It was announced today that Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has acquired global rights to upcoming sci-fi film, Skyman. Written and directed by Daniel Myrick (The Blair Witch Project, The Objective), Skyman held its World Premiere at the 2019 Austin Film Festival and will arrive in drive-in theaters starting June 30th and on-demand July 7th. In 1987, just days after his 10th birthday, Carl Merryweather rocked the local news community when he claimed he was visited by an extraterrestrial life form.
Despite other alleged sightings reported that same evening, skeptical authorities shrugged off the claims. Now, almost three obsessive decades later, Carl is set on a mission to reunite with the being he calls ‘the Skyman’ to not only prove the skeptics wrong but to ultimately find his own true sense of purpose. Through first-hand home videos interwoven with news footage and interviews, Skyman is a bold and compelling study of the fascinating and unquestioning world of UFO subculture.
“I grew up in an era where the talk of UFO’s, Bigfoot and the ‘Devil’s Triangle’ were all the rage and was inspired by the personal experiences from so many people not unlike Carl Merryweather,” said Daniel Myrick. “Whether you believe in the legitimacy of these accounts or not, they reveal a deeper human truth that I find quite compelling and speak to the notion that so many of us are searching for something greater than ourselves – and I’m excited to finally bring a little bit of that mystery to the big screen.”
Music is composed by Don Miggs and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins.
Skyman stars Michael Selle, Nicollete Sweeney, and Faleolo Alailima and is produced by Joseph Restaino, Daniel Myrick, Anthony Pernicka, and William Surgeon.
While many theaters across the United States remain closed, Skyman will premiere at several drive in locations starting June 30th, including the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-in Cinema in Austin, TX, Doc’s Drive In Theatre in Buda, TX, Coyote Drive-in in Fort Worth, TX, Ocala Drive-in, Ocala, FL, Joy Lan Drive-in, Dade City, FL and Silver Moon Drive-in Theatre in Lakeland, FL.
“I am thrilled that our team is getting the opportunity to work with Daniel, producer Joseph Restaino and the ‘Skyman’ crew on this film’s release. Movies are supposed to fly in and beam up our imaginations, they’re supposed to poke and prod our wonder. Skyman does that from start to finish and capitalizes on the best parts of UFO lore,” said Senior Manager of Acquisitions at Gravitas Ventures Nick Royak.
Royak negotiated the deal with producer Joseph Restaino of Hungry Bull Productions.
About Gravitas Ventures
Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, is a leading all rights distributor of independent feature films and documentaries. Founded in 2006, Gravitas connects independent filmmakers and producers with distribution opportunities across the globe. Working with talented directors and producers, Gravitas Ventures has distributed thousands of films into over a hundred million homes in North America – over one billion homes worldwide. Recent releases include Armstrong, directed by David Fairhead; Above the Shadows staring Olivia Thirlby, Megan Fox and Jim Gaffigan; The River and the Wall, directed by Ben Masters; Score: A Film Music Documentary; California Typewriter; Legion of Brothers; Katie Holmes’ feature directorial debut; All We Had, Colin Hanks’ All Things Must Pass; and Being Evel from Academy Award winning director Daniel Junge and producer Johnny Knoxville.
For more information, please visit gravitasventures.com, and follow @GravitasVOD on Twitter and @gravitasventures on Instagram.
About Red Arrow Studios
Red Arrow Studios is one of the world’s leading creators and distributors of entertainment content, comprised of an acclaimed network of international production companies and labels in seven territories; world-leading digital studio, Studio71, based in six countries; and global film and TV distributors Red Arrow Studios International and Gravitas Ventures. The group’s significant output includes scripted, non-scripted and formatted content and IP, from TV and film to short-form and branded content, made for an array of global networks and platforms. Red Arrow Studios is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, one of Europe’s leading media groups. redarrowstudios.com
About Hungry Bull Productions
Hungry Bull Productions is in post-Production on Justin Long’s directorial debut feature LADY OF THE MANOR starring Long, Melanie Lynskey, Judy Greer, and Ryan Phillippe. Their most recent credits include producing alongside Pulse Films and Len Blavatnik’s AI Films on PIG starring Nicholas Cage and Alex Wolff, which was recently purchased by NEON; FEAR OF RAIN starring Katherine Heigl, Madison Iseman, Israel Broussard, and Harry Connick, Jr.; Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut PASSING starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Alexander Skarsgârd and André Holland; and Kevin Smith’s KILROY WAS HERE.