Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In the second seven-figure deal so far today at the Toronto Film Festival, IFC is acquiring U.S. rights to Byzantium, the vampire film by Neil Jordan that has festgoers feeling the filmmaker has returned to the terrain of Interview With The Vampire. I’m told that the deal coming together is several million dollars in minimum guarantee and marketing commitment. While IFC has been heavy into multiplatform, this film has designs on a theatrical release broadening out to several hundred screens.

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Scripted by Moira Buffini, Byzantium stars Gemma Arterton, Caleb Landry Jones, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller, Sam Riley and Saoirse Ronan. It is produced by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen. The story focuses on two vampires who are on the run from the past and who are hiding a terrible secret.

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It was another late-night deal negotiated by WME Global’s Graham Taylor and CAA made the deal with IFC’s Arianna Bocco and Jeff Deutchman. I’ll weigh in with more when I have it. As for the influx of deals happening today, all the buyers have now seen everything, and now it’s a matter of who gets what, just as…I…toldja!