Alpha Gang, Back in Black and Bucking Fastard Stand Out on Screen's
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The Zellner brothers' alien biker comedy and a Christopher Walken mortician comedy join Werner Herzog's latest on Toronto's sales slate
Screen International's guide to TIFF acquisition titles spotlights several films available to buyers. David and Nathan Zellner's Alpha Gang, an absurdist sci-fi comedy about aliens who invade Earth posing as a biker gang in the 1950s, premiered at Telluride and stars Cate Blanchett, Dave Bautista, Chris Pine and Lea Seydoux, with CAA Media Finance handling North American sales and mk2 films handling international. Ron Murphy's Canadian feature Back In Black, playing in the Centrepiece program, stars Christopher Walken as a foul-mouthed mortician in a small town whose low death rate threatens his business, with Embankment Films handling worldwide sales. Werner Herzog's Bucking Fastard arrives for its Canadian premiere after Venice and Telluride, starring real-life sisters Rooney Mara and Kate Mara as two sisters who fall for the same man, played by Orlando Bloom.