Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights to “Barron’s Cove,” a kidnapping crime drama with Garrett Hedlund, Stephen Lang, Brittany Snow and Hamish Linklater. The film was written and directed by Evan Ari Kelman and had its world premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival. It will debut this summer.

“In ‘Barron’s Cove,’ Kelman nails the delicate balancing act of portraying the complexities of a father’s grief and rage while also telling a story that remains thrilling and suspenseful from start to finish, with an urgency that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats,” said Brennan Lane, director of acquisitions and production at Well Go USA. “That’s an especially impressive feat for a first-time director, and with his talent and ingenuity, we certainly consider him to be a filmmaker the industry should take notice of.” 

Speaking with Evan about BARRON’S COVE, it quickly became clear that he has a deep-rooted passion for this project and thanks to that passion, his thoughtfulness and attention to detail in bringing this story to life with believability and emotional resonance shines through on every level, starting with Garrett Hedlund’s outstanding performance as the grieving father Caleb, a man who channels rage into forgiveness and empathy, setting the path for the film’s emotional journey. 

Mandalay Pictures (Air) Yale Entertainment, and Post Film have partnered to produce a new thriller titled Barron’s Cove, starring Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound), Stephen Lang (Avatar), Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect, X), and Hamish Linklater (The Big Short).

The film will be directed by Evan Ari Kelman who also penned the script. The film is set to begin filming later this year. Yale Entertainment’s sales arm, Great Escape, will introduce the project to buyers at the Cannes market.

Evan Ari Kelman made mostly TV commercials and a few short films in New York before writing and directing the twisty thriller Barron’s Cove. He’s from Bridgehampton, but shot it in Massachusetts. He says the Hamps Fest was very supportive. “We sold out both screenings very quickly. It’s especially important to me because I’ve spent a lot of my life out here. I wrote it in Bridgehampton during COVID. It was very much inspired by the geography here.”

NEW YORK, NY, RALEIGH, NC, and LOS ANGELES, CA, Sept. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Picture House (OTC: APHP), an entertainment company that focuses on financing and producing feature films and limited series, and leveraging content-enhancing entertainment technologies, today announced the premier of the motion picture BARRON’S COVE on October 6 at the upcoming Hamptons International Film Festival (“HIFF”), an eleven-day event from October 4 through October 14.

BARRON’S COVE has made it into the semi-finals of the Academy’s prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting.

Last summer, just before the WGA and SAG went on a historic strike for workers’ rights and months before the area was taken over by construction, a film crew gathered on Springfield’s Court Square.

The crew, helmed by first-time director Evan Ari Kelman, was filming Kelman’s debut feature film, the crime thriller “Barron’s Cove.” The film is making its debut at the Hamptons International Film Festival in New York Oct. 6 and 7.

Producers, take note: Your next Best Picture winner could be here. The Black List unveiled its annual list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year December 13, as decided by a group of industry peers totaling 375 executives.

Garrett Hedlund (MUDBOUND, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) stars as a grieving father with a violent past who is shattered by the tragic death of his young son. Consumed with the need for answers, he kidnaps the child (Christian Convery) he believes is responsible for his son’s death, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by the kidnapped boy’s powerful politician father (Hamish Linklater). Writer/director Evan Ari Kelman’s twisty feature debut is a gripping thriller about a flawed father’s devotion to his son and the complicated nature of revenge.

RON Legacy and Mudbound‘s Garrett Hedlund has joined the ensemble cast of Evan Ari Kelman written-directed thriller Barron’s Cove. Being stumped at Cannes, Mandalay Pictures, Yale Entertainment, and Post Film will produce the pic, billed as a “poignant” pic about the unbreakable bond between fathers and sons.

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Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound), Stephen Lang (Avatar), Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect, X), and Hamish Linklater (The Big Short) are set to star in an upcoming crime thriller titled Barron’s Cove.

A study by Harvard Business School concluded that movies made from Black List scripts make 90 percent more in revenue than movies made from scripts not on the Black List.

Evan Ari Kelman graduated NYU Tisch in 2015, the same year his Narrative Workshop film BANDITO premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded the Wasserman Award for Directing at NYU….

Director Evan Ari Kelman has been selected for the 20th Annual SOOT New Directors Showcase. Read more.

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Mystic River meets Prisoners by way of Taylor Sheridan. This script made last year’s Black List with nine votes. A year earlier, it made the semi-finals of the Nicholl Fellowship. A reader from that contest characterized the script this way: “Barron’s Cove is probably the bleakest screenplay I’ve ever read. Its bleakness is only surpassed by its quality.” Read More.

Since 2005, the Black List has been taking a tally of industry executives’ favorite screenplays they’ve read in the past year that have yet to be filmed. Past listees include Oscar best picture winners like Slumdog Millionaire, Argo and The King’s Speech. Among recently produced former Black List screenplays are King Richard, 2021 box office break-out Free Guy and Promising Young Woman, with the latter earning the best original screenplay award at this year’s Oscars.

BARRON’S COVE from Evan Ari Kelman arrives on the 2021 Black List.