Premiere Entertainment Group heads to Cannes with international rights on the sci-fi adventure comedy Storm Chasers and Christmas Overtime.
Jack Martin directs Storm Chasers his original screenplay and Page Tudyk Gomez stars as an overlooked engineer who is sent to Alaska to investigate an eccentric scientist’s claim that capturing lightning can be a new source of renewable energy.
The cast includes Kevin Michael Martin, Matt Walsh, and Kate Flannery. Martin produces alongside Michael Orion Downing, and the film premiered at Austin Film Festival.
Romantic comedy Christmas Overtime stars Meghan Carrasquillo, Adam Brudnicki, and Jadon Cal in the story of...
Jack Martin directs Storm Chasers his original screenplay and Page Tudyk Gomez stars as an overlooked engineer who is sent to Alaska to investigate an eccentric scientist’s claim that capturing lightning can be a new source of renewable energy.
The cast includes Kevin Michael Martin, Matt Walsh, and Kate Flannery. Martin produces alongside Michael Orion Downing, and the film premiered at Austin Film Festival.
Romantic comedy Christmas Overtime stars Meghan Carrasquillo, Adam Brudnicki, and Jadon Cal in the story of...
- 5/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Cameras have rolled on The Ballad Of Hortensia, a body swap comedy from Premiere Entertainment set in El Salvador, starring Francisco Gattorno (Julian Schnabel’s Before Night Falls) and Helena Haro (Black Warrant).
Arturo Menendez (Malacrianza) is directing the pic from a screenplay by Javier Reyna, based on a story by Yudice and Menendez. Julio Yudice, best known in El Salvador for his satirical portrayal of an indigenous woman known as La Tenchis, also stars.
Plot follows the life of a narcissistic male comedian (Yudice) who wakes up in the opposite sex body following an automobile accident. The fantasy comedy is being produced by Elias Axume with Carlos Rincon and Lizzy Gonzalez serving as executive producers for Premiere Entertainment. Marvin Galeas is the associate producer.
The pic continues Premiere’s work in El Salvador, following Fireflies at El Mozote, a Salvadoran civil war epic co-produced with Bob Yari, which is in post-production and is in development. The company is also in development on the Salvadoran espionage thriller Curfew.
Lead Gattorno has been a fixture as a leading man in Mexican soap operas for over 25 years, with the latest being El Señor de los Cielos and La Desalmada. Haro is best known for her recurring role in the Amazon series El Juego de las Llaves and will be seen in the upcoming crime thriller Desert Dawn starring Kellan Lutz.
Premiere’s slate includes rom-com Plan B, starring Jon Heder; supernatural thriller Nefarious, which grossed $5.4Mm at the US box office; the action superhero Sri Asih, released on Disney+ in Asia; and murder mystery What Remains, starring Kellan Lutz and Anne Heche.
Arturo Menendez (Malacrianza) is directing the pic from a screenplay by Javier Reyna, based on a story by Yudice and Menendez. Julio Yudice, best known in El Salvador for his satirical portrayal of an indigenous woman known as La Tenchis, also stars.
Plot follows the life of a narcissistic male comedian (Yudice) who wakes up in the opposite sex body following an automobile accident. The fantasy comedy is being produced by Elias Axume with Carlos Rincon and Lizzy Gonzalez serving as executive producers for Premiere Entertainment. Marvin Galeas is the associate producer.
The pic continues Premiere’s work in El Salvador, following Fireflies at El Mozote, a Salvadoran civil war epic co-produced with Bob Yari, which is in post-production and is in development. The company is also in development on the Salvadoran espionage thriller Curfew.
Lead Gattorno has been a fixture as a leading man in Mexican soap operas for over 25 years, with the latest being El Señor de los Cielos and La Desalmada. Haro is best known for her recurring role in the Amazon series El Juego de las Llaves and will be seen in the upcoming crime thriller Desert Dawn starring Kellan Lutz.
Premiere’s slate includes rom-com Plan B, starring Jon Heder; supernatural thriller Nefarious, which grossed $5.4Mm at the US box office; the action superhero Sri Asih, released on Disney+ in Asia; and murder mystery What Remains, starring Kellan Lutz and Anne Heche.
- 11/16/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Ballad Of Hortensia to being production in El Salvador later this month.
Los Angeles-based production, financing, and sales company Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has brought on seasoned Mexican producer Sandro Halphen as it grows its Latin American business.
Mexico City-based Halphen, whose credits include Netflix Original Sin Hijos, will be responsible for building up Peg’s Spanish-language slate and assumes creative and overall production oversight of the company’s productions south of the border.
Already scheduled for production are Arturo Menendez’s (Malacrianza) body swap comedy The Ballad Of Hortensia (La Balada de Hortensia), which is on track to...
Los Angeles-based production, financing, and sales company Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has brought on seasoned Mexican producer Sandro Halphen as it grows its Latin American business.
Mexico City-based Halphen, whose credits include Netflix Original Sin Hijos, will be responsible for building up Peg’s Spanish-language slate and assumes creative and overall production oversight of the company’s productions south of the border.
Already scheduled for production are Arturo Menendez’s (Malacrianza) body swap comedy The Ballad Of Hortensia (La Balada de Hortensia), which is on track to...
- 11/16/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Ballad Of Hortensia to being production in El Salvador later this month.
Los Angeles-based production, financing, and sales company Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has brought on seasoned Mexican producer Sandro Halphen as it grows its Latin American business.
Mexico City-based Halphen, whose credits include Netflix Original Sin Hijos, will be responsible for building up Peg’s Spanish-language slate and assumes creative and overall production oversight of the company’s productions south of the border.
Already scheduled for production are Arturo Menendez’s (Malacrianza) body swap comedy The Ballad Of Hortensia (La Balada de Hortensia), which is on track to...
Los Angeles-based production, financing, and sales company Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has brought on seasoned Mexican producer Sandro Halphen as it grows its Latin American business.
Mexico City-based Halphen, whose credits include Netflix Original Sin Hijos, will be responsible for building up Peg’s Spanish-language slate and assumes creative and overall production oversight of the company’s productions south of the border.
Already scheduled for production are Arturo Menendez’s (Malacrianza) body swap comedy The Ballad Of Hortensia (La Balada de Hortensia), which is on track to...
- 11/16/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Joe Cornet directed from Craig Hamann’s screenplay.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has licensed North American rights to ITN Distribution to the action western Taken From Rio Bravo starring Alexander Nevsky.
Joe Cornet directed from Craig Hamann’s screenplay in which Nevsky reprises his role from Gunfight At Rio Bravo as a mysterious Russian gunslinger who teams up with a sheriff in pursuit of a gang of sadistic human traffickers known as The Posse who have kidnapped five women.
Cornet, Cynthia Rothrock, Matthias Hues, Tatiana Neva and Don “The Dragon” Wilson round out the key cast.
The film was produced by Nevsky for Hollywood Storm.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has licensed North American rights to ITN Distribution to the action western Taken From Rio Bravo starring Alexander Nevsky.
Joe Cornet directed from Craig Hamann’s screenplay in which Nevsky reprises his role from Gunfight At Rio Bravo as a mysterious Russian gunslinger who teams up with a sheriff in pursuit of a gang of sadistic human traffickers known as The Posse who have kidnapped five women.
Cornet, Cynthia Rothrock, Matthias Hues, Tatiana Neva and Don “The Dragon” Wilson round out the key cast.
The film was produced by Nevsky for Hollywood Storm.
- 11/3/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Joe Cornet directed from Craig Hamann’s screenplay.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has licensed North American rights to ITN Distribution to the action western Taken From Rio Bravo starring Alexander Nevsky.
Nevsky reprises his role from Gunfight At Rio Bravo as a mysterious Russian gunslinger who teams up with a sheriff in pursuit of a gang of sadistic human traffickers known as The Posse, who have kidnapped five women.
Joe Cornet, Cynthia Rothrock, Matthias Hues, Tatiana Neva and Don “The Dragon” Wilson round out the key cast.
Joe Cornet directed from Craig Hamann’s screenplay. The film was produced by Nevsky for Hollywood Storm.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has licensed North American rights to ITN Distribution to the action western Taken From Rio Bravo starring Alexander Nevsky.
Nevsky reprises his role from Gunfight At Rio Bravo as a mysterious Russian gunslinger who teams up with a sheriff in pursuit of a gang of sadistic human traffickers known as The Posse, who have kidnapped five women.
Joe Cornet, Cynthia Rothrock, Matthias Hues, Tatiana Neva and Don “The Dragon” Wilson round out the key cast.
Joe Cornet directed from Craig Hamann’s screenplay. The film was produced by Nevsky for Hollywood Storm.
- 11/3/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Twilight actors Kellan Lutz and Cam Gigandet are reuniting on screen for the first time in action crime-thriller Desert Dawn.
While Lutz and Gigandet’s characters clashed in Twilight, this time the actors team up as the newly appointed small-town sheriff (Lutz) and his begrudging deputy (Gigandet) who get tangled in a web of lies and corruption involving shady businessmen and the cartel while investigating the murder of a mysterious woman.
L.A.-based sales and production outfit Premiere Entertainment Group is behind the project, which began filming this week in Nevada. The production received a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement to allow filming during the union strikes.
Marty Murray (Paranormal Island) directs the movie from an original screenplay by Chad Law and Johnny Walters.
Premiere’s Elias Axume produces with Al Bravo of Al Bravo Films. Jason Abustan and Mehrab H. Deboo executive-produce alongside Carlos Rincon.
Matthew Helderman...
While Lutz and Gigandet’s characters clashed in Twilight, this time the actors team up as the newly appointed small-town sheriff (Lutz) and his begrudging deputy (Gigandet) who get tangled in a web of lies and corruption involving shady businessmen and the cartel while investigating the murder of a mysterious woman.
L.A.-based sales and production outfit Premiere Entertainment Group is behind the project, which began filming this week in Nevada. The production received a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement to allow filming during the union strikes.
Marty Murray (Paranormal Island) directs the movie from an original screenplay by Chad Law and Johnny Walters.
Premiere’s Elias Axume produces with Al Bravo of Al Bravo Films. Jason Abustan and Mehrab H. Deboo executive-produce alongside Carlos Rincon.
Matthew Helderman...
- 9/19/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Saban Films has acquired the rights to Art Camacho’s action thriller “Ruthless” starring Dermot Mulroney and Javier Reyna’s “Palido” starring Kellan Lutz.
Saban will distribute the titles throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Benelux and Australia. Jonathan Saba, Cco of Saban Films, negotiated the deal with Devin Carter, SVP of sales at Premiere Entertainment.
“Ruthless” follows a high school coach (Mulroney) who takes matters into his own hands by going after the men who kidnap his female student for their human trafficking operation, according to a snyopsis.
In addition to Mulroney, “Ruthless” also stars Jeff Fahey. Reyna, James Dean Simington and Camacho penned the film, while Elias Axume, Al Bravo, HemDee Kiwanuka and Camacho produced the film.
“Palido” follows an attorney (Lutz) with a military past, who focuses on finding and killing the gang that murdered his wife and kidnapped his daughter.
Fahey also stars in “Palido,...
Saban will distribute the titles throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Benelux and Australia. Jonathan Saba, Cco of Saban Films, negotiated the deal with Devin Carter, SVP of sales at Premiere Entertainment.
“Ruthless” follows a high school coach (Mulroney) who takes matters into his own hands by going after the men who kidnap his female student for their human trafficking operation, according to a snyopsis.
In addition to Mulroney, “Ruthless” also stars Jeff Fahey. Reyna, James Dean Simington and Camacho penned the film, while Elias Axume, Al Bravo, HemDee Kiwanuka and Camacho produced the film.
“Palido” follows an attorney (Lutz) with a military past, who focuses on finding and killing the gang that murdered his wife and kidnapped his daughter.
Fahey also stars in “Palido,...
- 6/22/2023
- by Charna Flam
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Premiere Entertainment has snapped up world rights to the action-thriller Mr-9: Do Or Die, starring Frank Grillo, Michael Jai White, and Abm Sumon.
Filmmaker Asif Akbar directed the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nazim Ud Daula and Abdul Aziz. The film is based on the popular spy thriller novels by the late Bangladeshi writer Qazi Anwar Hussain. Hussain published 550 novels in the series, which was modeled after the James Bond series. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but we understand Sumon plays the lead character Masud Rana, a secret agent under the codename Mr-9 for the Bangladesh Counter Intelligence Agency.
Bangladesh-based Jaaz Multimedia, Al Bravo Films, and Chasing Butterflies Pictures have teamed up for the production in association with The Film Post. Executive producers are Niko Foster, Peter Nguyen and Phillip B. Goldfine. The pic is currently in post-production and was shot last summer across Las Vegas,...
Filmmaker Asif Akbar directed the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Nazim Ud Daula and Abdul Aziz. The film is based on the popular spy thriller novels by the late Bangladeshi writer Qazi Anwar Hussain. Hussain published 550 novels in the series, which was modeled after the James Bond series. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but we understand Sumon plays the lead character Masud Rana, a secret agent under the codename Mr-9 for the Bangladesh Counter Intelligence Agency.
Bangladesh-based Jaaz Multimedia, Al Bravo Films, and Chasing Butterflies Pictures have teamed up for the production in association with The Film Post. Executive producers are Niko Foster, Peter Nguyen and Phillip B. Goldfine. The pic is currently in post-production and was shot last summer across Las Vegas,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- 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
Action thriller Safehouse, family sci-fi Space Pups on slate.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has boarded creature feature Crom, action thriller Safehouse, and family sci-fi Space Pups and has begun talks with EFM buyers.
Crom is in the vein of 1980s genre cinema and follows a group of high school teenagers who unleash a mythological being in their hometown and must stop it before midnight on Halloween. Chelsea Jurkiewicz, Tanner Gillman, Colin Cunningham, and Monica Moore Smith star.
Rob York directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Baird. York produced with J.R. Andrus, while Jason Faller, Kynan Griffin and Taylor Ellis served as executive producers.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has boarded creature feature Crom, action thriller Safehouse, and family sci-fi Space Pups and has begun talks with EFM buyers.
Crom is in the vein of 1980s genre cinema and follows a group of high school teenagers who unleash a mythological being in their hometown and must stop it before midnight on Halloween. Chelsea Jurkiewicz, Tanner Gillman, Colin Cunningham, and Monica Moore Smith star.
Rob York directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Baird. York produced with J.R. Andrus, while Jason Faller, Kynan Griffin and Taylor Ellis served as executive producers.
- 2/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired world sales rights to the Indonesian superhero action film Sri Asih, starring Pevita Pearce, and will launch sales at EFM.
The film, produced by Indonesian production company Screenplay Bumilangit in association with Sk Global, was released theatrically in Indonesia on 1,270 screens in November and is set to premiere on Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia and select Asian territories.
Sri Asih is the second installment from the Bumilangit Cinematic Universe (Bcu), a series of superhero films drawing on a library of more than 500 comic book characters published by Indonesian content company Bumilangit, following Gundala (2019).
The film follows Alana (Pearce), a young woman trying to find her own identity amidst a world of crime and corruption. She also happens to be the reincarnated Goddess Asih, protector of the masses and is tasked with preventing a demon spirit commander from releasing the Fire Goddess from captivity inside a volcano.
The film, produced by Indonesian production company Screenplay Bumilangit in association with Sk Global, was released theatrically in Indonesia on 1,270 screens in November and is set to premiere on Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia and select Asian territories.
Sri Asih is the second installment from the Bumilangit Cinematic Universe (Bcu), a series of superhero films drawing on a library of more than 500 comic book characters published by Indonesian content company Bumilangit, following Gundala (2019).
The film follows Alana (Pearce), a young woman trying to find her own identity amidst a world of crime and corruption. She also happens to be the reincarnated Goddess Asih, protector of the masses and is tasked with preventing a demon spirit commander from releasing the Fire Goddess from captivity inside a volcano.
- 2/16/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Dermot Mulroney action thriller Ruthless starts production.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary year Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) continues to move aggressively into production and has begun principal photography in Las Vegas on Dermot Mulroney action thriller Ruthless.
The company established by CEO and president Elias Axume has produced 12 high-concept, elevated features since the pandemic as it seeks to broaden its portfolio beyond the core sales business it has built up since launching in 2012.
Besides Ruthless, which follows a high school coach who takes on a human trafficking gang, Peg is in pre-production on Fireflies At El Mozote starring Paz Vega and Mena Suvari.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary year Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) continues to move aggressively into production and has begun principal photography in Las Vegas on Dermot Mulroney action thriller Ruthless.
The company established by CEO and president Elias Axume has produced 12 high-concept, elevated features since the pandemic as it seeks to broaden its portfolio beyond the core sales business it has built up since launching in 2012.
Besides Ruthless, which follows a high school coach who takes on a human trafficking gang, Peg is in pre-production on Fireflies At El Mozote starring Paz Vega and Mena Suvari.
- 11/4/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired worldwide sales rights to romance murder mystery “Nightalk,” directed by Canadian filmmaker Donald Shebib. The film, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, stars Ashley Bryant and Al Mukadam.
The steamy thriller follows a female cop (Bryant), who goes undercover on a phone-sex app to solve a murder investigation, as she discovers her own sexuality while losing herself to the erotic fantasies of the suspected killer and risks becoming the killer’s next victim. Ted Hallett, Emily Andrews and Art Hindle round out the key cast.
Shebib and Claude Harz wrote the original screenplay, which was produced by Evdon Productions and Emily Andrews for Filmcoop.
Shebib is considered a key figure in the development of English Canadian cinema, largely due to his most prominent film “Goin’ Down the Road,” which premiered at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 1971. Other works include the heist crime-drama “Between Friends,...
The steamy thriller follows a female cop (Bryant), who goes undercover on a phone-sex app to solve a murder investigation, as she discovers her own sexuality while losing herself to the erotic fantasies of the suspected killer and risks becoming the killer’s next victim. Ted Hallett, Emily Andrews and Art Hindle round out the key cast.
Shebib and Claude Harz wrote the original screenplay, which was produced by Evdon Productions and Emily Andrews for Filmcoop.
Shebib is considered a key figure in the development of English Canadian cinema, largely due to his most prominent film “Goin’ Down the Road,” which premiered at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 1971. Other works include the heist crime-drama “Between Friends,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Production start earmarked for November in El Salvador.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) will kick off worldwide sales at AFM on Salvadoran Civil War drama Fireflies At El Mozote as Mena Suvari (American Beauty) joins Paz Vega on the cast ahead of an anticipated production start this month in El Salvador.
Peg and Yari Film Group are producing the drama and Ernesto Melara will direct the 1980s El Salvador-set story about a ten-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and embarks on a quest to find justice for his murdered family. Melara’s screenplay is inspired by actual events.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) will kick off worldwide sales at AFM on Salvadoran Civil War drama Fireflies At El Mozote as Mena Suvari (American Beauty) joins Paz Vega on the cast ahead of an anticipated production start this month in El Salvador.
Peg and Yari Film Group are producing the drama and Ernesto Melara will direct the 1980s El Salvador-set story about a ten-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and embarks on a quest to find justice for his murdered family. Melara’s screenplay is inspired by actual events.
- 11/1/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Cast includes Cress Williams, Anne Heche.
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has acquired international sales rights heading into AFM on to murder mystery thriller What Remains starring Kellan Lutz, Cress Williams and Anne Heche in one of her final roles.
The story follows a recently paroled convict who returns to the small town where he committed a murder as the local sheriff investigates another mysterious homicide which may be related.
The town pastor (Williams), whose wife was murdered, crosses paths with the parolee and is forced to reconcile his pain and anger with forgiveness. Marcus Gladney Jr., Stelio Savante,...
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has acquired international sales rights heading into AFM on to murder mystery thriller What Remains starring Kellan Lutz, Cress Williams and Anne Heche in one of her final roles.
The story follows a recently paroled convict who returns to the small town where he committed a murder as the local sheriff investigates another mysterious homicide which may be related.
The town pastor (Williams), whose wife was murdered, crosses paths with the parolee and is forced to reconcile his pain and anger with forgiveness. Marcus Gladney Jr., Stelio Savante,...
- 10/31/2022
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jeff Fahey has signed on to star in the Salvadoran civil war drama Fireflies at El Mozote, which starts principal photography on location in El Salvador in November.
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is set in 1980s El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and his quest to bring justice to his dead family in the middle of a bloody civil war.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza, and Bob Yari. Premiere’s Carlos Rincon is an executive producer. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
Fahey is best known for roles in films like Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter Black Heart. He has also been a regular fixture in Robert Rodriguez’s films, including Planet Terror, Machete,...
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is set in 1980s El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and his quest to bring justice to his dead family in the middle of a bloody civil war.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza, and Bob Yari. Premiere’s Carlos Rincon is an executive producer. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
Fahey is best known for roles in films like Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter Black Heart. He has also been a regular fixture in Robert Rodriguez’s films, including Planet Terror, Machete,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dermot Mulroney has signed on to star in action-thriller Ruthless which starts principal photography in Nevada on October 24.
Additional cast is being finalised on the project, which Premiere Entertainment (Peg) is launching for sales ahead of next month’s AFM.
Art Camacho directs the feature from his screenplay co-written with James Dean Simington. The story follows a high school coach (Mulroney), traumatised by the death of his daughter, who takes matters into his own hands by going after the men who kidnap one of his students for a sex trafficking operation.
Elias Axume is producing for Peg with Al Bravo of Al Bravo Films. Carlos Rincon serves as executive producer for Peg alongside Bryan Foster.
Recent Peg productions include Palido with Kellan Lutz, Shrapnel with Jason Patric, and Black Warrant with Tom Berenger and Cam Gigandet. All three films are currently in post-production.
Mulroney is well...
Additional cast is being finalised on the project, which Premiere Entertainment (Peg) is launching for sales ahead of next month’s AFM.
Art Camacho directs the feature from his screenplay co-written with James Dean Simington. The story follows a high school coach (Mulroney), traumatised by the death of his daughter, who takes matters into his own hands by going after the men who kidnap one of his students for a sex trafficking operation.
Elias Axume is producing for Peg with Al Bravo of Al Bravo Films. Carlos Rincon serves as executive producer for Peg alongside Bryan Foster.
Recent Peg productions include Palido with Kellan Lutz, Shrapnel with Jason Patric, and Black Warrant with Tom Berenger and Cam Gigandet. All three films are currently in post-production.
Mulroney is well...
- 10/18/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Company is in pre-production on El Salvador Civil War film Fireflies At El Mozote starring Paz Vega.
Heading into the AFM Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has appointed Gabriela Axume to vice-president of sales and operations.
Axume joined Peg in 2016 as a sales administration manager and rose through the ranks, becoming director of international sales and distribution in 2019.
In her new role she will, in addition to her sales remit, oversee all management finances and expenses in preparation for film markets and festivals, handle production, and evaluate and hire sales personnel. She reports directly to CEO and president Elias Axume.
“Gabriela...
Heading into the AFM Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has appointed Gabriela Axume to vice-president of sales and operations.
Axume joined Peg in 2016 as a sales administration manager and rose through the ranks, becoming director of international sales and distribution in 2019.
In her new role she will, in addition to her sales remit, oversee all management finances and expenses in preparation for film markets and festivals, handle production, and evaluate and hire sales personnel. She reports directly to CEO and president Elias Axume.
“Gabriela...
- 10/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
UFC fighter Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone stars in the upcoming zombie film Project Legion, which is set to receive a theatrical release on October 7th, with an Apple TV release following just four days later on October 11th. With those dates just a few weeks away, a trailer for Project Legion has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.
Lance Kawas (Good Thief) directed Project Legion from a screenplay he crafted with John Sullivan, Michael Pizzimenti, and James Raptoplous. Apparently they put together quite an epic, because Apple has the movie listed with a running time of 2 hours and 38 minutes. The story told over those 158 minutes has the following synopsis:
Feral creatures that prey on humans have descended upon the city. A furious fight for survival begins as the outside world descends into chaos and a former Marine (UFC superstar Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone), barricaded inside his apartment, prepares to come out fighting.
Lance Kawas (Good Thief) directed Project Legion from a screenplay he crafted with John Sullivan, Michael Pizzimenti, and James Raptoplous. Apparently they put together quite an epic, because Apple has the movie listed with a running time of 2 hours and 38 minutes. The story told over those 158 minutes has the following synopsis:
Feral creatures that prey on humans have descended upon the city. A furious fight for survival begins as the outside world descends into chaos and a former Marine (UFC superstar Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone), barricaded inside his apartment, prepares to come out fighting.
- 9/8/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Paz Vega has signed on to star in the Salvadoran civil war drama Fireflies at El Mozote, which starts principal photography on location in El Salvador in November.
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is set in 1980s El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and his quest to bring justice to his dead family in the middle of a bloody civil war.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza. Bob Yari serves as executive producer alongside Premiere’s Carlos Rincon. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
“We are excited to add Paz to the Fireflies project. She’s an amazing actress and was our top choice for the character that she’ll be portraying,” said Premiere CEO Elias Axume.
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is set in 1980s El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and his quest to bring justice to his dead family in the middle of a bloody civil war.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza. Bob Yari serves as executive producer alongside Premiere’s Carlos Rincon. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
“We are excited to add Paz to the Fireflies project. She’s an amazing actress and was our top choice for the character that she’ll be portraying,” said Premiere CEO Elias Axume.
- 9/2/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Bob Yari, whose credits include “Crash” and “Yellowstone,” will serve as executive producer on “Fireflies at El Mozote,” one of three films set in El Salvador greenlit by Premiere Entertainment, alongside “Toque de Queda” and “The Incredible Journey of Elba.”
Moctesuma Esparza and Premiere CEO Elias Axume are producing all three movies, whose primary language will be English.
Esparza’s credits include “Selena,” starring Jennifer López, “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortéz,” with Edward James Olmos, and “The Milagro Beanfield War,” directed by Robert Redford.
“Fireflies,” set in 1980s El Salvador, follows a rebel group fighting to expose its government’s genocidal policies. The group rescues a 10-year-old boy, and seek to end their government’s reign of terror with the help of an American journalist. The director/writer is U.S.-Salvadoran Ernesto Melara.
“Fireflies,” a co-production between Premiere and the Yari Film Group, is in pre-production. It has a...
Moctesuma Esparza and Premiere CEO Elias Axume are producing all three movies, whose primary language will be English.
Esparza’s credits include “Selena,” starring Jennifer López, “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortéz,” with Edward James Olmos, and “The Milagro Beanfield War,” directed by Robert Redford.
“Fireflies,” set in 1980s El Salvador, follows a rebel group fighting to expose its government’s genocidal policies. The group rescues a 10-year-old boy, and seek to end their government’s reign of terror with the help of an American journalist. The director/writer is U.S.-Salvadoran Ernesto Melara.
“Fireflies,” a co-production between Premiere and the Yari Film Group, is in pre-production. It has a...
- 7/1/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Joe Cornet directed from Craig Hamann screenplay.
Premiere Entertainment Group has bulked up its Cannes sales slate with worldwide rights to action western Gunfight At Rio Bravo starring Alexander Nevsky
Joe Cornet directed the film from Craig Hamann’s screenplay in which Nevsky plays a mysterious Russian gunslinger who aids a marshal and a sheriff as they stand up to a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds who have invaded their small East Texas town.
Cornet, Matthias Hues, Olivier Gruner, and Anna Oris round out the key cast. The film was produced by Nevsky for Hollywood Storm. Eta Films...
Premiere Entertainment Group has bulked up its Cannes sales slate with worldwide rights to action western Gunfight At Rio Bravo starring Alexander Nevsky
Joe Cornet directed the film from Craig Hamann’s screenplay in which Nevsky plays a mysterious Russian gunslinger who aids a marshal and a sheriff as they stand up to a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds who have invaded their small East Texas town.
Cornet, Matthias Hues, Olivier Gruner, and Anna Oris round out the key cast. The film was produced by Nevsky for Hollywood Storm. Eta Films...
- 5/16/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Twilight and FBI: Most Wanted actor Kellan Lutz has been set to star in thriller Palido, which LA-based sales firm Premiere Entertainment Group will be selling at the Cannes market.
Lutz will play an attorney with a military past who hunts down the gang that killed his wife and brother and took his daughter. Javier Reyna (Regionrat) is directing from his original screenplay.
The crime thriller is due to start principal photography on July 11 in the state of Washington. Additional casting is underway.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza (Selena), and Al Bravo for Al Bravo Films. Premiere’s Carlos Rincon serves as executive producer.
“We are excited to have Kellan on board the film,” said Premiere CEO Elias Axume. “He’s a dynamic actor with wide range that elevates any film to the next level.”
Lutz is also known for movies The Legend Of Hercules,...
Lutz will play an attorney with a military past who hunts down the gang that killed his wife and brother and took his daughter. Javier Reyna (Regionrat) is directing from his original screenplay.
The crime thriller is due to start principal photography on July 11 in the state of Washington. Additional casting is underway.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza (Selena), and Al Bravo for Al Bravo Films. Premiere’s Carlos Rincon serves as executive producer.
“We are excited to have Kellan on board the film,” said Premiere CEO Elias Axume. “He’s a dynamic actor with wide range that elevates any film to the next level.”
Lutz is also known for movies The Legend Of Hercules,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jason Patric (Speed 2) and Cam Gigandet (Twilight) have been set to star in action-thriller movie Shrapnel.
The project will see a former Marine and his old war buddy face off against the Mexican cartel behind the disappearance of his daughter.
Currently in production in the U.S., director is William Kaufman (The Hit List) and script comes from Chad Law and Johnny Walters.
Producers are Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment and Al Bravo of Al Bravo Films. BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo 8 are also part of the production team. Premiere will handle international sales.
The project marks the fifth collaboration between Premiere and Al Bravo after The Commando with Mickey Rourke and Michael Jai White; Mojave Diamonds with UFC stars Cowboy Cerrone, Chael Sonnen and Rampage Jackson; Blowback with Randy Couture and Cam Gigandet; and Apartment 213 with Cowboy Cerrone.
Sleepers, Speed 2 and The Lost Boys star Patric recently starred...
The project will see a former Marine and his old war buddy face off against the Mexican cartel behind the disappearance of his daughter.
Currently in production in the U.S., director is William Kaufman (The Hit List) and script comes from Chad Law and Johnny Walters.
Producers are Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment and Al Bravo of Al Bravo Films. BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo 8 are also part of the production team. Premiere will handle international sales.
The project marks the fifth collaboration between Premiere and Al Bravo after The Commando with Mickey Rourke and Michael Jai White; Mojave Diamonds with UFC stars Cowboy Cerrone, Chael Sonnen and Rampage Jackson; Blowback with Randy Couture and Cam Gigandet; and Apartment 213 with Cowboy Cerrone.
Sleepers, Speed 2 and The Lost Boys star Patric recently starred...
- 3/25/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Deals follow successful business on Mickey Rourke thriller Commando.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has struck a raft of major territory deals on EFM sales title Blowback starring former UFC champion Randy Couture from the Expendables franchise and Twilight franchise regular Cam Gigandet.
The action thriller sees Nick (Gigandet) revenge out for after he is betrayed and left for dead by Jack (Couture) and his crew during a Las Vegas heist. Louis Mandylor, Michele Plaia, Rafael Cabrera, and William McNamara round out the key cast.
Los Angeles-based sales, production and financing outfit Peg has closed deals with Rialto in Australia, Dolphin Medien in Germany,...
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has struck a raft of major territory deals on EFM sales title Blowback starring former UFC champion Randy Couture from the Expendables franchise and Twilight franchise regular Cam Gigandet.
The action thriller sees Nick (Gigandet) revenge out for after he is betrayed and left for dead by Jack (Couture) and his crew during a Las Vegas heist. Louis Mandylor, Michele Plaia, Rafael Cabrera, and William McNamara round out the key cast.
Los Angeles-based sales, production and financing outfit Peg has closed deals with Rialto in Australia, Dolphin Medien in Germany,...
- 2/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Deals close in Germany, Latin America, Australia, more.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has closed key sales on action thriller Commando, starring Mickey Rourke and Michael Jai White.
Deals have been done for Germany (Tiberius), Latin America (California Filmes), Australia (Rialto), Japan (New Select) and Scandinavia (Scanbox).
Asif Akbar directed the film, which Peg also produced, in which White plays a DEA agent who returns with Ptsd after a botched mission, He has to protect his family from a home invasion when a recenty released convict (Rourke) and his henchmen come after their stash of millions hidden inside the agent’s home.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has closed key sales on action thriller Commando, starring Mickey Rourke and Michael Jai White.
Deals have been done for Germany (Tiberius), Latin America (California Filmes), Australia (Rialto), Japan (New Select) and Scandinavia (Scanbox).
Asif Akbar directed the film, which Peg also produced, in which White plays a DEA agent who returns with Ptsd after a botched mission, He has to protect his family from a home invasion when a recenty released convict (Rourke) and his henchmen come after their stash of millions hidden inside the agent’s home.
- 2/12/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Sales slate includes There Are No Saints, East Of The Mountains, This Game’s Called Murder.
Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to Tribeca 2021 drama No Future starring Catherine Keener and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2015 Charlie Heaton and will commence talks with EFM buyers this week.
The film centres on a recovering addict – Heaton, who starred in The New Mutants – who returns to his hometown where he begins a troubled affair with his deceased friend’s grieving mother, played by Keener, who earned Oscar nominations for Capote and Being John Malkovich.
The cast includes Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Jefferson White...
Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to Tribeca 2021 drama No Future starring Catherine Keener and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2015 Charlie Heaton and will commence talks with EFM buyers this week.
The film centres on a recovering addict – Heaton, who starred in The New Mutants – who returns to his hometown where he begins a troubled affair with his deceased friend’s grieving mother, played by Keener, who earned Oscar nominations for Capote and Being John Malkovich.
The cast includes Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Jefferson White...
- 2/6/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Tom Berenger (Platoon) and Cam Gigandet (Twilight) will lead the cast of Black Warrant, an action thriller from Los Angeles-based sales, production and financing company Premiere Entertainment Group.
Tibor Takács (The Gate) will direct from an original screenplay by D. Glase Lomond, Joshua A. Cohen, and Javier Reyna based on a story by Michael Paré and Lomond.
The pic follows a semi-retired special ops assassin (Berenger) and a DEA agent (Gigandet) who cross paths on separate missions to stop a cyber terrorist organization that has built a dangerous machine threatening to attack the power grid and bring catastrophe to the world. Jeff Fahey (Machete) also co-stars in the film which goes into production next month.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment and handling worldwide rights. Carlos Rincon, Daniel Zirilli, Stuart Alson, and Nicole Holland will serve as executive producers.
Tom Berenger is represented by Jeff Goldberg Management. Cam...
Tibor Takács (The Gate) will direct from an original screenplay by D. Glase Lomond, Joshua A. Cohen, and Javier Reyna based on a story by Michael Paré and Lomond.
The pic follows a semi-retired special ops assassin (Berenger) and a DEA agent (Gigandet) who cross paths on separate missions to stop a cyber terrorist organization that has built a dangerous machine threatening to attack the power grid and bring catastrophe to the world. Jeff Fahey (Machete) also co-stars in the film which goes into production next month.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment and handling worldwide rights. Carlos Rincon, Daniel Zirilli, Stuart Alson, and Nicole Holland will serve as executive producers.
Tom Berenger is represented by Jeff Goldberg Management. Cam...
- 9/1/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Drama based on novel from Snow Falling On Cedars author David Guterson.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) will launch Cannes Marché virtual talks at the Cannes Marché next week on drama East Of The Mountains starring Tom Skerritt and Mira Sorvino.
The star of Alien and Top Gun plays a retired heart surgeon with terminal cancer who gets involved in an adventure when he takes his dog back to his boyhood home in eastern Washington to end life on his own terms.
Sorvino, whse credits include Mighty Aphrodite and The Replacement Killers, plays the daughter who isn’t told of her father’s cancer.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) will launch Cannes Marché virtual talks at the Cannes Marché next week on drama East Of The Mountains starring Tom Skerritt and Mira Sorvino.
The star of Alien and Top Gun plays a retired heart surgeon with terminal cancer who gets involved in an adventure when he takes his dog back to his boyhood home in eastern Washington to end life on his own terms.
Sorvino, whse credits include Mighty Aphrodite and The Replacement Killers, plays the daughter who isn’t told of her father’s cancer.
- 7/2/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group has taken international rights to This Game’s Called Murder, Adam Sherman’s (Happiness Runs) thriller starring Ron Perlman. Also starring are Vanessa Marano (Switched at Birth), and Natasha Henstridge (Species).
The movie follows the daughter (Marano) of iconic women’s luxury footwear designer Mr. Wallendorf (Perlman) who sabotages her sadistic father’s business in a dark tale of murder, greed, and betrayal based in a consumer-crazed society. Henstridge plays Wallendorf’s wife. James Lastovic, Judson Mills, Tyler Steelman, Annabel Barrett, and Tory Devon Smith round out the key cast.
Sherman, who previously produced Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl and Marfa Girl 2, produces the film alongside Hagai Shaham and Paul Laurens. Noémi Santo co-produced.
Premiere CEO Elias Axume and Carlos Rincon negotiated the deal with producer Adam Sherman and attorney Alana Crow. Rights will be shopped in Cannes.
Sherman said, “The fool who...
The movie follows the daughter (Marano) of iconic women’s luxury footwear designer Mr. Wallendorf (Perlman) who sabotages her sadistic father’s business in a dark tale of murder, greed, and betrayal based in a consumer-crazed society. Henstridge plays Wallendorf’s wife. James Lastovic, Judson Mills, Tyler Steelman, Annabel Barrett, and Tory Devon Smith round out the key cast.
Sherman, who previously produced Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl and Marfa Girl 2, produces the film alongside Hagai Shaham and Paul Laurens. Noémi Santo co-produced.
Premiere CEO Elias Axume and Carlos Rincon negotiated the deal with producer Adam Sherman and attorney Alana Crow. Rights will be shopped in Cannes.
Sherman said, “The fool who...
- 7/2/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Premiere Entertainment has acquired the international rights to family faith-based film “The Girl Who Believes in Miracles” after the film’s solid performance at the U.S. box office over Easter.
The Oklahoma-shot feature was written and directed by “Hannah Montana” co-creator Richard Correll and stars Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino (“The Mighty Aphrodite”); Austyn Johnson (“The Greatest Showman”) and celebrated voice actor Pete Coyote (“The Roosevelts: An Intimate History”).
The feature, co-written by G.M. Mercier, focuses on a child called Sara (Johnson) who achieves overnight fame when her prayers appear to start healing local townsfolk.
These miracles come at a cost however, as the toll of fame and the girl’s deteriorating physical condition force those close to her to take action.
Produced by Trailmaker Productions and Gerson Productions in association with film investors Stephen Hays and Peter Graham’s 120dB Films, the title was released via Atlas Distribution to a total of 1,333 U.
The Oklahoma-shot feature was written and directed by “Hannah Montana” co-creator Richard Correll and stars Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino (“The Mighty Aphrodite”); Austyn Johnson (“The Greatest Showman”) and celebrated voice actor Pete Coyote (“The Roosevelts: An Intimate History”).
The feature, co-written by G.M. Mercier, focuses on a child called Sara (Johnson) who achieves overnight fame when her prayers appear to start healing local townsfolk.
These miracles come at a cost however, as the toll of fame and the girl’s deteriorating physical condition force those close to her to take action.
Produced by Trailmaker Productions and Gerson Productions in association with film investors Stephen Hays and Peter Graham’s 120dB Films, the title was released via Atlas Distribution to a total of 1,333 U.
- 6/21/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Sales, production and financing company Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired worldwide rights to the live-action musical fantasy “A Fairy Tale After All.” Peg will be introducing the film to buyers during the virtual Cannes market.
The family film stars Emily Shenaut as Sky, a high school teenager who is magically transported to the fairy tale Kingdom of Celestia, where the villagers know her as Princess Geneva. She sets out on a daring journey to rescue her father, the King, from the evil forces of Madame Mizrabel and her slapstick sidekicks.
“A Fairy Tale After All” was produced, written, and directed by Erik Peter Carlson through his company A Fairy Tale After All Enterprises, with Riding Hood Motion Pictures.
Carlos Rincon, Peg’s VP of acquisitions, said Carlson had “created a special universe in the fashion of Jim Henson’s ‘Labyrinth’ and ‘The Dark Crystal’ that is filled with lovable and...
The family film stars Emily Shenaut as Sky, a high school teenager who is magically transported to the fairy tale Kingdom of Celestia, where the villagers know her as Princess Geneva. She sets out on a daring journey to rescue her father, the King, from the evil forces of Madame Mizrabel and her slapstick sidekicks.
“A Fairy Tale After All” was produced, written, and directed by Erik Peter Carlson through his company A Fairy Tale After All Enterprises, with Riding Hood Motion Pictures.
Carlos Rincon, Peg’s VP of acquisitions, said Carlson had “created a special universe in the fashion of Jim Henson’s ‘Labyrinth’ and ‘The Dark Crystal’ that is filled with lovable and...
- 6/15/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
LA-based Premiere Entertainment Group’s (Peg) Randy Couture heist thriller Blowback has wrapped production ahead of a sales launch at the virtual Cannes Marché in June.
Six-time UFC champion Couture (The Expendables franchise; The Scorpion King 2) stars alongside Cam Gigandet (Twilight franchise; Priest) in the story of Nick (Gigandet) who goes after Jack (Couture) after he is betrayed during a Las Vegas heist.
Rounding out the cast are Louis Mandylor, Michele Plaia, Rafael Cabrera, and William McNamara. Production took place entirely in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tibor Takács (The Gate; Lies & Illusions) directed from an original screenplay written by Kevin Yarris,...
Six-time UFC champion Couture (The Expendables franchise; The Scorpion King 2) stars alongside Cam Gigandet (Twilight franchise; Priest) in the story of Nick (Gigandet) who goes after Jack (Couture) after he is betrayed during a Las Vegas heist.
Rounding out the cast are Louis Mandylor, Michele Plaia, Rafael Cabrera, and William McNamara. Production took place entirely in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tibor Takács (The Gate; Lies & Illusions) directed from an original screenplay written by Kevin Yarris,...
- 4/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Spawn and Dark Knight actor has landed the lead role of James Baker, the DEA agent who faces off with Mickey Rourke’s villain in Asif Akbar’s The Commando.
Baker has Ptsd and returns home after a botched mission. He’s faced with protecting his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.
Koji Steven Sakai wrote the original screenplay from a story by Al Bravo, Akbar and Sakai as well. Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment Group will be handling all world-wide sales and serving as producer. The Commando is a co-production with Al Bravo Films, Little Nalu Pictures and Avail Entertainment. Kimberly Hines will serve as EP. The movie shoots in New Mexico this month. Michael Jai White’s feature credits also include Black Dynamite, Why Did I Get Married Too?,...
Baker has Ptsd and returns home after a botched mission. He’s faced with protecting his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.
Koji Steven Sakai wrote the original screenplay from a story by Al Bravo, Akbar and Sakai as well. Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment Group will be handling all world-wide sales and serving as producer. The Commando is a co-production with Al Bravo Films, Little Nalu Pictures and Avail Entertainment. Kimberly Hines will serve as EP. The movie shoots in New Mexico this month. Michael Jai White’s feature credits also include Black Dynamite, Why Did I Get Married Too?,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
IFC Midnight to release in North America in January 2021.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has boarded international sales on The Night ahead of the psychological horror film’s international premiere at Sitges.
North American rights holder IFC Midnight plans a January 2021 launch for the film starring Cannes best actor winner Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman), said to be the first US-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since 1979.
Kourosh Ahari directed the story about an Iranian couple and their one-year-old daughter on the way home from a social event who spend the night in a hotel where they...
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has boarded international sales on The Night ahead of the psychological horror film’s international premiere at Sitges.
North American rights holder IFC Midnight plans a January 2021 launch for the film starring Cannes best actor winner Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman), said to be the first US-produced film to receive a license for theatrical release in Iran since 1979.
Kourosh Ahari directed the story about an Iranian couple and their one-year-old daughter on the way home from a social event who spend the night in a hotel where they...
- 10/7/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: We hear that The Wrestler Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has boarded the independent feature The Commando which will shoot in New Mexico next month.
The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with Ptsd who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.
Koji Steven Sakai wrote the original screenplay from a story by Al Bravo, Akbar and Sakai as well. Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment Group will be handling all world-wide sales and serving as producer. The Commando is a co-production with Al Bravo Films, Little Nalu Pictures and Avail Entertainment. Kimberly Hines will serve as EP. Recently, the Rourke crime movie Night Walk landed domestic theatrical distribution via Grindstone Entertainment. A 2021 release is planned. Grindstone has a multi-year agreement with Lionsgate.
The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with Ptsd who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.
Koji Steven Sakai wrote the original screenplay from a story by Al Bravo, Akbar and Sakai as well. Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment Group will be handling all world-wide sales and serving as producer. The Commando is a co-production with Al Bravo Films, Little Nalu Pictures and Avail Entertainment. Kimberly Hines will serve as EP. Recently, the Rourke crime movie Night Walk landed domestic theatrical distribution via Grindstone Entertainment. A 2021 release is planned. Grindstone has a multi-year agreement with Lionsgate.
- 9/23/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker) stars in story based on actual events.
Premiere Entertainment Group has launched TIFF sales on Brian Geraghty police shooting thriller Blindfire from the producer of Oscar-nominated documentary 13th.
Howard Barish of Kandoo films produced the film, based on actual events, about a police officer who kills an African-American suspect in a hostage case only to later learn of the man’s innocence.
Sensing he was framed, the officer examines his own behaviour and beliefs and tracks down the culprit.
Geraghty (The Hurt Locker) stars alongside Sharon Leal (Supergirl), Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill), Jim Beaver,...
Premiere Entertainment Group has launched TIFF sales on Brian Geraghty police shooting thriller Blindfire from the producer of Oscar-nominated documentary 13th.
Howard Barish of Kandoo films produced the film, based on actual events, about a police officer who kills an African-American suspect in a hostage case only to later learn of the man’s innocence.
Sensing he was framed, the officer examines his own behaviour and beliefs and tracks down the culprit.
Geraghty (The Hurt Locker) stars alongside Sharon Leal (Supergirl), Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill), Jim Beaver,...
- 9/13/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In today's Horror Highlights we have a Nsfw gory clip from Battlefield 2025, details on the acquisition of The S.H.U, and a look at the trailer for Browse:
Exclusive Clip from Battlefield 2025: "Weekend campers, an escaped convict, young lovers and a police officer experience a night of terror when a hostile visitor from another world descends on a small Arizona town."
Written by Joseph Mbah and Robert Conway. Jose Rosete, Anna Harr, Dustin Leighton, Caleb Thomas, Alaina Laethem, Adam Michael Gold, and Titus Covington star in a Joseph Mbah film, releasing July 7 on digital from Uncork’d Entertainment
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Peg Acquires Rights to The S.H.U: "Los Angeles, June 30, 2020 – Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg), a Los Angeles-based sales, production and financing company, has acquired worldwide rights to psychological horror-thriller The S.H.U., or Segregated Housing Unit, starring Edi Gathegi. Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger round out the key cast.
Exclusive Clip from Battlefield 2025: "Weekend campers, an escaped convict, young lovers and a police officer experience a night of terror when a hostile visitor from another world descends on a small Arizona town."
Written by Joseph Mbah and Robert Conway. Jose Rosete, Anna Harr, Dustin Leighton, Caleb Thomas, Alaina Laethem, Adam Michael Gold, and Titus Covington star in a Joseph Mbah film, releasing July 7 on digital from Uncork’d Entertainment
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Peg Acquires Rights to The S.H.U: "Los Angeles, June 30, 2020 – Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg), a Los Angeles-based sales, production and financing company, has acquired worldwide rights to psychological horror-thriller The S.H.U., or Segregated Housing Unit, starring Edi Gathegi. Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger round out the key cast.
- 6/30/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
In today’s film news roundup, Alicia Silverstone’s “Sister of the Groom,” faith-based “Everyday Miracles” and South Korean drama “House of Hummingbiord” get distribution and the Indian horror movie “Lapachhapi” gets a Hindi remake.
Acquisitions
Saban Films has acquired North American rights to the Alicia Silverstone wedding comedy “Sister of the Groom” from Premiere Entertainment Group.
Written and directed by Amy Miller Gross, the film also co-stars Tom Everett Scott, Jake Hoffman and Mathilde Ollivier. Miller Gross produced for Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms.
Silverstone portrays a woman who tries to put a halt to her brother’s marriage to a much younger French woman over the course of their wedding weekend in the Hamptons. Silverstone served as executive producer and Justin Scutieri co-produced.
Charlie Bewley, Mark Blum, Julie Engelbrecht and Ronald Guttman are also in the cast. Silverstone and Everett Scott also previously appeared as...
Acquisitions
Saban Films has acquired North American rights to the Alicia Silverstone wedding comedy “Sister of the Groom” from Premiere Entertainment Group.
Written and directed by Amy Miller Gross, the film also co-stars Tom Everett Scott, Jake Hoffman and Mathilde Ollivier. Miller Gross produced for Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms.
Silverstone portrays a woman who tries to put a halt to her brother’s marriage to a much younger French woman over the course of their wedding weekend in the Hamptons. Silverstone served as executive producer and Justin Scutieri co-produced.
Charlie Bewley, Mark Blum, Julie Engelbrecht and Ronald Guttman are also in the cast. Silverstone and Everett Scott also previously appeared as...
- 5/29/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Saban Films has acquired the North American rights to “Sister of the Groom,” a comedy set at a wedding starring “Clueless” star Alicia Silverstone, the distributor announced Thursday.
“Sister of the Groom,” which was written and directed by Amy Miller Gross, follows a woman (Silverstone) who tries to put a halt to her brother’s marriage to a much younger French woman over the course of their wedding weekend in the Hamptons. Saban Films will announce plans to release the film at a later date.
Tom Everett Scott, Jake Hoffman and Mathilde Ollivier co-star in the film. Charlie Bewley, Noah Silver, Julie Engelbrecht, Ronald Guttman and the late Mark Blum round out the key cast.
Also Read: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Crime Thriller 'The Silencing' Gets Release From Saban Films
Miller Gross also produced for Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms, and Silverstone served as an executive producer.
“Sister of the Groom,” which was written and directed by Amy Miller Gross, follows a woman (Silverstone) who tries to put a halt to her brother’s marriage to a much younger French woman over the course of their wedding weekend in the Hamptons. Saban Films will announce plans to release the film at a later date.
Tom Everett Scott, Jake Hoffman and Mathilde Ollivier co-star in the film. Charlie Bewley, Noah Silver, Julie Engelbrecht, Ronald Guttman and the late Mark Blum round out the key cast.
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Miller Gross also produced for Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms, and Silverstone served as an executive producer.
- 5/28/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Saban Films has RSVP’d for the North American distribution rights to Sister of the Groom, the Premiere Entertainment Group wedding comedy starring Alicia Silverstone. Amy Miller Gross wrote and directed the pic, which follows a woman (Silverstone) who tries to put a halt to her brother’s marriage to a much younger French woman over the course of their wedding weekend in the Hamptons.
Additional cast includes Tom Everett Scott (who co-starred alongside Silverstone in 2017’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul) Jake Hoffman, Mathilde Ollivier Charlie Bewley, Noah Silver, Mark Blum, Julie Engelbrecht, and Ronald Guttman.
Miller Gross produced via Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms. Silverstone served as executive producer and Justin Scutieri co-produced.
Jonathan Saba negotiated the deal for Saban along with Elias Axume and Devin Carter of Premiere on behalf of the filmmakers. Premiere handled worldwide sales.
Upcoming releases on Saban...
Additional cast includes Tom Everett Scott (who co-starred alongside Silverstone in 2017’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul) Jake Hoffman, Mathilde Ollivier Charlie Bewley, Noah Silver, Mark Blum, Julie Engelbrecht, and Ronald Guttman.
Miller Gross produced via Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms. Silverstone served as executive producer and Justin Scutieri co-produced.
Jonathan Saba negotiated the deal for Saban along with Elias Axume and Devin Carter of Premiere on behalf of the filmmakers. Premiere handled worldwide sales.
Upcoming releases on Saban...
- 5/28/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Premiere Entertainment Group launched Efm sales under previous title The Pleasure of Your Presence.
Premiere Entertainment Group has licensed North American rights on the Alicia Silverstone wedding comedy Sister Of The Groom to Saban Films.
Amy Miller Gross (Accommodations) wrote and directed the film which also stars Tom Everett Scott (truTV’s I’m Sorry), Jake Hoffman (The Irishman) and Mathilde Ollivier (Overlord). Miller Gross produced for Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms, with Silverstone serving as executive producer.
Silverstone (Clueless) plays a woman on a mission to stop her brother’s marriage to a younger French woman at...
Premiere Entertainment Group has licensed North American rights on the Alicia Silverstone wedding comedy Sister Of The Groom to Saban Films.
Amy Miller Gross (Accommodations) wrote and directed the film which also stars Tom Everett Scott (truTV’s I’m Sorry), Jake Hoffman (The Irishman) and Mathilde Ollivier (Overlord). Miller Gross produced for Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms, with Silverstone serving as executive producer.
Silverstone (Clueless) plays a woman on a mission to stop her brother’s marriage to a younger French woman at...
- 5/28/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Amy Miller Gross directed and produced for Mandorla Productions.
Premiere Entertainment Group has bolstered its Efm sales slate with worldwide rights to wedding comedy The Pleasure Of Your Presence starring Alicia Silverstone.
Tom Everett Scott (Parental Guidance), Jake Hoffman (The Irishman), and Mathilde Ollivier (Overlord) are among the key cast on the story about a woman (Silverstone) who tries to halt to her brother’s marriage to a much younger French woman over the course of their wedding weekend in the Hamptons.
Amy Miller Gross directed from her original screenplay, and produced for Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms,...
Premiere Entertainment Group has bolstered its Efm sales slate with worldwide rights to wedding comedy The Pleasure Of Your Presence starring Alicia Silverstone.
Tom Everett Scott (Parental Guidance), Jake Hoffman (The Irishman), and Mathilde Ollivier (Overlord) are among the key cast on the story about a woman (Silverstone) who tries to halt to her brother’s marriage to a much younger French woman over the course of their wedding weekend in the Hamptons.
Amy Miller Gross directed from her original screenplay, and produced for Mandorla Productions alongside Andrew Carlberg and Tim Harms,...
- 2/19/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Luke Goss stars in sci-fi kidnap thriller R.I.A.
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has beefed up its Efm sales slate and acquired international rights to survival thriller Centigrade and worldwide rights to sci-fi thriller R.I.A. starring Luke Goss.
Genesis Rodriguez and Vincent Piazza star in Centigrade as a married couple who find themselves trapped inside a frozen vehicle after an overnight blizzard buries their car in snow, while struggling to survive amid plunging temperatures and unforeseen obstacles.
Brendan Walsh makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay he co-wrote with Daley Nixon. Bradley J. Ross produced for Manhattan Productions...
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has beefed up its Efm sales slate and acquired international rights to survival thriller Centigrade and worldwide rights to sci-fi thriller R.I.A. starring Luke Goss.
Genesis Rodriguez and Vincent Piazza star in Centigrade as a married couple who find themselves trapped inside a frozen vehicle after an overnight blizzard buries their car in snow, while struggling to survive amid plunging temperatures and unforeseen obstacles.
Brendan Walsh makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay he co-wrote with Daley Nixon. Bradley J. Ross produced for Manhattan Productions...
- 2/17/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Us, UK, Spain, CHIna, Italy snap up Legacy.
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group will launch worldwide sales at the Efm in Berlin next week on in-house production and Mena Suvari thriller Locked In after shooting wrapped in Pennsylvania.
Separately, the company has licensed a raft of territories on Luke Goss thriller Legacy, including a Us deal with ITN Distribution.
Premiere plans to show exclusive footage at the market on Locked In, which also stars Jeff Fahey, Jasper Polish, Costas Mandylor, Manny Perez, and Bruno Bichir.
Carlos V. Gutierrez makes his feature film directorial debut from his original screenplay about a...
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group will launch worldwide sales at the Efm in Berlin next week on in-house production and Mena Suvari thriller Locked In after shooting wrapped in Pennsylvania.
Separately, the company has licensed a raft of territories on Luke Goss thriller Legacy, including a Us deal with ITN Distribution.
Premiere plans to show exclusive footage at the market on Locked In, which also stars Jeff Fahey, Jasper Polish, Costas Mandylor, Manny Perez, and Bruno Bichir.
Carlos V. Gutierrez makes his feature film directorial debut from his original screenplay about a...
- 2/14/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Screenplay Films, Bumilangit Studios plan superhero franchise.
Premiere Entertainment Group has launched talks with Afm buyers on worldwide rights excluding Indonesia to Toronto Midnight Madness selection Gundala.
The Indonesian superhero action film from Screenplay Films and Bumilangit Studios is conceived as the first in a franchise. It charts the central character’s origins as an orphaned boy in Jakarta who gains powers after he is struck by lightning and goes to war against a mob boss.
Abimana Aryasatya, Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, and Ario Bayu star, and Joko Anwar directed from his screenplay. Bismarka Kurniawan and Wicky V. Olindo served as producers,...
Premiere Entertainment Group has launched talks with Afm buyers on worldwide rights excluding Indonesia to Toronto Midnight Madness selection Gundala.
The Indonesian superhero action film from Screenplay Films and Bumilangit Studios is conceived as the first in a franchise. It charts the central character’s origins as an orphaned boy in Jakarta who gains powers after he is struck by lightning and goes to war against a mob boss.
Abimana Aryasatya, Tara Basro, Bront Palarae, and Ario Bayu star, and Joko Anwar directed from his screenplay. Bismarka Kurniawan and Wicky V. Olindo served as producers,...
- 11/9/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Run The Race, Full Count, The Other Side Of Heaven 2: Fire Of Faith on Grace Films label.
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has boarded international rights to a trio of faith-based films led by Run The Race and will shop the titles here under its Grace Films label.
Tanner Stine and Evan Hofer star in Run The Race, a drama set against the backdrop of high school sports where two brothers from a small Southern town must reconcile their opposing worldviews when one of them gets an opportunity to play American Football at the University of Florida.
Roadside...
Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has boarded international rights to a trio of faith-based films led by Run The Race and will shop the titles here under its Grace Films label.
Tanner Stine and Evan Hofer star in Run The Race, a drama set against the backdrop of high school sports where two brothers from a small Southern town must reconcile their opposing worldviews when one of them gets an opportunity to play American Football at the University of Florida.
Roadside...
- 11/6/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
UTA Independent Film Group represents North American rights.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) heads to Afm this week with international sales rights on Katharine O’Brien’s Lost Transmissions starring the red-hot British pair of Simon Pegg and Juno Temple.
Alexandra Daddario, Tao Okamoto, Bria Vinaite, and Robert Schwartzman also feature in the cast of the Royal Road Entertainment production, in association with Underlying Tension and presented by Pulse Films.
Lost Transmissions premiered at Tribeca Film Festival earlier in the year and follows Hannah (Temple), a shy songwriter who discovers that her friend, respected record producer Theo Ross (Pegg), has lapsed...
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) heads to Afm this week with international sales rights on Katharine O’Brien’s Lost Transmissions starring the red-hot British pair of Simon Pegg and Juno Temple.
Alexandra Daddario, Tao Okamoto, Bria Vinaite, and Robert Schwartzman also feature in the cast of the Royal Road Entertainment production, in association with Underlying Tension and presented by Pulse Films.
Lost Transmissions premiered at Tribeca Film Festival earlier in the year and follows Hannah (Temple), a shy songwriter who discovers that her friend, respected record producer Theo Ross (Pegg), has lapsed...
- 11/4/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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