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DONNYBROOK: All The Rage In The Cage In The Official Trailer

The long-awaited official trailer for Tim Sutton’s novel adaptation, Donnybrook, is online to watch courtesy of IFC Films. Jamie Bell stars front and center along with Frank Grillo, actress Margaret Qualley and James Badge Dale for the film’s limited theatrical release on February 15, and subsequent VoD release on the 22nd. Three desperate souls must fight their way out of a dead-end world in this bracing, gut-punching glimpse into America’s dark underbelly. Earl (Jamie Bell) is a struggling ex-marine and father determined to make a better life for his family—no matter what it takes. Angus (Frank Grillo) is a violent, unhinged drug dealer who leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake. And Delia (Margaret Qualley) is a haunted woman who will do anything to escape a life of crime she can no longer bear. In their kill-or-be-killed world, all roads lead to the Donnybrook: an illicit backwoods […]

FIVE-A-DAY COUNTDOWN: The Standoff At Sparrow Creek, Donnybrook, Boss Level, Point Blank, and El Chicano

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Our list continues once again as we round out the next five in our daily raft of five titles totaling 100 movies to keep an eye out for in 2019! The Standoff At Sparrow Creek: Audiences at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival got first dibs on Henry Dunham’s feature directing debut, centered on an ex-cop-turned-militia man whose investigation of a funeral shooting turns inward to his own encampment. Dunham penned the script which became one of the bests listed in 2015 Black List of unproduced screeenplays. Date pending. Donnybrook: Actor Frank Grillo also managed to get in some Fall film festival screentime in Toronto with the premiere of Tim Sutton’s bare-fisted brawler drama. Jamie Bell and the aforementioned James Badge Dale also star in the gritty fight flick. Date pending. Boss Level: By early 2019 the gears should begin turning for Joe Carnahan’s WarParty reinstallation of The Raid that […]

AFM 2017: Bareknuckle Brawl Pic DONNYBROOK Starts Filming As Sierra/Affinity Readies Sales

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Following news from two weeks earlier, Sierra/Affinity will be handling international sales at the American Film Market this month for writer and director Tim Sutton’s new bareknuckle fight thriller, Donnybrook. Hailing from Rumble Films and Backup Media, cameras have begun rolling in Cincinnati for the film now being planned for a 2018 release with Frank Grillo (Beyond Skyline), Margaret Qualley (Death Note), James Badge Dale (Spectral), and Jamie Bell (6 Days) headlining the cast. Adapted from Frank Bill’s 2013 noir novel of the same name, DONNYBROOK is a wild, backwoods version of FIGHT CLUB meets NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, a man hard up for cash and determined to support his family competes in the Donnybrook, a legendary, bare-knuckle brawl where a $100,000 prize goes to the last man standing. Tim Sutton’s previous writing/directing credits include the critically acclaimed Memphis (2013) and Dark Knight (2016), which premiered last year at […]

DONNYBROOK: Grillo And Bell Knuckle Up Next Week For The New Bare Knuckle Fight Flick

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With Wheelman pulling up around the corner and production underway for Allan Ungar’s Decoy, there’ll be no shortage of Beyond Skyline star Frank Grillo from here on as developments accrue with Tim Sutton’s gritty new indie fight thriller, Donnybrook. The film shoots in Cincinatti, Ohio on October 23 with Grillo leading a cast that so far lists Jamie Bell (6 Days), Margaret Qualley (Death Note) and James Badge Dale with a script by Sutton, and Rumble Films’s David Lancaster producing with financing by BackUp Films. As The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive update on Tuesday details it, the premise is described as a hybrid cross between Fight Club and True Romance with a story centered on the titular underground bareknuckle fight circuit known as Donnybrook, competing for the top prize of $100,000. Its two journeying contestants are Chainsaw Angus (Grillo), a murderous drug dealer with serious anger issues, and Jarhead Earl (Bell), […]