Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has acquired North American VOD rights to the drama-thriller “The Ghost Trap” and the social drama “Global Harmony,” the company announced during the Cannes Film Market. Allen Media also recently unveiled plans for a third installment in its successful “47 Meters Down” shark franchise.
“The Ghost Trap” (pictured) is the story of a young lobsterman who is forced to choose between right and wrong when his girlfriend suffers a traumatic head injury when she is swept off his boat by a rogue wave and rival lobstering family sabotages his gear, sparking a deadly trap war.
The film stars Zak Steiner (“Euphoria”), Greer Grammer (“Deadly Illusions”), Sarah Catherine Hook and Steven Ogg (“Westworld”). James Khanlarian makes his feature directorial debut, directing from K. Stephens’ script, which is based on the book she authored by the same name,...
“The Ghost Trap” (pictured) is the story of a young lobsterman who is forced to choose between right and wrong when his girlfriend suffers a traumatic head injury when she is swept off his boat by a rogue wave and rival lobstering family sabotages his gear, sparking a deadly trap war.
The film stars Zak Steiner (“Euphoria”), Greer Grammer (“Deadly Illusions”), Sarah Catherine Hook and Steven Ogg (“Westworld”). James Khanlarian makes his feature directorial debut, directing from K. Stephens’ script, which is based on the book she authored by the same name,...
- 5/17/2024
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Deadline has exclusive first look photos for Pink Flags, an indie thriller starring married actors Raye Levine Spielberg & Sawyer Spielberg (Merry Good Enough), which is currently finishing up post.
Written and directed by Misha Calvert, the film follows figure skater Liberty (Levine Spielberg) as she is stalked, or so she thinks, by a strange man (Spielberg) who appears at her ice rink. She starts stalking him back and finds herself in a series of beautiful but disturbing visions while she attempts to solve the mystery.
Channeling the style of classic paranoid thrillers of the ’70s, the film also stars Nick Creegan (Batwoman). Cronin Cullen and Calvert produced alongside associate producers Olivia Winn and Shrevy Venkatesh, and consulting producer Federica Belletti, with Shona Tuckman among the EPs. Check out the stills from Pink Flags below.
Sawyer Spielberg in Pink Flags Raye Levine Spielberg in Pink Flags Raye Levine Spielberg and...
Written and directed by Misha Calvert, the film follows figure skater Liberty (Levine Spielberg) as she is stalked, or so she thinks, by a strange man (Spielberg) who appears at her ice rink. She starts stalking him back and finds herself in a series of beautiful but disturbing visions while she attempts to solve the mystery.
Channeling the style of classic paranoid thrillers of the ’70s, the film also stars Nick Creegan (Batwoman). Cronin Cullen and Calvert produced alongside associate producers Olivia Winn and Shrevy Venkatesh, and consulting producer Federica Belletti, with Shona Tuckman among the EPs. Check out the stills from Pink Flags below.
Sawyer Spielberg in Pink Flags Raye Levine Spielberg in Pink Flags Raye Levine Spielberg and...
- 1/5/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Quicksand’s Flx Gets New CEO
Joshua Mehr has been named CEO of Flx, the Swedish producer behind Netflix’s series Quicksand. Pontus Edgren, who part-owns the company alongside founder and Creative Director Felix Herngren and majority shareholder Sf Studios, is stepping down as CEO. According to a press release, Edgren has chosen to leave “on his own initiative” and has been “in dialogue with Flx’s owners for some time to ensure a smooth succession.” Mehr has been with the company as Head of Business Affairs since 2015 and is stepping up to the CEO post with “an extremely good understanding of the industry and Flx in particular,” said Iréne Lindblat, CEO off Sf Studios and Chair of the Flx board. Flx’s behind series such as Sunny Side, Love & Anarchy and Quicksand, feature films such as The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared and Comedy Queen,...
Joshua Mehr has been named CEO of Flx, the Swedish producer behind Netflix’s series Quicksand. Pontus Edgren, who part-owns the company alongside founder and Creative Director Felix Herngren and majority shareholder Sf Studios, is stepping down as CEO. According to a press release, Edgren has chosen to leave “on his own initiative” and has been “in dialogue with Flx’s owners for some time to ensure a smooth succession.” Mehr has been with the company as Head of Business Affairs since 2015 and is stepping up to the CEO post with “an extremely good understanding of the industry and Flx in particular,” said Iréne Lindblat, CEO off Sf Studios and Chair of the Flx board. Flx’s behind series such as Sunny Side, Love & Anarchy and Quicksand, feature films such as The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared and Comedy Queen,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has picked up North American rights to the sports documentary Big Crow from director Kris Kaczor, slating it for release on VOD platforms on August 1.
Premiering at last year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival, the film tells the story of how young Lakota basketball star SuAnne Big Crow became an activist, and how her message of hope continues to help her people reclaim their culture 30 years after her tragic death. Part biography and part social commentary, the doc is a tale about the power of hope in the most destitute place in America, South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Inila Wakan wrote the pic and Kevin Bayson produced, with Walter Matteson aboard as EP. Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to acquire it with Alex Nohe of Blood Sweat and Honey. View a trailer for the film below.
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Adele and Keith Hanks in First Responders...
Premiering at last year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival, the film tells the story of how young Lakota basketball star SuAnne Big Crow became an activist, and how her message of hope continues to help her people reclaim their culture 30 years after her tragic death. Part biography and part social commentary, the doc is a tale about the power of hope in the most destitute place in America, South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Inila Wakan wrote the pic and Kevin Bayson produced, with Walter Matteson aboard as EP. Freestyle Digital Media negotiated the deal to acquire it with Alex Nohe of Blood Sweat and Honey. View a trailer for the film below.
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Adele and Keith Hanks in First Responders...
- 7/19/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Price Productions has wrapped production on Mad Props, a new feature documentary featuring iconic actors Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) and more.
The film from director Juan Pablo Reinoso is said to follow a handsome nerd as he journeys the globe to turn the conventional art world on its head, proving to historians and critics alike that movie props are as important an art form as the greatest paintings and sculptures in history.
Keli Price produced for Price Productions, along with Reinoso and LookBook Films’ Melanie Sweeney, with Tom Biolchini and Colin Tucker serving as EPs. Englund is repped by Third Hill Entertainment, Jr Talent Group and Miloknay Weiner; Henriksen by APA and Henriksen Talent Management; Rourke by APA, Framework Entertainment and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel; and Price by Revenant Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
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Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has acquired North...
The film from director Juan Pablo Reinoso is said to follow a handsome nerd as he journeys the globe to turn the conventional art world on its head, proving to historians and critics alike that movie props are as important an art form as the greatest paintings and sculptures in history.
Keli Price produced for Price Productions, along with Reinoso and LookBook Films’ Melanie Sweeney, with Tom Biolchini and Colin Tucker serving as EPs. Englund is repped by Third Hill Entertainment, Jr Talent Group and Miloknay Weiner; Henriksen by APA and Henriksen Talent Management; Rourke by APA, Framework Entertainment and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel; and Price by Revenant Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
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Exclusive: Quiver Distribution has acquired North...
- 2/17/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Indican Pictures has acquired One Moment, a family comedy starring the late Danny Aiello, with plans to release it in theaters in May and on VOD in July.
One Moment tells the story of middle-aged siblings struggling to manage their lives and careers while also caring for their recently widowed aging father, Joe (Aiello). Joe, demanding and difficult, stubbornly believes he is still capable of running his own life which leads to sad, but sometimes hilarious situations. Although at odds on how to best care for Joe in his final years, the family is united in wanting to ensure his well-being and help him find peace of mind—without them losing their own.
Adria Tennor, Frankie Ingrassia, Natalie Seus, Sioux Madden and Sal Rendino round out the cast of the film written and directed by Deirdre O’Connor, who produced alongside Jodie Weiner. Shaun Hill and Gary Goldberger negotiated the...
One Moment tells the story of middle-aged siblings struggling to manage their lives and careers while also caring for their recently widowed aging father, Joe (Aiello). Joe, demanding and difficult, stubbornly believes he is still capable of running his own life which leads to sad, but sometimes hilarious situations. Although at odds on how to best care for Joe in his final years, the family is united in wanting to ensure his well-being and help him find peace of mind—without them losing their own.
Adria Tennor, Frankie Ingrassia, Natalie Seus, Sioux Madden and Sal Rendino round out the cast of the film written and directed by Deirdre O’Connor, who produced alongside Jodie Weiner. Shaun Hill and Gary Goldberger negotiated the...
- 2/18/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Partners bring more than 65 years of industry experience.
Jeff Dowd and Alex Nohe have launched a full-service distribution and creative consultancy.
Blood Sweat Honey will specialise in providing strategic counsel to independent filmmakers, offering producer representation, festival strategy, script and post-production creative consulting, and hybrid distribution and marketing strategy.
Dowd (main picture), the inspiration for the character of ‘The Dude’ in the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski, has worked in the independent sector for more than four decades as a producer, distributor, exhibitor, festival director and producer’s rep.
He has consulted on such films as Blood Simple, Chariots Of Fire, Ghandi, War Games, Hoosiers, Desperately Seeking Susan, Kissing Jessica Stein, and The Blair Witch Project.
He and several partners are preparing to release the transmedia series Our Classic Tales That Fuel Our Future this autumn.
Nohe is a film distributor, filmmaker and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of executive and management experience in the film business...
Jeff Dowd and Alex Nohe have launched a full-service distribution and creative consultancy.
Blood Sweat Honey will specialise in providing strategic counsel to independent filmmakers, offering producer representation, festival strategy, script and post-production creative consulting, and hybrid distribution and marketing strategy.
Dowd (main picture), the inspiration for the character of ‘The Dude’ in the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski, has worked in the independent sector for more than four decades as a producer, distributor, exhibitor, festival director and producer’s rep.
He has consulted on such films as Blood Simple, Chariots Of Fire, Ghandi, War Games, Hoosiers, Desperately Seeking Susan, Kissing Jessica Stein, and The Blair Witch Project.
He and several partners are preparing to release the transmedia series Our Classic Tales That Fuel Our Future this autumn.
Nohe is a film distributor, filmmaker and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of executive and management experience in the film business...
- 6/20/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Phoenix-based sales agent will represent worldwide rights to Patrick Kennelly’s SXSW psychological thriller.
Midnight Releasing will handle North American distribution in early 2016 on the story of a woman who imprisons her roommate in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together. Bethany Orr and Mary Loveless star
Kennelly and Sigrid Gilmer co-wrote the screenplay to Excess Flesh and Leo Garcia produced.
The film premiered earlier this year at SXSW and screened recently at Fantasia. It is scheduled to play the touring Fantasy FilmFest in Germany.
“Through Acort International’s film distribution outlets worldwide including Midnight Releasing and Brain Damage Films here in the Us, Excess Flesh will have the best chance in reaching audiences globally hungry for this type of psychothriller,” said executive producer Dennis Garcia of Walking To The Moon Productions. “We are thrilled to be part of this team.”
“Acort International is very excited to be working with director...
Midnight Releasing will handle North American distribution in early 2016 on the story of a woman who imprisons her roommate in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together. Bethany Orr and Mary Loveless star
Kennelly and Sigrid Gilmer co-wrote the screenplay to Excess Flesh and Leo Garcia produced.
The film premiered earlier this year at SXSW and screened recently at Fantasia. It is scheduled to play the touring Fantasy FilmFest in Germany.
“Through Acort International’s film distribution outlets worldwide including Midnight Releasing and Brain Damage Films here in the Us, Excess Flesh will have the best chance in reaching audiences globally hungry for this type of psychothriller,” said executive producer Dennis Garcia of Walking To The Moon Productions. “We are thrilled to be part of this team.”
“Acort International is very excited to be working with director...
- 8/18/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Film review: 'The Burning Sensation'
Not the first or last film/TV project about the yearly Burning Man gathering in northern Nevada's Black Rock Desert, this accomplished and invigorating documentary by debut filmmaker Alex Nohe is both strengthened and hindered by its agenda, which is to approach the wild weeklong event as a one-of-a-kind art happening.
Unveiled for an eager audience at the Santa Barbara (Calif.) International Film Festival as a "work in progress," with temporary titles and undergoing minor fine-tuning, "Burning Man: The Burning Sensation" has the potential to draw hefty college-age audiences in major markets and select-site bookings, while cable and other ancillary venues look promising.
Although there is plenty of incredible material about the bizarre creations, and the people that go with them -- most of "Sensation" was filmed at the 1999 Burning Man -- one is not treated to an overall portrait of the event, like that in the granddaddy of counterculture cinemascapes, the Oscar-winning "Woodstock".
Other films and filmmakers may delve more fully (and exploitatively) into what all those naked revelers do when they aren't dancing around something blowing up or on fire, but "Sensation" is a stunning introduction to the Burning Man phenomenon. It's also going to be of little interest to the comfort-loving multitudes who would never get past the basic bring-your-own-everything requirements and harsh physical conditions.
Still, for those extreme of heart no matter how old, the 17-year-old Burning Man project, co-founded and directed by Larry Harvey, is made to look like a lot more like fun than hardship, even if one is expected to "participate" because the events have "no spectators." Perhaps more than bringing unwanted attention to this big, exclusive party for unclad, jinn-for-a-week daredevils, the film may help inspire other paganistic gatherings.
What goes on in a temporary city of 24,000 when the temperature goes way above 100 degrees, the winds blow and everyone gets down to the serious task of expressing themselves? One group of guys claims to have Anthony Quinn's stuffed horse from "Lawrence of Arabia". It gets torched. Another group stages a full-on hedonistic frolic at night with a "golden calf." Dozens of topless women on bicycles, with their breasts painted and adorned, ride around one day in an ensemble work dubbed "Angry Tits".
The finale is the destruction of a 50-foot-high sculpture that includes pyrotechnics in a ceremony straight out of a barbaric version of the Olympics. Naked and goddess-like, event performance coordinator Crimson Rose is The High Priestess who sets off the Burning Man, a very sophisticatedly engineered and awesome spectacle that has a primal fascination.
While, overall, Nohe (programming director for IFP/West and a native Kansan) and his crew show us startling imagery, and some fairly articulate participants explain their art pieces, "The Burning Sensation" feels occasionally unfocused. But it is successful in capturing what appears to be the upbeat mood and ultra-tolerant attitude of the mostly white twentysomething adventurers who are lured to and nourished by the peacefully chaotic atmosphere
BURNING MAN: THE BURNING SENSATION
Director: Alex Nohe
Producers: Alex Nohe, Alan Roberts
Cinematographers: Alex Nohe, Pilar Otero,
David Smith, Chris Stong, Ted Trost
Editors: James Frisa, Alex Nohe
Color/stereo
With: Larry Harvey, Crimson Rose, Will Roger
Running time -- 73 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Unveiled for an eager audience at the Santa Barbara (Calif.) International Film Festival as a "work in progress," with temporary titles and undergoing minor fine-tuning, "Burning Man: The Burning Sensation" has the potential to draw hefty college-age audiences in major markets and select-site bookings, while cable and other ancillary venues look promising.
Although there is plenty of incredible material about the bizarre creations, and the people that go with them -- most of "Sensation" was filmed at the 1999 Burning Man -- one is not treated to an overall portrait of the event, like that in the granddaddy of counterculture cinemascapes, the Oscar-winning "Woodstock".
Other films and filmmakers may delve more fully (and exploitatively) into what all those naked revelers do when they aren't dancing around something blowing up or on fire, but "Sensation" is a stunning introduction to the Burning Man phenomenon. It's also going to be of little interest to the comfort-loving multitudes who would never get past the basic bring-your-own-everything requirements and harsh physical conditions.
Still, for those extreme of heart no matter how old, the 17-year-old Burning Man project, co-founded and directed by Larry Harvey, is made to look like a lot more like fun than hardship, even if one is expected to "participate" because the events have "no spectators." Perhaps more than bringing unwanted attention to this big, exclusive party for unclad, jinn-for-a-week daredevils, the film may help inspire other paganistic gatherings.
What goes on in a temporary city of 24,000 when the temperature goes way above 100 degrees, the winds blow and everyone gets down to the serious task of expressing themselves? One group of guys claims to have Anthony Quinn's stuffed horse from "Lawrence of Arabia". It gets torched. Another group stages a full-on hedonistic frolic at night with a "golden calf." Dozens of topless women on bicycles, with their breasts painted and adorned, ride around one day in an ensemble work dubbed "Angry Tits".
The finale is the destruction of a 50-foot-high sculpture that includes pyrotechnics in a ceremony straight out of a barbaric version of the Olympics. Naked and goddess-like, event performance coordinator Crimson Rose is The High Priestess who sets off the Burning Man, a very sophisticatedly engineered and awesome spectacle that has a primal fascination.
While, overall, Nohe (programming director for IFP/West and a native Kansan) and his crew show us startling imagery, and some fairly articulate participants explain their art pieces, "The Burning Sensation" feels occasionally unfocused. But it is successful in capturing what appears to be the upbeat mood and ultra-tolerant attitude of the mostly white twentysomething adventurers who are lured to and nourished by the peacefully chaotic atmosphere
BURNING MAN: THE BURNING SENSATION
Director: Alex Nohe
Producers: Alex Nohe, Alan Roberts
Cinematographers: Alex Nohe, Pilar Otero,
David Smith, Chris Stong, Ted Trost
Editors: James Frisa, Alex Nohe
Color/stereo
With: Larry Harvey, Crimson Rose, Will Roger
Running time -- 73 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 4/28/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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