{"id":959109,"date":"2026-05-14T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959109\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:55:34","slug":"signature-nabs-u-k-rights-to-aaron-eckharts-deep-water-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959109\/","title":{"rendered":"Signature Nabs U.K. Rights to Aaron Eckhart&#8217;s &#8216;Deep Water&#8217; (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/signature-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_signature-entertainment_1\" data-tag=\"signature-entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Signature Entertainment<\/a> have acquired the U.K. &amp; Irish rights to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/aaron-eckhart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aaron-eckhart_1\" data-tag=\"aaron-eckhart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aaron Eckhart<\/a>\u2018s survival thriller, Deep Water, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ben-kingsley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ben-kingsley_1\" data-tag=\"ben-kingsley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Kingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDirected by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2), the Arclight Film project is written by Shayne Armstrong (Acolytes) and S.P. Krause (The Darkness). It follows a plane that goes down in the middle of the Pacific in deadly, shark-infested waters. Terrified, the eclectic group of passengers is forced to work together to escape the sinking aircraft and the frenzy of sharks swarming below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAn exclusive still of the film, released to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, shows the pair in pilot attire ahead of their ill-fated flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tProducers include Dale G. Bradley and Grant Bradley, Adri\u00e1n Guerra, Gary Hamilton, Ryan Hamilton, Neal Kingston, Robert Van Norden, Bob Yari and Ying Ye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe deal was negotiated between Signature Entertainment\u2019s chief commercial officer, Elizabeth Williams and Arclight Film\u2019s Gary Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWilliam said Signature is \u201cextremely pleased\u201d to be bringing Harlin\u2019s \u201csuper entertaining thriller\u201d to U.K. and Irish audiences. \u201cThe top-level cast add brilliant performances and heart to a rollicking crowd pleaser of an action spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHamilton added: \u201cWe\u2019re excited to continue our great relationship with Marc and Elizabeth and the rest of Signature team on Arclight blockbuster Deep Water.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tU.S. star Eckhart is best known for his performance opposite Julia Roberts in 2000\u2019s Erin Brockovich, and later, in Christopher Nolan\u2019s Batman film The Dark Knight as DA Harvey Dent (and Two-Face). Kingsley, on the other hand, is a British actor who became an Academy Award winner for Richard Attenborough\u2019s 1982 movie Gandhi. He\u2019s also famed for Bugsy and Sexy Beast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signature Entertainment have acquired the U.K. &amp; Irish rights to Aaron Eckhart\u2018s survival thriller, Deep Water, with Ben&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[259806,232403,748,393,4884,522,1144,712,267950,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-959109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-aaron-eckhart","10":"tag-ben-kingsley","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-international","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-signature-entertainment","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116572567992757904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}