26 Oct Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Buys ’47 Meters Down’ Sequel
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to the shark thriller “48 Meters Down” from the Fyzz Facility.
“48 Meters Down” is the official sequel to the Mandy Moore/Claire Holt shark thriller “47 Meters Down,” which has grossed over $58 million worldwide to date. “48 Meters Down” is slated for worldwide theatrical release on June 28, 2019.
As with the original, “48 Meters Down” is a deep-sea horror/thriller with Johannes Roberts returning as director with a script he is co-writing with his “47 Meters Down” co-writer, Ernest Riera. Producers are James Harris, Mark Lane, Wayne Marc Godfrey, and Robert Jones of the Fyzz Facility. Altitude Film Sales, the sales agent on “47 Meters Down,” will be an executive producer on the sequel.
Roberts recently wrapped production on “Strangers: Prey at Night,” a follow-up to theoriginal 2008 suspense thriller starring Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, and Lewis Pullman, which the Fyzz Facility produced and financed.
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