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Two years after it was acquired by Briarcliff Entertainment for North American distribution, Sovereign is premiering July 11.

In the trailer for writer/director Christian Swegal’s true crime thriller, Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay star as Jerry Kane and his teenage son Joseph, who follow the Sovereign Citizen belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority.

As the pair travels across the country, delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believe have failed them, their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief Jim Bouchart (Dennis Quaid), setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with power, principle and the limits of freedom.

“When I first heard about this crime, I was immediately hooked,” said Swegal before filming the movie in Arkansas in late 2023. “Radicalization is a familiar concept, but at a time when our democracy is strained to the breaking point,...

Exclusive: Briarcliff Entertainment has set a June 20 theatrical release for its Dennis Quaid-Nick Offerman-Jacob Tremblay true-crime thriller Sovereign.

Based on real events, the pic follows a father and son (Offerman and Tremblay) who identify as Sovereign Citizens, a group of anti-government extremists, as they venture across the country and find themselves in a standoff with a chief of police (Quaid) that sets off an intense manhunt with tragic consequences.

Nick Offerman in ‘Sovereign’

Deadline first told you about Briarcliff’s pickup of the film written and directed by Christian Swegal in May 2023.

Sovereign will share the same weekend with such wide entries as Disney/Pixar’s Elio, Sony’s zombie sequel 28 Years Later and Magneta Light Studios’ Simon West-directed Bride Hard starring Rebel Wilson and Anna Camp.

Sovereign was produced by Nick Moceri under his All Night Diner banner, whose credits include Sitting In Bars With Cake...

Tom Sizemore has had quite a year, appearing in no fewer than eighteen films (and a starring role in Hawaii Five-o on television) in 2011, (including the superb White Knight from brilliant young director-to-watch Jesse Baget), and his 2012 is already shaping up to be another gauntlet for the actor. Of the eleven projects he currently has in production, none has us as excited as the announcement of an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Morella.

Morella will be the directorial debut for Adam Ropp, and is being produced by Ford (Dahmer Vs Gacy) Austin. Sizemore, who will be playing Father Murray, is teaming up with Margaret (Meet Me In St. Louis) O’Brien, screen legend Tony Curtis (in archival footage), Randal (Curse Of Lizzie Borden) Malone, and Eric (Terminal) Wasserman in this contemporary take on the classic macabre tale, first published in 1835. The film is in production with a 2013 release date yet to be announced.