CAA Signs Director of Toronto Hit 'Sleepless Night' (Exclusive)

Yesterday Warner Bros. closed an offer to remake in france they action thriller Sleep deprived Evening. Now, Frederic Jardin, who directed and co-authored the film that opened throughout TIFF's Night time Madness, has signed with CAA for representation. PHOTO: Toronto Film Festival: 13 Films to understand Evening was among the hits from Night time Madness, as well as in a Die Hard meets Taken tone, follows a cop who, for those intents and reasons, is held in a pulsing nightclub attempting to save his kidnapped boy and choose a missing bag full of cocaine while being went after by various drug sellers and Internal Matters detectives. But despite all of the action within the movie, Jardin focus was to create a film about fatherhood. STORY: 3 Toronto Takeaways: Academy awards, Sex and Movie Sales And after acquiring an elaborate co-production agreement, shot the film using Canon 5-D cameras (that are photo cameras, not film cameras) in France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Before the film finished screening, galleries were arranging to seize remake privileges, with Warners and producer Roy Lee winding up on the top. CAA were built with a strong showing only at that year's Night time Madness. It made the purchase for You are Next, the horror movie that offered to Lionsgate after intense interest, which week signed Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the film's director and author, for representation. Toronto Worldwide Film Festival CAA