Kiah Roache-Turner’s Sting has wrapped filming in Sydney, Australia, with Studiocanal picking up the title for release in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Switzerland and Benelux.
Additional deals include Lucky Red (Italy), Diamond Films (Latin America, Spain, Portugal), Nordisk (Scandinavia), Kinoswiat (Poland), Pasatiempo Pictures (Baltics, CIS), Karantanija (ex-Yugoslavia), Italia (Middle East), Filmfinity (South Africa) and Terry Steiner International (airlines).
The UK’s Cornerstone Films represents world sales.
The film centres on a 12-year-old girl living in New York who forms a bond with a strange spider. As her fascination with Sting the spider increases, so does the spider’s size. Neighbours’ pets start to go missing, and then the neighbours themselves.
It is produced by Jamie Hilton and Michael Pontin via See Pictures together with Pictures in Paradise’s Chris Brown. Additional finance comes from Create NSW, Cumulus VFX and Spectrum Entertainment.
Australian filmmaker Roache-Turner’s earlier films include 2015’s Wyrmwood: Road Of the Dead, 2018’s Nekrotronic and 2021’s Wyrmwood: Apocalypse.
Weta Workshop, led by creative director Richard Taylor – with credits including Blade Runner 2049, King Kong and The Lord of the Rings trilogy – created the physical effects in New Zealand. They have been recently working on Scott Walker’s The Tank, which Cornerstone is overseeing worldwide.
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