EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group, a Lionsgate company, has picked up world distribution rights to the romantic comedy Christmas in Paradise from MSR Media International. Lionsgate will release the film in North America on November 15.
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EXCLUSIVE: Producer Tony Eldridge (The Equalizer films) of Lonetree Entertainment has optioned the film rights to Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper’s new horror novel A Light Most Hateful, which Titan Books recently acquired at a competitive auction.
A Light Most Hateful is billed as a terrifying survival horror full of haunting friendships in which the female experience turns monstrous. The story focuses on Olivia, who having fled home three years prior, is stuck in a dead-end job in nowhere Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania with her best friend Sunflower. That’s until a night storm crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow. If Olivia’s going to survive the night to someday reconcile with her parents, she needs to dodge residents enslaved by the storm’s otherworldly powers and find Sunflower. But as the night strains friendships and reality itself, Olivia suspects the storm, and its monster, may have more to do with Sunflower than anything else.
“Edgy and scary as hell, Hailey Piper’s dark tale blasts the reader down a twisted rabbit hole of shifting realities and shatters mirror after mirror,” said Eldridge. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with one of the most unique and imaginative voices in contemporary horror.”
“I’m so jazzed to be working with Tony Eldridge!” added Piper. “He brings a wealth of enthusiasm and care to this story, putting A Light Most Hateful in most experienced hands.”
Piper is a trans author whose work often spotlights LGBTQIA+ characters, such as Yaya Betancourt in her 2021 Bram Stoker Award-winning Queen of Teeth, which won the prize for Best First Novel. Other works from the scribe include The Worm and His Kings, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate
EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group, a Lionsgate company, has picked up world distribution rights to the romantic comedy Christmas in Paradise from MSR Media International. Lionsgate will release the film in North America on November 15.
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