XYZ Films and Vertical Entertainment Announce Headshot Release Plan
Fresh off its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, the Indonesian action-thriller Headshot is now gearing up for a global roll-out, and XYZ Films and Vertical Entertainment have just unveiled their ambitious plans for the flick. Read on for all the details!
From the Press Release:
XYZ Films and Vertical Entertainment announced today that they are partnering with multiple territories on the global distribution of Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto’s Indonesian action thriller Headshot, which made its World Premiere last Friday night during the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Iko Uwais, Julie Estelle, and Chelsea Islan, and is based on a script by Timo Tjahjanto.
Vertical Entertainment and XYZ Films are releasing the film theatrically in North America and globally on digital platforms, with Screenplay Infinite Film and partner SCM handling Indonesian distribution, and Nikkatsu handling Japan and the rest of Asia. The global release will include theatrical releases concurrent with the digital releases in territories including: UK (Arrow Films), Germany/Italy (Koch Media), Australia/New Zealand (Vendetta Films), France (AB Groupe), Scandinavia (Star Media Entertainment), Russia/CIS and The Baltics (Cinema Prestige).
The film is produced by Mike Wiluan, Sukhdev Singh, Wicky V. Olindo, and Shinjiro Nishimura. Executive producers are Sutanto Hartono, Haruhiko Miyano and Kenji Ishibashi. The film is financed by Screenplay Infinite Film, Surya Citra Media (SCM), Amuse Entertainment Singapore, and Nikkatsu Corporation Japan.
Headshot centers on a mysterious young man, who, after months in a coma from a gunshot wound to the head is nursed back to health by a young student-doctor, Ailin. Realizing that the man has lost his memory and identity, the two quickly grow closer; not realizing that behind their momentary peace lays danger. Soon their lives collide with a gang of dangerous criminals led by an enigmatic crime lord – and with every violent confrontation, his memory brings him closer to a dark truth as the lethal personality awakening within him starts to reveal who he really is.
XYZ Films is currently producing and handling sales for a number of titles including Sweet Virginia, starring Imogen Poots, Jon Bernthal and Christopher Abbott. They handled sales on several films at TIFF, including Baltasar Kormakur’s Icelandic thrillerThe Oath, which premiered in the festival’s Special Presentations section. XYZ also just wrapped production on the Anthony Scott Burns thriller, Our House, which stars Thomas Mann and Nicola Peltz, and is currently in post-production on Brian Taylor’s thriller, Mom and Dad, starring Nicolas Cage. XYZ is also selling the new action film from S. Craig Zahler, Brawl in Cell Block 99, which will star Vince Vaughn and Don Johnson.
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