Joe Anderson may not be a widely-known name, but he’s pretty busy of late. First of all, he’ll star as Alistair in Breaking Dawn (most likely only part 2), he has a new TV show starting relatively soon on ABC called The River, and he finished filming The Grey with Liam Neeson. Now comes the news that Open Road (the distribution company behind Stephenie Meyer’s The Host film adaptation) is acquiring the rights to distrubute The Grey in U.S. theaters.
No word yet on when The Grey will be released, but a major part of the deal was the insistence that The Grey be released later this year on as many as 4,000 screens. I’ve heard from buyers who viewed the footage that Neeson is quite good in those scenes and could be an awards-season contender. It also makes sense that a movie set in the frozen tundra would be released in the winter. But it complicated matters for some distributors that have crowded Oscar-season schedules. Watch for the film to lock in a slot at one of the fall festivals like Toronto. Stay tuned.
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