"The Space Between Us" Interplanetary Adventure From STX Entertainment Wraps Production

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Nov 19, 2015, 01:55 ET

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- STX Entertainment has wrapped principal photography on their interplanetary adventure The Space Between Us, it was announced today by Oren Aviv, President of STX Entertainment's Motion Picture Group.

The film stars Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight, Harry Potter), Asa Butterfield (Ender's Game, Hugo), Carla Gugino (Wayward Pines, A Night at the Museum), Britt Robertson (Tomorrowland, The Longest Ride), BD Wong (Jurassic World, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"), and Janet Montgomery (Black Swan, Salem). Written by Allan Loeb (Rock of Ages, 21), the film is directed by Peter Chelsom (Hector and the Search for Happiness) and produced by Richard Lewis (August Rush).

Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman from Los Angeles Media Fund are co-financiers and co-producers of the project. Allan Loeb, Steven Pearl and Douglas Urbanski are executive producers.

In this interplanetary adventure, shortly after arriving to help colonize Mars, an astronaut dies while giving birth to the first human born on the red planet – never revealing who the father is. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Gardner Elliot – an inquisitive, highly intelligent boy who reaches the age of 16 having only met 14 people in his very unconventional upbringing. While searching for clues about his father, and the home planet he's never known, Gardner begins an online friendship with a street smart girl named Tulsa. When he finally gets a chance to go to Earth, Gardner is eager to experience all of the wonders he could only read about on Mars. But after his explorations begin, scientists discover that Gardner's organs can't withstand Earth's atmosphere. Gardner joins with Tulsa on a race against time to unravel the mysteries of how he came to be, and where he belongs in the universe.

ABOUT STX ENTERTAINMENT

STX Entertainment is a fully-integrated global media company specializing in the production, marketing, and distribution of talent-driven films, television programming and digital content. It is the first major entertainment media company to be launched at this scale in Hollywood in more than twenty years.

STX Entertainment's motion picture division recently released their first feature film, the critically-acclaimed box office success The Gift, which is being followed by the mystery thriller Secret in Their Eyes; the horror film The Boy; the epic action-drama The Free State of Jones; Hardcore, an adrenaline-fueled action film; Desierto, a gripping and suspense-filled thriller; the interplanetary adventure The Space Between Us; and the coming-of-age comedy Besties. Additionally, STX has five films set to start production over the next 6 months.

For more information about STX Entertainment, please visit our website at www.stxentertainment.com

About Los Angeles Media Fund

LAMF was launched in September 2014 by Soros and Horsman with a mandate to finance and produce an eclectic slate of highly commercial pictures with individual budgets of up to $50 million. Principal photography just concluded on Young Adult Sci-Fi romance, The Space Between Us (starring Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino, and Britt Robertson), which LAMF co-financed with STX Entertainment. LAMF began principal photography this month on two other films: supernatural horror, The Bye Bye Man, co-financed and co-produced by LAMF and STX Entertainment and produced with Trevor Macy of Intrepid Pictures, and the Jim Carrey-starring thriller, True Crimes, financed by LAMF and co-produced with RatPac Entertainment and David Gerson. A number of other films in a variety of genres will be announced by LAMF in the coming months.