{"id":111715,"date":"2020-02-26T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=111715"},"modified":"2023-03-15T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:07:44","slug":"butt-boy-us-rights-acquired-for-quirky-dark-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/butt-boy-us-rights-acquired-for-quirky-dark-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Butt Boy: US Rights Acquired For Quirky Dark Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Pictures Group has acquired the US distribution rights for the breakout comedy-thriller <em><strong>Butt Boy<\/strong><\/em> from director and co-writer Tyler Cornack.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it already, check out the teaser trailer below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/325295506\" width=\"616\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBUTT BOY embodies the rogue spirit of independent filmmaking and does not fit a conventional mold,\u201d says Epic Pictures Group CEO Patrick Ewald. \u201cIt is fresh, inventive, and fearless storytelling and is the kind of visionary film Epic can get behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The preternatural comedy follows newly sober detective Russell Fox (Tyler Rice) who meets his sponsor, Chip Gutchel (Cornack), and whose investigation of a missing child leads him to suspect that the other man may be connected. He begins to realise that Chip&#8217;s addiction may not be to alcohol, but to something much more sinister and shocking, and that Chip may have a power that makes animals, objects, and humans disappear\u2026 in his butt.<\/p>\n<p>Cornack and Rice currently collaborate on the Tiny Cinema online channel, which Cornack co-created with\u00a0<em><strong>Butt Boy\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>producers Bill Morean and Ryan Koch, who also co-wrote the film\u2019s script. It was their work together on Tiny Cinema that inspired the concept for the absurdist mystery feature, with Cornack adding in response to the acquisition: \u201cWhen it is all said and done, we could not be more excited to share this film with the world. It\u2019s a weird, twisted, and funny ride, that never apologises for anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cornack and Koch share writing credits while Koch produced and Morean co-produced. The film stars Rice, Cornack and Shelby Dash as Anne Gutchell.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Picture Group has planned an April theatrical, digital, and home video release for\u00a0<em><strong>Butt Boy\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy dark comedy Butt Boy has had its US distribution rights acquired by Epic Pictures Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":111716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,2617,3],"tags":[6766],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/POSTER-PARTY-2-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127418,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111715\/revisions\/127418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}