Voltage Pictures’ YA Genre Affair: Sets ‘Game Of Love’ With Bella Thorne & ‘Loneliest Boy In The World’ With Ashley Benson & Hero Fiennes Tiffin – Cannes

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EXCLUSIVE: Even before the pandemic, the foreign sales market became mired down with some risky bets, i.e. the over exorbitant Roland Emmerich sci-fi disaster title Moonfall which carried a $140M production cost (resulting in a $44.3M WW gross), and Simon Kinberg’s femme spy ensemble The 355 at a $75M cost (which grossed just under $28M WW).But there’s arguably a safer way to make moolah in the foreign sales sphere and that’s off of YA feature adaptations.True, it’s been a while since the grand slam days of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games series and Summit International’s Twilight franchise, however, these movies can be made off a low cost yielding singles, doubles, or even home runs at the box office.

Or worst case scenario, be in the black simply off their sales to streamers. And if a movie strikes out, it doesn’t sting so much in regards to a local distributor’s bottom line.And YA pics are a turnkey business that foreign sales outfit Voltage has embraced aggressively, particularly after the 2019 spring success of its After romance pic based on the popular Anna Todd novels.

This has propelled Voltage to team up with established social media stars such as Bella Thorne; groom and launch future male leads like Hero Fiennes Tiffin and further build out the careers of such cult cinematic maestros in the YA space as Cruel Intentions filmmaker Roger Kumble.

He’s gone to direct for Voltage their After sequel, After We Collided, and a brand new young adult series Beautiful Disaster based on the Jamie McGuire novels ,which the studio is repping rights on, starring social media superstars Dylan Sprouse, Virginia Gardner, Austin North and Libe Barer.This morning at the Cannes Market, Voltage is unveiling a new sales title, Game of Love,