Focus World Acquires David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars

Focus World has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to acclaimed director David Cronenberg's (Scanners) new film, Maps to the Stars (2014), starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Carrie Fisher, and Olivia Williams. The film is expected to open in U.S. cinemas in early 2015.

Later this month, Maps to the Stars will have its North American theatrical premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Synopsis: The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Sanford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Christina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star.

One of Sanford's clients, Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the '60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night. Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha, has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania…