Image Entertainment has picked up USA release rights to the sci-fi thriller The Colony, which stars Laurence Fishburne.
The $16 milliom Canadian production is directed by Jeff Renfroe, from a script he co-wrote with Patrick Tarr, Pacal Trottier and Svet Rouskov. It centers on a group of underground survivors fighting to survive after the next Ice Age, fending off an invasion of feral cannibals.
Bill Paxton co-stars with Fishburne.
Paul Barkin, Matthew Cervi and Pierre Even produced.
No word on release dates yet.
No trailer yet, but here are some on-set photos for the film (and if you squint, you should be able to make out Fishburne in the top photo):
