EXCLUSIVE: Dawn Movies and Vertigo Releasing have acquired North American and UK distribution rights on the Danish horror-thriller The Lady within the Trunk. The movie will likely be launched on digital obtain throughout each territories on Might 28.
Dawn Movies, the brand new internationally centered distribution label launched by Rupert Preston and Nigel Williams, will deal with the North American launch.
The pic was acquired from the Copenhagen-based REinvent Worldwide. The deal was negotiated between Vertigo Releasing’s head of US and worldwide distribution Andrew Nerger and REinvent’s senior gross sales supervisor, Sanne Arlø.
Written and directed by Jonas Kvist Jensen (Brutal Incasso), the English-language movie stars Caspar Phillipson (Jackie, Blonde) and Katharina Sporrer (Genius) Jonas Kvist Jensen serves as writer-director. The movie was produced by Morten Hjorth (Brutal Incasso), Jim Pedersen (Silverthread), Jannick Raunow (Revenge of the Necromancer), and Martin Mortensen Søe (The Black Gap).
The movie follows a girl who finds herself kidnapped and entrapped within the enclosed house of a dashing automobile’s trunk, carrying her wedding ceremony gown, and along with her telephone as the one accessible device. The state of affairs deteriorates step by step as a failed escape try prices the lifetime of an harmless bystander. Synopsis reads: With the clock ticking in the direction of a sluggish demise from warmth exhaustion within the Texas desert, and a psychotic kidnapper on the wheel, Amanda is pressured to make her personal luck ultimately. A harmful recreation of questions and lethal penalties – to be performed over the telephone with the mysterious kidnapper – appears the one technique to possibly uncover his true identification, getting assist or just preventing her painful manner in the direction of a fleeting likelihood of escape.
“We have been enthralled from the primary moments of The Lady In The Trunk which grabs you right away with its tense and terrifying premise that might be straight out of a True Crime collection,” Nerger mentioned. “As with all of the best-contained thrillers like Buried or Cellphone Sales space – this can be a gripping watch that we are able to’t look forward to audiences to find.”
Sanne Arlø of Reinvent Worldwide Gross sales added: “We’re all excited by giving The Lady In The Trunk a house with Vertigo Releasing & Dawn Movies, we’re assured that is the best house for the movie and they’re going to do properly with it.”
