Screen Media Films has acquired U.S. rights to Paul Bettany’s Shelter. The film, which made its world premiere in September at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, stars Bettany’s wife, Jennifer Connelly, and Anthony Mackie. Shelter marks Bettany’s directorial debut from a script he wrote. Screen Media Films will release the movie theatrically with VOD day and date in 2015; the film will then be available on Netflix. Bettany said, “Shelter is not a polemic about homelessness being bad; every decent human being should know that it is so. It is a film about judgment and love — the world is complex and we are all innocents, all worthy of forgiveness and all worthy of a home. Screen Media Films has a proud history of making socially responsible films, and I am honored to partner with them.”
