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Brian O’Shea, The Exchange CEO, and Dark Castle Entertainment announced today that award-winning actress Olivia Munn (X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, The Newsroom) is attached to lead the action feature REPLAY.

REPLAY will be introduced to international buyers at the upcoming virtual Cannes Film Market, June 22-26, 2020 by The Exchange.

CAA Media Finance is representing the domestic sales rights.

In pre-production, REPLAY is written and directed by Jimmy Loweree (ABSENCE), and produced by Munn alongside Ethan Erwin and Hal Sadoff of Dark Castle Entertainment. Robert Bell of Dark Castle is co-producing. Dark Castle is currently in post on Simon Barrett’s directorial debut SÉANCE starring Suki Waterhouse and THE EXPECTING directed by Mary Harron and starring AnnaSophia Robb for Quibi. ESTHER, the prequel to their hit film ORPHAN, begins principal photography in August with William Brent Bell helming.

Deftly merging the frenetic, close-quarters action of JOHN WICK and THE RAID with the clever sci-fi storytelling of THE TERMINATOR, REPLAY is the story of Erin Staffer (Munn), whose husband is kidnapped and murdered. Now, armed only with illegal, bleeding edge tech and a desperate plan, Erin must do everything in her power to change the past and save him.

“We are very excited to announce Olivia Munn’s attachment to REPLAY. She not only is a wonderful actress, but also well known to our buyers which will help make this strong genre project very popular during the market,” said O’Shea of The Exchange.

“Audiences are going to witness the birth of the next great action star with Olivia Munn in this film. And our director, Jimmy Loweree, is an incredible young filmmaker, whose vision for this movie is going to blow people away,” said Erwin from Dark Castle.

The Exchange’s Virtual Cannes’20 line-up includes other high-quality finished titles such as SPREE (Sundance 2020), WELCOME TO CHECHNYA (Sundance and Berlin 2020), THE TOLL (SXSW 2020), THE STAND-IN (Tribeca 2020).

Munn and Loweree are both represented by CAA, and additionally Munn is with Atlas Artists and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.

About The Exchange
Collaborative and transparent, The Exchange is a leading international sales, finance and production company committed to creating strong relationships between filmmakers, film financiers and distributors through the exchange of product, information and commerce. Created by veteran sales executive Brian O'Shea, the company specializes in high quality, commercial films that appeal to North American audiences and the ever-evolving global film market. For more information, please visit: www.theexchange.ws.

About Dark Castle Entertainment
Dark Castle, since its inception, has produced over 20 films, including GOTHIKA, starring Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry and Robert Downey Jr., UNKNOWN starring Liam Neeson, and ROCKNROLLA directed by Guy Ritchie. Dark Castle is also well known for horror films such as HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, ORPHAN, 13 GHOSTS, GHOST SHIP, and HOUSE OF WAX. The company re-launched in 2017. Productions since that time include Quibi’s THE EXPECTING directed by Mary Harron and starring AnnaSophia Robb, Simon Barrett's upcoming directorial debut SÉANCE starring Suki Waterhouse, and a prequel to ORPHAN entitled ESTHER.