EXCLUSIVE: Display Media has acquired North American rights to Renny Harlin’s actioner The Bricklayer from Millennium Movies, slating the pic for launch in theaters and on VOD subsequent summer time. The Hen Soup for the Soul Leisure firm has additionally unveiled a brand new nonetheless from the movie, starring Aaron Eckhart (The Darkish Knight) and Nina Dobrev (xXx: Return of Xander Cage), which will be discovered beneath.
In The Bricklayer, somebody is blackmailing the CIA—assassinating international journalists and making it appear like the company is accountable. Because the world begins to unite in opposition to the U.S., the CIA should lure its most good—and rebellious—operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered previous whereas unraveling a world conspiracy. Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld), Tim Blake Nelson (Nightmare Alley) and Ilfenesh Hadera (Paramount’s Baywatch) additionally star.
The Bricklayer is the second title in Display Media’s output cope with Millennium Movies, following Richard Hughes’ upcoming thriller The Enforcer, starring Kate Bosworth and Antonio Banderas. Matt Johnson (Into the Blue) and Hanna Weg (Septembers of Shiraz) tailored the screenplay for the movie, primarily based on Noah Boyd’s novel. Robert Van Norden, Yariv Lerner, Jeffrey Greenstein, Heidi Jo Markel, Les Weldon and Jonathan Yunger produced, with Boaz Davidson, Avi Lerner, Erik Lindsay, Tanner Mobley, Lonnie Ramati, Trevor Quick, Seth Needle and David Nagelberg serving as govt producers.
“The dynamic workforce of iconic director Renny Harlin and charismatic lead Aaron Eckhart is unmatched,” stated Display Media in an announcement. “We’re grateful and excited to make this intense motion thriller our second movie in our Millennium partnership.”
“Display Media has been an unimaginable releasing accomplice having carried out an awesome job steering Until Dying and The Outpost to nice success,” added Millennium Media’s Co-President, Jonathan Yunger. “We look ahead to the identical with The Bricklayer with many extra to come back.”
Display Media simply acquired the motion movie Code Title Banshee, starring Antonio Banderas, Jaime King and Tommy Flanagan, in addition to The Locksmith, starring Ryan Phillippe, Kate Bosworth and Ving Rhames. The corporate additionally lately acquired worldwide rights to the Bella Thorne-led thriller Saint Clare, the psychological thriller Cordelia starring Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn, The Good Neighbor starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, the psychological horror movie Monstrous starring Christina Ricci, the thriller The Immaculate Room starring Emile Hirsch and Kate Bosworth, and the horror movie The Accursed, from Willy’s Wonderland director Kevin Lewis, which stars Mena Suvari. Most lately launched by Display Media was Gigi Gaston’s thriller 9 Bullets, starring Lena Headey and Sam Worthington.
Needle, who serves as EVP of World Acquisitions and Co-Productions at Display Media, negotiated the deal for The Bricklayer on behalf of the corporate, with Yunger and Greenstein of Millennium Media on behalf of the filmmakers. Take a look at the most recent nonetheless from the movie, that includes Eckhart and Dobrev, beneath.
