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The distributor has acquired all North American rights from Myriad Pictures to the crime drama starring Jim Sturgess and Isabel Lucas. Separately, Kino Lorber has acquired The Wanted 18 and Starz will release Every Secret Thing.

Electric Slide (pictured) premiered at Tribeca earlier in the year and tells of a broke 1980’s Los Angeles furniture store owner who embarks on a string of bank robberies with his lover.

Tristan Patterson directed from his own screenplay based on an article by Timothy Ford.

Rounding out the key cast are Chloe Sevigny, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Lambert and Vinessa Shaw.

Media House Capital and Myriad Pictures co-financed the film and Myriad handles world sales.

Myriad chief Kirk D’Amico produced with Hans Ritter and Killer Films’ Christine Vachon. Philip von Alvensleben served as executive producer alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Ford, Brad Simpson, Media House Capital’s Aaron Gilbert and Pat Murray, Jacob Pechenik of Venture Forth, Eric Eisner and [link...

Electric Slide

Director: Tristan Patterson

Writer: Tristan Patterson

Producers: Myriad Pictures’ Kirk D’Amico, Skyscraper Films’ Hans Ritter & Killer Films’ Christine Vachon

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Isabel Lucas, Vinessa Shaw, Chloë Sevigny, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Lambert

His award-winning debut Dragonslayer was a major achievement for a debut and played extremely well on the indie docu circuit, and we’re thinking Tristan Patterson might be excessively fine-tuning his introduction to this non-fiction true crime story as to not appear like your run-of-the-mill caper film.

Gist: Based on the article “The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World’s Great Bank Robber”, written by Timothy Ford and scripted by Patterson, this tells the true story of suave hipster and celebrity-magnet Eddie Dodson, who in 1980s Los Angeles owned and ran one of the city’s most stylish art deco furniture stores and happened to rob...

With heavy critical praise (we were huge fans of the film here on the site) his award-winning debut Dragonslayer (Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Documentary at SXSW in 2011) made the type of waves that essentially jettisoned it’s filmmaker into a larger land of opportunity and a rapid shift from docu to narrative. Tristan Patterson didn’t rob the bank, but lucked out with what looks to be a heck of a modern Bonnie & Clyde tale in Electric Slide which will feature the name cast of Jim Sturgess, Isabel Lucas, Vinessa Shaw, Chloë Sevigny, Patricia Arquette and Christopher Lambert. Production began in October of 2012, so this is more than ready to showcase and find a distribution deal.

Gist: Based on the article “The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World’s Great Bank Robber”, written by Timothy Ford and scripted by Patterson, this tells the true...

By now you’ve probably noticed that Steve got an ungodly amount of material from this year’s American Film Market (Afm). The place where buyers and sellers do business to bring you the films you’ll hopefully be seeing in the near future, Afm has tons of artwork and synopses which are used to promote films but which we will use to bring you news on these films.

Below you’ll find images and synopses for Burke and Hare, Cash, Effie, Main St., The Electric Slide, and The Irishman. Hit the jump to check them all out. Also, all the synopses are copied down directly from the original materials with no editorial alterations. You can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 by click on their respective links.

Burke And Hare, directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London)

William Burke and William Hare are scratching out a living in 1830s Edinburgh.

Ewan McGregor and Carey Mulligan are in negotiations to star in "The Electric Slide" for Myriad Pictures, according to Variety.

The flick is based on Timothy Ford's article "The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World's Great Bank Robber." Tristan Patterson wrote the screenplay and will direct.

McGregor will star as Dodson, who robbed more than 70 banks in the 1980s before the FBI caught him.

McGregor was last seen in "Deception." He has tons of projects coming up, including "I Love You Philip Morris," "Angels & Demons" and "The Ghost."

As for Mulligan, her credits include "Pride & Prejudice" and "And When Did You Last See Your Father?" She will also be seen in Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" and "Brothers."

"Slide" marks Patterson's directorial debut.

Ewan McGregor and Carey Mulligan are in talks to star in Myriad Pictures' The Electric Slide , on which Tristan Patterson will make his directing debut. Patterson's screenplay is based on the article "The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World's Great Bank Robber," written by Timothy Ford for Gear magazine. In the 1980s, Dodson (McGregor) robbed more than 72 banks in the Los Angeles area before the FBI nailed him. Christine Vachon, Brad Simpson, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Jocelyn Hayes are producing.

Ewan McGregor is in talks to rob banks in a new film based on real events. The actor is negotiating to headline a new film about the "world's great bank robber."

"The Electric Slide" is based on Timothy Ford's Gear magazine article, "The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World's Great Bank Robber."

The film tells the true story of antique furniture salesman, Eddie Dodson, who was unsatisfied with the parties and celebrity friends that his shop brought him in the '80s. He then decided that the only way to impress his new girlfriend was to take a risk. So he robbed a bank.

Dodson went on to rob more than 72 banks in Los Angeles before the FBI finally caught up to him...

Ewan McGregor is the world’s greatest bank robber.Don’t worry, though, readers (and, indeed, the Empire lawyers; and any members of the Metropolitan Police, who might be preparing to feel Ewan’s collar) – it’s only a movie.McGregor, who’s becoming increasingly busy of late now that he seems to have stopped zooming around the world on a motorbike, is in talks to star in The Electric Slide, a movie that documents the incredible true-life adventures of Eddie Dodson, aka The Yankee Bandit.During the early 1980s, Dodson – an antiques dealer who turned to robbery to feed a heroin addiction, and who was known as the Yankee Bandit because of his propensity for wearing a Yankee ball cap - robbed an astonishing 72 banks in the Los Angeles area, without using violence.He was eventually arrested by the pesky Feds, and died in 2003 after a couple of stints in prison.

Once again I bring you the best round-up of all the movie updates announced in this past week's trade reports. Why read a Ton of articles when you can read just one? This week we get new cast members added to films such as Law Abiding Citizen and Carmel. An unlikely trio may team up for a DreamWorks Animated feature. John Carpenter returns to the director's chair with Amber Heard who will also join Johnny Depp in Rum Diary. Jennifer Lopez may be in another movie and that Judy Garland biopic may be quite good. Oh, and Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman are teaming for a new film and check out the casting on Mary, Mother of Christ, that could potentially be a decent little flick. Check out the full list and links are available if the film is in the database already. Enjoy! Title: Law Abiding Citizen

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Ewan McGregor is in talks to star in The Electric Slide, which is based on the true story of Los Angeles-based furniture salesman turned bank robber named Eddie Dodson. Carey Mulligan, who recently received acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for her role in Bad Education, is also joining the film. It centers on Dodson, who owned a high-end boutique furniture store on Melrose Avenue in L.A. in the 1980s. McGregor will play Dodson, while Mulligan will play his girlfriend. He lived the Hollywood lifestyle, partying and hanging out with celebrity friends, when he fell in love and took the biggest risk of his life to impress his new girlfriend -- he robbed a bank. Dodson went on to rob more than 72 banks in the L.A. area before the FBI finally nailed him. Tristan Patterson, who wrote the script based on Timothy Ford's Gear magazine article "The...