The coming-of-age indie Dope has exploded on Sundance screens these past weeks, and moviegoers across the country can see what everyone is raving about in Park City, UT soon. Open Road Films announced the teen drama comes to theaters on June 12.
Deadline reported the latest developments on the critical darling. This news comes just days after the company bought the film with a minimum $7 million guarantee and $15 million P&A budget. The company beat the Weinstein Company, Fox Searchlight, A24 and Focus Features to the punch, as all four vied to get the film.
Open Road is working primarily with Dope's U.S. release. Sony is going to handle the international releases.
Written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa (The Wood, Brown Sugar), Dope focuses on three high schoolers in L.A., who are obsessed with punk rock and 1990s hip-hop culture and find themselves alienated in their tough neighborhood. When an invitation to an underground party finds the trio with some Ecstasy, the group finds themselves either destroyed or on the brink of coolness. It stars Shameik Moore, Zoe Kravitz, Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Forest Whitaker and A$AP Rocky.
This is, of course, just one of the deals going down at Sundance right now. Two others include A24 scoring the distribution rights to The End of the Tour, starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg, and Mississippi Grind, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn. More information on Sundance acquisitions can be found on Slashfilm.
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