Nicolas Cage Pic ‘The Surfer’ Catches A Wave Stateside With Lionsgate & Roadside Attractions
deadline.comLionsgate and Roadside Attractions have taken North America to the Nicolas Cage feature The Surfer which received a six-minute standing ovation at Cannes following its midnight section premiere.
A 2025 theatrical release is planned. In the Lorcan Finnegran directed movie, a man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him right to his breaking point.
Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn, Finn Little, and Charlotte Maggi also star in the movie which was penned by Thomas Martin.
The news of the deal comes in the wake of Cage seeing a big box office opening with NEON’s Longlegs at $22.4M this past weekend, making it his first movie since 2011 to open north of $20M.
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