IFC Midnight and Shudder are acquiring North American rights to AGC Studios’ supernatural thriller Consecration directed by Christopher Smith and starring Jena Malone and Danny Huston.
IFC Midnight will release the film theatrically in 2023 and Shudder will take the exclusive first streaming window. AGC is screening the film for international buyers at AFM.
Smith co-wrote the screenplay with Laurie Cook about Grace, who following the suspicious death of her priest brother goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what happened.
When Grace enlists the help of Father Romero she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface. The cast includes Janet Suzman.
Xavier Marchand of Moonriver Content, Jason Newmark of Newscope Films and Laurie Cook of Bigscope Films are producing Consecration, financed by AGC with additional financing by Sherborne Capital.
AGC Studios chairman and CEO Stuart Ford is an executive producer alongside Linda McDonough, Miguel Palos and co-executive producer Zachary Garrett, together with Bigscope’s Ed Fraiman and Adam Nagel.
“We’re excited to continue our ongoing relationship with Arianna, Scott and the IFC Midnight team on Consecration,” said Ford. “They did outstanding work on Neill Blomkamp’s Demonic for us last year and also on Chloe Okuno’s Watcher last summer which we were privileged to be a partner on. When they watched the film the IFC Midnight team immediately understood Consecration’s marketing possibilities and theatrical potential.”
IFC Films president Arianna Bocco added, “Christopher Smith is the premiere contemporary genre filmmaker working today. He is a true original, and we’re thrilled to finally work with him at IFC Films and Shudder. We could not be more excited to be back in business with Stuart and the team at AGC Studios.”
IFC Films’ head of acquisitions and production Scott Shooman negotiated the deal with AGC’s SVP of legal and business affairs Anant Tamirisa on behalf of the filmmakers.
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