Netflix buys Lucy Walker’s TIFF doc ‘Mountain Queen’ as heat builds on handful of acquisition titles

Wicked Little Letters, Hit Man, Knox Goes Away also generating interest.Netflix has picked up worldwide rights to Lucy Walker’s TIFF documentary Mountain Queen: The Summits Of Lhakpa Sherpa in its second buy of the festival.The streamer plans a 2024 launch for the story of the first Nepali woman to scale Mount Everest.

Sk Global Entertainment, Obb Pictures, Avocados and Coconuts produced and CAA Media Finance represented the filmmakers in the deal.On Monday night Netflix snapped up US and select territories on Woman Of The Hour in a deal understood to be valued at $10m.At time of…

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