Cannes: IFC Films, Shudder Buy Isabel May Film ‘Menace'(EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor IFC Films and Shudder have acquired the North American rights to Spooky Pictures’ and Image Nation Abu Dhabi’s “Menace” out of the Cannes market.
The indie labels also nabbed distribution rights to the sci-fi horror film in the U.K. and Ireland, as well as Australia and New Zealand, in its first Cannes pick-up. “Menace” will premiere in 2025.
IFC Films and Shudder, which share a parent company in AMC Networks, recently partnered on “Late Night With the Devil,” which became IFC Films’ highest-grossing opening weekend ever and is now approaching $10 million in domestic ticket sales.
They also teamed up on “Watcher,” a 2022 psychological thriller. Directed by Randall Okita, whose previous feature “See For Me” was also released by IFC Films, the film follows a research student (Isabel May), who has a psychotic breakdown and is remanded to the custody of her aunt and uncle in a small town.
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