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Bella Thorne Moves into ‘Maniac’ Director’s ‘Penthouse A’ [AFM]
Electric Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to psychological thriller Penthouse A starring Bella Thorne and will launch international sales at AFM, reports ScreenDaily.
Thorne (Assassination Nation, The Babysitter, Amityville The Awakening, Keep Watching, I Still See You) plays a jilted lover who hooks up for a short-term relationship with the wrong person and ends up captive in a high-rise residence.
Maniac‘s Franck Khalfoun directs from a screenplay by Peter Dowling, whose credits include crime drama Black And Blue starring Naomie Harris and Tyrese Gibson.
Sonia Mehandjiyska, head of international distribution for Electric Entertainment, brokered the deal with producer Jeremy Wall of Polaris Pictures, and executive producer Ksana Golod. Alix Taylor produces alongside Wall, and Thor Bradwell is an executive producer.
It was also announced ahead of AFM that Thorne will be making her directorial debut on an untitled thriller.
The new trailer for epic survival thriller The Dog Stars warns to fear the survivors of the apocalypse.
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Josh Brolin (Weapons), and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) try to maintain their humanity in the intense new trailer for Ridley Scott‘s survivor thriller, releasing in theaters on August 28, 2026.
The film is “set in a world where survival is instinct, but humanity is a choice. Scott tells the story of Hig, a young pilot who, together with a military survivalist, Bangley, has carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in a brutal post-apocalyptic world until a mysterious radio transmission spurs Hig to venture into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still believes exists.”
Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong, and Allison Janney also star.
The film is based on Peter Heller’s bestselling novel and written by Mark L. Smith (Overlord, The Revenant) and produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Mark L. Smith, and Cliff Roberts.
Check out the new trailer and poster below, which emphasize the thrills in the upcoming survival thriller. But it’s one that’s also filled with hope.
“I think people will be surprised and engaged, actually. I would say, hmm… charmed as well,” Scott says of the film. “Although, there is some violence.”
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