EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate‘s Lucy Hale comedy-mystery, F*** Marry Kill hit digital store shelves and PVOD this past Friday, Dec. 6 — then a few hours later disappeared. We heard all the noise from genre fans.
What went on here? Is Lionsgate’s A.I. to blame? No, not at all.
Apparently, the R-rated Laura Murphy directed title was originally scheduled for a Friday, Dec. 6 drop, and fans were expecting it. However, a few weeks ago, the release date changed. That message clearly didn’t get through to the PVOD platforms, hence the glitch.
Lionsgate isn’t burying or short-changing the movie which is coming out via their theatrical day-and-date release label, Lionsgate Premiere Releasing. The release date change is an effort to align the movie with its international roll-out in March. We’re told that a recent screening, the filmmaker announced to attendees that they could expect to see F*** Marry Kill in March.
F*** Marry Kill is a BuzzFeed Studios production in association with CR8IV DNA and BondIt Media Capital. Pic was written by Ivan Diaz and Dan Scheinkman and Meghan Brown, and produced by Richard Alan Reid, Michael Philip and Jason Moring. EPs are Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor and Jonah Peretti.
In F*** Marry Kill, when true-crime junkie Eva Vaugh (Lucy Hale) is shoved into the dating app world by her besties on her 30th birthday, she suddenly finds herself at the center of a real murder case. As new details about the murders are revealed on her favorite podcast, she realizes that one of the three men she’s dating could be the infamous “Swipe Right Killer” terrorizing the city! Now it’s up to Eva and her ride-or-die friends to figure out which date is a f-boy, a potential husband, or a killer in this whip-smart comedy-thriller.
Hale starred on 160 episodes of Pretty Little Liars with movie credits such as Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare, Fantasy Island, as well as Scream 4. F*** Marry Kill also stars Virginia Gardner, Brooke Nevin of I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, the Freeform series Good Trouble and the movie The Comebacks.
