Music Box Films acquires French thriller TELL NO ONE

April 2, 2008

Tell No One

Music Box Films has acquired all US rights to Guillaume Canet’s suspense thriller Tell No One. Based on the international best-selling novel by Harlan Coben, the film was a box office smash in France and went on to win the Cesar award for Best Director and Best Actor (Francois Cluzet) and was one of the most popular French-language releases in recent years in the UK. Music Box will release the film to US cinemas beginning June 27, 2008.

In the film, Cluzet stars as a pediatrician Alexandre Beck who, as the story begins, is still grieving his beloved wife Margot murdered eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Beck becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when he receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a live video site that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to “Tell No One.” The cast also includes Kristin Scott-Thomas, Nathalie Baye, Jean Rochefort and Marina Hands. The acquisition was negotiated by Music Box Films partner William Schopf and Gregoire Melin for Europacorp.