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EXCLUSIVE: Riverdale and Hustlers star Lili Reinhart is ready to steer thriller thriller American Sweatshop, whose producers embody Oscar winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and acclaimed American showrunner Tom Fontana (Oz) who will probably be producing his first characteristic.
Myriad Photos will probably be launching worldwide gross sales in Cannes after sealing a cope with Baltimore Photos and Germany-based Elsani & Neary. UTA Impartial Movie Group is dealing with North American gross sales.
In a tool pushed world, American Sweatshop will check out the toll of social media by the eyes of Daisy Moriarty (Reinhart), who whereas coping with a chaotic private life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the web. Moriarty, and a motley group of coworkers, toil in a cottage trade of businesses that consider dangerous and offensive photos and movies uploaded to social media. With indifferent warning and a deranged humorousness, they look at the thousands and thousands of posts that get “flagged for assessment.” However one significantly violent video grabs maintain of Daisy, luring her out of this workplace, away from the security of her keyboard and right into a harmful world as she obsessively seeks to carry somebody accountable.
Emmy nominee Uta Briesewitz, whose credit embody Stranger Issues, The Wheel Of Time, Westworld and This Is Us, will direct. Producers are Jason Sosnoff (The Survivor), Levinson, Fontana (who’s coming off AMC’s Monsieur Spade), and Anita Elsani (55 Steps).
Matthew Nemeth (Metropolis On A Hill) wrote the screenplay. Kirk D’Amico, Uta Briesewitz, Matthew Nemeth, Lili Reinhart, Catherine Hagedorn, and Joanna Plasky will function govt producers.
Pic is supported by the German regional fund Movie und Medienstiftung NRW and is slated to start manufacturing in Cologne, Germany this summer time.
“Many people have a narrative to inform about an expertise with the darkish facet of the web— and it is horrifying that the violence we’re uncovered to each day is rewiring our brains,” mentioned Lili Reinhart, “American Sweatshop tackles this topic in an ingenious and interesting approach that had me hooked from web page one. I am thrilled to be working with Uta on this topical and slyly entertaining movie.”
Kirk D’Amico added: “We’re very happy to current this very unique movie which stars Lili Reinhart as a reviewer of social media posts that are deemed questionable, a job nobody desires. Uta Briesewitz’s directorial imaginative and prescient will give audiences a thought-provoking look into the darkish facet of the web. It is a well timed and compelling story.”
Reinhart just lately wrapped starring in and producing the unbiased restricted collection Hal & Harper reverse Mark Ruffalo. Final 12 months, she executive-produced and starred within the Netflix characteristic Look Each Methods. Briesewitz’s credit as a DoP embody The Wire and Hung.
Reinhart is repped by Nameless Content material, UTA, and Peikoff Mahan Legislation Workplace. Briesewitz is repped by UTA.
