Leading entertainment company Arclight Films, led by Chairman Gary Hamilton (Hotel Mumbai, First Reformed), announced today the company has joined forces with Jordan Gertner (Spring Breakers, The Virgin Suicides) and Toby Gibson (The Lego Movie franchise) to produce and finance the suspense thriller Aurora, directed by Lazar Bodroža (A.I. Rising) and starring Megan Fox (Transformers franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). The script is written by Pete Bridges, Toby Gibson, and Stuart Willis (Restoration). Tim Peternel will Executive Produce. Production is set to start in May 2020 in Serbia, which has emerged in recent years as a high-quality trending destination for international filmmaking.

Arclight will commence worldwide sales for the intense and hypnotic Aurora at the European Film Market.

Aurora tells the story of a female astronaut stationed in outer space to monitor solar storms that endanger earth. She discovers shock waves from solar storms are bending time pushing her into an emotional and psychological struggle with her past and present.

“We are delighted to continue championing stories with strong females at the helm. Aurora is a beautiful action-packed visual feast set in space and Megan is perfectly cast to play a character battling demons from her past.  We could not be happier to be working with Jordan, Toby and Lazar Bodroža once again to bring this beautiful and mesmerizing story to life,” said Hamilton.

“I am thrilled to be working with such talented artists on Aurora. Lazar Bodroža is a true visionary who will create a world we have yet to see before and Megan such an incredibly talented actor, will undoubtedly bring an awe-inspiring performance here.  Really looking forward to not only making this film but actually seeing it!,” said Gertner.

Arclight Films’ recent productions include Academy Award® nominated feature First Reformed (for Best Original Screenplay), Hotel Mumbai starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer and Jason Isaacs which crossed $30 million at the worldwide box office to-date, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won multiple awards including Best Feature at the Adelaide Film Festival, Best Director to Watch at Palm Springs International Film Festival and Best Editing at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards where it also received nominations in all the main categories, and Escape from Pretoria starring Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber releasing theatrically in March 6^th in the US and UK. Arclight Film’s recently premiered at Sundance 2020, Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor which received great critical and audience acclaim.

Megan Fox made her film debut as Brianna Wallace in the Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen film, Holiday in the Sun. In 2007 she became an international superstar after playing Mikaela Banes in Michael Bay's big-budget blockbuster adaptation of Transformers continuing to play the role in what has become one of the most profitable Hollywood franchises to-date. Most recently, Fox joined the cast of Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise playing April O’Neil.

The fast-rising new talent Lazar Bodroža directed the international hit A.I. Rising that won five awards at the Belgrade Film Festival including Best Film and Best Director. Grindstone theatrically released the intimate sci-fi feature that portrayed a relationship between a cosmonaut and an android that tested the boundaries of human nature.  Arclight handled the worldwide rights for the film.

Jordan Gertner credits include the acclaimed box office hit film Spring Breakers starring Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez and Ashley Benson which premiered at Venice Film Festival and released by A24 and Sofia Coppola’s lauded film The Virgin Suicides starring Kirsten Dunst.  Additional credits include Yellow starring Sienna Miller, and Academy Award® nominee Melanie Griffith, Kiss the Bride released by MGM, Larry Clark’s Bully, Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, Michael Winterbottom’s The Face of an Angel, and The Killer Inside Me starring Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba. Aurora will be the first feature produced under Gertner’s recently formed Dream Space Banner.

Toby Gibson is the producer and founder of Midnight Snack Productions with a mandate to produce innovative and commercially driven films for a global audience. Toby has contracted to Warner Bros. Pictures for over a decade as a Production Consultant for major motion pictures including The LEGO Movie 2, The LEGO Ninjago Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie, Happy Feet Two, Legend Of The Guardians and Spike Jonze's and Where The Wild Things Are. Toby produced the award-winning sci-fi thriller Restoration, was the Unit Publicist for Warner Bros. multi Oscar award winning film Mad Max: Fury Road and past production credits include Superman Returns, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Stealth and Lucas Film’s US tent pole, Star Wars - Revenge of The Sith.

ABOUT ARCLIGHT FILMS

Arclight Films is one of the world's leading international sales companies for theatrical, television and home entertainment.  Arclight Films has sold over 300 motion pictures including the Best Picture Oscar® winner Crash, Golden Globe® Best Picture Nominee Bobby and Lord of War starring Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto and Ethan Hawke and the recent Oscar® nominated feature First Reformed (for Best Original Screenplay).

Arclight Films’ slate includes the Australian the action thriller Long Gone Heroes starring Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, and Maggie Q, Twist currently in production and starring Michael Caine and Here are the Young Men starring Travis Fimmel, Dean Charles Chapman, Finn Cole and Anya Taylor-Joy, the true-life prison break story, Escape From Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber, the sci-fi thriller Possessor starring Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Sean Bean, Jennifer Jason Leigh, directed by Brandon Cronenberg, the 2019 Berlin Film Festival official selection Öndög from Berlin Golden Bear winning director Wang Quan'an, and the big budget Chinese co-production Killer 10.

The company’s recent films include the highly anticipated Hotel Mumbai starring Armie Hammer, Dev Patel, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher, and Jason Isaacs, directed by Anthony Maras released in the US by Bleecker Street on March 22^nd, the powerhouse actioner Triple Threat starring Chinese stars Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais and Tiger Chen, and the Vietnamese action thriller Furie both films released by Well Go USA in March 2019, and the successful biopic Jungle starring Daniel Radcliffe released by eOne.

Arclight's past films include 2016 Official Cannes Directors' Fortnight selection Dog Eat Dog starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe, The Confirmation starring Clive Owen and Maria Bello, directed by Academy Award-winner Bob Nelson (Nebraska), 2016 Sundance Official Selection Frank & Lola starring Imogen Poots and Michael Shannon, Predestination starring Ethan Hawke released through Sony Pictures, Last Knights starring Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman, Paper Planes starring Sam Worthington, and Shangri-La Suite starring Emily Browning and Luke Grimes.

Arclight Films additionally encompasses subsidiary labels Darclight Films, the edgy genre-driven division of the company whose films include the worldwide horror hits Wolf Creek, Wolf Creek 2 and action thriller Bait 3D (the highest grossing Australian film in the history of Chinese cinema), and Easternlight, a specialty arm showcasing Asian cinema with the largest film library of any non-Asian-based indie film label. Films sold under the Easternlight banner include the worldwide blockbuster Forbidden Kingdom starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li, 14 Blades starring Donnie Yen, and legendary auteur Chen Kaige's Sacrifice.

The latest additions to Easternlight includes Guardians Of The Tomb starring Kellen Lutz and Bingbing Li, Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal starring Bingbing Li, Wolf Warrior starring Wu Jing (which opened #1 at the Chinese Box Office, earning more than $32.5M in one weekend) Outcast starring Nicolas Cage, Special Id Starring Donnie Yen, and Badges Of Fury.

Arclight Films maintains a presence at all major motion picture and television festivals and markets with offices in Los Angeles, Sydney, Hong Kong, Beijing and Toronto.