ThinkFilm nabs 'Escapist'

April 10, 2008 ThinkFilm has picked up all North American rights to the British prison drama "The Escapist," which had drawn buzz but failed to sell at January's Sundance Film Festival. ThinkFilm expects to release the movie in the fall and follow a similar platform rollout as it did in 2007 with its Sidney Lumet morality tale "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead." With a dual time structure that cuts between the planning for the escape and the escape itself, "Escapist" breaks new ground in a subgenre that has been tread such by movies as "The Longest Yard" and "The Shawshank Redemption."

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