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TIFF 2017 Deals: Emma Thompson’s “The Children Act” and Ellen Page’s “The Cured”

“The Children Act”: TIFF

Emma Thompson and Ellen Page’s latest projects have secured distribution. Both features scored strong reviews out of the Toronto International Film Festival, where they made their world premieres and are currently screening.

A24 and DirecTV scored the U.S. rights to Thompson-starrer “The Children Act,” Variety reports. Set to be released next year, the British drama sees the Oscar winner playing a high-court judge who is “forced to rule in the case of whether a couple who are Jehovah’s Witnesses can be permitted to deny a life-saving blood transfusion to their leukemia-stricken 17-year-old son,” the source summarizes. The role is already earning Thompson awards buzz. Stanley Tucci (“The Devil Wears Prada”) and Fionn Whitehead (“Dunkirk”) co-star in the film, directed by Richard Eyre (“Notes on a Scandal”) and penned by Ian McEwan (“On Chesil Beach”).

IFC Films snagged the North American rights to Ellen Page-led “The Cured.” Scheduled for theatrical release in spring of 2018, the horror movie takes place in the aftermath of a devastating plague that affects humankind, with cured zombies now trying to reintegrate with society. “The Cured” marks director David Freyne’s feature debut.

Page is among the project’s producers. The “Juno” star also toplines and produced another film currently screening at TIFF, Tali Shalom-Ezer’s lesbian romance “My Days of Mercy.”

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