Pegg, Giamatti Join ‘Boutique’; Manifest Takes Sales — SkimNews
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- Simon Pegg joined Paul Giamatti in the horror feature Boutique, playing the reclusive author whose work draws Giamatti’s American-tourist character to an eerie English seaside town.
- Boutique follows that tourist as he becomes entangled with a murderous secret society permeating the entire town.
- Manifest Pictures boarded international sales rights ahead of the American Film Market, taking over sales duties from XYZ, while UTA Independent Film Group will represent domestic rights.
- Prospect is financing the film; Jacob Jaffke serves as executive producer, and Giamatti and Dan Carey produce through Touchy Feely Films alongside Chris Dodds, Charlie Alderman and Greg Field for Prospect, and James Harris and Mark Lane for Tea Shop Productions.
- Jim Gavin is making his feature-film directing debut with Boutique, reuniting with Touchy Feely, the producers of AMC series Lodge 49.
- Tea Shop Productions, Prospect and Manifest Pictures converged on a dark, original gothic pitch: Tea Shop called the film “dark, hysterical, and utterly twisted,” Prospect invoked a “gothic fever dream,” and Manifest praised a “wickedly original” secret-society exploration.
Why it matters: Manifest boards international sales rights for Boutique ahead of the American Film Market, while UTA assumes domestic representation and XYZ relinquishes its sales duties. The project therefore approaches AFM with separate international and domestic representatives, alongside Prospect’s financing and a producer roster spanning Touchy Feely Films and Tea Shop Productions.
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