Weinstein Co. Shopped Till the Last Day of Cannes

The Weinstein Co. shopped till the last day of the Cannes Film Festival, as it nabbed the North American rights to “Control”, Joy Division’s biopic movie, the North American home video rights to “Waz”, a detective thriller, and the Australian rights to the animated controvert movie, “Persepolis”.
“Control” is a black-and-white movie marking the feature directorial debut of the music video veteran Anton Corbjin. The movie depicts the life and death of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the popular band Joy Division. Curtis committed suicide at the age of 23. His character will be played by Sam Riley, who will play opposite to Samantha Morton, as Curtis’ wife.
Another black-and-white movie is “Persepolis”, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s animated film, which is the adaptation of Satrapi’s graphic novel about a girl during the Iran’s Islamic revolution. The movie will be distributed domestically by Sony Pictures Classics.
“Waz”, the third movie picked up by the Weinstein Co., is Tom Shankland’s British thriller telling the story of a detective, played by Stellan Skarsgrad, who is stalked by a serial killer.

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