Freshly minted packaging and sales division Verve Ventures will launch sales at TIFF on The Twisted from Scott Free Productions’ new label “Ridley Scott Presents”, reports ScreenDaily.
Amy Beecroft heads Verve agency’s new Verve Ventures, which packaged The Twisted and represents world sales.
Scott (Alien, Prometheus), whose The Martian gets its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow [Sept 11], produced the film with Giannina Scott and Colet Abedi, who developed for Scott’s company Cara Films.
Verve client Olatunde Osunsanmi (Dark moon, Eden, Fourth Kind) will direct from Ari Schlossberg’s screenplay, “About a troubled child psychologist and a cameraman sent in to interview children at an isolated orphanage in Sierra Nevada following reports of strange occurrences.”
Osunsanmi’s TV directing credits include “Falling Skies,” “Under The Dome” and “Minority Report”.