‘Peak Season’: Entertainment Squad Acquires Henry Loevner And Steven Kanter Romantic Comedy

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment Squad (Paper Spiders, and Tribeca’s audience award winning dramedy, Cherry), has acquired SXSW’s premiere film, Peak Season, and set a theatrical release for August 2.

Helmed by Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter, who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed The End of Us, Peak Season is an exploration of personal discovery and the road less traveled set against the stunning backdrop of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The film stars Claudia Restrepo, Derrick DeBlasis, and Ben Coleman, Fred Melamed (A Serious Man, Hail, Caesar!) and Stephanie Courtney who is famously known as “Flo” in Progressive commercials.

Both a bittersweet romantic comedy and a clever social commentary, Peak Season follows a burnt-out New Yorker who travels to Wyoming with her fiancé, but then falls for a handsome, yet troubled ski-bum, and questions whether to leave her city life behind.

Loevner and Kanter commented in a joint statement: “We set out to capture millennial ennui the way Before Sunrise portrays gen X angst and the Big Chill taps into boomer alienation. We can’t wait for audiences to discover this funny, heartfelt film.”

Shaked Berenson, Entertainment Squad’s CEO, added: “The film skillfully blends romance and drama with satire, addressing significant issues that will resonate with cinema goers.” 

Peak Season will be released in Regal and LOOK Cinemas locations nationwide. LOOK Cinemas’ Director of Film Programming, Owen Pickette, commented: “We are thrilled to be partnering with the Entertainment Squad on a theatrical release and can’t wait for audiences across the country to experience this heartfelt and poignant tale on the big screen.”

Tyler Phillips, Regal’s Film Buyer – Northeast Region added, “We are excited to support the release of Peak Season. Movies like this deserve to be seen on a big screen and we are happy that we can help make it happen.”

Entertainment Squad acquired the film from Visit Films, which will be selling international territories in the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.