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Sydney-based sales agent Odins Eye Entertainment OEE has secured exclusive rights to writer-director Rick Alversons The Comedy in all territories outside of North America.Tribeca Enterprises acquired the film prior to the Cannes Film Festival.Starring Tim Heidecker, The Comedy explores the dangers of late-stage capitalism when wealth and entitlement render the privileged incapable of feeling empathy.Produced by independent record label Jagjaguwar, Brent Kunckle and Mike Ryan Junebug , the
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