From www.screendaily.com- California-based Essential Entertainment has picked up Middle Men for the Cannes film festival.
The sales, distribution and financing outfit will be handling international sales of the film.
Directed by George Gallo, Middle Men is based on a true story and follows a straight laced businessman who builds the first online billing company dealing exclusively with adult entertainment. He finds himself caught between the Russian mob, a 23-year-old porn star and the FBI in his bid to make money.
The cast includes Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Laura Ramsey, Christopher McDonald, Kelsey Grammer, Gabriel Macht, Jacinda Barrett, Kevin Pollak, Robert Forster and James Caan.
The film was financed through Christopher Mallick’s Oxymoron Entertainment and is produced by Mallick and Blue Star Entertainment’s William Sherak and Jason Shuman along with Michael Weiss.
