IFC announces release plans
IFC Films announced today it has acquired U.S. rights to Daniel Myrick’s supernatural thriller The Objective.
It’s the latest film to come from the co-creator and co-director of The Blair Witch Project. Since that 1999 pop culture hit, he has helmed Solstice and Believers.
The Objective premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and will be released on February 4th through IFC In Theaters, the video on demand platform, and will also have exclusive theatrical midnight engagements at the IFC Center in NY on February 6th and 7th.
IFC In Theaters makes independent films available to a national audience by releasing them simultaneously in theaters as well as on cable’s On Demand platform and through Pay-Per-View, reaching 50 million homes.
The Objective locates the action in a remote mountain region of Afghanistan, where a team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched with the ostensible orders of locating an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern ‘Bermuda Triangle’ of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could ever have imagined.
Written by Myrick, Mark Patton and Wes Clark Jr., and produced by Zev Guber and Jeremy Wall, the cast of the film includes Jonas Ball, Matt Anderson, Jon Huertas, Michael C. Williams, Sam Hunger and Jeff Prewett.
It will also go through IFC Entertainment’s exclusive deal with Blockbuster. The agreement enables IFC Films to reach a broader audience for its titles through Blockbuster’s stores, by-mail subscription services and digital downloading service at Blockbuster.com.
Source: IFC Entertainment
