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The JC Chandor-directed drama Margin Call sold to Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate after an all night bargaining session. The film stars Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell and Stanley Tucci. That cast alone had buyers circling the modestly-budgeted film because of its ancillary prospects. Talk last night had the film in the low-seven figure range, and plans for a theatrical release that’s described as a joint release between the companies. I haven’t heard deal figures yet, but the film becomes the second Sundance sale, after Like Crazy sold to Paramount and Indian Paintbrush.
The Margin Call deal was brokered by Cassian Elwes and UTA’s Rena Ronson, with Roadside’s Howard Cohen and Lionsgate’s Steve Beeks. The film premieres Tuesday night at the Eccles. Chandor wrote the script, which takes place in a 24-hour period at the start of the financial collapse of 2008. A group of characters at a financial firm make decisions that have moral implications as the firm teeters on the brink of collapse. Myriad Pictures is selling international, and brokered many of those deals at AFM.
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And there it is.
Honest question. Have been hearing good things about Margin Call for a long time. But who in America is going to see this movie? Is it for HBO? Because a theatrical release, even economists don’t care to see something like this. No matter how good it is. People talk about the struggling market for independent film, but LOOK at the independent films out there. Many are terrible, or they’re about religious cults. There are maybe four of them. Little Miss Sunshine on the other hand, was rated R, and made 100 million worldwide. Because it was quirky, but resembled a “real/normal” movie.
Quess, I wouldn’t know where to start in addressing your comment. But based on the *extraordinary* inaccuracy of your assessments, clearly you have very limited exposure to independent film.
No offense intended.
This movie will bomb. As if anyone wants to see a movie about the financial markets.
What nerd would take his date to see this.
A nerd with a date who is also a nerd would take said date to see this movie. Or perhaps simply intelligent people who enjoy films which challenge their intellect rather than just provide a background for a couple to engage in senseless making out. Movies aren’t just for dates. If they were, why on earth would the industry even bother making anything that does not feature largely endowed women flaunting their skin and/or oiled-up brutes in skimpy scraps of fabric.
Also, I would like to add that your last sentence appeared to be a question, however rhetoric. In that case, you should have ended it with a question mark, not a full-stop.
Sincerely, someone who is smart and proud of it.
They won’t because nerds don’t get dates. They will be forever alone in their parent’s basement.
Must you make yourself look terrible by supplying an incredibly outdated stereotype in an attempt to poke fun at intelligent people?
Plenty of nerds are in happy relationships, usually with other knowledgeable people who stimulate each other’s minds on a meaningful level and are more likely to have successful, fulfilling lives than someone who does not strive to exceed expectations.
There’s been a paradigm shift in the world. Nerds are no longer the weak-willed minority, under trodden by people who can neither spell, nor comprehend the word intellectualism. Look at your bosses. Look at the writers, producers and stars of films like Margin Call.
They are smart, creative, intuitive, successful people who – by most definitions – are essentially nerds. Do they live their lives in their parent’s basements, lonely and dateless? I think NOT.
I’m with Lance. And there it is….
Just Zach Quinto fangirls who are far too stupid and uneducated to get it. They just want to squee over how cute he is. Don’t underestimate the fangirls and fanboys.
Excuse me sir, but I’d like to politely underline the inaccuracies of your claim that fans – or ‘fangirls’ as you put it – of Mr Quinto are “stupid and uneducated”.
I personally am a supporter of the work of Mr Quinto and one of the most common features of other fans and supporters that I have noted has been the general wit, intelligence and tendency to NOT “squee over how cute he is”. Admittedly, there may be SOME validity to your claim in that there are always exceptions to the norm, but I most vehemently insist that the norm for ‘fangirls’ of Mr Quinto is to be wonderful, friendly and most emphatically well-rounded members of a global society.
Please don’t misunderstand me either; surely there will be SOME people who will only go to see the movie in question due to the ‘eye candy’, but there are many more who are intrigued by the topical nature of the film, the VAST cast of various notable actors and the simple enjoyment of a film which was NOT pumped out of a movie-machine by the big guns of the movie business.
Thanks for your time and please, next time consider taking a proper study of a subject before you make insinuations based solely on what you might guess.
That is SO true. Us ZQ fangirls are REALLY stupid and completely uneducated. In fact, I think I must have gotten my master’s degree by accident…
I can’t WAIT to see this movie! But I’m female and over 35, so I guess that’s what you mean by “nobody.”
You apparently underestimate them. Fans, girls and boys, men and women alike, come in many forms, and become fans for many reasons. Are there some who will come to such a movie to squeal over how cute hie is (Or Penn, or Kevin, or Demi, for that matter, hardly the only good looking person in the movie, with fans, after all?) I’m sure. And maybe, just maybe, while sitting there taking in the pretty, they could actually learn something?
Odd take from people who apparently find the topic boring, themselves. I, myself, a Quinto ‘fan’ (though hardly a ‘girl’ at MY age..) have been following the financial crisis from the time of the deregulation of the loan industry and the dismantling of the Glass-Steagall act with the passage of the Gramms-Leach-Billey act in 1999, when… oh, I’m sorry..
Ooh, look how CUTE they are…
Forgot how I was supposed to act./end sarcasm
Thanks to the poster above for reminding all how dumb some are sadly. Apparently according to you Americans wouldn’t see a movie about how you almost ruined your country, only fangurls etc. How sad. As for Quinto I assumed no went to see Angels in America because there are some Americans who like deep important stuff and good acting. So the NYtimes LAtimes and every single reviewer of the AIA was wrong but one admittedly not very deep bitter poster on a message board knows better. No wonder Wall Street had such an easy time almost ending your country. Please keep watching GIJoe no need to actually care about real stories or real acting.
Here Here. I’ve never heard anything so well put in my life!!!.
As a follower of Mr Quinto’s work, I find the assumption that I am some kind of ‘Fangirl, squeeler, basement-dwelling, ill-educated nerd’ quite offensive!
I did, in fact, travel to NYC to experience Angels in America and if the calibre of Zachary’s performance in Margin Call is as high as that endeavour, I will be more than satisfied!.
Congrats to all involved. A long and winding road – one that UTA initially had no interest in walking, by all accounts – that led to the summit. Look forward to seeing.
Margin Call will entertain nerds and non-nerds. I work for an investment bank and moonlight as a model actress. Looking forward to seeing the movie with my date and hope the film is better than Wall Street 2.
Cant we all just get along ….