Lionsgate has acquired the rights to “Rapture,” the next film from the directors of Lionsgate’s upcoming “Antebellum,” Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, the studio said on Friday. Nathan Kahane, president of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group and Erin Westerman, president of motion picture production for the studio, on Friday.
Along with the acquisition, the studio also set a date for Bush and Renz’s debut film “Antebellum” after its original planned release for this spring was delayed by the coronavirus. The horror film starring Janelle Monáe will now open in theaters on August 21, said Nathan Kahane, president of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, and Erin Westerman, president of motion picture production for the studio, in the statement.