At the Cannes Film Festival, the international rights to Irish director Lenny Abrahamson's new film Room, which is based on the Emma Donoghue bestseller of the same name, have completely sold out.
Among the territories where the film has been sold are: the UK, France, Germany, Benelux, Poland, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain, Greece, Israel, the Middle East, South Africa, Latin America, Australia, Japan and Canada.
Room stars Brie Larson (Short Term 12, The Spectacular Now), Jacob Tremblay (The Smurfs 2, Somnia), Joan Allen (The Bourne Supremacy, Nixon) and William H Macy (Shameless, Magnolia), with Donoghue adapting her book for the screen.
Room tells the story of a five-year-old boy (Tremblay) growing up with his mother (Larson) in a shed which he believes is the whole world, while she hides from him the fact that they are captives.
The novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker, Orange and Commonwealth Prizes and sold over two-and-a-half million copies in English and was translated into 35 other languages.
Irish company Element Pictures was among the producers on Room, in association with Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board.
