It’s Official! Farrell, Rockwell, Walken, Harrelson, Waits, Kurylenko Join McDonagh’s SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS

The Following Info Is From CBS Films:

COLIN FARRELL, SAM ROCKWELL, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, WOODY HARRELSON, TOM WAITS AND OLGA KURYLENKO TEAM UP IN MARTIN MCDONAGH’S SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS

LOS ANGELES – November 9, 2011 – Colin Farrell (In Bruges, Crazy Heart), Sam Rockwell (Iron Man 2, Frost/Nixon), Academy Award®-winner and Tony® nominee Christopher Walken (Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can), and Academy Award®-nominee Woody Harrelson (The Messenger, Rampart) have all signed on to star in Seven Psychopaths, an action-comedy written and directed by Academy Award®-winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). Blueprint Pictures is producing. Film4 are co-financing with the BFI Film Fund and CBS Films which has the U.S. rights to the film. Hanway Films is handling foreign sales…
Farrell stars as a struggling screenwriter, who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends (Rockwell) and (Walken) kidnap a gangster’s (Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.
Tom Waits (The Book of Eli, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) has also joined the cast along with Olga Kurylenko (Centurian, Quantum of Solace) who is currently in negotiations.

Graham Broadbent (In Bruges, Millions) and Peter Czernin (In Bruges) are attached to produce with Film4’s Tessa Ross who is set to serve as executive producer.

CAA represents Farrell, Harrelson, Kurylenko, and co-represents McDonagh with the Knight Hall Agency in London. The agency, which packaged and set up financing for the film with the producers, brokered the U.S. distribution deal on behalf of the filmmakers. Rockwell is represented by Gersh, Walken by ICM and Waits by WME.

EVP of Acquisitions Scott Shooman will oversee the project for CBS Films. Production began in Los Angeles on November 7th.

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About Film4
Film4, headed by Tessa Ross, is Channel 4 Television’s feature film division. Film4 develops and co-finances films and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the U.K., whether new or established. Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, films like Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours, Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges. Steve McQueen’s Hunger, Mike Leigh’s Another Year, Chris Morris’ Four Lions and Peter Mullan’s NEDS.

Film4’s 2011 releases include Kevin Macdonald’s The Eagle, Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, Joe Cornish’s directorial debut Attack The Block, Ben Palmer’s The Inbetweeners Movie which took over £14.7m in its first week of release, Lone Scherfig’s One Day, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List and Paddy Considine’s debut feature Tyrannosaur. Future releases include Miranda July’s The Future, Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights and Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea.

Film4’s current productions include Pawel Pawlikowski’s The Woman In The Fifth, Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, Steve McQueen’s Shame, Walter Salles’ On The Road, Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio and Roger Michell’s Hyde Park on Hudson. For further information visit www.film4.com/productions

About BFI Film Fund
The BFI Film Fund funds bold and exciting British films and brilliant filmmakers.

Seven Psychopaths was supported by the BFI’s Film Fund. On 1 April 2011, the Film Fund moved from the UK Film Council to the BFI, which became the lead body for film in the UK.

Films backed by the Film Fund through the UK Film Council include Steve McQueen’s Shame and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin, shown In Competition at Cannes in 2011, Phyllida Lloyd’s The Iron Lady, Fernando Meirelles’s 360, Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share, Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea, James Marsh’s Project Nim, Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna, and Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin. Recent releases include the American Academy® award-winning The King’s Speech directed by Tom Hooper, Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, Clio Barnard’s The Arbor, Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham, Mike Leigh’s Another Year, Peter Mullan’s Neds and Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini’s Streetdance 3D.

The BFI’s ambition is to create a flourishing film environment in which innovation, opportunity and creativity can thrive by:

• Connecting audiences to the widest choice of British and World cinema
• Preserving and restoring the most significant film collection in the world for today and future generations
• Championing emerging and world class film makers in the UK
• Investing in creative, distinctive and entertaining work
• Promoting British film and talent to the world
• Growing the next generation of filmmakers and audiences