Atom Egoyan’s Chloe has finally found a home in the U.S. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has picked up U.S. rights on the psychological thriller, which bowed at TIFF this September. The price was pegged in the low seven figures.

The picture stars Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried, and was produced by Ivan Reitman, Joe Medjuck and Jeffrey Clifford for Montecito Pictures. Service producers were Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss of Toronto’s The Film Farm. France’s StudioCanal fully financed the film and handled world sales. SPWAG said the film will be released in the spring of next year. E1 Films is distributing in Canada

The film, adapted by screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson from the 2003 French original Nathalie by Anne Fontaine, tells the story of a married woman (Moore) who suspects her husband (Neeson) of infidelity and hires a young seductress (Seyfried) to entrap him.

The deal was negotiated by Michael Helfand and Scott Shooman for SPWAG and by Harold van Lier and Anna Marsh, who negotiated on behalf of StudioCanal and the filmmakers.

In a statement, Reitman and his Montecito partner Tom Pollock, an executive producer, said, ‘We had a terrific world premiere at Toronto and many critics including Roger Ebert called Chloe one of Atom’s best and most commercial films. We are thrilled that Sony has recognised Chloe‘s potential and will be bringing the film to U.S. audiences.’

Chloe opened the San Sebastian Film Festival and is a gala presentation at the London Film Festival later this month.

Thus far StudioCanal has completed sales with Eagle in Italy, Pony Canyon in Japan, Nordisk in Scandinavia, Mars in South Korea, SPI in Eastern Europe, Gussi in Mexico, PlayArte in Brazil, Nu Metro in South Africa, Odeon in Greece, Gulf in the Middle East, and Lusomundo in Portugal. A distribution deal in Spain is also imminent.