IFC Films has acquired the U.S. and Canadian rights to The Escape,  a drama from writer-director Dominic Savage starring Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Escape, which is heavily improvised, follows Tara (Arterton) who loves her children deeply and all…

There are few more intimate films at Toronto this year than Dominic Savage's The Escape, which follows Gemma Arterton's Tara as she is forced to engage with one of the last societal taboos, playing a wife and mother unsatisfied by a seemingly idyllic life and fighting to break free of her situation and the depression…

ABC has nabbed The Escape, a single-camera family comedy about three generations of men executive produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, with a put pilot commitment. Written by Dan Sterling, The Escape centers on a stressed-out urban professional who uproots himself and his troubled 19-year-old son to move to rural…