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A24 has taken acquired US distribution rights to Element Pictures’ filthy and comedic romance Pillion, starring Harry Melling and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Alexander Skarsgård.
The debut feature from BAFTA-nominated writer/director Harry Lighton (Wren Boys) follows an impossibly handsome leader of a bike gang and the wallflower he takes on as his submissive. Production wrapped this summer. The screenplay was developed with BBC Film and is based on Adam Mars-Jones’ Box Hill which was the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Nobel Prize winner.
Pillion is an Element Pictures production financed by BBC Film, BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), in association with Fremantle, Picturehouse Entertainment and September Film who will handle distribution in the UK and Benelux respectively. Cornerstone has worldwide sales and distribution.
Element Pictures’ Emma Norton, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe are producing together with Lee Groombridge. BBC Film’s Eva Yates, Louise Ortega for the BFI, Fremantle’s Christian Vesper, Claire Binns for Picturehouse, September Film’s Pim Hermeling, Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder and Skarsgård are EPs. Element Pictures is part of Fremantle.
Lighton’s short Wren Boys was nominated for Best British Short at the 2018 BAFTAs, was nominated for a BIFA and had its US Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
A24 has a busy awards season line-up: The Florence Pugh-Andrew Garfield romance drama, We Live in Time, goes limited on Friday in NYC and LA. Their Hugh Grant horror movie debuts on Nov. 8. Luca Guadagnino’s Queer goes limited on Nov. 27. Their acquisition of Brady Corbet’s $7M epic, The Brutalist, bows on Dec. 20 while the Nicole Kidman suspense movie Babygirl launches on Christmas Day.
