debuted last week at the Venice Film Festival,<\/a> where the audience praised the project with an 11-minute ovation. Domingo, who features in the \u201870s-set film as a smooth radio DJ who becomes a key component in a hostage negotiation, also energized the crowd with chants of \u201cGus! Gus! Gus!\u201d as Van Sant looked on with pride. The film then made its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this week.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cWhen we launched Row K less than a month ago we knew the type of movies, and even more importantly, filmmakers, that we wanted to align ourselves with, which is why we could not be more energized to work alongside Gus Van Sant and the cast of \u2018Dead Man\u2019s Wire\u2019 to bring this story to audiences across the United States and Canada,\u201d said MCT principals and Row K co-chairman Christopher Woodrow and Raj Singh. \u201cAs evidenced by the reactions out of Venice and now TIFF, Dead Man\u2019s Wire is an incredibly captivating film and a statement to the kind of ambitious, artist-driven cinema we are committed to championing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAdded Row K president Megan Colligan: \u201cGus Van Sant has crafted yet another masterful work that audiences are already embracing around the world. As we introduce and scale Row K, we\u2019re proud that our very first release is Dead Man\u2019s Wire. It\u2019s an ambitious, artist-driven film that reflects the kind of bold cinema we intend to bring to audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe acquisition was negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers by Cassian Elwes of Elevated Films and Paula Paizes and Sam Pressman of Pressman Film. WME Independent represents the worldwide rights for the film.<\/p>\n
\n\tMCT and Row K are both represented by CAA.<\/p>\n
\n\tMore to come\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In one of the first major transactions out of TIFF, Row K Entertainment lands the U.S. and Canadian rights to Gus Van Sant\u2019s \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire.\u201d The film serves as the inaugural release title for Row K, a new U.S. theatrical distribution company from Media Capital Technologies, which launched last month. \u201cDead Man\u2019s Wire\u201d tells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2009166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[367090],"class_list":["post-2009165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-row-k-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gus-Van-Sants-Dead-Mans-Wire-Sells-to-Row-K.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}