American Film Market Dailies

Premiere Entertainment Group will be attending AFM next month and would like to meet with you to discuss our available titles for your territories.  Please find our initial lineup below, with new films to be announced shortly.

CURRENT TITLES

AMERICAN HANGMAN

GENRE:  Thriller

DIRECTOR:  Wilson Coneybeare

PRODUCERS:  Meredith Fowler, Marina Cordoni

CAST:  Martin Freeman, (The Hobbit Trilogy), William Hurt (The Incredible Hulk, Dark City, Kiss of the Spider Woman)

SYNOPSIS:  A judge is kidnapped and put on public trial over the internet for sentencing a man to death that his captor claims was innocent.

STATUS:  Pre-Production

Production Starting January 2016

ABANDONED

GENRE:  Survival Thriller, True Story

DIRECTOR:  John Laing

PRODUCER:  James Heyward

CAST:  Dominic Purcell (Prison Break, Equilibrium, Legends of Tomorrow)

SYNOPSIS:  The true story of four men who face almost certain death when their yacht capsizes.   With little more than hope and each other, the men drift in the frigid Pacific for 119 days.

STATUS:  Post-Production

New Trailer at Suite!

LOCKED IN

GENRE:  Woman in Peril/Action/Thriller

DIRECTOR:  Carlos Gutierrez

PRODUCERS:  Ryan Noto, Elias Axume

CAST:  TBD

SYNOPSIS:  A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.

STATUS:  Pre-Production

ORDEAL

GENRE:  Action / Sci-Fi

DIRECTOR:  Juan Felipe Orozco

(Greetings to the Devil - starring Edgar Ramirez)

PRODUCER:  Moctezuma Esparza (Selena)

CAST:  TBA

SYNOPSIS:  A space smuggler must outrun dangerous creatures and fend off foes in a race against time to rescue his girlfriend from a bomb that is locked around her neck.

STATUS:  Pre-Production

CODE OF HONOR

GENRE:  Action

DIRECTOR:  Michael Winnick (Guns, Girls & Gambling)

PRODUCERS:  Ryan Noto, Elias Axume

CAST:  Steven Seagal (Under Siege), Craig Sheffer (A River Runs Through It), Helena Mattsson (Iron Man 2), Louis Mandylor (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

SYNOPSIS:  A former Colonel in the Special Forces returns home from the Middle East and becomes a vigilante, murdering criminals and the corrupt, while one of his fellow soldiers is intent on stopping him.

STATUS:  Post-Production

PAPA

From the Producer of The Illusionist & Hostage

GENRE:  Drama, Adventure, Biography

DIRECTOR:  Bob Yari

PRODUCER:  Bob Yari

CAST:  Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar, Saving Private Ryan), Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck), Adrian Sparks (My Stepmother is an Alien), Minka Kelly (Lee Daniels' The Butler)

LOGLINE:  Based on a true story, Papa follows journalist Ed Myers (Ribisi) on his adventure to Cuba in 1959, on a mission to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway (Sparks). Hidden away at a private estate with his wife Mary (Richardson), the elusive author mentors Myers in fishing, drinking, and finding his voice, while the Cuban Revolution boils around them. In this turbulent landscape, beholding an icon in his twilight years, Myers discovers his strength, while recognizing that all of our heroes are human.

STATUS:  Post-production 

GOOD OL' BOY

GENRE:  Family/Comedy

DIRECTOR:  Frank Lotito

PRODUCER:  Frank Lotito, Anjul Nigam

CAST:  Jason Lee (My Name is Earl), Hilarie Burton (One Tree Hill)

SYNOPSIS:  In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before. 

STATUS:  Completed - Trailer at Suite

DARK WAS THE NIGHT

GENRE:  Thriller/Horror/Creature

DIRECTOR:  Jack Heller

PRODUCERS: Jack Heller, Dallas Sonnier

CAST:  Kevin Durand (The Strain, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I Am Number Four), Lukas Haas (Inception, Jobs, Transcendence), Bianca Kajlich (Rules of Engagement, Undateable, Halloween: Resurrection)

LOGLINE:  A long slumbering evil is awoken in the trees outside the remote town of Maiden Woods.  Isolated and threatened, it sets its sights on the townspeople, as Sheriff Paul Shields (Kevin Durand) attempts to overcome the demons of his past, so that he may protect those that he loves.

STATUS:  Completed

RELENTLESS

GENRE: Woman in Peril/Action/Thriller

DIRECTOR:  Lance Tracy

PRODUCER:  Lance Tracy

CAST:  Lauren Shaw (Zero Dark Thirty), David Castro (The Lincoln Lawyer) 

SYNOPSIS:  An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.

STATUS:  Post-Production - Trailer at Suite

RESOLUTE

GENRE:  Thriller/Drama

DIRECTOR:  Catherine Linstrum

PRODUCER:  Michael Dobbin

CAST:  Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix Trilogy)

SYNOPSIS:  A woman seeking revenge and a man seeking escape embark on a journey to the far north.

STATUS:  Pre-Production

"Richer and far more thought-provoking than a typical night at the movies" - Variety

"An Oscar worthy performance by Patrick Stewart." - Film Journal

MATCH

GENRE:  Comedy/Drama

DIRECTOR:  Stephen Belber

PRODUCERS: Rick Rosenthal, Matt Ratner, David Permut

CAST:  Patrick Stewart (X-Men, Star Trek), Carla Gugino (Night At The Museum), Matthew Lillard (She's All That, Scooby Doo)

LOGLINE:  A Seattle couple (Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard) travel to New York to interview former dancer Tobi (played with remarkable dexterity by Patrick Stewart) for research on a dissertation about the dance landscape of 1960s New York City. Now a beloved but somewhat hermitic ballet instructor, Tobi eventually warms to the strangers sitting in his Inwood apartment, regaling them with wild anecdotes from his colorful past. But when the line of questioning veers away from his career and becomes uncomfortably personal, the true motive behind the couple’s visit begins to emerge. Based on the Tony-nominated play of the same name, Director Stephen Belber weaves effortlessly between riotous wit and delicate poignancy, unraveling the story of three people forced to confront ideas of responsibility, artistic commitment, and love.  

STATUS:  Completed

7 MINUTES

GENRE:  Action/Heist

DIRECTOR:  Jay Martin

PRODUCER:  Rick Rosenthal, Nick Morton

CAST:  Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters), Jason Ritter (Freddy vs. Jason), Kris Kristofferson (Blade, Blade II, Blade Trinity)

LOGLINE:  Three high school friends are forced to commit a brazen robbery which quickly goes horribly wrong. 

STATUS:  Completed 

CHRISTIAN MINGLE

GENRE:  Family/Faith-Based Romantic Comedy

DIRECTOR:  Corbin Bernsen

PRODUCERS: Chris Aronoff, Corbin Bernsen

CAST:  Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls, Party of Five, ), Jonathan Patrick Moore (The Director's Cut), Morgan Fairchild (Flamingo Road, Holy Man), David Keith (Behind Enemy Lines)

LOGLINE:  Gwyneth Hayden has it all. A top-notch career, killer wardrobe, dream apartment, and great friends - she thinks the only thing missing is a man. In a moment of inspired desperation, she fills out a profile on the dating website ChristianMingle.com hoping to find Mr. Right. However, Gwyneth's Christianity is a little rusty and her attempts at impressing her dream guy end in disaster when he calls her out on her "faux faith." In an honest realization, she sees her superficial life for what it really is, and is driven to create a personal relationship with God. 

STATUS:  Completed

AWOL-72

GENRE:  Action Thriller

DIRECTOR:  Christian Sesma

CAST:  Luke Goss (Death Race 2, Blade II, Hellboy II) RZA (Wu-Tang Clan, Brick Mansions), Bokeem Woodbine (Total Recall, Ray, The Rock)

LOGLINE:  Conrad Miller (Goss), an AWOL marine in possession of secret government information, is a wanted man, pursued by Russian special ops, the LAPD, and a dangerous assassin (Woodbine). Highly capable, tormented by his past, and short on time, he is a lethal weapon that will lay waste to anyone who stands in his way.

STATUS:  Post-Production

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