YEREVAN, JULY 12, ARMENPRESS. The Captive by Canadian-Armenian filmmaker and screenwriter Atom Egoyan will be shown in cinemas worldwide starting from August 21 of the current year. As reports “Armenpress” citing vokrug.tv website, the movie created by the joint efforts of Ego Film Arts and The Film Farm has already been displayed at the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival.

The Captive, formerly Queen of the Night, is an upcoming Canadian thriller film directed by Atom Egoyan and co-written with David Fraser. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand and Alexia Fast. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

The shooting of the film began in February 2013 in Sudbury, Ontario. Ahead of its premiere on May 16, 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival, distributor A24, in partnership with DirecTV, purchased the U.S. rights to the film.