The feature debut of renowned music video director Colin Tilley will be shopped at the upcoming American Film Market.
“Eye for an Eye,” a sinister revenge horror set in the marshlands of Florida and starring Whitney Peak, is being launched at the market by HanWay Films, which is repping international rights. WME Independent is handling domestic sales.
Alongside Peak, S. Epatha Merkerson also stars, while the additional cast includes Golda Rosheuvel, Finn Bennett and newcomer Laken Giles. Casting was handled by Jenny Jue. The script was penned by writer and artist Elisa Victoria, who specializes in classic folklore and pop ephemera, adapted from one of her own graphic novels “Mr. Sandman.”
“Eye for an Eye” follows Anna (Peak), a young woman grieving the sudden death of her parents who relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated, vulnerable and in need of friends,...
“Eye for an Eye,” a sinister revenge horror set in the marshlands of Florida and starring Whitney Peak, is being launched at the market by HanWay Films, which is repping international rights. WME Independent is handling domestic sales.
Alongside Peak, S. Epatha Merkerson also stars, while the additional cast includes Golda Rosheuvel, Finn Bennett and newcomer Laken Giles. Casting was handled by Jenny Jue. The script was penned by writer and artist Elisa Victoria, who specializes in classic folklore and pop ephemera, adapted from one of her own graphic novels “Mr. Sandman.”
“Eye for an Eye” follows Anna (Peak), a young woman grieving the sudden death of her parents who relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated, vulnerable and in need of friends,...
- 10/21/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
“All the Weekend’s Drama” is a new drama feature, written and directed by John Robb Sanders, starring Laken Giles, Sharihan Haddad, and Alexis Figueroa, in a limited release June 23, 2024:
“…’Chloe Rousseau’ is a misfit, gentle-hearted twenty-year-old. She’s hardly ever known anything outside of her wayward, poverty-stricken lifestyle.
“Surrounding her is nothing but trauma attached to young people who don’t deserve it. Her glimmers of hope: a well-adjusted, now estranged childhood best friend, ‘Nina’, a young sweetheart teenager named ‘Benny’ and a wise-beyond-her-years corner store clerk ‘Imara’.
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“After Chloe has an accidental pregnancy, she turns to Nina for support, to which Nina shows Chloe that no one should ever feel their destiny is predetermined, no matter where you come from.”
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“…’Chloe Rousseau’ is a misfit, gentle-hearted twenty-year-old. She’s hardly ever known anything outside of her wayward, poverty-stricken lifestyle.
“Surrounding her is nothing but trauma attached to young people who don’t deserve it. Her glimmers of hope: a well-adjusted, now estranged childhood best friend, ‘Nina’, a young sweetheart teenager named ‘Benny’ and a wise-beyond-her-years corner store clerk ‘Imara’.
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“After Chloe has an accidental pregnancy, she turns to Nina for support, to which Nina shows Chloe that no one should ever feel their destiny is predetermined, no matter where you come from.”
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- 6/15/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Colin Tilley, the acclaimed director of music videos for Cardi B, Justin Bieber, and Nicki Minaj, will make his feature debut with “Somewhere in Dreamland.”
Production recently wrapped on the project, which stars Whitney Peak, from “Gossip Girl” and “Hocus Pocus 2,” as well as S. Epatha Merkerson (“Law & Order”), Golda Rosheuvel (“Bridgerton”), Finn Bennett (“True Detective”) and newcomer Laken Giles. Elisa Victoria penned the original graphic novel and the screenplay with Michael Tully.
The horror film follows Anna (Peak), who is grieving the sudden death of her parents when she relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated, she falls in with some other teens, but when she becomes a bystander to a shocking act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman, who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they wake up.
Production recently wrapped on the project, which stars Whitney Peak, from “Gossip Girl” and “Hocus Pocus 2,” as well as S. Epatha Merkerson (“Law & Order”), Golda Rosheuvel (“Bridgerton”), Finn Bennett (“True Detective”) and newcomer Laken Giles. Elisa Victoria penned the original graphic novel and the screenplay with Michael Tully.
The horror film follows Anna (Peak), who is grieving the sudden death of her parents when she relocates from New York to a small Florida town to live with the grandmother (Merkerson) she’s never met. Isolated, she falls in with some other teens, but when she becomes a bystander to a shocking act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman, who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they wake up.
- 7/26/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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