Glendyn Ivin’s Last Ride gets US theatrical release three years after local release

An Australian film released in 2009 with Hugo Weaving in the lead role has been picked up for US theatrical release.

With Content Films International the film’s sales agent, Music Box Films, picked up Last Ride for a 5 July release, beginning first in New York and Los Angeles.

Music Box Films recently also bought the same distribution company that will release Cate Shortland’s Lore in the US.

The film was directed by Beaconsfield’s Glendyn Ivin, about a father and son who drive across Australia on the run from the law.

The film, which was written by Mac Gudgeon and based on a Denise Young novel and produced by Antonia Barnard and Nicholas Cole.