EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Movies has closed a raft of worldwide offers on SXSW Midnighter thriller Kryptic, starring Chloe Pirrie (The Queen’s Gambit).
The function has bought to Wild Bunch for Germany, TFG for Greece, Plaion for Italy, NonStop for Scandinavia, Inopia for Spain, Capella for CIS/Baltics, Falcon for the Center East, Antenna for Malaysia, Pioneer for the Philippines, Sahamongkol for Thailand, Shaw for Singapore, Moviecloud for Taiwan and JNC for Vietnam.
The movie, which premiered at SXSW within the Midnight strand, is a psycho-thriller a few lady’s (Pirrie) seek for a lacking monster hunter and her rising realization that she is inescapably linked to the creature being pursued.
Pic was directed by Kortney Roy (Slice of Heaven), written by Paul Bromley (Ouija), and likewise stars Jeff Gladstone (Resident Alien) and Jason Deline (The Night time Agent). Producers are Amber Ripley, Sophie Venner and Josh Huculiak with XYZ Movies executive-producing and dealing with all phrase gross sales excluding Canada.
XYZ Movies lately introduced the worldwide acquisition of The Ritual starring Al Pacino and Dan Stevens and the TIFF acquisition Backspot starring Devery Jacobs and Evan Rachel Wooden releasing later this month. Further gross sales and manufacturing titles from the XYZ Movies studio embrace Flesh Of The Gods, directed by Panos Cosmatos and starring Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac, Reckoner starring Noomi Rapace and He Bled Neon with Joe Cole and Rita Ora.