The Tunnel, Pal Oie’s Norwegian disaster movie, has finally found distributors for release in the U.S. and elsewhere. Samuel Goldwyn Films now has the US rights to the film.
TrustNordisk had previously sold distribution rights to the U.K., Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but US distribution seemed uncertain, given the current pandemic.
The Tunnel (Tunnelen) tells the claustrophobic story of families and tourists who become trapped in, well, a tunnel while trying to get home for Christmas. A truck has collided with a fuel tanker, and rescue efforts are complicated when the tanker explodes in a fireball.
The movie opened in Norway in December 2019, grossing $2.6 million on a budget of $4 million. Not bad for a country with only 5.4 million residents.
The Tunnel reunites director Pål Øie with his Villmark 2 writer, Kjersti Helen Rasmussen. John Einar Hagen and Einar Loftesnes produced the picture for Nordisk Film.
Norway has been on a roll recently with disaster movies, with The Tunnel joining Roar Uthaug’s The Wave (2015) and John Andreas Andersen’s The Quake (2018).
No word yet on a date for the US release of The Tunnel.
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