EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Normal , the action film directed by filmmaker Ben Wheatley, scripted by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad and starring Bob Odenkirk . The film was a big crowd-pleasing Midnight Madness title at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month. Magnolia has made a large commitment to acquire the film, and give it as wide a theatrical release next year as it has ever done in the company’s 20-year existence.

Perhaps the TIFF title with the most commercial potential, Normal is the latest collaboration between Odenkirk, Kolstad and producer Marc Provissiero . They teamed on Nobody , which became a sleeper hit that spawned a sequel Universal released last month. Normal stays squarely in the kinetic neo-Wester

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