A24 Landing TIFF Title ‘Friendship’ For Mid-7 Figures

EXCLUSIVE : The Toronto Film Festival film deals are beginning to trickle in after a slow start. Deadline hears that A24 is acquiring U.S. distribution on Friendship , the comedy from writer-director Andrew DeYoung that stars Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd. Sources place the deal in the seven figures.

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In the film, when new neighbor Brian (Rudd) threatens his quiet life, Craig Waterman (Robinson) struggles to protect his family’s security.

The pic also stars Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer, Josh Segarra, Billy Bryk, Jason Veasey, Jon Glaser, Eric Rahill, Conner O’Malley, Carmen Christopher, Craig Frank, Omar Torres, Jacob Ming-Trent, Daniel London, Whitmer Thomas and Raphael Sbarge. The film is financed and produced by Fifth Season.

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Friendship was produced by Nick Weidenfeld; Raphael Margules and J.D. Lifshitz of Boulderlight Pictures; and Johnny Holland. Rudd, Tracy Rosenblum, Andrew DeYoung and Alexis Garcia are exec producers.

Friendship is repped by WME Independent and UTA Independent Film Group for domestic along with Fifth Season, which was behind the film, which played in the Midnight Madness program.

This comes on the heels of A24’s acquisition of the Venice pic The Brutalist.

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