{"id":2009194,"date":"2025-09-09T15:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2009194"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:56:58","slug":"gus-van-sants-dead-mans-wire-acquired-by-row-k-entertainment-in-first-big-buy-for-new-distributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gus-van-sants-dead-mans-wire-acquired-by-row-k-entertainment-in-first-big-buy-for-new-distributor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gus Van Sant\u2019s \u2018Dead Man\u2019s Wire\u2019 Acquired by Row K Entertainment in First Big Buy for New Distributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">In one of the first major transactions out of TIFF, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1145738\/\">Row K Entertainment<\/a> lands the U.S. and Canadian rights to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001814\/\">Gus Van Sant<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15181326\/\">Dead Man\u2019s Wire<\/a>.\u201d The film serves as the inaugural release title for Row K, a new U.S. theatrical distribution company from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0744411\/\">Media Capital Technologies<\/a>, which launched last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15181326\/\">Dead Man\u2019s Wire<\/a>\u201d tells the fascinating true story of the 1977 kidnapping that made aspiring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis an eccentric outlaw folk hero. The film stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0803889\/\">Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4223882\/\">Dacre Montgomery<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000144\/\">Cary Elwes<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9684601\/\">Myha\u2019la<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0231458\/\">Colman Domingo<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000199\/\">Al Pacino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The thriller debuted last week at the Venice Film Festival, where the audience praised the project with an 11-minute ovation. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3652187\/\">Domingo<\/a>, 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 \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074599\/\">Gus<\/a>! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074599\/\">Gus<\/a>! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074599\/\">Gus<\/a>!\u201d as Van Sant looked on with pride.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2009195,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2009194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Gus-Van-Sants-\u2018Dead-Mans-Wire-Acquired-by-Row-K.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009194","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=2009194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}