hayek thriller "Everly" under their Dimension and Radius TWC brand. Radius co-presidents Tom Quinn and Jason Janego. "We've been on the hunt for a female driven action franchise and we've finally found it in 'Everly'. Salma is utterly transcendent," Quinn and Janego said in a press release.
The film is currently in production and will be directed by Joe Lynch from the Black List script by Yale Hannon.
The movie is described as an intense action thriller about a down-on-her-luck woman who is forced to fend off waves of assassins sent by her ex, a dangerous mob boss, while trying to save her estranged mother and daughter. The film will also star Togo Igawa ("Last Samurai"), Masashi Fujimoto ("Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance") and veteran Hiroyuki Watanabe.
The film was produced and financed by recently launched Singapore venture Vega, Baby! and produced via Adam Ripp and Rob Paris' Crime Scene Pictures. Luke Rivett of Anonymous Content and Andrew Pfeffer also produced. Dimension and Radius have set a fourth quarter 2014 release.
Radius has been in charge of releasing specialty films on both VOD and in theaters. The company recently released the Oscar nominee "20 Feet from Stardom," Sundance hit "Concussion," and Jonathon Levine's "All the Boys Love Many Lane." The company is slated to release "The Immigrant" with Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Renner and Joaquin Phoenix, and "Horns" with Daniel Radcliffe.
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