Daily Variety
May 7, 2008 Wednesday

‘Adoration’ gets love

by WINTER MILLER

NEW YORK

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up domestic and select international
rights to Atom Egoyan’s "Adoration."

Pic, starring Rachel Blanchard, Scott Speedman, Arsinee Khanjian and
Devon Bostick, will preem in Competition at Cannes on May 22. Release
plans are to platform with a bow in the fourth quarter of this year.

Foreign territories in the deal include Latin America, Australia and
New Zealand, with additional rights still available through Maximum
Film Intl.

Contempo drama concern a teen who creates a false Internet persona and
goes in search of a family secret. Pic marks the seventh collaboration
between Egoyan and producer Robert Lantos.

In addition to Egoyan and Lantos, "Adoration" producers are Simone
Urdl and Jennifer Weiss, with Marcy Gerstein as associate producer.

Separately, Egoyan has nabbed the 2008 Dan David Prize for the arts,
which carries a $1 million purse to be shared with his fellow winners,
author Amos Oz and playwright Tom Stoppard. Cited for "superb
modernist filmmaking that explores Armenian history and culture,"
Egoyan will be honored with the others on May 19 in Israel before
President Shimon Peres.