Music Box nabs Davies' 'Deep Blue Sea'

LONDON -- In another Toronto deal, Music Box has acquired U.S. privileges to Terence Davies' "The Dark Blue Ocean," toplining Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. The purchase, that was closed just before the pic's final public screening in Toronto, marks Music Box's first pickup of the British-language film. The distrib launched the initial "Dragon Tattoo" trilogy, that has with each other taken nearly $22 million in the U.S. box office. The Dark Blue Ocean" was looked by Blighty's Protagonist Pictures, whose Boss Ben Roberts discussed the offer with Music Box's controlling director Erectile dysfunction Arentz. Following a pic's world preem in Toronto, a minimum of three other bidders were while dining additionally to Music Box. Modified in the 1952 abide by Terence Rattigan, it sees Weisz take part in the wife of the high court judge who leaves her husband to maneuver along with a dashing youthful ex-RAF pilot, with whom she's fallen passionately for each other. Simon Russell Beale also stars, while Sean O'Connor and Kate Ogborn produce. We and also the audience who saw the film at its world premiere screening were entranced in the opening frames, by the finish there is an unavoidable sense that people had observed a significant work," stated Arentz. The Dark Blue Ocean" screens competing at San Sebastian now and it is the closing evening pic in the London Film Festival in October. Artificial Eye will release the pic in Blighty on November. 25. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com