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    The Exchange brings “Gleason” to Cannes

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    In this Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, photo, former New Orleans Saints NFL football player Steve Gleason and his wife, Michel, pause to talk to their 4-year-old son, Rivers, during an interview in their home in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman)
    LOS ANGELES --

    The Exchange has acquired international sales rights to the documentary Gleason, announced Brian O’Shea, CEO of The Exchange. Gleason will be introduced by The Exchange to international buyers at the Marché du Film in Cannes, May 11- 20, 2016.
     
    Gleason is both a beautiful story about fathers and sons, and a moving portrait of a man and his resilient partner who together courageously confront the challenges of living with ALS.
     
    Gleason premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and won the SXSW Festival Audience award earlier this year.
     
    Amazon Studios acquired the US theatrical rights as well as TVOD and SVOD rights at Sundance. They will release the documentary theatrically in the US via Open Road this summer.
     
    Gleason is written, directed and edited by Clay Tweel (Finders Keepers) produced by Seth Gordon (Undefeated), Kimi Culp, Scott Fujita, Tom Lavia, Kevin Lake, Mary Rohlich and Thomas McEachin. Mark Shapiro and Will Staeger are executive producers. The film was financed by IMG Films, a division of the sports agency, along with a large group of donors/supporters surrounding Team Gleason, including executive producer Paul Varisco and New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. Microsoft and Go Pro also supported the project.

    Tweel recently joined the directorial roster of Community Films for commercials and branded content.

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    Netflix’s “Missing You” lands in time for New Year binge watch

    Friday, December 27, 2024
    Ashley Walters, left, and Rosalind Eleazar pose for photographers at a photo call for the television series "Missing You," Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

    It's Netflix's resolution every new year to give viewers a headscratcher in January.

    Since 2020, the streamer has released a U.K. miniseries based on thriller book by Harlan Coben over the holidays. It seems to have paid off: "Fool Me Once," starring Michelle Keegan, Adeel Akhtar and Joanna Lumley, launched this past January and became what Netflix says was one of their most watched shows of the year, amassing 108 million views.

    2025's seasonal suspense series is "Missing You," based on Coben's 2014 New York Times bestseller. It stars Rosalind Eleazar ("Slow Horses") as Detective Inspector Kat Donovan, a police officer who specializes in finding missing people — apart from the fiance that vanished 11 years earlier.

    "They know Jan. 1 is the sweet spot for them," says actor Richard Armitage, who has appeared in each winter Coben adaptation, which relocates the stories from the books' America to the north of England. "People have ownership over the show now, so like, 'I want my Harlan Coben show on New Year's Day. Give me my Harlan Coben fix.'"

    "It's perfect timing for the release, to be honest," says co-star Ashley Walters. "Most people are going to be hung over or, you know, just not have anything to do with the day."

    The show opens with the shock of Donovan's ex-fiance (Walters) popping up on a dating app, over a decade after she came home one day to find him gone.

    "I've ghosted people before," laughs Armitage. "Just people you don't want to talk to anymore. Not digitally though."

    Another star, Jessica Plummer, isn't a fan of those who disappear without saying goodbye, though.

    "I'd just feel too guilty," she admits, calling it "cowardly and lazy — sorry Richard!"

    Eleazar promises twists and turns... Read More

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