IFC Midnight Scores New Horror Film WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING Ahead of Tribeca Premiere
IFC Midnight has acquired WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING in advance of the film s Tribeca Film Festival premiere!
We Need to Do Something in a competitive situation.
The Vast of Night) stars with Vinessa Shaw (
Hocus Pocus), and Pat Healy (
Cheap Thrills, The Innkeepers). Plus, John James Cronin (
NOS4A2), and newcomer Lisette Alexis.
Bill Stertz, John Malerman (
Bird Box), and Peter Block (
Saw) produced. Executive producers are Lauren Hantz, John Hantz, Donovan Leitch, Katherine Waddell, and Max Booth III. This is the first film produced by production and financing entity Hantz Motion Pictures. Atlas Industries, Spin a Black Yarn, and A Bigger Boat also produced. Jean-Phillippe Bernier served as DP and Shane Patrick Ford as the editor. It will have its world premiere in the Midnight Section at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. IFC Midnight will release the film later this year in theaters and on
Atlas Industries Book publisher. Author. Hotel manager. Feature screenplay writer. Max Booth III is doing it all these days. Actually, he quit his job as a hotel manager last year, so scratch that one off the list. “I worked at that hotel for eight years and despised every second of it,” said Booth, who co-owns Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, an independent horror fiction press based in Schertz. “I wrote a book about my hotel experience called
The Nightly Disease. If anyone reads that, they will know what my job was like.” Luckily, a week after Booth quit, he got word that one of his novellas,