EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American and UK rights to Hector Barron’s horror-thriller In the Forest, along with U.S.
rights to Alice Blehart’s animated film Little Sorcerer. Both titles are slated for a day-and-date theatrical release, with the former from Disrupting Influence to hit screens on January 28, and the latter from Chinese independent animation studio Gold Valley Films to debut on May 6.In the Forest watches as Helen (Debbon Ayer) and her daughter Emily (Cristina Spruell) reluctantly accompany Helen’s father Stan (Lyman Ward) on a family camping trip, driving deep into the forest for a real outdoors experience, only to have angry landowner Howard (Don Baldaramos) arrive and force them to leave.
When their RV gets stuck, Helen decides to seek help but discovers a disturbing secret on the man’s property. She must then fight to protect her family and make it out of the forest alive before being hunted down.The film also stars Kaitlyn Dias, Time Winters and Sharon Sharth.
Brian McLaughlin produced it, with Barron, Glenn Kendrick Ackermann, Peter Fruchtman, Julie Kroll, Jason Piette, Ewan Dunbar and Andrew Stoddard serving as its exec producers.Gold Valley Films’ Little Sorcerer is a Cinderella tale that comes on the heels of its 2018 pic Cinderella and the Secret Prince.
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