EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Avenue has acquired the U.S. rights to TIFF standout One Life, the James Hawes-directed drama that stars Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Lena Olin, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp, Marthe Keller, with Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham Carter. Scripted by Lucinda Coxon and Nick Drake, the movie is a manufacturing of See-Noticed Movies, which developed it alongside BBC Movie. Bleecker Avenue is planning a 2024 theatrical launch.

Based mostly on the Barbara Winton e book If It’s Not Unattainable…: The Lifetime of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, One Life tells the true story of Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton (Flynn), a younger London dealer who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race towards time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick (Sharp) and Doreen Warriner (Garai) of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue as many youngsters as potential earlier than the Nazis closes the borders. Fifty years later, Nicky (Hopkins) is haunted by the destiny of the youngsters he wasn’t in a position to convey to security in England. It’s not till the BBC present “That’s Life!” re-introduces him to a few of these he helped rescue that he lastly begins to come back to phrases with the guilt and grief he carried – all of the whereas skyrocketing from anonymity to a nationwide hero.

One Life had its world premiere final month on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, to rave critiques. The movie will play later this week on the BFI London Movie Pageant.

Pic was made with the help of BBC Movie, and is a BBC Movie and MBK Productions presentation, in affiliation with Cross Metropolis Movies, FilmNation Leisure, and Lipsync. Producers are Joanna Laurie, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Man Heeley. Simon Gillis, Eva Yates, Barbara Winton, Maria Logan, Anne Sheehan, Peter Hampden are the manager producers. CAA Media Finance and Simon Gill brokered the deal for See-Noticed and Cross Metropolis Movies, with Bleecker Avenue’s Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy negotiating for the distributor. FilmNation Leisure is dealing with worldwide gross sales.

It was a busy TIFF for Bleecker Avenue, which acquired the UK rights to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, alongside Elysium Movie Group and Nameless Content material. Bleecker Avenue additionally acquired the U.S. rights to British comedy Fackham Corridor starring Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Thomasin McKenzie, Katherine Waterston, and Emma Laird. That movie will start principal images in early 2024.

Bleecker’s upcoming slate consists of Meg Ryan’s What Occurs Later, starring Ryan alongside David Duchovny, releasing on November 3;  Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s Waitress: The Musical, which is about for a December 7 launch with Fathom Occasions; The Origin, a Stone Age-set thriller which not too long ago had its North American premiere at Implausible Fest; and Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s house station-set thriller I.S.S., which not too long ago debuted on the 2023 Tribeca Pageant to acclaim. Not too long ago launched titles embody: Man Nattiv’s Golda starring Helen Mirren which is at the moment in theaters;  Marc Turtletaub’s sci-fi comedy, Jules starring Sir Ben Kingsley; Laurel Parmet’s function directorial debut and Sundance Movie Pageant breakout The Starling Lady; and Alice Troughton’s The Lesson with Daryl McCormack, Richard E. Grant, and Julie Delpy.