Shout! Factory, a multi-platform media company, has acquired all rights to the script Fender Bender, a horror-thriller feature written by writer/director Mark Pavia. The film is being developed, financed and executive produced by Shout! Factory for Shout’s horror genre entertainment imprint, Scream Factory. This announcement was made today by Shout! Factory’s founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos.

Pavia will direct Fender Bender from a screenplay he has written. He and Nadia Redler will also executive produce the film with Shout! Factory. Shout’s original movie and series production arm has tapped Carl W. Lucas and Joshua Bunting of EchoWolf Productions to serve as film producers, with Shout’s Jordan Fields and Gus Krieger serving as co-producers. Executive producers for Fender Bender are Richard Foos, Bob Emmer, Garson Foos, Mark Pavia, Nadia Redler and Brainstorm Media’s Meyer Shwarzstein.

Shout! Factory, Jordan Fields and Gus Krieger are working closely with Pavia and the team in the production process. Fender Bender is currently in the pre-production stage. Principal photography is expected to begin later this year in New Mexico.

The deal was negotiated by Shout’s Bob Emmer and Bruce Eisen, The Law Offices of Bruce David Eisen for Shout! Factory, Rob Szymanski of Eclipse Law Corporation for Mark Pavia and Nadia Redler, and Reder & Feig LLP for EchoWolf Productions.