EXCLUSIVE: London-based gross sales firm Kaleidoscope Movie Distribution (KFD) has acquired the worldwide gross sales rights for the Australian-produced time-traveling thriller, Time Addicts.
KFD will attend the European Movie Market in February, the place Time Addicts will privately display for patrons, and advertising and marketing supplies can be accessible for overview.
Written, directed, and produced by Sam Odlum, the pic was initially conceived as a brief in 2020. The movie’s feature-length adaptation will mark Odlum’s full-length directorial debut. The movie stars Freya Tingley (Hemlock Grove, As soon as Upon a Time, Jersey Boys), Charles Grounds (Loopy Wealthy Asians, Elvis, Babyteeth), and Elise Jansen (Predestination, Underbelly).
The plot follows: In determined debt to their unstable drug seller, greatest associates, Denise and Johnny, conform to a sketchy job to repay their final hit – breaking right into a decrepit stash home to steal a bag of mysterious medication. However while moving into the home could also be straightforward, escape proves extra troublesome, because the pair discover themselves trapped inside with a deranged fiend. With no method out and never one to overlook a possibility, Johnny smokes the brand new drug and promptly travels into the previous, triggering alarming new occasions sooner or later. Separated by time, Denise is left alone to confront her previous, their seller Kane’s actual id, and her very personal existence.
The deal was signed by Spencer Pollard, CEO of KFD, and Alexandros Ouzas and Tessa Mansfield-Hung of Exile Leisure.
Kaleidoscope House Leisure will launch Time Addicts within the UK, with the discharge anticipated later this yr, according to a North American launch and a competition launch to be introduced.
Spencer Pollard, CEO of Kaleidoscope Movie Distribution, mentioned: “We’re very completely satisfied to be working with Alex and Tessa as soon as extra on Time Addicts, which we consider patrons and audiences will discover plenty of enjoyable and interesting. Added to our already sturdy Berlin line up we are able to’t wait to introduce the movie to patrons subsequent month.”
Sam Odlum added: “Impressed by Phillip Okay. Dick’s science fiction classics, Time Addicts blends a mix of genres to turn into its personal entity. The movie’s tone was extraordinarily vital to me and was mentioned exhaustively with each artistic division. Impressed by trendy Korean cinema, Time Addicts walks the road between genres, switching from sci-fi to drama to darkish comedy. It’s a human story set in extraordinary circumstances.”
