Row K Entertainment has picked up the North American rights to Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire after a world premiere in Venice and a North American premiere at TIFF on Sunday night.
The film, starring Bill Skarsgard, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha’la, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino, has a script by Austin Kolodney, and centers on Tony Kiritzis, an Indianapolis man who poured his life savings into a real estate investment, the sale of which, he felt, was then deliberately sabotaged by his mortgage broker, thrusting him into a rage.
Dead Man’s Wire will be the first release for Row K, which launched in August 2025 as part of Media Capital Technologies.
“When we launched Row K less than a month ago we knew the type of movies, and even more importantly, filmmakers, that we wanted to align ourselves with, which is why we could not be more energized to work alongside Gus Van Sant and the cast of Dead Man’s Wire to bring this story to audiences across the United States and Canada,” MCT Principals and Row K co-chairman Christopher Woodrow and Raj Singh said in a statement.
“Gus Van Sant has crafted yet another masterful work that audiences are already embracing around the world,” Row K President Megan Colligan added in her own statement.
The acquisition was negotiated Cassian Elwes of Elevated Films and Paula Paizes and Sam Pressman of Pressman Film for the filmmakers, with WME Independent represents the worldwide rights for the film.
MCT and Row K are both represented by CAA.