Released into Irish cinemas last year, director/writer John Butler and co-writer and star Peter McDonald’s home grown comedy The Stag soon became a huge hit, grossing over €600,000 at the Ir is box office and bagging six IFTA nominations including Best Film. Now, we get word that the movie, which followed a group of friends reluctantly dragged on a stag party in the countryside, is being remade for American audiences (it was previously released on VOD in the U.S. as Bachelor Weekend) with Wraner Bros. acquiring the movie’s remake rights. The movie’s original producers, Rob Walpole and Rebecca O’Flanagan of Treasure Entertainment, will return as executive producers, with Warner Bros. bringing Jon Berg and Jon Gonda to oversee the project.
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Released into Irish cinemas last year, director/writer John Butler and co-writer and star Peter McDonald’s home grown comedy The Stag soon became a huge hit, grossing over €600,000 at the Ir is box office and bagging six IFTA nominations including Best Film. Now, we get word that the movie, which followed a group of friends reluctantly dragged on a stag party in the countryside, is being remade for American audiences (it was previously released on VOD in the U.S. as Bachelor Weekend) with Wraner Bros. acquiring the movie’s remake rights. The movie’s original producers, Rob Walpole and Rebecca O’Flanagan of Treasure Entertainment, will return as executive producers, with Warner Bros. bringing Jon Berg and Jon Gonda to oversee the project.
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