'Eclipse' ignites Tribeca sales talk

April 26, 2009 Seeking its first sales breakout in four years, the Tribeca film festival appears to have found it in "The Eclipse," Conor McPherson's character drama tinged with supernatural elements. Several distribution executives turned out Friday for the film's world premiere, and several more made their way to Saturday's press-and-industry screening, setting off a series of sales discussions generally seen only at more acquisition-minded festivals. Lionsgate, Magnolia and Roadside were said to be circling the playwright's directorial effort, which centers on a recently widowed man in a seaside Irish town (Ciaran Hinds) who believes he is seeing ghosts and the relationship he develops with a visiting horror novelist (Iben Hjejle).

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