ATLAS INDEPENDENT TO PRODUCE “SANCTUARY” FROM DIRECTOR GONZALO LOPEZ-GALLEGO
Highland Film Group to Handle International Sales Beginning at EFM
LOS ANGELES, CA, JANUARY 29, 2014 – Atlas Independent, the affiliate company of Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment, announced today that they will produce SANCTUARY, which will be directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego (APOLLO 18, OPEN GRAVE), from a script written by Ryne Douglas Pearson (KNOWING). William Green and Aaron Ginsburg will produce for Atlas Independent. Atlas Entertainment’s Richard Suckle, Unbroken Pictures’ Bryan Bertino (THE STRANGERS) and Adrienne Biddle will executive produce. Highland Film Group (HFG) will handle worldwide sales and will introduce the film to international buyers at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.
SANCTUARY follows three documentarians who travel to South America to investigate a town which mysteriously disappeared from the map. The trio are led to the ultimate enigma after a series of misfortunate occurrences: an immense concrete structure located in the middle of the missing town, with no entrances or exits
“We intend to make a commercial horror film with one of the leading directors of the genre at the helm,” said Atlas Independent’s William Green and Aaron Ginsburg. This will be the third collaboration between Atlas Independent and Gonzalo following OPEN GRAVE and THE MAN ON CARRION ROAD, which will begin production in April.
Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego is represented by WME, Atlas Entertainment, and attorney Carlos Goodman.
ABOUT ATLAS INDEPENDENT
Atlas Independent is comprised of a hands-on team of film-makers working under the umbrella of Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment. Led by William Green, Atlas Independent produces indie-minded movies with budgets of $10 million or less, betting on the potential high profit margins of smaller films. The company has creative control on its projects and looks for independent financing, finding distribution after production. Atlas Independent’s first film, REVENGE FOR JOLLY!, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April of 2012 and shortly after was acquired by Sony Pictures World Wide Acquisitions. The film was released in May of 2013. Atlas Independent is currently in post-production on William Monahan’s MOJAVE which stars Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac, Louise Bourgoin, and Walton Goggins. Additionally, Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego’s OPEN GRAVE which starred Sharlto Copley and Thomas Kretschmann was released this past December.
ABOUT HIGHLAND FILM GROUP
Highland Film Group is an independent film sales company which was founded in 2010 by Arianne Fraser, who recently partnered with Delphine Perrier. The film slate includes: the box office phenomena INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED released by Pantelion and Lionsgate starring Eugenio Derbez, Jessica Lindsey and Karla Souza; the Brett Ratner produced teen action comedy BARELY LETHAL, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Alba: and YOUR RIGHT MIND starring Katherine Heigl.
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