ALCHEMY CLOSES STRANGERLAND AT 2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
LOS ANGELES, January 22, 2015 – The newly minted Alchemy announced today that it has acquired all
North American rights to director Kim Farrant’s STRANGERLAND starring Academy Award® winner
Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving. The film premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic
Competition on Friday night at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival where it received a strong audience
response. The announcement was made today by Alchemy’s CEO Bill Lee. STRANGERLAND will receive a
multi-platform release later this year.
“Seeing the film with a full house confirmed our hopes and expectations,” said Lee. “STRANGERLAND is
a gorgeously shot, entertaining and thoughtful thriller that features a stellar cast and a particularly
riveting turn from Nicole Kidman.”
"We are thrilled to be working with Alchemy whose passion and vision for the film is very exciting,"
noted Naomi Wenck and Macdara Kelleher.
Written by Fiona Seres and Michael Kinirons and based on a story by Seres, STRANGERLAND is produced
by Macdara Kelleher and Naomi Wenck, and executive produced by Molly Conners, Maria Cestone,
Sarah E. Johnson, Adriana L. Randall, Andrew Mackie and Richard Payten. The film centers on a couple
that have recently transplanted to a remote Australian desert town. Their lives are flung into crisis when
they discover their two teenage kids have mysteriously disappeared just as a massive dust storm hits.
Alchemy VP of Acquisitions Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
Wild Bunch is handling foreign sales, with Transmission distributing in Australia and New Zealand.
Today’s acquisition follows the recent rebrand of Millennium Entertainment as Alchemy, a name that
embodies the company’s goals of uniting storytellers and their audiences in one dynamic community as
well as the belief that conventional distribution strategies must evolve to represent the future of screenbased storytelling—wherever that screen may be.
ABOUT ALCHEMY
Alchemy is a leading independent distributor of film and television content across all platforms and
windows in North America. Alchemy develops tailored distribution strategies across all platforms, from
theatrical release to home video, VOD, and television. Under CEO Bill Lee’s direction, the company has
distributed the work of some of the world’s finest filmmakers including Richard Linklater, Werner
Herzog, Gregg Araki, Dito Montiel, John Hillcoat, John Turturro, Lee Daniels, Oren Moverman and James
Cameron. Recent successes include ELSA & FRED, FADING GIGOLO, WHAT MAISIE KNEW, RAMPART,
and BERNIE.
Alchemy boasts the independent industry’s pre-eminent end-to-end supply chain solution for physical
and digital distribution of content to major retailers. The company has the largest footprint of any
independent supplier to bricks and mortar businesses, and is one of only two independent aggregators
for Target, where Alchemy represents 75% of all independent titles sold. It is also the leading supplier to
digital platforms including iTunes, Netflix and VOD.
The company owns a catalog of 665 film titles and has deals for the ongoing distribution of film titles
and programming for clients including PBS Distribution, Classic Media, nCircle, eOne, Magnolia,
MPI Home Media, FUNimation, Well Go, Music Box Films, Inception, Gravitas Ventures, and Hammer
Horror, among many others.