Toronto: Tribeca Attaches Itself To Tony Kayes Detachment

Tribeca Film has acquired U.S. distribution privileges to Tony Kaye’s ensemble drama Detachment and plans a 2012 theatrical release which will run day-and-date with VOD and digital distribution. Adrien Brody stars as an alternative teacher who finds his purpose when he’s designated to some public school, being a role model towards the disaffected youth. Christina Hendricks, James Caan, Marcia Gay Harden, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner,Tim Blake Nelson, Bryan Cranston and William Petersen also star within the film, which opened this season in the Tribeca fest.Detachment is created by Paper Street Films Austin Stark, Benji Kohn, Chris Papavasiliou and Bingo Gubelmann Kingsgate Films Greg Shapiro and Carl Lund, who authored the script. It's executive created by Brody, Peter Sterling and Andre Laport. Marco Frigeri is co-executive producer. The film from Kaye, the director of yankee History X, was offered by ICM, that also reps Kaye ICM also offered Canadian privileges about the film to Mongrel Media and French privileges to Pretty Pictures. Tribeca’s Nick Savva and Randy Manis discussed the U.S. deal.