'Friends With Kids' U.S. privileges offered

"Buddies With Kids"Lionsgate and Kerbside Points of interest have acquired U.S. privileges to Jennifer Westfeldt's ensemble comedy ''Friends With Kids,'' per week after its premiere in the Toronto Film Festival.Kerbside Points of interest will release "Buddies with Kids" theatrically early in the year.Offer closed Sunday around the final day's the festival. Deal was the very first TIFF purchase to Lionsgate. Kerbside Points of interest will release "Buddies with Kids" theatrically early in the year.''Friends with Kids,'' shot in NY early this season, stars Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Adam Scott, Megan Fox, Kristen Wiig, Edward Burns, Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd. Written and directed by Westfeldt (''Kissing Jessica Stein''), pic focuses on several buddies whose life is transformed because the couples within the group start having children. Westfeldt and Scott portray close friends who launch a romance while trying to prevent the anticipation of a relationship. Hamm, Wiig, Rudolph and O'Dowd are probably the pals with kids. ''Friends'' is created by Westfeldt and Hamm's Points West Pictures and Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland's Red-colored Granite Pictures. Pic may be the first for production companies. Producers are Westfeldt, Hamm, Joshua Astrachan, John Kasdan, Joey McFarland and Riza Aziz. Executive producers are Mike Nichols, John Sloss, Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Joe Gatta with Kathryn Dean co-creating.Cinetic Media handled U.S. privileges and Red-colored Granite is handling worldwide sales. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com