AFM: Image Acquires Blair Witch Helmers Toronto Thriller Lovely Molly

EXCLUSIVE: Image Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Lovely Molly, the thriller directed by Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez. The sale is high six figures as well as the plan's to produce theatrically next spring. Lovely Molly made its debut inside the Evening time Madness area of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival. Newcomer Gretchen Lodge plays the title character, a newlywed who returns to her extended abandoned home which is his with frightening pointers of her nightmarish childhood that quickly color her new existence. She descends into an evil that's part psychosis and also the other area obsession. Haxan Films’ Robin Cowie and Gregg Hale produced with Amber Entertainment’s Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky. The sale has come about as Content Film sells worldwide areas at AFM. Image purchases v . p . Mark Ward referred to as film “a return and evolution for the genre that [Eduardo] created” with Blair Witch. “We anticipate joining track of Haxan and Amber to improve the truly robust transmedia marketing campaign they’ve develop to produce the film a uniform.” It’s the second significant AFM-timed deal for Image, which on Friday launched a distribution relationship with Alamo Drafthouse. “Image’s business thinking and robust infrastructure give to us a perfect platform to produce our film for the biggest audience possible,” mentioned the producers. The sale was brokered by WME Global’s Graham Taylor and BHDRL’s Stuart Rosenthal. This really is really a clip: