Vertical Entertainment has acquired US rights from UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad Pictures to Livia De Paolis’s Peter Pan-inspired fantasy The Lost Girls heading into the online EFM.
Myriad Pictures will represent international rights on the film at the market. Vertical plans a day-and-date US release on June 17. Photon Films will release the film in Canada and Altitude is releasing in the UK.
Paolis wrote and directed the film based on the novel by Laurie Fox. De Paolis stars alongside Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Ovenden, Parker Sawyers, Emily Carey, Louis Partridge, Ella Rae Smith and Iain Glen.
The Lost Girls chronicles four generations of Darling women as they struggle in the aftermath of their adventures with Pan in Neverland. Like her grandmother and her mother Jane, Wendy must escape Pan’s hold on her and the promise he desperately wants her to keep. As her daughter Berry comes into Pan’s orbit, Wendy must fight to save her relationship with her daughter while reconciling her legacy.
Ingenious Media and Myriad Pictures backed the film in association with LipSync. Producers are Sam Tipper-Hale, Peter Touche and de Paolis. Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico is executive producer alongside Andrea Scarso and Jamie Jessop for Ingenious Media, Norman Merry and Peter Hampden for LipSync, Laurie Fox and Razwana Akram.
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