EXCLUSIVE: Cineverse has acquired the horror-comedy comedian e-book adaptation We Are Zombies.
The corporate has mentioned it plans to launch the pic this fall throughout all platforms, together with its style streaming platform Screambox, with a premiere date to be introduced quickly.
The deal was negotiated out of this yr’s Berlin Movie Pageant by Brandon Hill, Director of Acquisitions, on behalf of Cineverse and Gregoire Melin at Paris-based Kinology on behalf of the filmmakers.
The film follows three slackers trying to make straightforward cash in a metropolis infested with the living-impaired, also referred to as non-cannibal zombies. They need to struggle small-time crooks and an evil megacorporation to avoid wasting their kidnapped grandma.
The movie relies on the comedian sequence The Zombies That Ate the World, written and directed by Yoann-Karl Whissell, François Simard, and Anouk Whissell, the filmmaking staff behind cult classics Turbo Child and Summer time of ’84. They’re collectively often called Roadkill Superstars (RKSS). Solid options Alexander Nachi (Conflict), Megan Peta Hill (Riverdale), and Derek Johns (Moonfall). The movie was produced by Christal Movie Productions, Full Home, a label of Borsalino Productions and Maneki Movies, and Humanoids’ European sister firm Glowing, in affiliation with Kinology.
“We’re thrilled to carry We Are Zombies to horror followers by our Screambox platform,” mentioned Brad Miska, VP of horror content material at Screambox. “RKSS has crafted an absolute massacre that harkens again to the most effective of 80s horror and can delight followers of the zombie style. This acquisition underscores our dedication to delivering top-quality horror content material to our subscribers.”
RKSS added: “It’s lastly time we unleash We Are Zombies! And we’re thrilled, as horror followers and style filmmakers, to be partnering up with the nice of us at Bloody Disgusting and their streaming platform Screambox to carry it to your screens.”
