Film News Roundup: Comedy ‘Save Yourselves!’ Bought by Bleecker Street

In today’s film news roundup, “Save Yourselves!” and “Becoming” find homes, Cast & Crew buys Media Services, “Parasite” is getting a Criterion special edition and MethodFest unveils early titles.AcquisitionsBleecker Street has bought worldwide distribution rights to the survivalist romantic comedy “Save Yourselves!”The film, directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson from their own script, stars Sunita Mani and John Reynolds, who portray a Brooklyn couple who find themselves dependent on technology and unable to put down their phones.

They seize the chance to head to an isolated cabin in the woods but are blissfully unaware when aliens attack the earth.“Save Yourselves!” premiered at Sundance in the dramatic competition.

It will be released in theaters in the summer.The film is produced by Keshet Studios’ Mandy Tagger Brockey and Adi Ezroni, alongside Kara Durrett.****Gravitas Ventures has bought North American rights to the horror thriller “Becoming,

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