{"id":137781,"date":"2025-09-06T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137781\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:53:07","slug":"georgina-campbell-david-dastmalchian-horror-shepherd-sells-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/137781\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgina Campbell &#038; David Dastmalchian Horror &#8216;Shepherd&#8217; Sells To US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/magnolia-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_magnolia-pictures\" data-tag=\"magnolia-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magnolia Pictures<\/a> has pre-bought U.S. rights to horror-thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-shepherd\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-shepherd\" data-tag=\"the-shepherd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Shepherd<\/a> from Anton and are planning a robust theatrical release next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/david-dastmalchian\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-dastmalchian\" data-tag=\"david-dastmalchian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Dastmalchian<\/a> (The Dark Knight) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/georgina-campbell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_georgina-campbell\" data-tag=\"georgina-campbell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgina Campbell<\/a> (Barbarian) are set to star in the film about a desperate young woman on the run from her ex who hitches a ride through the desert with a frightening stranger, only to realize he\u2019s on a mission to destroy the mysterious cargo resting in the backseat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFilming is due to get underway this fall on the movie which heralds from Spooky Pictures and Image Nation. John Hyams (Sick) is directing from a script by Alexander Gustaveson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAnton is handling worldwide rights and co-repping North American rights with UTA Independent Film Group and Cinetic. International sales will continue at TIFF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe deal was negotiated by Magnolia\u2019s SVP of Acquisitions John Von Thaden, with Louis Balsan and Sebastien Raybaud of Anton, and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReuniting the producers behind the box-office hit Late Night with the Devil \u2013 which also starred Dastmalchian \u2013 The Shepherd is produced under the Spooky Pictures \u2013 Image Nation partnership with Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity) and Roy Lee (It franchise, Weapons) for Spooky Pictures (Strange Darling); Ben Cornwell, Jordan Foley and Nick Smith for Paperclip Ltd. (Alone) along with Jonathan Rosenthal (Alone); and S\u00e9bastien Raybaud (Greenland) for Anton. Anton and Image Nation are financing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExecutive producers are David Dastmalchian under his Good Fiend Films banner, Georgina Campbell, Ben Ross and Derek Dauchy for Image Nation, Rami Yasin for Spooky Pictures, and Yeardley Smith for Paperclip Ltd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cJohn Hyams has become a master at delivering intense, visceral material with maximum impact,\u201d said Magnolia Pictures co-CEOs Eamonn Bowles and Dori Begley. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to bring this to audiences next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOppenheimer, The Dark Knight and Ant-Man star Dastmalchian can be seen next in Apple TV+\u2019s sci fi series Murderbot. Barbarian and The Watchers star Campbell won a BAFTA TV prize for Murdered by My Boyfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has pre-bought U.S. rights to horror-thriller The Shepherd from Anton and are planning a robust&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[86093,88,86094,86095,206,86096],"class_list":{"0":"post-137781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-david-dastmalchian","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-georgina-campbell","11":"tag-magnolia-pictures","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-shepherd"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}