EXCLUSIVE: Sunrise Films and Vertigo Releasing have acquired North American and UK distribution rights on the Danish horror-thriller The Girl in the Trunk.
The film will be released on digital download across both territories on May 28. Sunrise Films, the new internationally focused distribution label launched by Rupert Preston and Nigel Williams, will handle the North American release.
The pic was acquired from the Copenhagen-based REinvent International. The deal was negotiated between Vertigo Releasing’s head of US and international distribution Andrew Nerger and REinvent’s senior sales manager, Sanne Arlø.
Written and directed by Jonas Kvist Jensen (Brutal Incasso), the English-language film stars Caspar Phillipson (Jackie, Blonde) and Katharina Sporrer (Genius) Jonas Kvist Jensen serves as writer-director.
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