Summit Entertainment has picked up the U.S. rights to Kathryn Bigelow’s suspense-filled Iraq War-based actioner The Hurt Locker, during the Toronto Film Festival.
Buyers have been following the title since it’s September 4 Venice Film Festival premiere in competition, The Hollywood Reporter states. But a deal for the movie closed in the early hours of Wednesday morning for a low seven-figure deal.
The Hurt Locker stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce and Ralph Fiennes star in Bigelow’s tale of an army squad that must defuse a dangerous bomb in a crowded Iraqi city.
When asked about how the film would be viewed in relation to the war in Iraq, Voltage Pictures producer Nic Chartier expressed, “This movie is not about the Iraq war. It’s an action-adventure movie that happens to be set in Iraq.”
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
