Robert Pattinson’s production company Icki Eneo Arlo and Spacemaker Productions sign Sebastian Silva film “Rotting In The Sun”

Robert Pattinson’s production company Icki Eneo Arlo and LA-based independent production company Spacemaker Productions have joined the film crew for Sebastian Silva’s outrageous dark comedy Rotting in the sunstarring Silva and comedian Jordan Firstman.

Rotting in the sun, produced by Hidden Content, The Lift and in association with Caffeine Post, will have its world premiere at Sundance 2023 in the Premieres section. This is Silva’s fifth return to Sundance, where he previously won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and Directing Award. Range Select handles domestic sales.

In the film, frustrated ketamine-addicted artist Sebastian Silva and lovable comedian-influencer Jordan Firstman cross paths on a nude beach in Mexico. When Firstman visits him in Mexico City, he discovers that his new colleague has mysteriously disappeared, as has his betrayed housekeeper, Vero (Silva’s star Catalina Saavedra). The girl) looks suspicious.

“We are very excited to welcome Icki Eneo Arlo and Spacemaker Productions to the incredible team that made this wild film possible. We can’t wait for the premiere at Sundance,” says producer of rotten in the boyand co-founder of Hidden Content, Jacob Wasserman.

Founded in 2020 as a writer-centric production company and financier, Spacemaker Productions has the latest project How do you blow up a pipeline? Premiered at TIFF, where it was sold to Neon for a 2023 release Earlier this year, the company had two official selections at Cannes: James Gray’s Armageddon time which appeared on many top 10 lists for 2022, and Lotfy Nathans Harka who won best actor in Un Certain Regard.

It follows the company’s first projects, the Sundance 2020 hit by Eugene Kotlyarenko Spreeand Dasha Nekrasova’s art house horror favorite, The eerie of sixty-onenamed best debut work at the Berlinale 2021. Both films opened in cinemas.