First Look mines Sundance gold with 'King'

January 26, 2007 A dark comedy from first-time screenwriter-director Mike Cahill, "King" stars Michael Douglas as a father who returns home after being released from a mental institution, much to the chagrin of his beleaguered 16-year-old daughter (Evan Rachel Wood). A First Look representative confirmed that the studio was in negotiations for rights to the project, produced by Alexander Payne, Michael London, Avi Lerner and Randall Emmett. The sale would be First Look's biggest acquisition to date, part of a new mandate to ramp up its new slate under the leadership of Winterstern, First Look Pictures president Ruth Vitale and First Look International president Stuart Ford.

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