Focus Features Announces Release Dates for Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s AI-Inspired Sci-Fi Film ‘Hot Spot’
Focus Features Announces Release of AI-Themed Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Hot Spot’
Focus Features is set to release the highly anticipated sci-fi thriller Hot Spot on August 21 in North American theaters. The film marks a reunion with director Agnieszka Smoczyńska, known for her previous work on The Silent Twins.
Hot Spot will debut alongside several notable films, including Black Bear’s crime thriller The Rivals of Amziah King, the comedy Spa Weekend, Screen Gems’ Insidious: Out of the Further, and Lionsgate’s action thriller Mutiny, featuring Jason Statham.
Set in a future dominated by sentient A.I., the film follows a private investigator as he delves into a murder case that leads him to a rebel faction capable of challenging the digital authority.
This Polish-Greek co-production features a screenplay by Robert Bolesto and is produced by Madants and its partners in Poland, alongside Neda Film and its associates in Greece. The production team includes Bogna Szewczyk-Skupień and Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska for Madants, with Gregory Jankilevitsch and a cast led by Andrzej Konopka, Noomi Rapace, and Reika Kirishima.
In addition to Hot Spot, Focus Features is expanding its lineup for the remainder of the year, which includes the horror film Obsession (May 15) by Curry Barker, Anthony Maras’ D-Day thriller Pressure (May 29), Hayley Kiyoko’s Girls Like Girls (June 19), Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising (September 11) starring Andrew Garfield, a fresh adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (October 16) featuring Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Robert Egger’s Werwulf (December 25).
