It was announced today that Anchor Bay Entertainment has picked up the rights to two thrill-filled novel adaptations: Walled In (first mentioned here), from the "Stephen King of France" Serge Brossolo, and Chris Sivertson's The Lost (from horror writer Jack Ketchum), which has been on the auctions block for the past two years. We're really excited to get to see Lost in theaters as it's a gorgeous film that deserves a limited run. Read on for the skinny on this wonderful announcement!
The distributor picked up U.S. rights to Gilles Pacquet-Brenner's psychological thriller "Walled In," which stars Mischa Barton as a demolotion company exec who finds disturbing things are unearthed when an old building is razed. Deborah Kara Unger and Cameron Bright also star in the film, based on Brossolo's novel "Les Emmures."
Anchor Bay also picked up North American rights to Chris Sivertson's "Lost," based on Ketchum's novel, which follows the trail of a suburban serial killer (Marc Sentner). Michael Bowen, Dee-Wallace Stone, Ed Lauter, Megan Henning and Erin Brown also star. The film will hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles later this month, followed by a DVD release.
"Walled In" is the first feature from Leomax Entertainment. The outfit's genre label Indigomotion will theatrically distribute the film later in the year in conjunction with Anchor Bay.
Anchor Bay previously released the Ketchum adaptation
The Girl Next Door and recently picked up Leomax's Swedish psychological thriller
Cold Prey.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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