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Voltage Pictures has boarded international sales on writer-director Kyle Rankin’s (Night of the Living Deb) upcoming thriller Run Hide Fight starring Thomas Jane (Deep Blue Sea, The Thin Red Line), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill, Man On Fire) and Isabel May (“Alexa & Katie”, “Young Sheldon”) and will present the project to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market, it was announced today by company President and COO Jonathan Deckter.

Currently in post-production, the film also stars Eli Brown (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists), Olly Sholotan (All American), Cyrus Arnold (Zoolander 2), Britton Sear (Boy Erased), Catherine Davis (S.W.A.T.), Treat Williams (Deep Rising), and Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator).

Cinestate’s Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk are producing the film under its newly announced genre banner Rebeller. Adam Donaghey, Danielle Cox, and Bobby Campbell are executive producers. Jonathan Deckter and Sarah Dunn negotiated the deal on behalf of Voltage Pictures. Cinestate will distribute directly in the US.

Run Hide Fight follows 17-year-old Zoe Hull who uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.

“Run Hide Fight typifies the kind of high-quality, highly-commercial fare we’ve come to expect from Cinestate, and perfectly encapsulates the mission of their new arm Rebeller to make brave films that break the traditional mold,” said Deckter. “We’re thrilled that Dallas has entrusted us with delivering this special film to international audiences and can’t wait to share with our partners as part of our robust and diverse EFM slate.”

ABOUT VOLTAGE PICTURES

Voltage Pictures, established in 2005, is a privately held, film and television production, financing and sales entity. Voltage has won six Academy Awards including Best Picture for The Hurt Locker, and three Academy Awards for Dallas Buyers Club.

Recently released by Voltage is the blockbuster comedy I Feel Pretty starring Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams, Emily Ratajkowski, and Naomi Campbell, which had a wide theatrical release via STX Entertainment in April 2018 and has since generated nearly $100m in worldwide box office. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile starring Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, Jim Parsons, and John Malkovich premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim.

After based on the internationally best-selling series of books by Anna Todd, debuted number one at the box office in 17 international territories including Germany and Italy when released in April 2019. The company is currently in post-production on Ava directed by Tate Taylor and starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, John Malkovich, Common, Geena Davis, and Joan Chen. 

Other titles released by Voltage include Colossal starring Anne Hathaway released in April 2017 by Neon and A Family Man starring Gerard Butler, and Keep Watching, starring Bella Thorne which released by Screen Gems.

Voltage was a co-financier and sales agent for the acclaimed Wind River, from Taylor Sheridan in his directorial debut, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, which premiered to rave reviews at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival which took over $44 million in worldwide box office. Chartier and Deckter were executive producers on the project.

Recent titles on the Voltage sales slate include the Toronto International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize winner Skin from the Academy Award-winning director, Guy Nattiv, and starring Jamie Bell, Danielle Macdonald, and Vera Farmiga. The film was also an official selection in the Panorama section at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival and was released in the US by A24. The short on which the film is based won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. All Eyez on Me from director Benny Bloom and starring Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira and Kat Graham took $53 million in worldwide box office. Her Smell, starring Elisabeth Moss, Amber Heard, Cara Delevingne, and Dan Stevens was released in April 2019.

ABOUT REBELLER

REBELLER is CINESTATE’s new label dedicated to “Outlaw Cinema,” producing movies in genres that Hollywood is ignoring and from scripts that Hollywood is too afraid to touch. Owned and operated by CINESTATE CEO Dallas Sonnier alongside Editor-in-Chief Sonny Bunch, RebellerMedia.com will be the online home for REBELLER, highlighting the best in genre cinema past and present and taking a flamethrower to cancel culture, phony outrage, disingenuous morality, and corporate conformity. REBELLER will serve as the industry’s beacon for free expression and great storytelling across a variety of platforms, from movies to books to podcasts.

ABOUT CINESTATE

CINESTATE is the Dallas-based entertainment studio established in 2016 by CEO Dallas Sonnier. Ideologically and creatively separate from the movie studios of the coasts, CINESTATE is committed to a creator-centric model of independent storytelling. CINESTATE is known for S. Craig Zahler’s cult hits BONE TOMAHAWK (2016), BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (2018), and DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE (2019), as well as the 2019 indie success THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK.