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Lionsgate UK Acquires ‘Belly Of The Beast’ With Ben Stiller & Colin Farrell As True Crime Story Fires Up Buyers – AFM

Lionsgate UK Acquires ‘Belly Of The Beast’ With Ben Stiller & Colin Farrell As True Crime Story Fires Up Buyers - AFM

Further deals include to Germany and Austria (Plaion), Italy (Rai Cinema, Italian International Film and I Wonder), Scandinavia (Mis Label), Benelux (The Searchers), CIS (Provzyglad), Eastern Europe (M2), Greece (Tanweer), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Baltics (Garsu Pasaulio Irasai), Japan (Kino), Taiwan (Moviecloud), the Middle East (The Plot Pictures), Turkey (Bir Film), Israel (Lev Films), Airlines (Anuvu) and India (Pictureworks). Bafta nominee Haigh directs and takes co-writer credits with Alexis Jolly on the film, adapted from Jerome Loving’s nonfiction book, Jack and Norman about the friendship between literary titan Norman Mailer (Stiller) and long-time convict Jack Henry Abbott (Farrell). In the film, bolstered by Mailer’s mentorship, Abbott is paroled after nearly a decade in prison and gains instant popularity among the literary elite but struggles with life on the outside.

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