Dark Sky Films announced today that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to paranoid thriller Sender, starring Britt Lower (“Severance”) and produced by Jamie Lee Curtis.
Sender will be released nationwide in spring 2027.
The acquisition news arrives ahead of the film’s Los Angeles premiere at Beyond Fest and European premiere at the 59th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival.
Sender marks the debut feature from writer-director Russell Goldman, whose script first appeared in the 2023 Black List of unproduced screenplays.
Lower stars as Julia, who was fired three weeks ago. She also got sober three weeks ago. She’s starting over in a suburban rental, and doing a lot of online shopping to help make the space her own, fast.
When packages she didn’t order start showing up at her door — a blender, a corkscrew, her signature shade of lipstick — they feel so unnervingly tied to her past that it starts to feel like someone is watching her.
The shopping site Smirk denies responsibility. Increasingly paranoid, Julia tumbles down a rabbit hole to find the identity of her anonymous sender.
Rhea Seehorn (“Pluribus”), Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding), David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Utkarsh Ambudkar (“Ghosts”), Mike Mitchell (“Twisted Metal”), Edward Torres (Return to Sender), Alyssa Limperis (“What We Do in the Shadow”), and Inger Stratton round out the cast along with Jamie Lee Curtis.
“The dream of any filmmaker is finding a distributor that understands your film and wants to put it in front of as many eyeballs as possible,” said Russell Goldman. “SENDER isn’t the kind of film that fits neatly into a box, which makes it especially meaningful that the entire MPI and Dark Sky team has a real vision for its nationwide theatrical release. I’m grateful to JLC, Britt, Jake, Molly, Thomas and the entire cast and crew, and proud our film will be at the home as some of the most exciting films of the decade. To use one of JLC’s favorite phrases, “Let’s f–king go.”
“What drew us to SENDER was how confidently Russell takes a familiar anxiety and turns it into something completely unexpected,” said Greg Newman, Executive Vice President of Dark Sky Films. “It’s smart, unsettling and darkly funny, with an incredible cast that keeps you invested at every turn.”
