May 17, 2026 9:03am PT
Daniel Hong Thriller ‘Dead End’ Lands at EST N8 for Cannes Film Market Launch (EXCLUSIVE)
International sales and financing outfit EST N8 has secured worldwide rights to “Dead End,” a Taiwanese action crime thriller from director Chan Chun-hao, and has launched the title to global buyers at the Cannes Film Market.
The film centers on Lin Sheng-yi, a former baseball star whose career collapsed under a game-fixing scandal. Returning to his hometown years later, he discovers that locals are wagering money on the exact hour his terminally ill father will die. With sunrise as his deadline, he races to dismantle the syndicate behind the scheme while reckoning with his own troubled history. The story draws from real-world reports of underground death-betting circles documented in Taiwan.
Source: variety.com