: Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has acquired two titles that were recently shown at the toronto Film Festival. It has taken all US rights of Samuel Maoz‘ Golden Lion winner Lebanon and North American rights of Aaron Schneider‘s Get Low.
SPC and Celluloid Dreams negotiated the deal for Lebanon, which premiered on the Lido and takes place largely inside a tank, where four soldiers are stranded inside enemy territory on the first day of the Lebanon War in June 1982.
"Lebanon is of those important films that will last forever in the marketplace," SPC said in a statement. "We are honoured to be bringing the film to the American public."
The distributor also acquired rights to Get Low from CAA. Dean Zanuck and David Gundlach produced the co-production from Zanuck Independent, David Gundlach Productions, Lara Enterprises and TVN. K5 is handling international sales.
