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MPI’s Dark Sky Possessed By ‘In the Trap’ [Cannes]
Variety reports that Italian sales company True Colors has closed a slew of sales at the Cannes Market and landed a North American deal on the horror pic In the Trap, acquired by MPI Media Group’s Dark Sky Films.
In the Trap, which features an international cast comprising South Africa’s David Bailie (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End), and Sonya Cullingford (The Mummy), is about a solitary proofreader trapped by fear in his apartment where he is tortured by an unknown evil force.
“Philip has been a prisoner of himself and in his flat for two years. A labyrinthine flat which has become a refuge of unknown and extreme evil that haunts him every night trying to come in. For some time now he has been spending sleepless nights to protect his “habitat” but, despite his efforts, unexplained and terrifying phenomena happen continuously, forcing him to hide in his shelter. The only real contact with the outer world is Father Andrew, a priest who regularly visits him to help him in his everyday life and to convince him to leave the flat, especially after the tragic loss which affected his life. Philip’s days are always the same while he tries to distract himself from the strange events that happen around him, focusing on his job as a proofreader. Everything changes the night when the guy, for the first time, falls asleep at the wrong time and something dark is finally able to enter inside his flat…”
The English-language In the Trap, directed by Italy’s Alessio Liguori as his feature-film debut, and produced by Italian shingles Dreamworld Movies and Mad Rocket Entertainment generated a flurry of deals.
Director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) is back this summer with dinosaurs-in-suburbia mystery box movie The End of Oak Street, and new official posters have arrived.
Check out the brand new The End of Oak Street posters below and look for the sci-fi/horror movie in theaters August 14, 2026 from Warner Bros. and producer J.J. Abrams.
Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor come face-to-face with a monstrous threat in The End of Oak Street, which looks like M. Night Shyamalan with retro-style Amblin vibes.
As Mitchell explained to Entertainment Weekly, inspirations for the film include Jurassic Park, The Twilight Zone, Poltergeist, The Valley of Gwangi, and M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs.
The End of Oak Street is set in the early 1980s…
In the film, “After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.”
Maisy Stella and Christian Convery also star.
The film is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell and produced by J.J. Abrams, Hannah Minghella, Jon Cohen, David Robert Mitchell, Matt Jackson and Tommy Harper. The executive producers are Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Joanne Lee and Leeann Stonebreaker.
David Robert Mitchell’s team behind the camera for WB’s The End of Oak Street includes director of photography Michael Gioulakis, production designer Maya Shimoguchi, editor John Axelrad, composer Michael Giacchino and costume designer Erin Benach.
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