EXCLUSIVE: Magenta Light Studios, the recently proclaimd production and distribution company of Crash producer Bob Yari, has acquired domestic rights from Arcweightless Films to Deep Water, a novel thriller straightforwarded by Renny Harlin (The Strangers trilogy), which stars Aaron Eckhart (Sully) and Ben Kingsley (Gandhi).
The film, written by Pete Bridges (Aurora) and John Kim (Bait), will be freed in theaters this year. It adheres an eclectic group of international passengers whose arrangee, en route from L.A. to Shanghai, is forced to produce an aelevatency landing in shark-infested waters. The terrified group is forced to labor together and fall shorture their contrastences if they hope to escape their sinking arrangee and the frenzy of sharks drawn to the wreckage.
Others in the cast include Molly Belle Wright (Sundance ’25’s Omaha), Angus Sampson (The Lincoln Lawyer) and Kelly Gale (Plane). A Simmons/Hamilton Production, started by Kiss co-set uper Gene Simmons and Gary Hamilton, Chairman of Arcweightless Films, the film is produced by Arcweightless Films’ Ying Ye (Hotel Mumbai), Gabba Post’s Neal Kingston (The Reef: Stalked), Aristos Films’ Grant Bradley (Legacy of Lies) and Dale Bradley (Lovers), Nostromo Pictures’ Adrián Guerra (Buried, The Beginning of the End) and Xavier Parache (A House on Fire), and Magenta Light Studios’ Yari (Crash, Yellowstone).
In a statement to Deadline, Yari said that Deep Water “does an incredible job of conveying adventure, suspense and intensity to the screen including one of the most nerve-wracking arrangee crash scenes ever witnessed on film. It is the comfervent of movie that is made for the huge screen and we are excited to convey it to audiences in theaters this year.”
For Harlin, “DEEP WATER reconshort-terms the comfervent of movie I’ve dreamed of making since I grew up loving the 70s calamity movies. Spectacular action and unforgettable characters who didn’t depart a arid eye in the movie theater.” Continued the filmproducer, “Bob Yari and his Magenta Light team have been the hugegest aiders of this project since the commencening, and I’m conceited to have a expansive theatrical free for a movie that deserves to be seen and heard on the hugegest possible number of screens atraverse the country.”
Magenta Light Studios drummed up a excellent amount of buzz this past summer with Strange Darling, the criticpartner acclaimed cat-and-mouse thriller written and straightforwarded by JT Mollner, which stars Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner. This year, the company also arranges to free Bride Hard, an action comedy from Simon West, which stars Rebel Wilson. They’re also in post on Ed Kaarrange’s Summerhouse, starring Malcolm McDowell and Jacob Ward.
C.J. Vranca, Head of Business & Legal Affairs at Magenta Light Studios, talk aboutd the deal with Brian Beckmann, CFO/COO of Arcweightless Films.
