News: Prey to open in USA in June

Top Cat Films and Damage Releasing have steered Australian horror movie Prey through the international market screening process, and released the following Media Release:

Less than a week after a near-full 10am market screening at Cannes Film Market, surprise Aussie 'candy horror' treat PREY has taken down rights for Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia and is honing in on a coterie of Asian territories.

ITN Distribution (USA) in association with Damage Releasing have been writing steady business as Top Cat Film's first production successfully tiptoes through the minefields at a predictably slow and irregular market.

"People just like it, plain and simple" says producer Robert Lewis Galinsky, who is at the market with Top Cat partner Elizabeth Howatt-Jackman.

"We've always felt it's had great potential as a fun campy scary teen romp and the success of the two premiere events in Australia really cemented that for us before departing for Cannes. The fact that the foreign market feels it has value across the board is great and hopefully it'll find audiences in these territories and do well.."

PREY tells the story of three couples on a 4wd holiday in the Australian outback that unleash an ancient curse after they are drawn into a sacred site. The MA-15 film stars NATALIE BASSINGTHWAIGHTE and JESSE JOHNSON.

PREY opens in the United States on 23 June. The DVD release in Australia is slated for June 30.

Directed by Oscar d' Roccster
Screenplay by John Soto
Starring Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Jesse Johnson, Christian Clark, Natalie Walker, Ben Kermode, Kristin Sargent, and Nicholas Bell


To view the Prey trailer visit www.damagereleasing.com/prey

Source: Damage Releasing & Top Cat Films, via Jeff Ritchie (Scary Minds)