Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up North American rights to Jonny Campbell’s sci-fi comedy Cold Storage from production/sales group Studiocanal, the companies unveiled on Monday.
Joe Keery (Stranger Things), Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), and Sosie Bacon (Smile) star in the feature, alongside Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible), Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), and Liam Neeson (Taken),
Campbell (Dracula) directed Cold Storage from a script by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible) based on his debut novel, with Koepp producing together with Zombieland and Panic Room producer Gavin Polone.
Keery and Campbell star as Teacake and Naomi, two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old US military base, who experience their wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of the base, where it was sealed by the government decades before. As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise. It’s down to Teacake and Naomi, with the help of a grizzled retired bioterror operative (Neeson), to contain the menace and prevent the extinction of mankind.
Samuel Goldwyn Films is planning a wide theatrical release of Cold Storage later this year.
The deal was negotiated by Miles Fineburg from Samuel Goldwyn Films and Chloe Marquet, head of international sales, Charlotte Lopez, SVP of international sales and Sophie Leuthreau, head of business and legal affairs international distribution from Studiocanal.
