Magnet Releasing is on to its Third Acquisition this Week with Black Death the Latest

Magnet Releasing (Survival of the Dead, Centurion) continues to snap up movies this week and the latest acquisition is the German shot Black Death. This film stars Sean Bean and Magnet will release this title in the US in the first quarter of 2011 (January-April). Director Christopher Smith had some insightful thoughts to expression on the sale and on his film: "Black Death is a film that I am immensely proud of, and I’m so pleased it has found such a great home for its US release...on the one hand it is a violent historical drama and on the other, a terrifying horror movie, in which the more realistically I shot the past, the more it reflected the present. A time when in spite of the fact people were dying of the plague, they still found the time to torture and kill each other” (Magnet). These are some very cogent words on a very violent and dangerous time in western Europe. Watch the sickness spread in the trailer for Black Death below.

The synopsis for Black Death:

"Bean stars as Ulric, a grim emissary from the Church, who leads a young monk (Eddie Redmayne) and a band of violent vigilantes and war veterans through the English countryside. Armed with blood-chilling torture devices, their mission is to stamp out suspected paganism in a village that remains untouched by the black plague, even as the rest of Europe grimly succumbs to the pestilence" (Magnet).

Release Date: First Quarter, 2011.

Director: Christopher Smith.

Writer: Dario Poloni.

Cast: Sean Bean, Kimberley Nixon, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten, David Warner, Andy Nyman, Tim McInnerny, John Lynch, Johnny Harris, Tygo Gernandt, David Masterson, and Marianne Graffam.

The film's trailer:



The Black Death homepage:

Black Death's Home

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Black Death on FB

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