Starred Up
Starred Up has been picked up by Fox Searchlight Pictures of UK release.
The movie has been doing well on the festival circuit in recent weeks, screening at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival.
The David Mackenzie directed movie also set to be part of the BFI Film Festival line-up and will compete in the Official Competition category.
Fox Searchlight Picture Presidents Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley, and Executive Vice President Fox Searchlight International Rebecca Kearey announced that the studio had picked up the movie for release.
Utley said: “We are most proud to distribute David Mackenzie's immersive, visceral drama, with its vivid sense of place, involving storyline, and rich and authentic characters.”
Mackenzie has brought us movies such as Young Adam and Perfect Sense during his directing career, and this is his first film since You Instead.
The movie stars up and coming actor Jack O’Connell, while Ben Mendelsohn and Rupert Friend are also on the cast list.
O’Connell takes on the role of 19 year-old Eric Love, a violent and troubled teenager making the difficult transition from a young offenders’ institute to adult prison.
He seems to be destined for a life behind bars, but the prison’s unconventional therapist (Friend) is determined to help Eric find a way through, assisted by of one of the prison’s longest serving inmates – Neville (Mendelsohn) – who just happens to be Eric’s father.