Exclusive: Shout! Studios has picked up North American rights to Caged (previously titled The S.H.U.), a social thriller starring Edi Gathegi of the Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class fame.
Premiere Entertainment Group is handling the projects rights during the virtual Toronto market.
Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger also star in the pic, which is an elevated genre film following an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife (Sarafyan). He is then sent to solitary confinement – a victim of systemic racism.
Aaron Fjellman makes his feature directing debut on the project, from a script he co-wrote with James ‘Doc’ Mason. Pete Kirtley produced for Panic House Films alongside, Matthew C. Temple, Jessa Zarubica, and Fjellman. Edi Gathegi and Ryan Sage served as executive producers. Kirtley and Fjellman co-founded Panic House Films.
“After a global pandemic sentenced the world to solitary confinement,...
Premiere Entertainment Group is handling the projects rights during the virtual Toronto market.
Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger also star in the pic, which is an elevated genre film following an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife (Sarafyan). He is then sent to solitary confinement – a victim of systemic racism.
Aaron Fjellman makes his feature directing debut on the project, from a script he co-wrote with James ‘Doc’ Mason. Pete Kirtley produced for Panic House Films alongside, Matthew C. Temple, Jessa Zarubica, and Fjellman. Edi Gathegi and Ryan Sage served as executive producers. Kirtley and Fjellman co-founded Panic House Films.
“After a global pandemic sentenced the world to solitary confinement,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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
Exclusive: The S.H.U., a social thriller starring Edi Gathegi of the Twilight Saga and X-Men: First Class fame, has been picked up for world sales by Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group.
The pic follows an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife. A victim of systematic racism, he eventually finds himself in solitary confinement, slowly descending into madness and pushed to breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger round out the key cast. Aaron Fjellman makes his feature film directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with James ‘Doc’ Mason. Pete Kirtley produced for Panic House Films alongside Matthew C. Temple, Jessa Zarubica, and Fjellman. Edi Gathegi and Ryan Sage served as executive producers.
“We were very impressed with this smart and timely elevated genre film and were eager to team up with Pete and Aaron.
The pic follows an affluent African American psychiatrist (Gathegi) into federal prison after he is found guilty of murdering his wife. A victim of systematic racism, he eventually finds himself in solitary confinement, slowly descending into madness and pushed to breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Melora Hardin, Angela Sarafyan, Tony Amendola, and James Jagger round out the key cast. Aaron Fjellman makes his feature film directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with James ‘Doc’ Mason. Pete Kirtley produced for Panic House Films alongside Matthew C. Temple, Jessa Zarubica, and Fjellman. Edi Gathegi and Ryan Sage served as executive producers.
“We were very impressed with this smart and timely elevated genre film and were eager to team up with Pete and Aaron.
- 6/29/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
FilmBuff has acquired output rights to Temps, a comedy about modern love, commitment and careerism. The film will hit select theaters and VOD day-and-date on April 5. Check out the trailer above. Directed by Ryan Sage from Tim Bennett-Huxtable’s script, Temps centers on Jefferson (Grant Rosenmeyer), a temp worker whose only career goal is to afford an annual ski trip with his best friend and fellow temp, Curtis (Reid Ewing). When Jefferson falls for co-worker Stephanie…...
- 3/16/2016
- Deadline
Dale Zawada is a screenwriter and stand-up comic from Chicago. His first film was an award-winning romantic-comedy entitled Worth the Weight. Why do we care, you ask? Because Dale wants his next project to be horrific. Come meet Dale.
Zawada has proven he's got the talent to write a killer script. Worth the Weight won several awards on the festival circuit. And he's a self-described horror fanatic. These are the people we need working in the genre, folks, talented and motivated with a true love of horror.
Zawada talked to Dread Central recently about his desire to make the jump into the dark genre. "I've always been a horror guy," Zawada said. "When I sold Worth the Weight I was actually trying to pitch a horror-comedy script of mine at the time called The Adoption. That story is about a celebrity couple who gets up there in age and starts...
Zawada has proven he's got the talent to write a killer script. Worth the Weight won several awards on the festival circuit. And he's a self-described horror fanatic. These are the people we need working in the genre, folks, talented and motivated with a true love of horror.
Zawada talked to Dread Central recently about his desire to make the jump into the dark genre. "I've always been a horror guy," Zawada said. "When I sold Worth the Weight I was actually trying to pitch a horror-comedy script of mine at the time called The Adoption. That story is about a celebrity couple who gets up there in age and starts...
- 7/23/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
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