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Sony Pictures Classics Buys Steve Coogan Dramedy ‘The Penguin Lessons’ After TIFF Debut (EXCLUSIVE)


Sony Pictures Classics has acquired "The Penguin Lessons," a drama starring Steve Coogan.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired “ The Penguin Lessons,” an uplifting dramedy starring Steve Coogan as a teacher who forms an unlikely bond with a feathered friend. Intake Films’ Joshua Horsfield and Nia Vazirani for Rolling Dice executive produced, alongside Josh Varney, Tom Michell, Pope, and Coogan. Elsewhere on the festival circuit, Sony Pictures Classics has picked up “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” a dramatization of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about growing up in the Rhodesian civil war; Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton; and the Saoirse Ronan-led drama “The Outrun.” “The Room Next Door” won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and is seen as a major Oscar contender.

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