Starz Picks Up Distribution Rights Amy Berg’s EVERY SECRET THING

Starz finalized another deal at Toronto International Film Festival with the pick-up of the psychological thriller EVERY SECRET THING.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Amy Berg and based on the 2004 novel of the same name, EVERY SECRET THING stars Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning, Danielle MacDonald, Common and Nate Parker. Pick up includes all distribution rights for the U.S and will include a theatrical release and a pay TV premiere on STARZ. WME Global negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

“This is an amazing film,” said Kevin Kasha, head of acquisitions for Starz. “It’s a gripping story with a great cast and we’re excited to have it on STARZ and to handle distribution via Starz Digital Media and Anchor Bay.”

“Every Secret Thing is a remarkable collaboration of females in film and offers a unique look into the minds of teenagers,” commented Amy Berg. “I am so pleased it will be in theatres in the spring.”

When a three-year-old girl goes missing, a small suburban New York town must revisit a tragic crime from seven years earlier. The underage perpetrators of the original crime, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller (Danielle Macdonald and Dakota Fanning), have been released from prison after coming of age and, justly or unjustly, come under suspicion once again. Detective Porter (Elizabeth Banks), who cracked the original case and is now the investigating officer of the missing girl, must examine her conscience and her deeply conflicted memories of the former crime. Alice’s mother, Helen Manning (Diane Lane), is given a chance to save her daughter from her complicated past.

The consequences of the original crime and of the current missing child investigation put into question the characters’ motivations and culpability – past and present. EVERY SECRET THING is a psychological thriller that also questions our judgment of the socio-economic fabric of suburban America. It allows the audience a complex portrait of murder and murderer, thought and deed.

EVERY SECRET THING was produced by Anthony Bregman (Begin Again, Enough Said) and Frances McDormand. Executive producers are Palmstar’s Kevin Frakes, Merced Media’s Raj Singh and Stuart Brown, Hyde Park’s Ashok Amritraj, Likely Story’s Stefanie Azpiazu, and Michael Bederman.