Searchlight Pictures Acquires 'Theater Camp'

Searchlight bought the film for a reported 8 million dollars.

Molly Gordon & Ben Platt in Theater Camp. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.

Theater Camp premiered at Sundance yesterday and immediately received positive reactions following its initial screening. Searchlight Pictures has taken advantage of the film’s early attention and bought the film’s distribution rights for a reported 8 million dollars, guaranteeing a worldwide theatrical release for the film.

The film is directed by Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman and is written by the two directors as well as two stars of the film, Ben Platt and Noah Galvin. The synopsis reads as follows: “THEATER CAMP follows the eccentric staff running a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York.  After its indomitable and beloved founder falls into a coma, they must band together with her clueless “crypto-bro” son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.”

Read our review of Theater Camp here.