Content
Media Acquires International Sales Rights to John Suits’ Sci-Fi Action/Thriller
“Pandemic” Starring Rachel Nichols, Mekhi Phifer, Missi Pyle, Alfie Allen,
Danielle Rose Russell, Paul Guilfoyle and Pat Healy
Film
Set For Market Debut at EFM in Berlin
January
27, 2015 – Content Media announced today that it has acquired
international sales rights to the boundary crashing sci-fi
action/thriller “Pandemic” starring Rachel Nichols (“Star
Trek,” “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” “Continuum”), Mekhi Phifer (“Insurgent,”
“Divergent,” “8 Mile”), Missi Pyle (“The Artist,” “Gone Girl,” “Big
Fish”), Alfie Allen (“John Wick,” “Atonement,” “Game of
Thrones”), Danielle Rose Russell (“A Walk Among the
Tombstones”), Paul Guilfoyle (“L.A. Confidential,” “Air Force One,”
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) and Pat Healy (“Rescue Dawn,”
“Magnolia”).
Directed
by John Suits (“The Scribbler”), “Pandemic” is an intense and unique
film that features non-stop action from a first person shooter perspective
(FPS), putting the audience in the middle of every fight whilst feeling in
control of every punch thrown and shot fired. It’s a new model of action
thriller for the video game generation.
Gabriel
Cowan (“400 Days,” “Bad Milo”) produced the film with Suits through
their New Artists Alliance (NAA) banner with XLrator
Media, which will also distribute the film in North America as
the second film in its three-picture deal with NAA. Executive
producers are Danny Roth and Damiano Tucci of Parkside Pictures, Michael
Tadross Jr. of Tadross Media Group and Content’s Film President Jamie
Carmichael.
Buyers will get their first glimpse of “Pandemic” in Berlin where
exclusive, first time footage will be shown by the Content team.
Jamie
Carmichael said, “‘Pandemic’ is a potential game changer. The FPS component
immerses the viewer right into heart the film - in a hybrid gamer style.
We’re incredibly impressed with John and Gabriel’s inventive work.”
“Pandemic”
is set in the near future, where a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the
planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its
grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected
contained. Lauren (Rachel Nichols) is a doctor, who, after the fall of New
York, comes to Los Angeles to lead the charge in the hunt for uninfected
civilian survivors.
Lauren’s
objective is simple – lead her team into the field and rescue survivors. Lauren
and her team: Gunner (tactical command), Denise (navigation), and Wheeler
(driver), put on their anti-contamination suits, complete with cameras so their
experiences can be used for research, and leave the compound. But nothing could
have prepared them for the mayhem they are about to walk into.
In
addition to “Pandemic,” Content’s international sales slate heading into
Berlin includes Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney’s much anticipated
Scientology documentary “Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of
Belief”; the romantic comedy “Comet” starring Justin
Long and Emmy Rossum; the intense horror 'The Diabolical' starring Ali Larter; the intense drama The Eichmann Show starring Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia; 'Ocsar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost' voiced by Stephen Fry and Hugh
Laurie; the uplifting emotional drama 'Life at these Speeds' starring Billy Crudup, Graham Rogers and Sam
Rockwell; 'Janis: Little Girl Blue' directed by Academy® Award nominated Amy
Berg; the spy thriller 'Newcomer' starring
James Floyd and Anthony LaPaglia; Academy® Award winning director Mike van Diem
returns with the romantic comedy 'The Surprise'; Caradog James' directing the supernatural thriller 'Don't Knock Twice'; the supernatural heist thriller 'The Trust';
the extraordinary, moving and white-knuckle drive with one of the greatest
movie stars of all time documentary 'Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans'.
About
Content Media Corporation
Content
Media Corporation Ltd is a London and LA based private company that owns and
distributes a significant library of film, television, and digital assets.
The
Company’s library of rights includes over 4,000 hours of television
programming, 200 hours of digital programming and 275 feature films.
Content
Media recently closed a multi-faceted deal with Bruno Wu’s Beijing-based Seven
Stars Entertainment and Media, Ltd., in which Content acquired the Alive Group
of companies allowing Content to distribute its extensive library of film and
television rights through the Alive Group to the Chinese market, as well as a
direct equity investment by Seven Stars into Content
The Film sales division launched in 2002 and represents high profile,
commercial feature films with great artistic and theatrical ambition. In
addition to handling worldwide sales, marketing, and publicity, the company
assists film producers in securing financing.
