MUMBAI: Anchor Bay will release J Blakeson‘s The Disappearance Of Alice Creed starring Gemma Arterton. The film is said to be a kidnapping thriller.

The Disappearance Of Alice Creed centres on the botched kidnapping of a rich girl. Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston round out the cast.

The film marks Block‘s first acquisition since leaving his post as president of acquisitions and co-productions at Lionsgate in 2008 and setting up his new Los Angeles-based company.
Peter Block is understood to have negotiated the deal for US rights with Cinetic and funnelled the film to Anchor Bay, with whom he has a relationship.

Block, a widely respected genre specialist who has been a key producing executive on the hit Saw franchise, has been busy lining up his intitial slate of films at A Bigger Boat.

He produced Adam Green‘s ski resort thriller Frozen, which will receive its world premiere at Sundance in several weeks, and the upcoming John Carpenter horror tale The Ward starring Amber Heard.