MEAN CREEK director Jacob Aaron Estes' supernatural thriller RELIVE starring David Oyelowo and Storm Reid premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and today we have word that the movie has been retitled DON'T LET GO and Blumhouse Tilt and Universal’s OTL Releasing and Briarcliff Entertainment will be released theatrically this August. In the film, Oyelowo plays detective Jack Radcliff who gets a set of shocking phone call from his recently-murdered niece Ashley (Reid). Working together across time, they race to solve her murder before it can happen.
Jason Blum said :
We have been so passionate about Don’t Let Go and the work that Jacob Estes, David Oyelowo and the incredible cast have guided on-screen, and through Blumhouse Tilt we are able to tailor our marketing strategy to fit a picture precisely. Tom Ortenberg and his team at Briarcliff Entertainment are as committed as we are to targeting this marketing campaign to focus on genre and supernatural fans, who we know are going to love this film as much as we do.
Jacob Estes said:
I’m very grateful to Jason Blum and his focused, committed team at Blumhouse, and to the passion of Tom Ortenberg, not to mention the efforts of our team of beautiful actors from Storm Reid to Mykelti Williamson to David Oyelowo and all the creatives who worked on this movie. The sweat, blood, belief and time that’s been poured into Don’t Let Go has been a blessing and I am very happy to have the opportunity to show it in a theater near you.
Briarcliff CEO Tom Ortenberg said:
Don’t Let Go is a gripping supernatural thriller and we are happy to be partnering on its release with our friends at Universal and Blumhouse. Jacob Estes has taken his mind-bender of a script and directed it with a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat excitement.
Directed by Jacob Aaron Estes (Mean Creek), with the screenplay by Estes and story by Estes and Drew Daywalt, the film stars David Oyelowo (Selma, A United Kingdom), Storm Reid (When They See Us, Euphoria, A Wrinkle in Time) , Mykelti Williamson (The Purge: Election Year, Forrest Gump), Brian Tyree Henry (Joker, If Beale Street Could Talk, Atlanta), Shinelle Azoroh (Code Black), Byron Mann (The Expanse) , April Grace (Sneaky Pete) and Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, Feud: Bette and Joan, Frida).
The film was shot on location in Los Angeles and was produced by Jason Blum, Bobby Cohen and David Oyelowo. Executive producers are Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson, Eric B. Fleischman, Jay Martin, and Matt Kaplan. DON'T LET GO will be released theatrically by Blumhouse Tilt and Universal’s OTL Releasing and Briarcliff Entertainment, on August 30, 2019.