 Summit Entertainment handled foreign sales and presented "Pandorum" to buyers at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, but due to a deal with Contender Films in the UK, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures took over and handled foreign sales to the film.Overture Films distributed "Pandorum" in North America, Icon in the United Kingdom and Australia, Svensk Filmindustri in Scandinavia, and Movie Eye in Japan.The film was set up as a possible franchise.