Picturestart’s Erik Feig On Navigating The Low Tide In Indie Film
deadline.comThe 2025 Sundance Film Festival turned out to be a low-key affair, but it got off to a rousing start with a $15 million world rights sale of , the body horror film acquired by Neon.
Starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, it gives Neon a chance to follow up the rousing genre success of Longlegs last year. Together, which also has landed a berth at SXSW, is written/directed by Michael Shanks.
Franco and Brie are a couple that moves to the countryside and a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh.
It was a real crowd pleaser to the Midnight Madness audience. The film was produced and financed by Picturestart, marking the latest in a string of notable deals put together by the company formed by Erik Feig after a run at Summit and Lionsgate that included The Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Hurt Locker and La La Land.
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