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Emmanuelle Chriqui, Analeigh Tipton star.

Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) leaves for Cannes with two female-led thrillers from Howard Barish’s Kandoo Films.

Peg has acquired international rights to Hospitality (pictured) starring Emmanuelle Chriqui and Broken Star with Analeigh Tipton as the leads.

Chriqui plays a mother with a checkered past in Hospitality; a mother who must protect her son when an ex-con (Sam Trammell) checks into her isolated bed and breakfast searching for money he stashed on her property years ago.

Jr Bourne, Conner McVicker, and Jim Beaver round out the key cast. Nick Chakwin and David Guglielmo wrote and directed the film,...

Roster includes animation The Steam Engines Of Oz voiced by Ron Perlman, William Shatner, Julianne Hough.

Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) arrives at the Efm with an international sales slate comprising American Dreamer, Human Affairs, The Steam Engines Of Oz, and The Contractor.

Jim Gaffigan stars in crime thriller American Dreamer as a ride share driver who makes extra cash chauffeuring a low-level drug dealer around town and lands in hot water when a kidnapping goes wrong. Robbie Jones and Tammy Blanchard co-star. Derrick Borte directed and co-wrote with Daniel Forte.

Scott Lochmus produced for Storyland Pictures, in association...

Important life lesson: When you're talking to William Shatner, be very careful what you say, because it could very well come back to bite you in the butt. Case in point: talking to the actor (oh-so-famous for his role as Captain Kirk in Star Trek) about his newest project, the animated film The Steam Engines of Oz, in which he plays the Wizard of Oz. Things certainly begin somewhat innocently, with the comment to him that the story is highly enjoyable and the characters engaging and quite charming, while certain elements of the animation are....eh. "How do you spell 'eh'?" he asks good-naturedly, to which I suggest the way it reads here, e-h. All fine and good, until later in the conversation when I foolishly ask him, "What do you feel the strength of this film is?" "I thought it was the animation," Bill, who you'd never suspect is 87 years old,...