IFC Films has acquired US distribution rights to the prison break film “The Escapist,” starring Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes and directed by tyro helmer Rupert Wyatt.
The film premiered stateside at Sundance in 2008 and will be released in April of this year. Pic has already opened in the U.K., where it received a British Independent Film Award and a BAFTA Scotland award for Cox’s perf.
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