Among the 2013 SXSW Film Festival highlights (it played like gangbusters at its world premiere screening at the Alamo Ritz), Deadline reports that the horror comedy from first-time helmer and Duplass bros. film editor Jacob Vaughan scored a deal with Magnolia Pictures. Look for Milo to tour the Fantastic Film Alliance circuit with possible stops in Montreal, Los Angeles, Toronto and perhaps Sitges before settling down for a theatrical/VOD release.
Gist: Co-written by Vaughan and Benjamin Hayes, this ode to Gremlins, E.T. and a slew of bodily functions B-type comedies, this features the believable Ken Marino, as a desk job/hubby who discovers that his chronic stomach problems are due to the fact that he has a demon baby living in his colon.
Worth Noting: For the past decade, Vaughan has been hard at work in American indie film scene – he produced, shot, and edited the Independent Spirit Award nominated Dear Pillow, and after that edited In Search Of A Midnight Kiss, Cyrus, Jeff, Who Lives At Home and Black Rock.
Do We Care?: Working with perhaps the year’s most silliest premise, Marino and Peter Stormare deliver the goods — and the actual design of the creature culminates into a generous laugh per minute type of experience. Plus producer Adele Romanski has been on a hot streak of her own getting distribution deals for Sundance and SXSW preemed titles: The Freebie, The Myth of the American Sleepover and Black Rock.
