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NEWMARKET FILMS TO RELEASE PETER WEIR’S THE WAY BACK

Posted Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 - 1 Comment »
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NEWMARKET FILMS TO RELEASE PETER WEIR’S THE WAY BACK IN JANUARY 2011
WORLD PREMIERE OF THE WAY BACK AT 2010 TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL
IN CONJUNCTION WITH WEIR TRIBUTE

Los Angeles, CA (September 2nd, 2010) – Nigel Sinclair, CEO and Co-Chairman of Exclusive Media Group (“Exclusive”) , and Chris Ball, Co-Chairman of Exclusive and President and Co-Founder of Newmarket Films (“Newmarket”), jointly announced today that Newmarket will release six-time Academy Award® nominee Peter Weir’s The Way Back starring Ed Harris (Pollack, Gone Baby Gone), Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe, The Other Boleyn Girl), Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, Kick Ass) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges, Crazy Heart) on January 21st 2011 in the US.  The Way Back is the first film produced under the Exclusive Films label to be distributed through Exclusive’s subsidiary, Newmarket Films.  National Geographic Entertainment and Imagenation Abu Dhabi co-produced the film as part of their joint production agreement.  Director Peter Weir will be honoured with a Tribute at the Telluride Film Festival tomorrow where the film will have its World Premiere.

The Way Back is inspired by Slavomir Rawicz’s acclaimed novel The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, as well as by other real life accounts.  The film chronicles the escape of a small group of multi-national prisoners from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and their epic journey over thousands of miles across five hostile countries.

Notes Nigel Sinclair, “We brought Newmarket into the Exclusive Media Group fold to give our company access to a well respected and established distribution entity.  Chris and I, and our partners at National Geographic are extremely proud to be able to bring Peter Weir’s story to US audiences.”

Chris Ball added, “The Way Back is one of the great real-life escape stories of our time.  Slavomir Rawicz’ book, which the film is inspired by, has been translated into 25 languages and really captures the triumph of the human spirit.  It’s a story of man’s struggle to survive at any cost, and the strength to push on when all hope seems lost. Newmarket has a history of working with exciting directors like Christopher Nolan and Niki Caro and we are very pleased to now be working with Peter Weir.”

“Peter Weir is one of cinema’s great storytellers, which is fundamentally so important to National Geographic.  We are very proud of our association with Peter Weir and the rest of the film-makers who have produced this epic adventure movie. Along with our production partners (Imagenation Abu Dhabi, and Exclusive Media) National Geographic is delighted that Newmarket shares our vision for the film and we look forward to supporting their release,”   said Daniel Battsek, President, National Geographic Films.

“It’s great that Newmarket will be distributing The Way Back in the U. S.,” said Peter Weir.  “We know we are in good hands.”

Producers are Joni Levin, Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson and Nigel Sinclair.  Keith Clarke, John Ptak, Guy East, Simon Oakes, Tobin Armbrust, Jake Eberts, Edward Borgerding, Mohamed Khalaf, Adam Leipzig, Scott Rudin and Jonathan Schwartz are Executive Producers.

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