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<\/p>\nFollowing an electrifying world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last week, Mickey Keating\u2019s \u201cCarnage Park\u201d, which won over audiences and genre critics in the Sundance Midnight section, has been acquired by Content Media, who will handle international sales on the film starting in Berlin next week.<\/p>\n
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Written and directed by Mickey Keating (\u201cPod,\u201d \u201cRitual,\u201d \u201cDarling\u201d), \u201cCarnage Park\u201d is a terrifying new film inspired by a true story. The 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a bank heist and flee into the desert, where they inexplicably stumble upon Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness occupied by a psychotic ex-military sniper.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarnage Park\u201d stars Ashley Bell (\u201cThe Last Exorcism, \u201cThe Last Exorcism 2\u201d, \u201cThe Day\u201d), Pat Healy (\u201cCheap Thrills\u201d, \u201cCaptain America: Winter Soldier\u201d, \u201cMagnolia,\u201d \u201cRescue Dawn\u201d), Alan Ruck (\u201cFerris Buehler\u2019s Day Off,\u201d \u201cSpeed\u201d), Darby Stanchfield (\u201cScandal,\u201d \u201cWaitress,\u201d \u201cThe Sacrifice\u201d), James Landry H\u00e9bert (\u201cGangster Squad,\u201d \u201cLooper,\u201d \u201cSeven Psychopaths\u201d) and Larry Fessenden (\u201cHabit,\u201d \u201cThe Last Winter\u201d).<\/p>\n
Eric B. Fleischman\u00a0and Sean Tabibian produced the film through their Diablo Entertainment banner. \u00a0Content\u2019s team, led by President of Film, Jamie Carmichael and Head of Sales, Harry White, will introduce \u201cCarnage Park\u201d to international distributors for the first time at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin. CAA handles North American sales rights for the film. \u00a0The acquisition of sales rights to \u201cCarnage Park\u201d builds on Content\u2019s successes with genre films emanating from Sundance Midnight over the last few years including such commercial hits as \u201cThe Pact,\u201d \u201cThe Nightmare\u201d and \u201cBound to Vengeance\u201d \u2013 all of which performed strongly worldwide.<\/p>\n
Content\u2019s Carmichael and White in a joint statement said: \u201c\u2019Carnage Park\u2019 is everything you could hope for in an ultra-cool elevated genre film \u2013 full of tension, stylish as hell, and tough as nails.\u00a0 We love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to \u201cCarnage Park,\u201d Content\u2019s impressive international sales slate includes the action-thriller \u201cThe Worker,\u201d starring Michael Pe\u00f1a, directed by action director Dan Bradley and produced alongside Jeremy Renner\u2019s company The Combine; the Manolo Blahnik documentary \u201cManolo\u201d; the Maria Callas biopic \u201cCallas,\u201d starring Noomi Rapace with Niki Caro directing; Lorenzo di Bonaventura\u2019s produced sci-fi \u201cHigher Power\u201d; Joel David Moore\u2019s dramedy \u201cYouth in Oregon\u201d starring Christina Applegate, Josh Lucas, Billy Crudup, Frank Langella and Nicola Peltz; Dennis Hauck\u2019s neo-noir detective thriller \u201cToo Late,\u201d starring Academy Award\u00ae-nominee John Hawkes; the supernatural horror \u201cDon\u2019t Knock Twice,\u201d from \u2018The Machine\u2019 team starring Katee Sackhoff, Lucy Boynton and Nick Moran; the uplifting emotional\u00a0 drama \u201cLife at these Speeds\u201d starring Billy Crudup, Graham Rogers and Tim Roth; the star-studded romantic drama \u201cThe Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,\u201d starring Jason Sudeikis, Maisie Williams, Jessica Biel, Orlando Jones, with Paul Reiser and Mary Steenburgen; Amy Berg\u2019s \u201cJanis: Little Girl Blue\u201d selected at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals; and Oscar Wilde’s \u201cThe Canterville Ghost\u201d voiced by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following an electrifying world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last week, Mickey Keating\u2019s \u201cCarnage Park\u201d, which won over audiences and genre critics in the Sundance Midnight section, has been acquired by Content Media, who will handle international sales on the film starting in Berlin next week. Written and directed by Mickey Keating (\u201cPod,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3976,3978,3974,3973,3975,146,3979,3503,3977],"class_list":["post-14219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ashley-bell","tag-berlin-film-festival","tag-carnage-park","tag-content-media","tag-film-distribution","tag-horror","tag-international-film-sales","tag-larry-fessenden","tag-sundance-film-festival"],"yoast_head":"\n