CINEVERSE SET TO DEBUT ‘THE BLUE DIAMOND’ ON BLOODY BITES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BLOODY DISGUSTING
The bold horror thriller and festival favorite comes to VOD June 5th
Bloody Bites, the streamer created in partnership with Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting, has acquired the rights to the horror thriller The Blue Diamond and will debut the film on the service on June 5th. The award-winning film was directed by Sam Fox, written by Addison Heimann, and produced by Geenah Krisht and Desiree Staples, with a cast that includes Staples and Barbara Crampton.
After the death of her toxic mother, a cultish 80s après ski club is the setting of a grieving daughter trying to find closure, but as usual with 80s ski clubs, nothing is as it seems (aliens).
The Blue Diamond won multiple prestigious awards on the genre film festival circuit including Best Short Film at Grimmfest, Best Editing at The Beverly Hills Film Festival, and Best Ensemble Cast at FilmQuest. Distributed by OUAT Media, the film has previously secured distribution with Canal+ and Kanopy and is now in feature development.
The team behind The Blue Diamond – Fox, Staples, and Krisht – are in development on Sam Fox’s debut feature film Eveningstar, written by Charles Pieper. They will be taking the project to the Cannes market to complete financing. Cast attachments to the project are Ethan Daniel Corbett and Desiree Staples.
Fox’s latest jazz-horror short, Open Wide, is currently on the festival circuit (Fantasia, Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest). Previously, she made the horror-comedy Fck’n Nuts with MovieMaker Magazine (Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, Brooklyn Horror), which won jury and audience awards across major festivals, and the psychedelic short Bad Acid, which earned her Best Director at Nightmares Film Festival.
Cineverse/Bloody Bites’ Tony Wash shares, “The Blue Diamond is my favorite short film from last year’s festival circuit. Barbara Crampton engages the audience with a colorful yet haunting performance and the production design is out of this world! I am beyond stoked to kick off season 18 of Screambox’s Bloody Bites with The Blue Diamond!”
The deal was negotiated for Cineverse/Bloody Bites by Tony Wash and by Jennifer Chen from OUAT Media on behalf of the filmmakers. Fox is represented by Peter Principato at Artists First, and Staples by Rachel Tolliver at FireStarter Entertainment.
About Cineverse Motion Pictures Group
Cineverse super-serves passionate audiences by distributing content across all windows and platforms, from theatrical to digital to physical. Following the breakout box office success of Terrifier 3, recent theatrical releases include the franchise returns of The Toxic Avenger, Silent Night, Deadly Night, and Return to Silent Hill. Also on Cineverse’s upcoming slate is the 20th anniversary release of Guillermo del Toro’s masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth, Wolf Creek: Legacy and the company’s first theatrical family feature, Air Bud Returns.
About Cineverse
Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS) is an entertainment technology company and studio. Fiercely innovative and independent, Cineverse develops and invests in technology and content that drives the future of the industry. Core to its business is Matchpoint® – a growing tech ecosystem powered by AI and designed to prepare, distribute, monetize, and continuously improve content across any platform. Matchpoint helps studios large and small operate at scale and improve performance and efficiency in an increasingly fragmented distribution environment. Additionally, Cineverse distributes more than 71,000 premium films, series, and podcasts, across theatrical, home entertainment, and streaming; operates dozens of digital properties that super serve passionate fandoms around the world; and works with leading brands to connect them with audiences they value. From award-winning technology to the highest-grossing unrated film in U.S. history, Cineverse has created a playbook that marries tech and content to redefine the next era of entertainment. For more information, visit home.cineverse.com.
About OUAT MEDIA
Based in Toronto, Canada, Ouat Media specializes in the distribution and global sales of short films, with a particular focus on titles by the industry’s rising stars premiering at the world’s leading film festivals. To date, Ouat Media has represented 12 Oscar® nominees, including 3 winners. A wholly owned subsidiary of the independent Canadian media group Channel Zero, Ouat Media will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year.
