Virtual Reality Horror Film The Call Up Nabs Worldwide Distribution
John Squires
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Writer/director Charles Barker makes his feature debut with The Call Up, a unique project that first caught our attention just about one year ago. With filming wrapped, the movie is headed our way real soon, and today brings a whole lot of distribution information. So read on!
Per Screen Daily, Altitude Film Sales has secured distribution deals in a number of key territories for the film. Vertical Entertainment has picked up US rights with Mongrel Media taking Canada. Deals were also finalized with Altitude Film Distribution for the UK, Nikkatsu for Japan, Defiant for Australia/New Zealand, Betta Pictures for Spain, and Gate 23 for airlines.
The feature will be released worldwide in Q2 2016.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm) plays the lead role alongside Morfydd Clark (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight (Dracula Untold), Adriana Randall (Experimenter), Boris Ler (In the Land of Blood and Honey), Christopher Obi (Snow White and the Huntsman), and newcomer Douggie McMeekin.
The Call Up is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma Films), John Giwa-Amu (Red&Black Films, The Machine) with Alan Martin (The Machine) exec producing. Other executive producers include Creative England’s Richard Holmes (Eden Lake) and Marzipan Productions, while Isabelle Georgeaux (Resistance) of Pont Neuf Productions acts as co-producer.
Synopsis:
When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group members step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism.
At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting-edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once they are attacked by enemy combatants, the player soon realizes this is no game after all. Make a mistake here, and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.
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