Exclusive: AMC Networks’ streamer Shudder has picked up rights on Brandon Christensen’s Z and will premiere the movie May 7.
The film follows a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend, Z, may be terrifyingly real. The release is being timed for Mother’s Day.
Pic stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool). Christensen wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder, Christensen and Minihan produced.
The deal was negotiated by Emily Gotto on behalf of Shudder and by ICM on behalf of the filmmakers.
Genre-focused VOD service Shudder is available in the U.S.
The film follows a young mother who begins to fear her introverted son’s imaginary friend, Z, may be terrifyingly real. The release is being timed for Mother’s Day.
Pic stars Keegan Connor Tracy (Bates Motel), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Jett Klyne (The Boy), Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) and Stephen McHattie (Pontypool). Christensen wrote the screenplay with Colin Minihan. Chris Ball, Kurtis David Harder, Christensen and Minihan produced.
The deal was negotiated by Emily Gotto on behalf of Shudder and by ICM on behalf of the filmmakers.
Genre-focused VOD service Shudder is available in the U.S.
- 4/16/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Territory deals include Latin America, Japan and Cis.
London-based sales and financing company Amp International has secured a string of deals on its Canadian horror Z.
The film has sold to Latin America (Imagem), Japan (New Select), Cis (Paradise Mgn), Pan Asian Ptv/Ott (Fox Networks Group Asia), Middle East (Front Row), Greece (Odeon), Philippines and Malaysia (Metropolis Television Inc), Indonesia and Vietnam (Pt Cahaya Prima Film), Taiwan (Movie Cloud) and Thailand (SahaMongkol).
Z is the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minhan. Their previous film Still/Born was distributed internationally after premiering at the Overlook Film Festival.
London-based sales and financing company Amp International has secured a string of deals on its Canadian horror Z.
The film has sold to Latin America (Imagem), Japan (New Select), Cis (Paradise Mgn), Pan Asian Ptv/Ott (Fox Networks Group Asia), Middle East (Front Row), Greece (Odeon), Philippines and Malaysia (Metropolis Television Inc), Indonesia and Vietnam (Pt Cahaya Prima Film), Taiwan (Movie Cloud) and Thailand (SahaMongkol).
Z is the second collaboration between writer-director Brandon Christensen and writer-producer Colin Minhan. Their previous film Still/Born was distributed internationally after premiering at the Overlook Film Festival.
- 11/20/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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