Casey Affleck-Starring Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Slingshot’ Goes to Bleecker Street

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Bleecker Street has picked up the U.S. rights to Mikael Håfström’s sci-fi thriller Slingshot, which stars Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham.

Bleecker Street plans a 2024 wide theatrical release for the film about an astronaut struggling to retain his grip on reality on a possibly fatally compromised space mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.

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The ensemble cast include Tomer Capone and David Morrissey. R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker (Moon) penned the screenplay for Slingshot, and Astral Pictures produced in association with Bluestone Entertainment, Hungarian investor Széchenyi Funds Ltd. and Filmsquad.

Bluestone Entertainment, Széchenyi Funds Ltd. and Filmsquad are behind writer-director James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg, set to star Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon, and with cameras to roll later this month in Hungary.

Slingshot was filmed at Korda Studios and other locations in and around Budapest, Hungary.

The producer credits on Slingshot are shared by Richard Saperstein, Istvan Major and Beau Turpin, with Ivett Havasi, Shara Kay, Michael Hollingsworth, Tom Nohstadt, Ron Cundy, Nikolett Barabás, Jonathan Krauss, Brooklyn Weaver and Joanna Plafsky executive producing.

The distribution deal was negotiated by Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy for Bleecker Street, with WME Independent acting on behalf of the filmmakers, who are also representing the international rights to the film.

Also in Berlin, Bleecker Street is behind the world premiere of Treasure from director Julia von Heinz, and starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, and David and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset, starring Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, which screens at the Berlinale after a world premiere at Sundance.

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