Cheap Thrills follows Craig (Pat Healy, Compliance), a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend (Ethan Embry, Empire Records). The two friends are roped into a round of drinks by a charismatic and obscenely wealthy stranger (David Koechner, Anchorman 2) along with his mysterious wife (Sara Paxton, The Innkeepers). The couple engages the two friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries. It seems like easy and much needed money, but the couple's twisted sense of humor pushes just how far Craig and his friend are willing to go for money and cheap thrills.
Also just announced the exclusive VOD date for the film. Cheap Thrills will be available exclusively on the Movies On Demand platform of Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks on February 21. It will be in select theaters & digital VOD platforms on March 21. Full release at the bottom.
DRAFTHOUSE FILMS AND CINEDIGM ANNOUNCE 'CHEAP THRILLS' WILL HAVE PRE-THEATRICAL PREMIERE EXCLUSIVELY ON MOVIES ON DEMAND ON CABLE.
Acclaimed Fest Favorite To Hit Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications & Bright House Networks' Systems Starting February 21st
Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, and Cinedigm, in partnership with leading Movies on Demand distributor iN DEMAND, announced today the acclaimed comic thriller Cheap Thrills will be available exclusively on the Movies On Demand platform of Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks cable systems beginning February 21st, prior to its March 21st theatrical & digital VOD release. Cheap Thrills joins a select few titles to receive pre-theatrical debuts exclusively on cable.
Cheap Thrills was acquired by Drafthouse Films, in partnership with Snoot Entertainment, following its world premiere at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival where it won the "Midnighters Audience Award." Cinedigm holds rights to the home entertainment distribution rights, including DVD, Blu-Ray, VOD and digital platforms. The directorial debut from E.L. Katz, Cheap Thrills has been hailed as "a black comic masterpiece...brilliant and furious piece of filmmaking" (Drew McWeeny, HitFix) while First Showing says Cheap Thrills is "a dynamite charge of fun."
"We're delighted iN DEMAND championed an early release of Cheap Thrills and we are thrilled to be unleashing Evan Katz's uniquely thrilling film to a cable audience of millions around the country. They're in for a wild ride." says Drafthouse Films COO James Emanuel Shapiro.
"One of our core missions as a company is to find new audiences for great films," said Erick Opeka, SVP of Digital Distribution for Cinedigm. "We're excited to partner with iN DEMAND on this innovative release strategy that gives tens of millions of cable viewers a chance to see Cheap Thrills first."
"Cheap Thrills is just the kind of critically acclaimed film that we are looking to premiere exclusively for our cable audiences," said iN DEMAND's Emilio Nuñez, SVP, Movies & Original Programming. "The film has been picking up awards and generating a lot of buzz on the festival circuit and we want to serve film lovers with an early opportunity to screen this movie at home. We are also very pleased to be partners with Drafthouse and Cinedigm on this special deal."
About Drafthouse Films
Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, is a curated brand of provocative, visionary and artfully unusual films new and old from around the world. Following the earnestly simple motto of "sharing the films we love with widest audience possible," Drafthouse Films debuted in 2010 with the theatrical release of Four Lions which was named of Time Magazine's "Top 10 Films Of The Year." Their diverse and unique slate includes the highly-acclaimed, Oscar® nominated documentary The Act Of Killing produced by Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, 2013 SXSW Midnight Audience Award winner Cheap Thrills starring David Koechner (Anchorman), British auteur Ben Wheatley's psychedelic trip into magic and madness, A Field In England, Ari Folman's Cannes Film Festival selected sci-fi epic The Congress starring Robin Wright, Harvey Keith, Jon Hamm and Paul Giamatti, and the rediscovered 1987 Midnight Movie sensation Miami Connection. Drafthouse Films distributes films theatrically, through home video, VOD and their direct-to-consumer platforms integrating into the ever-growing Alamo Drafthouse entertainment lifestyle brand, which along with the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas includes: Mondo, the collectible art boutique; Fantastic Fest, the largest international genre film festival in the US; and the pop culture website Badass Digest.
About Cinedigm
Cinedigm is the leading independent content distributor in the United States, with direct relationships with over 60,000 physical and digital retailers, including Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon, as well as the national Video On Demand platform on cable television. The company's library of over 32,000 titles and episodes encompasses award-winning documentaries from Docurama Films®, next-gen Indies from Flatiron Film Company®, acclaimed independent films and festival picks through partnerships with the Sundance Institute and Tribeca Films and a wide range of content from brand name suppliers, including National Geographic, Discovery, Scholastic, WWE, NFL, Shout Factory, Hallmark, Jim Henson and more. Cinedigm™ and Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp™ are trademarks of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. www.cinedigm.com. [CIDM-G]
About E.L. Katz
Director E.L. Katz has worked as a writer with such distinguished filmmakers as Sam Raimi, Peter Block (producer of the Saw films), Adam Wingard, Jaume Balaguero, and Paco Plaza. Cheap Thrills is his directorial debut.
About SnowFort Pictures
Snowfort Pictures returns to SXSW with two films this year: Cheap Thrills and the comedic monster mayhem flick Big Ass Spider! produced with Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson of Epic Pictures Group. Upcoming productions include Jodorowsky's Dune (an international co-production with Germany's Koch Media and France's Camera One), the arthouse action film American Muscle (produced with Paradise City Pictures' Jeffrey Giles and Michael Lurie) and Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch's Starry Eyes, an occult tale set in Hollywood.
About Snoot Entertainment
Snoot Entertainment is a motion picture production company founded by Keith Calder and Jessica Wu in February 2004 to develop, finance and produce entertaining independent films across all genres. Snoot recently completed the award-winning Adam Wingard directed horror film You're Next, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011 where Lionsgate acquired domestic rights. Lionsgate is planning a wide release in August 2013. Snoot also recently produced the Morgan Spurlock documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, which was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically Summer 2011. The company has also produced the award-winning audience favorite documentary Thunder Soul, the martial-arts action film Bunraku, and the intense horror film Undocumented. Snoot's first release was the 3D animated science-fiction film Battle For Terra. In addition, Calder produced All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, The Wackness, The Key Man, and Peep World through Snoot's subsidiary company Occupant Films, which he co-founded in 2005. Snoot is also an investor in the commercial production company Warpaint LLC, co-founded with Academy-Award nominated documentary director Morgan Spurlock.
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