Newmarket is not ‘Agora’-phobic

I have to admit my interest (such as it was) in Alejandro Amenabar’s Agora starring Rachel Weisz cooled somewhat  as the luke warm reviews started to waft in at Cannes, but I was a little surprised it took so long to pick up a US distributor. Now it has one.

Perhaps encouraged by the box office records it broke in its home country of Spain, Newmarket Films grabbed Agora for release in the US in the first half of 2010.

In case you’d forgotten, this is the one where Weisz plays Hypatia of Alexandria, a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer who was murdered by a Christian mob in 391 AD.

source: indieWIRE

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Tags: Agora, Alejandro Amenabor, Rachel Weisz