Neon has picked up the U.S. rights to “Hell of a Summer” from Finn Wolfhard (“Stranger Things,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”) and Billy Bryk (“Friendship,” “When You Finish Saving the World”) from 30WEST, the distributor announced on Tuesday.
The horror-comedy, directed and written by Wolfhard and Bryk in their feature debut, also stars the pair alongside Fred Hechinger (“Fear Street,” “The White Lotus”). Their movie had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
“Hell of a Summer” follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Hechinger), who arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage coworkers. What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.
30WEST fully financed and executive produced the film. Producers are Hechinger, Aggregate Films’ Michael Costigan and Jason Bateman, Drew Brennan, and Parts & Labor’s Jay Van Hoy. The deal was negotiated by Jason Wald on behalf of Neon with 30WEST and CAA Media Finance.
Bryk is repped by Daniel Abrams at OAZ and Paul Nelson and Jeremy Berney at Mosaic, Annick Muller at Wolf-Kasteler, and Steve Warren and Jennifer Gray at Hansen Jacobson. Wolfhard is repped by CAA, Ryan Thomson at Venture Entertainment Partners, Jill Fritzo Public Relations, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein. Hechinger is repped by WME, Brillstein, Birch Public Relations, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
