Company has invested in drama Hazard starring Sosie Bacon from Smile.
Los Angeles-based Chinese-American producer and Incandescent Films co-founder Jiarui Guo has launched a completion fund primarily offering bridge loans of up to $1m.
Guo, who will be attending TIFF next month, secured backing from mostly US-based private investors and some from China and has deployed funds on its first two projects.
One is Hazard, a drama about an addict struggling to reset his life in an Appalachian town under the influence of Big Pharma. Eddie Mensore directs and the cast includes Sosie Bacon, best known for her roles in...
Los Angeles-based Chinese-American producer and Incandescent Films co-founder Jiarui Guo has launched a completion fund primarily offering bridge loans of up to $1m.
Guo, who will be attending TIFF next month, secured backing from mostly US-based private investors and some from China and has deployed funds on its first two projects.
One is Hazard, a drama about an addict struggling to reset his life in an Appalachian town under the influence of Big Pharma. Eddie Mensore directs and the cast includes Sosie Bacon, best known for her roles in...
- 8/18/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Laurel Marsden (The Pope’s Exorcist), Elsie Fisher (My Best Friend’s Exorcism) and Mena Suvari (The Dresden Sun) are set to star alongside Jason Priestley in Ctrl Alt Del, the indie drama marking Eastsiders creator Kit Williamson’s feature directorial debut.
Written by Amir Ohebsion and Arash Homampour, Ctrl Alt Del follows disaffected teen Ava (Marsden) and her estranged filmmaker father Greyson (Priestley) as they try to reconnect in the aftermath of a tragic incident prompted by his latest movie. The film explores timely questions about the responsibility of media in our society, and how what we consume profoundly affects us and the people around us.
Fisher will play Farah, who becomes Ava’s sole support at a pivotal time in her emotional growth. Suvari plays Greyson’s ex and Ava’s mother, Zoe, a self-help guru and bestselling author juggling motherhood with her book tour and all that...
Written by Amir Ohebsion and Arash Homampour, Ctrl Alt Del follows disaffected teen Ava (Marsden) and her estranged filmmaker father Greyson (Priestley) as they try to reconnect in the aftermath of a tragic incident prompted by his latest movie. The film explores timely questions about the responsibility of media in our society, and how what we consume profoundly affects us and the people around us.
Fisher will play Farah, who becomes Ava’s sole support at a pivotal time in her emotional growth. Suvari plays Greyson’s ex and Ava’s mother, Zoe, a self-help guru and bestselling author juggling motherhood with her book tour and all that...
- 5/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ryan Phillippe (American Murderer), Emile Hirsch (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and Mena Suvari (American Horror Story) will topline Kalahari, a new action thriller from Vertical, which has wrapped production.
Vertical fully financed the pic and has taken North American rights, with Voltage Pictures locking down rights for all international territories, preparing now to present the film to buyers at Cannes.
In the film written and directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil (Collide), a young couple is forced to flee their Christian missionary post in the Kalahari Desert aboard a rickety plane after an extremist militant group threatens their lives. Piloted by a corrupt smuggler (Hirsch), the plane loses power and crash-lands in the middle of an animal preserve populated by lions, leopards and hyenas. Injured, frightened, and being tracked by the extremists, this ragtag group must fight for their survival from both man and beast where only the strong will survive.
Vertical fully financed the pic and has taken North American rights, with Voltage Pictures locking down rights for all international territories, preparing now to present the film to buyers at Cannes.
In the film written and directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil (Collide), a young couple is forced to flee their Christian missionary post in the Kalahari Desert aboard a rickety plane after an extremist militant group threatens their lives. Piloted by a corrupt smuggler (Hirsch), the plane loses power and crash-lands in the middle of an animal preserve populated by lions, leopards and hyenas. Injured, frightened, and being tracked by the extremists, this ragtag group must fight for their survival from both man and beast where only the strong will survive.
- 5/5/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Harvey Keitel is to star in Sky/Peacock’s upcoming TV adaptation of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
The Oscar-nominated Irishman star will play the modern-day Lale Sokolov. His younger self will be played by Jonah Hauer-King, who arrives at Auschwitz in 1942 and is made one of the tätowierer (tattooists), charged to ink identification numbers onto fellow prisoners’ arms.
Around 60 years later, Keitel’s Sokolov meets novice writer Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey). Recently widowed, Sokolov finds the courage to tell the world his story as he faces the traumatic ghosts of his youth. Anna Próchniak and Jonas Nay also star. Further cast include Tallulah Haddon as Hanna, Mili Eshet as Ivana, Yali Topol Margalith in her first screen role as Cilka, Phénix Brossard as Leon, Ilan Galkoff as Aaron, and Marcel Sabat as Tomas.
The Oscar-nominated Irishman star will play the modern-day Lale Sokolov. His younger self will be played by Jonah Hauer-King, who arrives at Auschwitz in 1942 and is made one of the tätowierer (tattooists), charged to ink identification numbers onto fellow prisoners’ arms.
Around 60 years later, Keitel’s Sokolov meets novice writer Heather Morris (Melanie Lynskey). Recently widowed, Sokolov finds the courage to tell the world his story as he faces the traumatic ghosts of his youth. Anna Próchniak and Jonas Nay also star. Further cast include Tallulah Haddon as Hanna, Mili Eshet as Ivana, Yali Topol Margalith in her first screen role as Cilka, Phénix Brossard as Leon, Ilan Galkoff as Aaron, and Marcel Sabat as Tomas.
- 4/12/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Eyeconic Pictures, the recently formed production company from Al Bravo and Niko Foster, has announced that Mena Suvari (“American Beauty”) has joined the cast of action thriller “The Wrecker,” which stars Foster.
Tyrese Gibson (“The Fast and Furious” movie franchise) and Harvey Keitel (“Reservoir Dogs”) were previously announced to the cast. Chad Michael Collins, Ego Mikitas and Danny Trejo round out the key cast.
Production is currently taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Art Camacho is directing from an original screenplay by Foster, which follows a dishonorably discharged ex-marine named Tony, now turned car mechanic, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his reckless brother makes a bad decision gaining the unwanted attention of a notorious crime boss.
Foster produces for Chasing Butterflies Pictures alongside Al Bravo for Al Bravo Films. Additional producers on the film include Colin Bates, Eduard Osipov, Michael Pizzimenti and Hemdee Kiwanuka. Stuart Alson, Elias Axume...
Tyrese Gibson (“The Fast and Furious” movie franchise) and Harvey Keitel (“Reservoir Dogs”) were previously announced to the cast. Chad Michael Collins, Ego Mikitas and Danny Trejo round out the key cast.
Production is currently taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Art Camacho is directing from an original screenplay by Foster, which follows a dishonorably discharged ex-marine named Tony, now turned car mechanic, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his reckless brother makes a bad decision gaining the unwanted attention of a notorious crime boss.
Foster produces for Chasing Butterflies Pictures alongside Al Bravo for Al Bravo Films. Additional producers on the film include Colin Bates, Eduard Osipov, Michael Pizzimenti and Hemdee Kiwanuka. Stuart Alson, Elias Axume...
- 3/22/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Tyrese Gibson (The Fast and Furious franchise) and Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs) have signed on to star in the action thriller The Wrecker.
The pic is currently shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Filmmaker Art Camacho is directing from an original screenplay by Niko Foster, who also stars in the pic.
The film’s plot follows a dishonorably discharged ex-marine named Tony, now turned car mechanic, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his reckless brother makes a bad decision gaining the unwanted attention of a notorious crime boss.
Foster produces for Chasing Butterflies Pictures alongside Al Bravo for Al Bravo Films. Additional producers include Colin Bates, Eduard Osipov, Michael Pizzimenti, and Hemdee Kiwanuka. Stuart Alson, Nicole Holland, and Elias Axume, Premiere Entertainment CEO, serve as executive producers. Jiarui Guo and Michelle Wang Deppe co-produce.
Camacho recently directed the action film Ruthless, starring Dermot Mulroney and Jeff Fahey. The pic...
The pic is currently shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Filmmaker Art Camacho is directing from an original screenplay by Niko Foster, who also stars in the pic.
The film’s plot follows a dishonorably discharged ex-marine named Tony, now turned car mechanic, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his reckless brother makes a bad decision gaining the unwanted attention of a notorious crime boss.
Foster produces for Chasing Butterflies Pictures alongside Al Bravo for Al Bravo Films. Additional producers include Colin Bates, Eduard Osipov, Michael Pizzimenti, and Hemdee Kiwanuka. Stuart Alson, Nicole Holland, and Elias Axume, Premiere Entertainment CEO, serve as executive producers. Jiarui Guo and Michelle Wang Deppe co-produce.
Camacho recently directed the action film Ruthless, starring Dermot Mulroney and Jeff Fahey. The pic...
- 3/17/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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