“Ruben Brandt, Collector” Gets Picked Up By Sony Pictures Classic

And we know when it’s gonna hit theaters.

Sony Pictures Classic has picked up indie darling Ruben Brandt, Collector for American theatrical distribution expected to hit late 2018/early 2019 in time for the Academy Awards.

Brilliant psychotherapist Ruben Brandt suffers from wild, reality-twisting nightmares. The only possible treatment is to rob 25 paintings from the most famous museums in the world. Each day, Ruben Brandt and his gang strike: The Louvre, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Uffizi, the Hermitage…. In twenty days they commit twenty robberies.

The international media are rife with sensational reports and wild speculation about the enigmatic crimes. Ruben Brandt and his team soon become the most wanted criminals in the world. With each theft, the price on their heads rises exponentially, reaching one billion dollars. An army of hell-bent bounty hunters, gangsters and adventurers are mobilized.

Mike Kowalski, a private detective from Washington, D.C. and a leading expert on museum robberies and international art trafficking, is entrusted with the investigation of the “Collector Case.” As Kowalski discovers a pattern to the robberies, predicting which painting will be next, the danger intensifies as the underworld gets wind of his investigation. Then he discovers a shocking family secret, which connects him to the “Collector.”