Bleecker Street Acquires Casey Affleck Starrer ‘Slingshot’ For U.S.

Bleecker Street has picked up U.S. rights to Mikael Håfström’s sci-fi thriller Slingshot, starring Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham. Additional cast includes Fauda star Tomer Capone and The Walking Dead’s David Morrissey. 

The film, which is written by R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker (Moon), follows an astronaut who struggles to maintain his grip on reality aboard a possibly fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan. 

Bleecker Street is planning a 2024 nationwide theatrical release for the film.

Slingshot is an Astral Pictures production in association with Bluestone Entertainment, Széchenyi Funds Ltd., and Filmsquad. The film was produced by Richard Saperstein, Istvan Major, and Beau Turpin, with executive producers including Ivett Havasi, Shara Kay, Michael Hollingsworth, Tom Nohstadt, Ron Cundy, Nikolett Barabás, Jonathan Krauss, Brooklyn Weaver, and Joanna Plafsky.  

The deal was negotiated by Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy on behalf of Bleecker Street with WME Independent on behalf of the filmmakers, who are also representing the international rights to the film.

Bleecker Street will be in Berlin with the world premiere of Treasure from filmmaker Julia von Heinz, starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, as well as David and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset, starring Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, which world premiered in Sundance last month. 

Bleecker Street recently released the Stone Age-set thriller Out of Darkness, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s space station-set thriller I.S.S and Sara Bareilles’ Waitress: The Musical.

Bluestone Entertainment, Széchenyi Funds Ltd, and Filmsquad are currently in prep for writer-director James Vanderbilt’sNuremberg, set to star Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, and Michael Shannon. Principal photography for that film is set to begin in Hungary later this month.