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A risky experiment with a striking payoff, “Ted K” is an impressionistic attempt to personalize the most unrelatable experience imaginable: life as a killer.

Prolific serial killers are often introduced with media-minded nicknames, making it easier for us simultaneously to separate from them and to connect with them. We look upon them as Other, but remain interested, reading and worrying and wondering until — and well after — they’re caught.

The Unabomber is among the most notable examples, with 26 victims spanning nearly two decades. His incomprehensible violence spurred the largest manhunt in FBI history, and as it went on, we all kept reading, and worrying, and wondering.

Director Tony Stone (“Peter and the Farm”) and his cowriters, John Rosenthal and Gaddy Davis, strip most of the rest away in an attempt to address the incomprehensibility. Certainly, the film’s generically ordinary title is no coincidence. Stone wants us to see Ted...

Ted K Trailer — Tony Stone‘s Ted K (2021) movie trailer has been released by Super Ltd. The Ted K trailer stars Sharlto Copley, Drew Powell, Travis W Bruyer, Wayne Pyle, Tahmus Rounds, Samantha Jones, Sal Rendino, Bob Jennings, Amber Rose Mason, Christian Calloway, and Keith Barber. Crew Tony Stone, Gaddy Davis, and John Rosenthal [...]

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Deals struck for UK, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

HanWay Films has closed a raft of deals on Tony Stone’s Unabomber drama Ted K, ahead of the Cannes Pre-Screenings.

The US feature, which premiered in Berlin’s Panorama strand in March, has been picked up for distribution in the UK and Ireland (Altitude), Italy (Movies Inspired), Scandinavia (NonStop), Portugal (Films4You), Greece (Odeon), Cis & Baltics (Paradise), Middle East (Front Row), ships and airlines (Horizon), Singapore (Shaw) and Latin America (CDC).

Cinetic Media previously negotiated a North America deal with Super Ltd, Neon’s boutique distribution label.

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For a criminal who revealed his agenda in exhaustively detailed black-and-white — via his famous essay “Industrial Society and the Future,” published in The Washington Post months ahead of his 1996 capture — Ted Kaczynski remains a somewhat unreadable figure. The domestic terrorist better known as the Unabomber killed three people and injured two dozen more in a national bombing campaign aimed at protesting man’s environmental destruction and technological dependence. Yet his manifesto shed little light on who he actually was, or how a mild-mannered math professor from Chicago grew into an eccentric, isolated survivalist and, eventually, FBI most-wanted material. That makes him a subject both fascinating and oddly resistant to dramatization, though that hasn’t stopped writers and filmmakers from trying over the years.

The latest such effort, Tony Stone’s growlingly moody “Ted K,” is a biopic that effectively honors its subject with its opaque severity. There’s little attempt...

Many movies endeavor to get inside the mind of a maniac, but “Ted K” goes straight to the source. draws on some 25,000 words of rambling diary entries from the lonely cabin-dweller, who raged against society from his secluded Montana cabin until his 1996 arrest. With a harrowing, disheveled Sharlto Copley at its center, the haunting, ambling narrative spends its entire unnerving runtime trapped inside Kaczynski’s head, where his disdain for technological progress and environmental destruction builds from small-scale sabotage to some of the worst acts of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski’s homemade bombs resulted in an assortment of horrible injuries and three deaths, with his targets ranging from an airline executive to a lobbyist. There’s no excuse for this behavior, and though the movie doesn’t try to make one, it gets close to his mindset. Like “Joker” without the exuberant blockbuster sheen, “Ted...

HanWay Films and Cinetic have boarded Berlin Film Festival entry Ted K for international and North American sales, respectively. The companies have also released a first look image.

Writer-director Tony Stone’s true crime drama, starring Sharlto Copley (District 9) as the ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, will play in the Panorama section of this year’s largely digital Berlinale.

The film tracks a period in the life of Kaczynski, more widely known as the Unabomber, and draws from his personal diaries and accounts from those who knew him during his life in hiding in a simple wooden cabin in the mountains of Montana.

According to the producers, a number of the film’s supporting cast are non-professional locals, some of whom knew Kaczynski, and the production worked closely with his former neighbors and employers to corroborate research and paint an authentic picture of the man.

Stone built a recreation of Kaczynski...

Sharlto Copley stars as Unabomber Ted Kaczynski in the true crime drama directed by Tony Stone.

HanWay Films has secured international sales rights to Tony Stone’s Unabomber drama Ted K, which is set to premiere in the Panorama strand of the industry-focused, online-only Berlin International Film Festival (March 1-5).

Cinetic Media will handle North America sales on the US feature, which stars Sharlto Copley as Ted Kaczynski, who is serving eight life sentences for waging a bomb campaign against individuals for nearly 20 years.

London-based sales outfit HanWay will begin discussing the feature with buyers during the virtual European Film...