Sundance: Alchemy Buys Rights to Political Thriller ‘Zipper’

“Zipper,” a ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, has sold North American rights to Alchemy.

The film will be released in theaters and on-demand later this year. As the title suggests, the film is about an Eliot Spitzer-esque politician who can’t keep it zipped, leading to all sorts of headaches. In Variety, critic Geoff Berkshire offered a mixed appraisal, calling it, “tawdry but cripplingly self-serious.”

Mora Stephens directs and Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, Dianna Agron, Ray Winstone, Richard Dreyfuss and John Cho star in the film.

Alchemy is the new moniker for Millennium Entertainment, which rebranded after CEO Bill Lee and Virgo Investment Group partnered to acquire the company’s catalog and distribution operations from a group of investors.

Alchemy vice president of acquisitions Jeff Deutchman negotiated the deal with CAA and Cinetic on behalf of the filmmakers. Cargo Entertainment will be handling international rights at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.

This is the company’s second deal at Sundance. Earlier in the festival Alchemy nabbed rights to “Strangerland,” starring Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes.

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