TIFF EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has taken its fourth major title in the 2020 Toronto Film Festival Market with a deal for Care A Lot , the J Blakeson -directed dark comic satire that stars Rosamund Pike , Peter Dinklage , Eiza Gonzalez, Chris Messina. I’m told the deal is near $10 million for U.S. rights and the rights to select countries in Germany, Latin America, South Africa, the Middle East, India and a few others. Pike plays asteely con woman who targets the elderly by using legal machinations to become their legal guardian. She throws them into care facilities, takes away their cell phones and siphons their assets. But an ideal mark turns out to be less than that when it turns out the senior has someone in her life (Dinklage) who is as lawless and as ruthless as the guardian. These bad people go mano a mano in a series of lethal twists and turns in a film as dark and uncompromising as The Grifters. The film is getting great reviews, and sources said Netflix will be making an awards push for it. The performances by Pike as the conservator and Dinklage as the gangster in particular are being […]
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