XYZ Films Acquires THE SUMMONED Following World Premiere at 2022 Overlook Film Festival
XYZ Films announced their acquisition of director Mark Meir's Faustian morality tale, THE SUMMONED, out of the 2022 Overlook Film Festival. The distributor is planning a North American release of the film in July of 2022.
In the picture, young Elijah (Hamilton's J. Quinton Johnson) attends a self-help retreat with his rockstar girlfriend Lyn, unaware that the enigmatic doctor who runs the estate has summoned him here to settle a generations-old supernatural debt.
Elijah Moulton (Actor - J. Quinton Johnson) / DP - Justin Mark Morrison
Directed by Meir with a script by Jewish-Ukrainian writer Yuri Baranovsky, THE SUMMONED's powerful cast features Johnson (Hamilton on Broadway, AMC's The Son), Emma Fitzpatrick (THE SOCIAL NETWORK), Salvador Chacon (FX's Mayans M.C.), Angela Gulner (Netflix's GLOW), and Freddy Douglas (Hallmark's The Odyssey). A Wicked Myth and Happy Little Guillotine Studios co-production, the picture is Produced by Baranovsky, Meir, Gulner, Justin Mark Morrison, and Dashiell Reinhardt.
Dr. Frost (Actor - Frederick Stuart) / DP - Justin Mark Morrison
James Emanuel Shapiro, XYZ Films' Executive Vice President of US Distribution, notes, "All I can say is that I felt summoned to work on THE SUMMONED! Mark, Yuri, and Angela created something smart and scary, and I can't wait to show this to as many people as possible!"
(L - R) Lyn Rose (Actor - Emma Fitzpatrick), Joe Agrippa (Actor - Salvador Chacon), Elijah Moulton (Actor - J. Quinton Johnson) & Tara Grandier (Actor - Angela Gulner) / DP - Justin Mark Morrison
THE SUMMONED director Mark Meir adds, "We are thrilled to have XYZ bring this film to audiences. As leaders in the genre space, we’re honored to be among their titles."
