Cinedigm Nabs North American Rights to Black Comedy ‘Holy Shit!’

Cinedigm Corp. has sealed a cope with gross sales agent The Playmaker Munich for North American rights to Lukas Rinker’s claustrophobic black comedy “Holy Shit!” The deal was made eventually week’s American Movie Market the place the movie was proven to consumers.

Cinedigm will launch “Holy Shit!” on the corporate’s Screambox streaming platform in early 2023.

Beforehand introduced distribution offers had been Japan (New Choose), South Korea (Lumix Media), China (Beijing Blue Media Occasions), France (Household Movies) and Baltics (Estin Movie).

The movie received the viewers award at its world premiere at this yr’s Arduous:Line Movie Pageant and was proven at a number of style festivals equivalent to Evening Visions Movie Pageant in Helsinki, FrightFest in London and Brussels Worldwide Incredible Movie Pageant. At Fantaspoa, it obtained an honorable point out for “the very best blood (and shit) bathtub.”

Within the movie, architect Frank wakes up trapped inside a transportable rest room in the midst of a building website. To outlive the upcoming demolition blast and rescue his pregnant girlfriend from Mayor Horsts’ sleazy grasp, Frank must puzzle himself out of the blue plastic coffin and resolve a horrible crime.

“Holy Shit!” is a German manufacturing by Neopol Movie in co-production with Studio Hamburg Enterprises. The manufacturing was supported and funded by the HessenFilm und Medien GmbH.

The deal was negotiated by Brandon Hill, Cinedigm’s director of acquisitions, and Moritz Hemminger of Playmaker on behalf of filmmakers.