Row Ok Leisure has nabbed the U.S. rights to the long-awaited Cliffhanger reboot that stars Pierce Brosnan and Lily James.
The eight-figure deal popping out of the Toronto Movie Pageant requires a large launch for director Jaume Collet-Serra’s contemporary tackle Sylvester Stallone’s 1993 motion flick, now slated for a large theatrical launch in 2026.
The challenge, which was shot in Austria and is now in post-production, facilities on mountaineer Ray Cooper (Brosnan), who runs a chalet together with his daughter within the Dolomites, a mountain vary in Italy. When the pair is kidnapped, older daughter Naomi (James), who continues to be coping with trauma from a earlier climbing incident, should overcome her previous to avoid wasting her household.
Collet-Serra directed Cliffhanger from a script written by Ana Lily Amirpour, Sasha Penn, Mark Bianculli and Melanie Toast. Row Ok, the theatrical distribution arm of Media Capital Applied sciences that launched in August 2025, earlier acquired out of TIFF Gus Van Sant’s Lifeless Man’s Wire, starring Invoice Skarsgard, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha’la, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino; and Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge’s Charlie Harper, starring Nick Robinson and Emilia Jones.
“Cliffhanger is an thrilling addition to Row Ok’s rising slate and a transparent instance of the type of event-level movies we’re bringing to {the marketplace},” MCT principals and Row Ok co-chairman Christopher Woodrow and Raj Singh mentioned in a press release.
The unique Cliffhanger hit theaters in Might 1993 from TriStar Footage and picked up $255 million on the international field workplace. Stallone starred for director Renny Harlin as a mountain climber enlisted to assist observe down suitcases filled with stolen money within the Rocky Mountains.
Producers of the reimagined Cliffhanger film embody Lars Sylvest, Joe Neurauter, Thorsten Schumacher, Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe. The acquisition deal was negotiated for the filmmakers by CAA Media Finance, which is representing home rights. Rocket Science is dealing with worldwide gross sales.