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Barry Levinson arrives for the HBO Premiere of "His Way" at the Time Warner Screening Room in New royalty on March 30, 2011. UPI /Laura Cavanaugh  Related Stories

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 15 (UPI) -- Lionsgate says it has acquired the U.S. organisation rights to director Barry Levinson's eco-horror flick "The Bay" from Alliance Films.

The announcement was prefabricated jointly weekday by Joe Drake, chair of Lionsgate's motion picture group, and Jason Constantine, chair of acquisitions and co-productions.

The flick chronicles an unprecedented biological disaster unleashed from the humour of the Chesapeake Bay -- an isopod parasite, carrying a horrific untreatable disease, that jumps from seek to manlike hosts. The true horror and orbit of the event unfolds on footage captured on home videos and the Internet by the town's victims, Lionsgate said in a synopsis.

"Ingenious music films are and ever will be a specialty at Lionsgate," admiral said in a statement. "'The Bay' is a shining example of the category of genuinely fresh horror flick that audiences are ever ready for, and that we excel at eventizing with them. Thanks to Barry, we'll every be afraid to go in the water for years to come."

Levinson co-wrote the flick with Michael Wallach.

No release date has been declared yet.

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