MUMBAI: Lionsgate has picked up the North American rights of John Cameron Mitchell‘s Rabbit Hole that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last Monday. As the festival comes to a finish this Sunday, other distributors are seen lining up films that could play next year‘s festival circuit.

Lionsgate will release Rabbit by year‘s end, and based on positive reactions here, that should make the movie a player during awards season.

While IFC Films has acquired worldwide rights of Barry Avrich‘s documentary Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project except Canada, Sony Pictures Classics picked up the North American rights of Pedro Almodovar‘s latest thriller The Skin I Inhabit now being shot.