Tribeca nabs 'Collaborator'

'Collaborator'Tribeca Film has acquired U.S. privileges to Martin Donovan's "Collaborator," the comedy-drama that bowed this past year in the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Written and directed by thesp Donovan in the directorial debut, pic focuses on a playwright who's held hostage in the childhood home by his old neighbor. Donovan leads a cast which includes David Morse and Olivia Williams. Julien Favre, Ted Hope, Luca Matrundola and Pascal Vaguelsy created the film. Tribeca's Nick Savva inked the distribution cope with Hope with Charlotte now Mickie of Entertainment One, the organization which will handle some U.S. homevid distribution privileges. Tribeca, the Gotham-based distributor loosely associated with the Tribeca Film Festival, plans a summer time release on multiple platforms, with specifics still to become set. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com