EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions and Saban Films have acquired North American rights to Buddy, the horror film marking the feature directorial debut of Too Many Cooks helmer Casper Kelly, which premiered in the Midnight section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
The film will open exclusively in theaters, in wide release, on September 4.
Produced by BoulderLight Pictures and Low Spark Films, in association with Sipur Studios and Substance, Buddy centers around a humanoid unicorn of the same name — a beloved children’s TV host with a squeaky-clean, Mr. Rogers–style persona that belies his true nature as a dark and violent force of nature. Keegan-Michael Key voices Buddy, with Delaney Quinn playing Freddy, one of the children on the show who begins to fight back against Buddy when he shows his true self, and Cristin Miloti playing Grace, a suburban mother drawn into Buddy’s nightmare world inadvertently.
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