Independent distributor Screen Media Ventures has secured all domestic rights to the CG-animated and live action feature MEE-SHEE: THE WATER GIANT, which stars Bruce Greenwood and Rena Owen, reports VARIETY. Jim Henson's Creature Shop provide the vfx.
Film Sales Co. represented the film, budgeted at $25 million and produced by Rainer Mockert and Barry Authors, who wrote the screenplay. John Henderson directed.
The story tracks the adventures of an 8-year-old who discovers a Loch Ness monster-like creature that he must protect from poachers.
Screen Media has a home video deal with Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
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