Row K Entertainment has nabbed the U.S. rights to the long-awaited Cliffhanger reboot that stars Pierce Brosnan and Lily James.
The eight-figure deal coming out of the Toronto Film Festival calls for a wide release for director Jaume Collet-Serra’s fresh take on Sylvester Stallone’s 1993 action flick, now slated for a wide theatrical release in 2026.
The project, which was shot in Austria and is now in post-production, centers on mountaineer Ray Cooper (Brosnan), who runs a chalet with his daughter in the Dolomites, a mountain range in Italy. When the pair is kidnapped, older daughter Naomi (James), who is still dealing with trauma from a previous climbing incident, must overcome her past to save her family.
Collet-Serra directed Cliffhanger from a script written by Ana Lily Amirpour, Sasha Penn, Mark Bianculli and Melanie Toast. Row K, the theatrical distribution arm of Media Capital Technologies that launched in August 2025, earlier acquired out of TIFF Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire, starring Bill Skarsgard, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha’la, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino; and Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge’s Charlie Harper, starring Nick Robinson and Emilia Jones.
“Cliffhanger is an exciting addition to Row K’s growing slate and a clear example of the kind of event-level films we are bringing to the marketplace,” MCT principals and Row K co-chairman Christopher Woodrow and Raj Singh said in a statement.
The original Cliffhanger hit theaters in May 1993 from TriStar Pictures and collected $255 million at the global box office. Stallone starred for director Renny Harlin as a mountain climber enlisted to help track down suitcases full of stolen cash in the Rocky Mountains.
Producers of the reimagined Cliffhanger movie include Lars Sylvest, Joe Neurauter, Thorsten Schumacher, Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe. The acquisition deal was negotiated for the filmmakers by CAA Media Finance, which is representing domestic rights. Rocket Science is handling international sales.