'Bloodwork,' 'Boy' to Lightning

Lightning Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to "Bloodwork" and "Boy Wonder" with plans to release the pics in the U.S. via its Lightning Media label. Lightning made the announcement Tuesday as part of unveiling a slate of seven completed films -- including "Brake," "Columbus Circle," "The Trouble With Bliss," "Scents and Sensibility" and "Wrath" -- on which it's acquired international sales rights with plans to debut the pics at the upcoming American Film Market. Lightning president Robert Beaumont said, "The reinvigorated marketplace is looking for compelling stories and cast-driven theatrical feature films that will appeal to global audiences, and we aim to satisfy that buoyant demand." Action thriller "Brake" stars Stephen Dorff as a Secret Service agent held captive by a terrorist group and used as a pawn as the countdown to a catastrophic plot unravels. Gabe Torres directs and Chyler Leigh and Tom Berenger co-star. Thriller "Columbus Circle," directed by George Gallo and starring Selma Blair, Amy Smart, Giovanni Ribisi, Jason Lee and Kevin Pollak, centers on a reclusive young heiress who's endangered when she's befriended by the glamorous new owners of the apartment next door. "The Trouble With Bliss," formerly known as "East Fifth Bliss," is written and directed by Michael Knowles and stars Michael C. Hall, Lucy Liu, Peter Fonda, Chris Messina and Brie Larson. Hall portrays a 35-year-old man-child who still lives at home and finds himself falling into a romantic relationship with the precocious 18-year-old daughter of a friend. Formerly known as "Phase One," the thriller "Bloodwork," directed by Eric Wostenberg and starring Travis Van Winkle and Tricia Helfer, is set in a medical research facility where two college friends take part in a drug trial. Romantic comedy "Scents and Sensibility" stars Ashley Williams, Marla Sokoloff and Nick Zano in modern-day reimagining of Jane Austen's classic novel directed by Brian Brough. Crime thriller "Boy Wonder" centers on a young boy who witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and becomes a self-appointed vigilante seeking justice and revenge in NY City. It's written and directed by Michael Morrissey, who makes his feature-film debut. Australian horror thriller "Wrath," directed and written by Jonathan Neil Dixon and starring Corey Page, Stef Dawson, Rebecca Ratcliff and Xavier Fernandez, follows a group of friends who come across three disturbing strangers in the remote countryside. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com