IFC Films Snaps Up Super at TIFF

IFC Films has acquired the U.S. rights to distribute James Gunn’s super hero comedy, Super.  According to the press release, IFC films will release Super under it’s new IFC Midnight banner.

The film premiered Friday, September 10th at the Toronto Film Festival to a fantastic audience response that led to an all night auction for the rights, in which IFC films was victorious.

In Super, Rainn Wilson plays Frank, whose wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him for a drug dealer (played by Kevin Bacon) and becomes a man with a mission.  With a crudely made super hero costume and a wrench, Frank transforms himself into a superhero named the Crimson Bolt.  Ellen Page plays Boltie, the Crimson Bolt’s crazed sidekick, who helps the Crimson Bolt in his quest to fight crime and save his wife.

Once the deal was brokered, James Gunn said “I never had to compromise in the making of this movie and I couldn’t be more excited to have found a distribution partner wanting to embrace the extremities and balls-to-the-walls qualities of SUPER.”

President of IFC Entertainment, Jonathan Serling, added ” “James Gunn has made one of the most creative and subversive films of the year with an outstanding cast including Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon. This is exactly the kind of film we want the IFC Midnight brand to be associated with.”