Columbia Pictures Won North American Rights for “We Own the Night”

Columbia Pictures won the North America rights for “We Own the Night”, the drama written and directed by James Gray, featuring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix and Robert Duvall.
“We Own the Night” has quickly emerged a hot deal at the Cannes Film Festival, despite the fact that he was set for screening for Friday. The movie combines elements of crime thriller and family drama. Its story is the one of a 1980s New York nightclub manager, played by Phoenix, who is trying to save his father, played by Duvall, and brother, played by Wahlberg, from the Russian mafia.
Lionsgate, Warner Brothers, Summit Entertainment, Miramax and others were among the interested buyers of the movie. It will be released by Sony, produced and financed by 2929 Entertainment under Columbia Pictures in the fall. Columbia paid about $11.5 million for the movie and $25 million as the marketing commitment.
James Gray’s other popular movies were 1994’s “Little Odessa”, which was another movie about the Russian mob, and 2000’s “The Yards”, which also starred Wahlberg and Phoenix.

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