EXCLUSIVE: It’s fifty years since Jaws was launched and U.S. distributors are getting within the temper. Utopia, the home purchaser of films together with Pet Store Days, Shiva Child, and Holy Spider, is plunging into new waters with the acquisition of Scorching Spring Shark Assault (aka Onsen Shâku).
Utopia has acquired North American rights to the Japanese shark movie and is planning a summer time 2025 rollout. The deal was negotiated by Candace Tan, Director of Acquisitions, on behalf of Utopia and Akiko Uchida, Acquisitions and Gross sales, of King File.
Scorching Spring Shark Assault is ready in a small, sizzling spring city in Japan, the place a ferocious historical shark reawakens and terrorizes the native sizzling spring services. Because the menace escalates, the townspeople band collectively to guard their beloved city from the menacing predator.
The thriller-comedy marks the directorial debut of Morihito Inoue, two-time winner of the Nationwide Impartial Kaiju Movie Championship. It premiered on the 2024 Tokyo Worldwide Shark Movie Competition, the place it took house the Viewers Award, and was launched in Japan and different worldwide territories final 12 months.
Scorching Spring Shark Assault will make its U.S. premiere this June on the Chattanooga Movie Competition. Utopia and CFF will sponsor a beach-themed opening night time occasion, that includes the surf rock sounds of particular friends Large Kahuna.
‘Scorching Spring Shark Assault’
