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EXCLUSIVE: Smile and Twilight shaper Temple Hill is teaming up erstwhile much pinch UK income patient Protagonist, this clip connected Ben Leonberg (Good Boy)’s adjacent scary characteristic Follow Mode, which is owed to beryllium changeable wholly connected drones and intends to pat into nan unrecorded watercourse generation.
Leonberg is coming disconnected breakout scary Good Boy, which was IFC’s second-biggest theatrical opening play (second only to Temple Hill’s Clown successful a Cornfield).
Protagonist is launching world income astatine nan upcoming Cannes market. Temple Hill and Verve Ventures are co-repping home rights. Script comes from Leonberg and Alex Cannon, who besides co-scripted Good Boy.
The synopsis reads: “Consumer-grade drones now travel pinch a “hands-free” mounting that automatically directs nan camera to travel you – successful lawsuit you’re a surfer taking your adjacent wave, a snowboarder back-flipping disconnected a half-pipe, aliases a serial slayer stalking your adjacent victim. When a group of teens sound this drone retired of nan sky, they observe that it contains location movies of nan killer’s sadistic crimes. Now, they must title to expose nan slayer earlier becoming his adjacent victims.”
The movie is being produced by Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, John Fischer, Hal Sadoff, and Ben Levine for Temple Hill, pinch Protagonist Pictures’ Dave Bishop, James Pugh and George Hamilton serving arsenic executive producers.
The task marks nan sixth collaboration betwixt Temple Hill and Protagonist, pursuing Clown successful a Cornfield, arsenic good arsenic Monitor (SXSW) which was precocious acquired by Searchlight for a wide theatrical merchandise successful nan U.S successful 2027. Launched successful Cannes past year, nan first instalment of nan scary trilogy The Rule of Three precocious wrapped and Protagonist will besides beryllium screening successful Cannes nan SXSW title Seekers of Infinite Love.
Canine scary Good Boy, made connected a micro-budget, played past twelvemonth astatine SXSW and Film astatine Lincoln Center earlier going connected to people $8.8M worldwide, including $6.6M domestically.
Dave Bishop, CEO of Protagonist Pictures, said: “Temple Hill erstwhile again proves its small heart for fresh, audience-grabbing horror. Follow Mode is nan benignant of bold, high-concept scary that stops you successful your tracks – propulsive, original and viscerally thrilling from its first framework to its last. In Good Boy, Ben proved he is simply a filmmaker some comfortable pushing boundaries and mastering tension. Shot wholly pinch drones, delivering a strikingly cinematic experience, Follow Mode offers a caller position connected panic audiences person simply ne'er seen before. Ben has crafted a rare, diabolical dainty that feels some groundbreaking and profoundly unsettling.”
Leonberg added: “The emergence of hands-free drone exertion has introduced a chilling caller vulnerability to mundane life—anyone pinch a drone tin go a peeping tom, a stalker, aliases worse… That worry drives Follow Mode. We’re truthful thrilled to beryllium collaborated pinch Temple Hill, whose way grounds successful nan genre makes them a cleanable fresh for this unsettling caller return connected recovered footage.”
Temple Hill commented: “We were blown distant by Ben’s first movie Good Boy and its original attack to position successful nan scary abstraction and sought him retired to find thing to do together. We spot Follow Mode arsenic nan adjacent improvement of nan recovered footage movie – playing connected nan terrifying reality that immoderate of america could beryllium followed and watched by store-bought technology. With Ben’s tremendous imagination and expertise successful POV filmmaking, we couldn’t beryllium much excited to stock this spine-chilling task pinch audiences astir nan world.”
