Lionsgate/Roadside has acquired North American rights to Bill Pohlad's Beach Boys biopic Love & Mercy. A source pegs the deal at $3 million.
John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti star in the film that made its world premiere Sept. 7 at the Elgin Theatre.
Written by Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner, Love & Mercy chronicles Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson's decades-long struggles with mental health and substance abuse issues. Paul Dano and John Cusack play younger and older iterations of Wilson.
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