Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg to Star in Sci-Fi Thriller VIVARIUM

Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg are set to star in VIVARIUM, a science-fiction thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan. XYZ Films will be selling the film in Cannes ahead of a July start of production in Ireland.

Poots will play a young woman who, along with her fiancé (Eisenberg) is in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.

Fantastic Films' Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell will produce in co-production with Belgium's Frakas Productions and Denmark's PingPong Film, with XYZ executive producing and handling global sales. VIVARIUM will also receive additional support from the Irish Film Board, Wallimage, the Danish Film Institute and Eurimages.

VIVARIUM is developed with the support of the Creative Europe Media Programme of the European Union, Film4 and Frontières.

Poots recently starred in Jamie Dagg's SWEET VIRGINIA and Jeremy Saulnier's GREEN ROOM. She'll next be seen in THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE, which also stars Eisenberg and Alessandro Nivola.

Upcoming Eisenberg will star in RESISTANCE, which will shoot later this year. He is best known for playing Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK and for NOW YOU SEE ME. He will also soon be seen in THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE and in THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT.

Lorcan Finnegan burst onto the film scene in 2016 with his debut feature WITHOUT NAME, an ecological horror-thriller that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. XYZ also handled North American sales on WITHOUT NAME.

XYZ Films is handling sales on the survival thriller TITAN, starring Lily Collins, and will continue sales on the Official Cannes Selection ARCTIC starring Mads Mikkelsen. XYZ's MANDY starring Nicholas Cage and directed by Panos Cosmatos, will play in the Directors' Fortnight section at Cannes and earlier premiered at this year's Sundance to rave reviews. I DON'T FEEL HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE won last year's Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and the company also had six films accepted at TIFF in 2017, including I KILL GIANTS starring Zoe Saldana and BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 starring Vince Vaughn.

Poots is repped by CAA, Troika, and Morris Yorn; Eisenberg is repped by CAA and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson.

About XYZ Films:

XYZ Films is an integrated content company whose mission is to empower visionary storytellers from every corner of the planet. As an independent production company and worldwide sales agency, the company is uniquely suited to identify talented filmmakers and bring their stories to life. XYZ was founded in 2008 by Nate Bolotin, Nick Spicer, and Aram Tertzakian. XYZ recently won the 2017 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Macon Blair's I DON'T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE.

ABOUT FANTASTIC FILMS:

Fantastic Film is an Oscar-winning company dedicated to high quality unique films. Credits include Martin McDonagh's Oscar-winning SIX SHOOTER; Ruairí Robinson's THE LAST DAYS ON MARS Directors' Fortnight Cannes starring Liev Schreiber; Corin Hardy's Sundance hit THE HALLOW; Jaume Balagueró's MUSE starring Franka Potente and Christopher Lloyd; Billy O'Brien's SXSW hit I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER; Brian O'Malley's Silver Méliès winner LET US PREY; Dennis Bartok's NAILS and the critically acclaimed Hammer Horror WAKE WOOD starring Timothy Spall and Aidan Gillen.
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