Richard’s Black Sky backed by VRP

Village Roadshow Pictures is backing films starring Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Will Smith and Richard Armitage.

UK actor Armitage, who plays Thorin Oakenshield in the next two chapters of The Hobbit, is the lead in Into the Storm (formerly Black Sky), director Steven Quale’s thriller about a group of high school students who document the events and aftermath of a devastating tornado. The cast includes Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sumpter and Alycia Debman.