Tom Quinn and Tim League’s upstart distribution label Neon has acquired the Sundance hit “Beach Rats.”
The intense cruising drama landed Eliza Hittman the festival’s directing award in the U.S. Dramatic competition at the annual award ceremony held on Saturday.
“Beach Rats” stars British import Harris Dickinson as a lost middle-class youth in Brooklyn with a dying father, a tentative new romance with a young girl and a late-night habit of cruising for hook-ups with older men online. UTA represented the filmmakers in the deal.
Neon also scooped up the female hip-hop drama “Roxanne, Roxanne” and the Aubrey Plaza-Elizabeth Olsen film “Ingrid Goes West” at Sundnace — both award winners on Saturday for “Roxanne” star Chante Adams’ breakthrough performance and for Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith’s “Ingrid” screenplay.
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Producer Uri Singer and actors Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, Lois Smith and Jon Hamm, "Marjorie Prime"
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Jon Hamm, "Marjorie Prime"
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Lois Smith, "Marjorie Prime"
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Uri Singer, "Marjorie Prime"
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Geena Davis, "Marjorie Prime"
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Writer-director Shawn Christensen and stars Elle Fanning, Michelle Monaghan, Logan Lerman, Blake Jenner, "Sidney Hall"
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Actresses Elle Fanning and Michelle Monaghan, "Sidney Hall"
