Despite its mixed reception (we loved it) at the festival, Antonio Campos‘ dark character study Simon Killer, starring Brady Corbet is in the final stages of a mid-six figure distribution deal with IFC Films. IFC also distributed Campos‘ directorial debut, Afterschool, in late 2009.
Killer marks the return to Sundance for Borderline Films, the New York-based production company that made big splash last year — and a star out of Elizabeth Olsen — with Martha Marcy May Marlene. And while Simon Killer was much darker and hard to watch than Martha (kind of amazing when considering Martha), the creative group continues to be a staple of independent creativity turned into commercial success.
Staying dirty but adding laughs, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green‘s Rough House Pictures have joined with Submarine Entertainment to “present” Rick Alverson‘s The Comedy, which stars Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric) in a film concerns a privileged New York hipster running around with equally entitled friends, making crude jokes and pranks with little-to-no consequences [Deadline].
Has either film landed on your radar since premiering at Sundance?