Overture nabs 'The Visitor'
Tom McCarthy drama acquired in Toronto
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Details were still emerging and a formal announcement was expected later Tuesday, but the pickup reps an artier turn for the Liberty Media-owned distrib. Overture had recently made headlines by grabbing genre fare like the Robert De Niro-Al Pacino cop thriller "Righteous Kill."
"The Visitor," a low-key, warm-hearted drama, reps a marketing challenge but also a plum buy (depending on the price, of course) given its status as the best-received pic without distribution in Toronto.
