Worldwide rights for “Night of Violence,” a horror thriller that puts the home invasion genre into a workplace setting, have been acquired to be handled by OneTwoThree Media. The company is preparing to field buyers and sell domestic and international rights during the ongoing annual American Film Market industry gathering in Las Vegas, Nev., which runs through Sunday.
Directed by Illya Konstantin in his debut feature, “Night of Violence” follows a group of suits that become trapped in their office after scoring a win against the public in a high-stakes class action lawsuit. As it turns out, the townspeople who were slighted by the firm’s actions have decided to don masks and seek out bloody vengeance.
The film stars Gigi Gustin (“Night of the Missing,” “American Trash”), Russ Russo (“Catch Hell,” “An Act of War”) and Kit Lang (“Battle Scars, Remember Me”). Gustin and Lang play the hunted white-collar workers, while Russo is their unapologetic executive boss.
“Night of Violence” had wrapped principal photography at New Jersey’s National Newark Building shortly before the deal was struck with OneTwoThree Media ahead of AFM. Samuel Gonzalez Jr. is leading post-production. He is also serving as a producer with Opera Machina Films.
OneTwoThree Media is introducing the film to domestic and international buyers at AFM. Gustin is represented by October Coast. Russo is represented by Eris Talent Agency. Samuel Gonzalez Jr. is represented by Melanie Cook at Ziffren Law. More than 285 companies and organizations from 80 countries are exhibiting at this year’s edition, which has relocated from Santa Monica to the Palms Casino Resort in Nevada.
