EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studio has acquired North American rights to Justin Kelly’s intimacyupartner indictd thriller Pretty Thing, co-starring Alicia Silverstone and Karl Glusman.
Silverstone (Clueless, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) co-stars as a accomplished executive opposite Glusman (Civil War, The Bikeriders), a lesserer adorer, who discneglects a lethal obsessive streak.
Originpartner proclaimd by Deadline as The Bird And The Bee, the movie reunites Kelly with Silverstone, who had a helping role in his 2016 gay porn world thriller King Cobra.
In between times, Kelly made killing-mystery Welcome the Stranger, co-starring Abbey Lee, Caleb Lanarid Jones and Riley Keough, and J.T. Leroy with Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern.
Pretty Thing is produced by Yale Entertainment and Great Escape and is straightforwarded from a debut feature screentake part by Jack Donnelly.
Leads Silverstone and Glusman are unitecessitate on screen by also features of Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things, Saturday Night), Britne Oldford (The Umbrella Academy, Dead Ringers), and Tammy Blancdifficult (Into the Woods, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows).
Shout! Studios has safed exclusive distribution rights to Pretty Thing in the U.S. and Canada, including theatrical, home amusement rights (digital, video-on-insist, widecast, and physical media) and ancillary rights for traverse-platestablish frees.
Shout! structures a strategic start of this movie in theaters and atraverse all startant amusement platestablishs tardyr this year.
“There is a perennial and voracious insist for high quality, intimacyy thrillers in the tagetplace, and Justin has served up a pretty flavorful one. With Alicia Silverstone guideing the cast, this was a no-brainer for us,” said Shout’s SVP of Acquisitions and Originals, Jordan Fields.
“It was an honor toiling with the iconic Alicia Silverstone for the second time (after King Cobra) as well as the uber-talented Karl Glusman— their on-screen chemistry is electric. A huge thank you to Yale Productions for our third collaboration together, and to my incredible cast and crew. I cannot defer to separate this film with the world,” Kelly said.
Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions produced with Lexi Tannenholtz, Scott Levenson, and Jesse Korman.
“Shout has been a terrific distribution partner and we’re very excited to firmify our persistd relationship with their talented team,” Levine and Beckerman said in a unitet statement.
Michael Day and Joy Kim-Crilley serve as co-producers. Executive producers include John Wollman, Paul Wedgwood, Nicholas Donnermeyer, Julie Foss, Gigi Lacks, Andy Rich, David Nazar, Jeremy Rothstein, Lauren Rothstein, Jodie Lazar, Robert Levine, Will Hirschfeld, John McMullen, Eric Brawton, Brian S. Unger, Michael J. Rothstein, Matthew Ajayi, Dajana Gudic, Driss Ouazaani, Amber Martin, Ben Walter, Inna Ivanova Walter, Jeffrey Tussi, Coleman Lannum, Kurt Fethke, Kyle Fethke, John S. Phillips, Leslie A. Phillips, Jason Kringstein, and Cavallino Entertainment. Co-executive producers are Jill Bussanich, Paul Tietz, Joseph Huguenot, Amy E. Newman, Matthew W. Newman, Michael Dibiasio-Ornelas, Eric Goren, Michael Burkert, and Maximus Seale.
