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Music Box Acquires Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Baseball Comedy ‘Eephus’ by Carson Lund (EXCLUSIVE)
Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Carson Lund’s comedy drama 'Eephus,' which premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.
“Eephus” is the feature directorial debut of American filmmaker Carson Lund, whose credits as a director of photography include “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” “Topology of Sirens” and “Ham on Rye.” Lund said: “We’re thrilled to work with Music Box Films, whose impressive roster includes such singular directors as Terence Davies, Christian Petzold and Sean Baker. “An extended, low-stakes match between two amateur baseball teams in a small town in Massachusetts becomes a barometer of changing times, a precise evocation of a vanishing regional character of America’s pastime played out with a connoisseur’s appreciation of the rhythm of the game.
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