First Look at The Black Demon: Atlantis Opens the Sequel's Sales Push
Highland Film Group has released a first-look image for The Black Demon: Atlantis, a sequel to the thriller The Black Demon, Variety reported on 10 November 2026. The image comes as the film is being offered to buyers at the American Film Market (AFM), a trade event where sales companies show unfinished or newly made films to distributors from around the world.
Jack Kesy stars as Jerry, an undercover agent with the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Harold Torres plays Diego Núñez. The cast also includes Julio César Cedillo and Vanesa Restrepo.
Carmen Cabana directed the film from a script she wrote with Aaron Benjamin and Boise Esquerra. The movie is in post-production, the stage where editing, sound and visual effects are finished after filming ends. It is produced by Javier Chapa for Mucho Mas Media, and by Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier for Highland Film Group.
Highland is handling worldwide sales for the film at AFM. That means the company is the one offering the picture to distributors in each territory, the countries or regions where a film can be shown. Several deals have already been closed. Vertigo Releasing has taken the film for the U.K. and Canada, Leonine Studios for Germany, and IIF for Italy. A closed deal is one where both sides have signed.
The original film starred Josh Lucas and reached cinemas in 2023. Variety also reported that it held the No. 1 spot on Amazon's streaming rankings, which list the most-watched titles, for seven days in a row.
For fans of the first film, the first image is the clearest sign yet of what the sequel looks like. For the people selling it, the AFM deals show buyers in Europe, the U.K. and North America lining up before the film is finished. Highland has not used the market to announce where or when the film will appear on screens.
