CBS Films Picks Up COMANCHERIA, Starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine & Ben Foster

CBS Films announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to the action heist thriller COMANCHERIA. David Mackenzie ("Starred Up") is set to direct the film from a screenplay by Taylor Sheridan ("Sicario"). Sidney Kimmel, Peter Berg (Film 44) and Julie Yorn (LBI) will produce the film with Carla Hacken and Gigi Pritzker serving as executive producers.

In COMANCHERIA, two brothers, Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster), go on a calculated bank robbery spree that puts them on a collision course with a West Texas Ranger (Academy Award© winner Jeff Bridges) determined to take them down.

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment developed the project with Film 44. Odd Lot recently joined SKE on the film and will co-produce and co-finance.

Principal photography begins May 26 in New Mexico. Sierra Affinity will be selling international rights at the Cannes Film Festival.

"We PRIDE ourselves on making and acquiring quality films in every genre. By that measure, Taylor and David's category-bending heartland take on Robin Hood made COMANCHERIA something of an obsession," commented Scott Shooman, Executive Vice President of Acquisitions and Co-Productions, CBS Films. "Add in an extraordinary cast lead by Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster and smart partners in Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Odd Lot Entertainment, Film 44 and LBI, and we know that this will be a film that reminds a wide audience why they love riveting authentic movies." Shooman will oversee the project for CBS Films, which will distribute COMANCHERIA in partnership with Lionsgate.

WME Global and UTA negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

CBS Films is a division of CBS Corporation. The division develops, finances, acquires, produces and releases theatrical feature films spanning all genres.

Veteran producer Sidney Kimmel chairs Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based, wholly independent finance and production company focused on bringing high profile, quality entertainment projects to contemporary audiences in association with studio distribution partners. John Penotti is SKE's President and Carla Hacken its President of Production.

SKE's most recent film is Age of Adaline, a Lionsgate release and co-production with Lakeshore Entertainment, starring Blake Lively and Harrison Ford, and directed by Lee Toland Krieger.

Upcoming 2015 SKE feature releases include THE COMEDY Sleeping With Other People, a co-production with GLORIA Sanchez Productions, starring Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Adam Scott and Amanda Peet, and directed by Leslye Headland (Bachelorette) from her original screenplay, for release by IFC; and Demolition, a co-production with Black Label Media, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts and directed by Jean Marc Valle for release by Fox Searchlight.

Kimmel and/or Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, founded in 2004, has co-financed and produced or co-produced more than 40 motion pictures. SKE releases include the hit thriller The LINCOLN Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey, in association with Lakeshore Entertainment and released by Lionsgate; the 2006 British comedy hit Death at a Funeral as well as the 2010 American remake, with co-writer/co-producer Chris Rock leading an all-star ensemble cast, released by Screen Gems; Adventureland, the Greg Mottola directed critical hit, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, co-financed, co-produced and released by Miramax; Marc Forster's The KITE Runner, based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, produced with DreamWorks, Participant Productions, and Parkes/MacDonald Productions, released by Paramount Vantage; the critical hit Breach, starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney; the Academy-Award nominated Lars and the Real Girl, starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Craig Gillespie and released by MGM; and Oscar-nominated United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass, based on the true story of the doomed FLIGHT of 9/11, in association with Universal Pictures.

SKE has also expanded into television and is developing a limited series entitled Busted, a police crime thriller based on the true exploits and reporting by Pulitzer Prize winning reporters Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker. SKE is producing with Anonymous Content (True Detective).

SKE recently launched SKE Global, a new joint division with Ivanhoe Pictures. SKE Global will co-finance and co-produce a slate of local language films in China, South Korea, India and other international territories. Most notably, SKE Global will have the right to participate in Ivanhoe's previously announced ten-picture "India slate" with Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions. In addition, SKE Global will look to mine the SKE and Ivanhoe Pictures' libraries, a combined 70 English language films, for potential local language remake opportunities.

OddLot Entertainment is a Los Angeles-based film and television production company that develops, produces and finances quality commercial properties for distribution in both the domestic and international markets.

OLE has been in the foreign sales business since 2011 when it co-created Sierra/Affinity. In 2013 the company commenced a multiyear, multipicture co-financing and distribution deal with Lionsgate, which provides both companies a committed framework to co-produce and distribute films. In addition, OddLot's Gigi Pritzker is part of a consortium that recently launched the next-generation film studio STX founded by producer Robert Simonds.

The company has produced: Academy Award-nominated drama Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman; THE WAY, WAY BACK starring Steve Carell; Green Street Hooligans; Suburban Girl; The Open Road; From Prada to Nada; Drive; the futuristic sci-fi film, Ender's Game; and the Kevin Costner romantic drama Draft Day. Most recently, OddLot produced and released Jon Stewart's directorial debut ROSEWATER with Open Road Films, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Sierra/Affinity is a leading independent film finance, production and foreign sales company, consistently delivering high-quality, commercially viable feature films for a global audience. Sierra/Affinity capitalizes on the ever-evolving global film marketplace, representing sales of third-party films as well as its own productions designed to appeal to both the North American and global marketplaces. In addition to representing sales of third party films, the company acts as the exclusive sales agent for films developed and produced by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, OddLot Entertainment, Bold Films and Sierra Pictures and its partner, Incentive Filmed Entertainment. The company also represents sales on select films from FOCUS Features. Sierra/Affinity is also compiling a slate of wide-release, director-driven commercial films with domestic and global appeal that will complement the slates built by its partners.

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