Anchor Bay acquires Ratner-produced 'Mother's Day'

Brett Ratner may be out as Oscar producer, but he's still making deals: Anchor Bay Films has acquired the horror film "Mothering Sunday,Inch which Ratner and Richard Saperstein produced with Jay Stern, John Witten, Jessie Rusu, Curtis Leopardo and Shara Kay. Darren Lynn Bousman directs what Anchor Bay describes just like a loose remake in the original Troma film of the title directed by Charles Kaufman. Rebecca DeMornay, Jamie King, Deborah Ann Woll and Shawn Ashmore star. Anchor Bay made the announcement Wednesday, the best day's the American Film Market -- together with a following day of Ratner left as producer in the Academy awards over utilizing an anti-gay slur within a screening of "Tower Heist" the other day. "Mothering SundayInch concentrates on a bank robbery gone wrong with three brothers and sisters vulnerable to home, only to uncover their mother lost the house in the house foreclosures. The completely new entrepreneurs in addition to their site visitors, collected with an ill-timed special birthday, end up being the brothers' unwitting hostages. Deal was talked about by Josh Thomashow and Kevin Kasha for Anchor Bay Films and Ben Weiss from Paradigm for your film. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com