{
  "id": 11176413,
  "title": "Dark Sky Films Takes U.S. Rights To Prize-Winning Emirati Horror ‘The Vile’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/dark-sky-films-takes-u-s-rights-to-prize-winning-emirati-horror-the",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-01T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/dark-sky-films-us-rights-emirati-horror-vile-1237144216/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "EXCLUSIVE: Dark Sky Films, the genre label of Watermelon Pictures co-founders Badie and Hamza Ali, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Vile, the award-winning Arabic-language psychological horror thriller from Emirati filmmaker Majid Al Ansari. Produced by Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios, the film premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin in September 2025, where […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}