Weinstein Co., IFC sheepish

November 03, 2006 Killer sheep soon will be rampaging across big and small screens via the Weinstein Co. and IFC Entertainment, which have nabbed all U.S. and Canadian rights to the horror comedy "Black Sheep." IFC's First Take program will shepherd the sheep simultaneously into theaters and onto video-on-demand in mid-2007, while the Weinstein Co.'s Genius Products will handle the DVD release. Writer-director Jonathan King's tale of a genetic engineering experiment gone wrong on a New Zealand farm was the talk of September's Toronto International Film Festival at its premiere, but several interested buyers balked at the initial asking price (said by some execs to be $1 million) for a film in the horror-comedy genre.

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