U.Ok. manufacturing, gross sales and distribution outfit Signature Leisure has acquired the U.Ok. and Irish rights to motion sci-fi film World-Breaker starring Luke Evans (The Hobbit), Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), and Billie Boullet (A Small Gentle) from The Trade. The information comes because the movie wraps manufacturing in Northern Eire and the Cannes Movie Pageant and market kicked off.
The characteristic, produced by Bradley Gallo (Wild Mountain Thyme), Michael A. Helfant (The Name), Martin Brennan (One Method), and Jib Polhemus (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), is directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist) from a script written by Joshua Rollins (Infinite Storm). It follows a father and daughter who should escape a burning metropolis and struggle for survival whereas the human race faces a struggle with “vicious creatures from one other dimension.”
Evans performs the daddy, Jovovich the mom, and Boullett the daughter.
The deal was negotiated between Signature Leisure CEO Marc Goldberg and acquisitions and improvement Supervisor Katie Wilkinson with The Trade’s president of worldwide gross sales and distribution Nat McCormick. Its launch is deliberate for subsequent 12 months.
“World-Breaker is an action-packed high-quality impartial proposition that rivals big-budget studio fare, so we pounced on this one!” mentioned Wilkinson. “With its very interesting solid, thrilling script and nice filmmaker credentials, we’re sure U.Ok. and Irish audiences will lap it up in 2025.”
The Trade is promoting worldwide and co-selling home rights on the movie, together with on the Cannes movie market.
Signature, based in 2011, has lately launched the likes of the Stephen Fry-voiced animated film The Canterville Ghost, Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy You Damage My Emotions, the George MacKay thriller Femme, and the Jodie Comer drama The Finish We Begin From.