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AFM: ‘Goon’ Grabs Foreign Sales For Myriad

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 11, 2011 @ 4:51pm PSTTags: AFM, AFM Deals, Eugene Levy, Goon, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Michael Dowse, Myriad Pictures, Seann William Scott

The raucous R-rated hockey comedy Goon has racked up significant international distribution deals for Myriad Pictures. Starring Sean William Scott, the movie has been sold in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Russia Scandinavia, Latin America, Turkey, the Middle East, Indonesia and South Africa, and several other markets. Magnolia’s Magnet picked up Goon for US distribution at Toronto and plans a March theatrical release. Scott plays a onetime bouncer who ends up vying with Liev Schrieber for the distinction of being the hockey league’s biggest goon. Jay Baruchel, Eugene Levy and Allison Pill co-star. The movie was directed by Michael Dowse (Take Me Home Tonight, FUBAR I and II, It’s All Gone Pete Tong).  Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg (Superbad, Pineapple Express) wrote the script. Goon was produced by Don Carmody (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Boondock Saints), David Gross and Jesse Shapira. Myriad’s other movies include Mike Figgis-directed Seconds of Pleasure, from a script by Neil LaBute starring Matt Dillon and Kristin Scott Thomas, A Common Man with Ben Kingsley and Ben Cross, as well as Edwin Boyd, Knife Fight and Chained.

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘Goon’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 11:49pm PSTTags: Goon, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Michael Dowse, Movie Trailers, Seann William Scott

This red-band trailer for the R-rated hockey comedy Goon is as rowdy as the rating suggests. Magnolia/Magnet picked up the movie — directed by Michael Dowse with Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber and Jay Baruchel — at the Toronto International Film Festival and according to the Magnet website … Read More »

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Toronto: Magnet Attaches To Hockey Comedy ‘Goon’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 12, 2011 @ 10:15pm PDTTags: Alison Pill, Goon, Jay Baruchel, Liev Schreiber, Magnet Releasing, Michael Dowse, Seann William Scott
Mike Fleming

Toronto, ONTARIO (September 13, 2011) – The Cuban/Wagner Company’s Magnet Releasing, genre arm to Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have taken US rights to Michael Dowse’s raucous hockey comedy GOON. Starring Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Liev

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Toronto Fest Sets Canadian Premieres

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 9, 2011 @ 7:32am PDTTags: David Cronenberg, Jason Patric, Jay Baruchel, Jean-Marc Vallee, Liev Schreiber, Mary Harron, Michael Dowse, Rob Lowe, Seann William Scott, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

While most of the industry views the Toronto International Film Festival as a place to showcase films for acquisition or Oscar runs, festival organizers always stock the program with homegrown films. The festival just announced that part of the program, … Read More »

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