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Iron Lung, the buzzed-about low-budget sci-fi horror from YouTuber Markiplier, is adding to its international release plan.
Piece of Magic Entertainment is now aboard to release from Jan 30 in Germany, Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Czechia, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. As previously announced, the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada will also release on the same date.
Piece Of Magic was also an international partner on Taylor Swift film The Official Release Party of a Showgirl.
As my colleague Anthony D’Alessandro recently reported, Markiplier is self-distributing in the U.S. where the film could be on course to take a stunning $9M-10M on debut, despite a minimal P&A spend and a grassroots campaign that has harnessed the subject’s millions of social followers. After initially being lined up for just a handful of cinemas, the movie is expected to open on 2,000+ screens due to demand. Pre-sales are reported to stand at $5M+.
Iron Lung was produced, written, and directed by Markiplier who also stars. Based on the breakout indie horror game of the same name by David Szymanski, the story unfolds in a post-apocalyptic future following ‘The Quiet Rapture’, an event that causes stars and habitable planets to vanish. The synopsis continued: “A desperate attempt to explore an ocean of blood on a desolate moon unfolds when a convicted individual is sealed inside a decaying submarine nicknamed the Iron Lung — a descent into dread that becomes as psychological as it is physical”. Co-starring are Caroline Rose Kaplan, Troy Baker, Elsie Lovelock.
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