Nicolas Cage’s ‘Dream Scenario’ Heads to Germany Via DCM (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEd Meza @edmezavar Berlin-based DCM Film Distribution has acquired Kristoffer Borgli’s surrealist comedy “Dream Scenario,” starring Nicolas Cage.
In the A24 satire, which premiered in Toronto before opening this year’s Zurich Film Festival, Cage plays a college professor whose life is turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. “We love ‘Dream Scenario,’” says Carl Rickmers, DCM’s newly appointed director of film acquisitions and sales. “It’s a unique, truly original premise, yet universal because it is so easy to get — imagine you suddenly become famous because you pop up in every person’s dream.
Beneath that of course is a smart satire and a meta level that provides room for discussions afterward. “Nic Cage and A24 — that’s a great match.
We wanted to be a part of that.” DCM also recently picked up Marianne Elliott’s U.K. drama “The Salt Path,” an adaptation of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir.
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