IFC Midnight has acquired the North American and Latin America rights to Jon Wright’s feature film ‘Grabbers’.
‘Grabbers’ follows residents of an idyllic Irish fishing village are attacked by mysterious, blood-sucking sea creatures and stars Richard Coyle (W.E., Five Days of War), Ruth Bradley ( Love/Hate, Primeval), Russell Tovey ( Sherlock, Him and Her) and Bronagh Gallagher (Albert Nobbs, The Field of Bloom). Kevin Lehane (The Fourth Wall) wrote the script.
The film premiered at the recent Sundance Film Festival .
Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers of Forward Films produced with Ireland’s Martina Niland of Samson Films, Eduardo Levy and James Martin of High Treason Productions and Piers Tempest of The Salt Company.
International sales are being handled by The Salt Company whilst Sony Pictures Home Entertainment had previously acquired UK rights to the project.
