Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have acquired North American rights to Amulet, the feature directorial debut of actress-turned-filmmaker Romola Garai. The film, starring Carla Juri, Alec Secareanu, Imelda Staunton and Angeliki Papoulia, world premiered to critical and audience acclaim in the Midnight section at Sundance.
Magnet plans to release the film in theaters and on demand July 24.
Amulet follows Tomaz (Secareanu), a former soldier who is left homeless after an accident and takes refuge in the decaying home of Magda (Juri), a lonely young woman in desperate need of help as she cares for her ailing mother. At first hesitant, Magda soon welcomes Tomaz into their lives. But as he gets closer to and begins to fall for Magda, Tomaz notices strange and unexplainable phenomena. Something seems very wrong with the mysterious old woman who never leaves the top floor, and Tomaz begins to suspect that Magda may in fact be a prisoner to her otherworldly bidding.
“Romola Garai has crafted an intensely atmospheric, edge-of-your-seat thriller with Amulet,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles. “We think audiences will be as wigged out as we were.”
Written and directed by Romola Garai, Amulet is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films and Maggie Monteith of Northern Stories. Executive producers are Phil Hunt and Compton Ross of Head Gear and Metrol Technology, James Norrie, Bob Portal, Inderpal Singh of AMP International, Damian Jones, Chris Reed, Phil Rymer, Reinhard Besser, Pat Wintersgill and Walter Mair.
AMP International has also sold the film in German speaking Europe (Ascot Elite), Latin America (Imagem), CIS (MGM), Scandinavia (Non-Stop), Thailand (SahaMongkol), Indonesia (Cinemaxx), Middle East (Front Row), Philippines (Pioneer), Malaysia (SquareBox), Greece (Odeon), Taiwan (Movie Cloud).
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3614642/magnet-acquires-sundance-horror-film-amulet-july-release/
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