{"id":2394609,"date":"2026-04-29T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2394609"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:05:53","slug":"electric-entertainment-acquires-o-horizon-starring-maria-bakalova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/electric-entertainment-acquires-o-horizon-starring-maria-bakalova\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Entertainment Acquires \u2018O Horizon\u2019 Starring Maria Bakalova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/electric-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_electric-entertainment\" data-tag=\"electric-entertainment\">Electric Entertainment<\/a> has picked up world distribution rights to the feature film <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/o-horizon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_o-horizon\" data-tag=\"o-horizon\">O Horizon<\/a><\/em> and will launch international sales at the upcoming Cannes Market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/maria-bakalova\/\" id=\"auto-tag_maria-bakalova\" data-tag=\"maria-bakalova\">Maria Bakalova<\/a> (<em>The Apprentice<\/em>) and David Strathairn (<em>Good Night, and Good Luck<\/em>) alongside co-stars Adam Pally (<em>Iron Man 3)<\/em>, Maggie Grace (<em>Taken<\/em>), Avi Nash (<em>The Walking Dead)<\/em>, and Paulina Porizkova (<em>Thursday<\/em>).\u00a0 Variance will release the film in the U.S. on June 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s synopsis reads: \u201c<em>O Horizon<\/em> tells the story of a young neuroscientist (Bakalova) navigating an exhilarating new romance and a groundbreaking career discovery amidst the recent loss of her father (Strathairn). When an emerging technology suddenly allows her to speak with him again, it turns her life upside down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<em>O Horizon<\/em> was written and directed by Madeleine Rotzler (<em>Dangerous Acts<\/em>). The deal was negotiated by Ben Kim, Head of Development and Acquisitions, and Addie Booth, Manager of Acquisitions, at Electric Entertainment, and Robert Benun and Mark Gill on behalf of the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDean Devlin, CEO of Electric Entertainment, described <em>O Horizon <\/em>as \u201cincredibly relatable and superbly performed, with the perfect amount of comic relief to balance out its dramatic power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWe know that our audience will appreciate this film and what it says about moving forward \u2013 with the future of technology and with life after loss,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Entertainment has picked up world distribution rights to the feature film O Horizon and will launch international sales at the upcoming Cannes Market.\u00a0 The film stars Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice) and David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) alongside co-stars Adam Pally (Iron Man 3), Maggie Grace (Taken), Avi Nash (The Walking Dead), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[391308,456681,467280],"class_list":["post-2394609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-electric-entertainment","tag-maria-bakalova","tag-o-horizon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Electric-Entertainment-Acquires-\u2018O-Horizon-Starring-Maria-Bakalova.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394611,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394609\/revisions\/2394611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}