LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – The cop drama "The Son of No One," which became a hot topic at Sundance after a dozen or so audience members walked out of the theater during a screening, has landed a U.S. distributor.

Anchor Bay has paid about $2 million for rights to writer-director Dito Montiel's picture, which stars Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta and Tracy Morgan.

The film's world premiere was the closing-night selection at the festival on Friday. The walkouts occurred during a screening for press and industry on January 24.

Tatum stars as a young Queens police officer who must face his dark past when a longtime secret bubbles to the surface.

"Atmospheric and intriguing but not wholly satisfying, it has enough genre appeal and star power to sell some tickets but may not benefit from word of mouth," according to The Hollywood Reporter's review.

Sundance Institute

Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to inform, inspire, and unite diverse populations around the globe. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America.