The Toronto-based distributor Phase 4 Films has acquired all North American rights to director Megan Griffiths' drama "Eden," Phase 4 announced on Wednesday. Griffiths and Richard B. Phillips Jr. wrote the screenplay for the project, and Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges and Matt O'Leary are set to star in the film, produced by Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler. The story follows a Korean-American teenager who is abducted and forced to work as a sex slave in Las Vegas after getting a ride home from a bar in New Mexico. Phase 4 is...
- 8/29/2012
- by Liza Foreman
- The Wrap
Los Angeles, CA (August 29, 2012) – Berry Meyerowitz, President & CEO of Phase 4 Films, announced today that the company has acquired all North American rights to director Megan Griffiths’ drama Eden. Griffiths and Richard B. Phillips Jr. wrote the screenplay for the project based on a true story by Chong Kim and Phillips. Jamie Chung (Premium Rush with Joseph Gordon Levitt, upcoming Man With The Iron Fists with Russell Crowe), Beau Bridges (The Descendants) and Matt O’Leary (upcoming The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp) star in the film, which was produced by Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler through Plank’s Centripetal Films. Eden made its world premiere at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award for director Griffiths. The film also played at the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival, where Chung won the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress.
- 8/29/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Phase 4 Films has acquired all North American rights to director Megan Griffiths’ drama “Eden,” which had its world premiere at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival. The specialty distributor has scheduled a release in theaters for early 2013. Based on the true story of Chong Kim, “Eden” follows a Korean-American teenager who is abducted from a New Mexico bar in 1994 and turned into a sex slave in Las Vegas for two years before finally escaping. Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges and Matt O'Leary star. The film, which was written by Griffiths (“The Off Hours”) and Richard B. Phillips Jr., won the audience award for best narrative feature at SXSW as well as the Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award for Griffiths. Read More: 'Eden,' 'The Invader' and 'Five Star Existence' Take the Top Prizes at the Seattle International Film Festival Colin Harper Plank and Jacob Mosler produced the project through Plank’s.
- 8/29/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
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