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EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has taken North American distribution rights to the romantic end-of-days thriller Once I’m Prepared, starring Andrew Ortenberg, June Schreiner, Thalia Besson, Lauren Cohan, and Dermot Mulroney.
Quiver and Briarcliff will collectively oversee theatrical launch which is about for Feb. 7, 2025 adopted by a digital launch on Feb. 14. Quiver will deal with the house leisure launch of the Ortenberg written film.
Directed by Andrew Johnson, Once I’m Prepared revolves round a younger couple, Rose and Michael, on a highway journey throughout the nation over the last days earlier than an extinction occasion, as asteroids threaten to wipe out all life on earth. Whereas journeying to see the lady’s grandmother one final time earlier than they perish, they struggle to search out that means and journey on the planet’s ultimate week. Alongside the way in which Rose and Michael encounter a rotating forged of misplaced souls from completely different backgrounds, every on the lookout for one thing very completely different out of the tip.
Once I’m Prepared is a collaboration with Briarcliff Leisure and nineteenth Gap Productions.
Cohan performs Julia, a former magnificence queen holding out hope for final minute love whereas using out the tip along with her daughter Apryl (Luciana VanDette). Cohan spent over a decade starring on ‘The Strolling Lifeless’, and presently leads the spinoff collection ‘The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis’. It’s her first on-camera movie look since her function in 2018’s Mile 22 reverse Mark Wahlberg.
Mulroney performs Keith, a solitary drifter spending his ultimate days scavenging and in the hunt for human connection. He starred within the field workplace hits, Scream VI and Anybody However You.
Besson, one of many stars of the not too long ago launched season of Emily in Paris and the daughter of French filmmaker Luc Besson, performs Michelle, the chief of a pack of younger hedonistic party-goers on their approach to an finish of the world rave.
Bryan Curtis of The Ringer voices a radio DJ updating residents on the progress of the asteroids because the hours tick down.
Producers on the pic are Ortenberg, Eli Samek, Jordan Dykstra, Robert Ballo and Tom Ortenberg. EPs are Clay Pecorin, Russell Geyser, James Masciello, Matthew Sidari and Ellen Wander. nineteenth Gap, the label based by Ortenberg and Samek, dealt with manufacturing with Quiver and Briarcliff now teaming up for the home distribution. FilmBridge Worldwide is promoting the worldwide.
Larry Greenberg and TJ Smith represented Quiver Distribution within the deal for rights to Once I’m Prepared, with Jordan Dysktra negotiating on behalf of the filmmakers.
“We’re so extremely excited to get Once I’m Prepared on the market on the planet, and couldn’t ask for higher or extra supportive companions than the workforce at Quiver. We got down to make an finish of the world movie not like another, and we will’t watch for audiences to see it,” stated Andrew Ortenberg.
The pic reps a reteam for Quiver CEO Jeff Sackman and Briarcliff CEO Tom Ortenberg, as the 2 labored collectively within the early days of Lionsgate within the late 90s.
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with author/producer/star Andrew Ortenberg and director Andrew Johnson to convey this audience-pleasing YA apocalyptic romance to audiences throughout North America.” stated Quiver Distribution Co-Presidents Berry Meyerowitz and Jeff Sackman. “We hope that is the primary of many collaborations throughout what is going to inevitably be a protracted and illustrious profession.”
Under is the trailer: