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IFC Films Acquires Benicio Del Toro’s JIMMY P. For US Release

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Worldview Entertainment has sold the U.S. distribution rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s drama, “Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian,” to IFC Films.

The film, which stars Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric, made its world premiere in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and made its North American debut at the New York Film Festival earlier this month.

Desplechin co-wrote the screenplay with Kent Jones and Julie Peyr, based on the book Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian by Georges Devereux about his relationship and multidisciplinary study of Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot Indian, who fought in World War II and suffered from psychological distress.

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Pascal Cauchetuex and Jennifer Roth produced while Worldview’s Christopher Woodrow and Molly Conners executive produced with Patrick Milling Smith and Ben Limberg. IFC is expected to release the film in early 2014.

The deal was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, SVP of Acquisitions, on behalf of IFC Films, and CAA on behalf of Worldview.

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Worldview’s 2013 slate includes two studio co-financing deals: Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu’s comedy, “Birdman,” with Fox Searchlight and New Regency, starring Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis and Academy Award nominee Edward Norton, which is currently in post- production; and Daniel Espinosa’s crime thriller, “Child 44,” with Summit/Lionsgate, starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Academy Award nominee Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent Cassel and Jason Clarke, which wrapped this fall in Prague. The company also financed and produced Kate Barker Froyland’s drama, “Song One” starring Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway; and Zach Braff’s drama, ‘Wish I Was Here,” starring Braff and Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson.

Worldview is reteaming this fall with David Gordon Green on the drama “Manglehorn,” starring Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Holly Hunter, which currently in pre-production in Austin, TX. Upcoming for 2014, Worldview announced plans to finance and produce the horror thriller, “Beyond the Green Inferno,” the sequel to Eli Roth’s “The Green Inferno,” which will be directed by Nicolas Lopez next spring in Chile; and Kim Farrant’s thriller, “Strangerland” starring Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman, Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving.

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