[Sundance '13] Ketchup Entertainment Catches Up To ‘Vehicle 19′

Per Deadline, Ketchup Entertainment has acquired the action thriller Vehicle 19. The film played at the Sundance Festival this past week and stars Paul Walker (The Fast And The Furious, Fast And Furious, Fast Five).

In the film directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil (Retribution), “Walker plays a recent parolee who unwittingly picks up the wrong rental vehicle after a long flight. He soon realizes that he is the target of an entire police force after discovering the tied-up female “passenger” in the trunk.

Naima McLean, Gys de Villiers, Leyla Haidarian, and Tshepo Maseko also star. The film will be released in June.

Lions and Hyenas Litter ‘Kalahari’ Desert

Recently completing the action thriller Vehicle 19, South African writer-director Mukunda Michael Dewil is headed to the Kalahari Desert to take on the wild in a new survival horror flick.

Dewil will get behind the camera for Kalahari, says Screen Daily. The pic is described as “Open Water but with lions and hyenas in the desert” by producer Peter Safran (Buried).

Dewil and Safran reteam with producer Ryan Haidarian who worked together on the Paul Walker-starrer Vehicle 19. READ MORE