John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAlarm Pictures has closed North American rights from Hewes Pictures on “The Protector,” the latest film from Canadian writer-director Lenin M.
Sivam, in advance of its July 28 world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival.The U.S. streaming release date is set for Monday, Jan.
23. Limited theatrical openings begin the Friday prior at New York’s Film Noir and at Cinema iPic on Sunset in Los Angeles, where the film will run for one week a piece.U.K.
and Ireland rights to “The Protector” have been acquired by Reel 2 Reel Film/Trinity Entertainment. Level Film will release “The Protector” in Canada.A U.K.-based film distributor that this year picked up Serbian-German actor Branko Tomovic’s folk horror “Vampir,” Alarm Pictures specialises in edgy yet commercial “genre” film titles.
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