Arclight Topper Gary Hamilton Discusses AFM’s ‘New Normal’

Arclight Topper Gary Hamilton Discusses AFM’s ‘New Normal’

by Dave McNary, Variety

11/09/2020

Gary Hamilton, longtime managing director of Los Angeles-based Arclight Films, is preparing for his 36th American Film Market amid the profound changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. His credits include Daniel Radcliffe starrer “Escape From Pretoria” (pictured), “Hotel Mumbai,” “First Reformed,” “Triple Threat,” “Predestination,” “Dog Eat Dog” and “Jungle” starring Radcliffe. Arclight’s AFM sales slate includes Australian historical drama “The Furnace”; coming-of-age story “Chasing Wonders,” starring Paz Vega and Edward James Olmos; martial-arts film “The Foggy Mountain”; thrillers “Bloody Hell” and “Let It Snow”; “The King’s Daughter,” starring Pierce Brosnan and Kaya Scodelario; “Twist,” starring Michael Caine, Lena Headey and Rita Ora; “Here Are the Young Men,” starring Travis Fimmel, Dean-Charles Chapman, Finn Cole and Anya Taylor-Joy; “Possessor,” starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Sean Bean and Jennifer Jason Leigh; and the horror-thriller “The Devil to Pay,” starring Danielle Deadwyler, Catherine Dyer and Jayson Warner Smith.