Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions Acquires the North American Rights to Sarah Jessica Parker's HERE AND NOW

Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions announced today that it has acquired the North American rights to the Sarah Jessica Parker ("Divorce," "Sex and the City") drama HERE AND NOW (formerly titled Blue Night). The film will be distributed by Paramount Home Media Distribution on Digital and VOD beginning November 9, 2018, the same day that it will debut in theaters from AMBI Distribution.

HERE AND NOW premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival and boasts an all-star cast including Simon Baker (The Devil Wears Prada, "The Mentalist"), Common (Selma, Suicide Squad), Taylor Kinney ("Chicago Fire"), Waleed Zuaiter (20th Century Women, Sex and the City 2), with Jacqueline Bisset (Murder on the Orient Express) and Renée Zellweger (Chicago, Bridget Jones' Diary). Written by Laura Eason ("House of Cards"), the film marks the theatrical feature debut of director Fabien Constant (Mademoiselle C).

"Sarah Jessica Parker, Alison Benson and I fought so hard to bring HERE AND NOW to life because we all believed in the truth and depth of Vivienne and the characters around her," said Constant. "Drawing such a brutally honest portrait of a modern woman was a challenge that we happily took on full of passion and energy. That is why I couldn't be happier that Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions is now joining us on this journey, as it is an honor to have my first feature supported by such an iconic and respectable company. I could not be more grateful for the TRUST they are putting into this film."

Producer Alison Benson added, "It was the most rewarding creative experience for our team and now to be working with Paramount Worldwide Acquisitions is BEYOND anything we could have dreamed up."

In HERE AND NOW, Vivienne (Parker) lives in New York City as a singer/songwriter who has enjoyed a successful career with the help of her manager, Ben (Common). Upon receiving world-shattering news, she crisscrosses the city in a single day as she tries to balance her music, family, and friends, and reflect on her successes and failures. With the support of her worried mother Jeanne (Bisset) and ex-husband Nick (Baker), Vivienne strives to make peace with the city around her. The film is rated R for language and some sexuality.

HERE AND NOW was produced by Sarah Jessica Parker ("Divorce," "Sex in the City"), Alison Benson ("Divorce"), Andrea Iervolino (To The Bone, The Merchant of Venice) and Lady Monika Bacardi (To The Bone, In Dubious Battle) and was executive produced by Phil Hunt (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Compton Ross (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Black Mass), Anna Dokoza ("Flight of the Conchords"), and Luca Matrundola (In Dubious Battle).

About Paramount Home Media Distribution

Paramount Home Media Distribution (PHMD) is part of Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a major global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment. PPC is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), home to premier global media brands that create compelling television programs, motion pictures, short-form content, apps, games, consumer products, social media experiences and other entertainment content for audiences in more than 180 countries. The PHMD division oversees PPC's home entertainment and transactional digital distribution activities worldwide. The division is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment content on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television, Paramount Players, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and CBS and applicable licensing and servicing of certain DreamWorks Animation titles. PHMD additionally manages global licensing of studio content and transactional distribution across worldwide digital distribution platforms including online, mobile and portable devices and emerging technologies.

About AMBI Distribution

AMBI Group is a consortium of vertically integrated film development, production, finance and distribution companies wholly owned and operated by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Gomez del Campo Bacardi, Lady of Bayfield Hall, better known as "Monika Bacardi."

AMBI has emerged as one of the industry's most prolific financing, production and sales companies with the capacity to develop, package, finance, produce and distribute a broad array of films for the worldwide marketplace. Among the films on AMBI's burgeoning film slate are the father/son stock car racing film "Trading Paint," starring Two-time Oscar® nominee John Travolta, Shania Twain, Toby Sebastian and Michael Madsen; the romantic drama "Blue Night" starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Renée Zellweger, Common and Simon Baker; the thriller "Moose" starring John Travolta with Limp Bizkit front man, Fred Durst directing; Lamborghini biopic "Lamborghini - The Legend" starring Antonio Banderas and Alec Baldwin; the revenge thriller "Bent" from Academy Award® winner Bobby Moresco, starring Karl Urban, Sofia Vergara and Andy Garcia; the heist movie "Finding Steve McQueen," starring Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor, William Fichtner and Forest Whitaker, directed by Mark Steven Johnson; the Andrea Bocelli biopic "The Music of Silence", directed by Oscar® nominated Michael Radford and starring Antonio Banderas, Toby Sebastian and Jordi Molla; the psychological thriller "Black Butterfly" starring Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Rhys Meyers; the faith based children's film "Beyond the Sun," featuring His Holiness Pope Francis; and the 3D, CGI animated family film "Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad" starring Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin, Heidi Klum, John Cleese, James Franco and Anjelica Huston.

Photo Credit: Paul Schiraldi

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