'Artist' to Entertainment

"The Artist" Entertainment Film Entrepreneurs has acquired U.K. rights to Michel Hazanavicus' black-and-white-colored quiet pic "The Artist." Distrib acquired the title within the Weinstein Co., which bought multiterritory rights -- the U.S., Blighty and Oz -- for your pic from Wild Bunch pre-Cannes for low seven figures. Village Roadshow will release the pic australia wide. Since the Cannes Film Festival, where it carried out competing, numerous entrepreneurs in Blighty were competing for your pic before TWC elected for Entertainment incorporated inside a bundle. Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, Missi Pyle, John Goodman, James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Burns star inside the pic, occur 1927 Hollywood. Story follows a basic celebrity who miracles once the arrival of speaking pictures will finish his career. Hazanavicius composed the script. Entertainment presently gets the No. 1 film within the U.K. box office: "The Inbetweeners," good hit sitcom, has already established $62.6 000 0000, the finest-grossing independent comedy ever inside the U.K. But Timur Bekmambetov's "Apollo 18," which TWC clicked on up within the American Film Market a year ago, has underperformed for Entertainment in Blighty: the sci-fi thriller needed $228,000 within the second weekend, losing 74% for just about any $1.6 000 0000 cume.Entertainment may also be skedded to produce Luc Besson's "The Lady,Inch which preemed in Toronto now. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com