Marking the first domestic deal of the Toronto Film Festival, IFC Films has nabbed U.S. distribution rights to James Gunn’s “Super,” starring Rainn Wilson as a husband who turns himself into the super hero Crimson Bolt after his wife is lost to a drug dealer. Pic also stars Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon. IFC will release “Super” through its new IFC Midnight banner. Gunn also wrote the film, which was produced by Miranda Bailey’s Ambush Entertainment and Ted Hope’s This Is That.
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