Anchor Bay acquires Ratner-created 'Mother's Day'

Brett Ratner might be out as Oscar producer, but he's still making deals: Anchor Bay Films has acquired the horror film "A Birthday," which Ratner and Richard Saperstein created with Jay Stern, John Witten, Jessie Rusu, Curtis Leopardo and Shara Kay. Darren Lynn Bousman directs what Anchor Bay describes like a loose remake from the original Troma film of the identical title directed by Charles Kaufman. Rebecca DeMornay, Jamie King, Deborah Ann Woll and Shawn Ashmore star. Anchor Bay made the announcement Wednesday, the ultimate day's the American Film Market -- along with a next day of Ratner left as producer from the Oscars over using an anti-gay slur throughout a screening of "Tower Heist" a week ago. "A Birthday" focuses on a bank robbery gone wrong with three siblings at risk of home, simply to uncover their mother lost the home inside a foreclosures. The brand new proprietors as well as their visitors, collected to have an ill-timed birthday celebration, get to be the brothers' unwitting hostages. Deal was discussed by Josh Thomashow and Kevin Kasha for Anchor Bay Films and Ben Weiss from Paradigm for that film. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com