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57 SECONDS Lines Up Freeman, Hutcherson For Action Sci-Fi Shoot This Spring

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Highland Film Group is off to the races for the upcoming European Film Market with their slate this year, including action sci-fi thriller 57 Seconds starring Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) and Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games movies). Cameras are set to roll this April in Lousiana for Rusty Cundieff (Tales from the Hood, “Chappelle’s Show”) who is directing from a script by Macon Blair (Netflix’s I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore), who adapted the pic based on the acclaimed story by British author E.C. Tubbs. Hutcherson stars as Franklin Fausti, a tech blogger Franklin Fausti who lands a career-defining interview with the visionary technology guru Anton Burrell (Freeman). After thwarting an attack against the celebrated technophile, Franklin picks up a mysterious ring that Burrell has dropped and soon discovers the ring allows its possessor to travel 57 seconds into the past. Driven by revenge and with Burrell’s support, Franklin […]

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MUZZLE: Aaron Eckhart Stars In New HFG Crime Thriller Launching At Upcoming EFM

Lee B. Golden III

Aaron Eckhart will star in Muzzle, the new thriller from director/producer John Stalberg Jr. (Lionsgate’s Crypto). The film is set to shoot in July from a script by Carlyle Eubank (Focus Features’ The Signal), and storied by Eubank and Stalberg Jr., with co-financing by Los Angeles-based sales company Highland Film Group who are also handling worldwide rights at the upcoming European Film Market. Muzzle centers on LAPD K-9 officer Jake Rosser (Eckhart), who has just witnessed the shocking murder of his dedicated partner by a mysterious assailant. As he investigates the shooter’s identity, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that has a chokehold on the city in this thrilling journey through the tangled streets of Los Angeles and the corrupt bureaucracy of the LAPD. “I feel lucky to work with such an immensely talented actor to bring this timely, thrilling story to life,” commented Stalberg, Jr. “I’ve never seen Aaron Eckhart strike a false […]

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THE BLACK DEMON: Josh Lucas Toplines High Seas Creature Thriller Filming In December

Lee B. Golden III

Josh Lucas (Ford v Ferrari, The Forever Purge) is set to star in The Black Demon, from director Adrian Grunberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo). Lucas will star from a script by Boise Esquerra (Austin Film Festival nominated “Blackwater”), with cameras set to roll in December 2021 on location in the Dominican Republic. Pic hails from Javier Chapa of Mucho Mas Media, and Jon Silk of Silk Mass who are producing next to R.U. Robot’s Peter Jakl. Mucho Mas’ Phillip Braun, Simon Wise, Bruce Barshop, Vincent Cordero, and Highland Film Group’s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier, Henry Winterstern are all exec producing, as will JJ Caruth of HFG’s domestic distribution shingle, The Avenue, and R.U. Robot’s Martin J. Barab. Here is the logline: When oilman Paul Sturges (Lucas) takes his family on vacation to Bahia Azul, the vibrant coastal town he and his wife once knew has mysteriously crumbled and the locals […]

Comedy-Horror Thriller SLAYERS Acquired By The Avenue

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Upcoming comedy-horror film Slayers has been picked up for worldwide sales and release in 2022. Highland Film Group, a sales, financing, production and distribution company, specializes in the action/thriller/horror space and cast/director/filmmaker driven content. The film will be handled domestically by their US Distribution division, The Avenue, which was launched in 2020 and already has a catalog of films with stars from many genres, including Nicholas Cage, Pierce Brosnan, and Frank Grillo. Slayers stars Thomas Jane (The Thin Red Line). Kara Edward (Moonrise Kingdom) , Malin Akerman (Watchmen), Lydia Hearst (The Haunting of Sharon Tate) and Abigail Breslin (Zombieland), whom also is making her debut as a Producer. Elliot Jones (Thomas Jane) has made it his life’s mission to search for the vampire who murdered his teenage daughter. Jones gets his shot at revenge when The Stream Team, a group of trend-setting social media superstars including party-girl Jules (Abigail Breslin) […]

DOOR MOUSE: First Look At Avan Jogia’s Neo-Noir Diectorial Debut

Lee B. Golden III

Highland Film Group is proudly revealing a first look at actor Avan Jogia’s directorial debut, Door Mouse, which you can view above. Cameras recently wrapped on the neo-noir thriller which stars Hayley Law (CW’s “Riverdale,” Netflix’s “Altered Carbon”), Keith Powers (The Tomorrow War, Straight Outta Compton), Famke Janssen (Redeeming Love, When They See Us, X-Men) and Donal Logue (The Cloverfield Paradox, Zodiac). Door Mouse is a Stylish Neo-Noir Thriller about a woman named Mouse (Hayley Law) who is stuck, in a dead-end job, doing nothing with her life and going nowhere. She works at Mama’s Burlesque Club all night, where her boss Mama (Famke Janssen) encourages her to pursue her real passion of making comics. When a friend from work named Doe-Eyes goes missing and the cops do nothing about it, Mouse and her sidekick Ugly (Keith Powers) take it upon themselves to find out what happened to her. What they discover is […]

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FORTRESS: First Look At Bruce Willis Action Thriller From Highland Film Group

Lee B. Golden III

Hailed as the first in a trilogy, the recent wrap of principal photography in Puerto Rico for action thriller, Fortress, is here to underscore its milestone with a first look photo to view above. Willis reunites with fellow Hard Kill cohort Jesse Metcalfe, with actor Chad Michael Murray also starring for the James Cullen Bressack-directed pic. The story revolves around a top-secret resort for retired U.S. intelligence officers. A group of criminals led by Balzary (Murray) breach the compound, hellbent on revenge on Robert (Willis), forcing the retired officer and his son (Metcalfe) to save the day. Fortress was written by Alan Horsnail, and is produced by Randall Emmett and George Furla, Luillo Ruiz and Chad A. Verdi, and is exec produced by Tim Sullivan, Nick D’Angelo, Caesar Richbow and Danny Chan. Highland Film Group is selling the pic internationally.

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THE LAIR: Neil Marshall’s New Action Horror Outlines Cast As Cameras Roll In Hungary

Lee B. Golden III

Principal Photography is already underway in Hungary for Dog Soldiers and The Reckoning helmer Neil Marshall’s new film, The Lair. Set to star in the film are Jonathan Howard (Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, Skylines, Warner Bros.’ Godzilla King of Monsters), Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning, Warner Bros.’ Oceans Eight), and Jamie Bamber (UMC’s “Battlestar Galactica,” Cinemax’s “Strike Back,” 20th Century Fox’s Money), from a script by Marshall who is also exec producing. The Lair centers on a command squad led by Sergeant Tom Hook, tasked with findinf Lt. Kate Sinclair, a downed Royal Air Force fighter pilot Afghanistan. Sinclair, pursued by insurgents, ﬁnds refuge in a long abandoned secret bunker and unwittingly releases a deadly man-made biological weapon – half human, half alien and hungry for human ﬂesh – the Ravagers. Hook and his team, accompanied by a handful of British SAS troops must save Sinclair from the insurgents, and […]

BANDIT: Josh Duhamel Is On Call In A First Look Photo From The New Heist Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

Currently underway is the production of heist thriller, Bandit, based on author Robert Knuckle’s best-selling novel and journalist Ed Arnold’s interviews with Gilbert Galvan Jr, who lived under the name Robert Whiteman when he was dubbed the Flying Bandit in 1987. Worldwide sales agent Highland Film Group has just released the first look photo above from the new film featuring actor Josh Duhamel (Paramount’s Transformers franchise) in the title role. Duhamel is also joined by headliners Mel Gibson, Elisha Cuthbert and Nestor Carbonell, with Allan Ungar (Gridlocked) directing from a script by Kraig Wenman. Based on the true story of ‘The Flying Bandit’ who successfully got away with 63 bank and jewelry heists during his notorious crime spree, Bandit tells the colorful tale of the career criminal (Josh Duhamel) who escapes from a US prison and crosses the border into Canada, assuming a new identity. After falling in love and getting married, […]

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THE GOOD NEIGHBOR Reveals Jonathan Rhys Meyers In A First Look From Stephan Rick’s Remake

Lee B. Golden III

Currently underway is principal photography for The Good Neigbor, director Stephan Rick’s English-language reincarnation of his own German 2011 thriller which has a new first look photo above. Highland Film Group is selling the film internationally with actors Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Luke Kleintank starring from a script Rick wrote with Ross Patridge. When the dead girl’s sister shows up to investigate, David, overcome with guilt, wonders if he can find redemption while Robert is determined to bury the past and keep his new friend for himself, no matter the cost. The Good Neighbor is being produced by Dean Altit (Misfits) and Yulia Zayceva (WarHunt). CAA is repping the film domestically.

GASOLINE ALLEY First Look Features Devon Sawa, Bruce Willis And Luke Wilson In New Crime Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

The first official still is now online for Cosmic Sin helmer Edward Drake’s new action crime thriller, Gasoline Alley, starring Golden Globe winner Bruce Willis (Universal Pictures’ Glass, Twentieth Century Fox’s Die Hard franchise), Luke Wilson (Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, MGM’s Legally Blonde), Devon Sawa (Hunter Hunter, upcoming Black Friday). Highland Film Group has since hit the international sales floor at the Cannes market with word that principal photography has since wrapped in different locations across the United States. Jimmy Jayne (Sawa) is a bruised-fisted rockabilly boss-type sucked into a triple murder of three Hollywood starlets drowned in a luxury hotel pool. As the prime suspect for Homicide Detectives Freeman (Willis) and Vargas (Wilson), Jimmy takes up his own rogue investigation, bending the law in ways the police can’t in order to clear his name. With the killer skating through Jimmy’s shadow, he bands together with the two Detectives to dangerously expose a truth much bigger than they […]

SUPERCELL: Highland Unveils First Look At New Disaster Thriller Starring Alec Baldwin

Lee B. Golden III

Highland Film Group unveiled the first look at Herbert James Winterstern (NBC’s “Siberia”) new movie, Supercell. The film, which toplines Alec Baldwin from a script by Winterstern and co-writer Anna Elizabeth James (Deadly Illusions), just wrapped principal photography in Montana and Georgia in the U.S. from Short Porch Pictures and Thomasville Pictures. Supercell tells the thrilling tale of William (Daniel Diemer), a good-hearted teenager, who lives in hope of following in his father’s footsteps, the legendary storm chaser Bill Brody who was killed in action. His father’s legacy has been turned into a storm chasing tour business managed by the greedy and reckless owner Zane Rogers (Alec Baldwin). After William runs away from home, he teams up with his dad’s old partner Roy (Skeet Ulrich) and enters into the world of storm chasing. But the tornadoes have only gotten bigger. As his mother (Anne Heche) anxiously searches for her son, she’s joined by […]

BANDIT: Josh Duhmael-Led Crime Thriller Adds Nestor Carbonell

Lee B. Golden III

Filming is currently underway in Georgia for Allan Ungar’s new action crime thriller, Bandit, and with the addition of actor Nestor Carbonell (Lost, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises) announced on Tuesday. Highland Film Group is handling international sales on the project which joins Carbonell with a lead cast that includes Mel Gibson, Josh Duhamel, and Elisha Cuthbert. Ungar directs from a script by Kraig Wenman, based on author Robert Knuckle’s best-selling novel, as well as journalist Ed Arnold’s interviews with the film’s real-life inspiration, Gilbert Galvan Jr. – a.k.a. Robert Whiteman when he was dubbed the Flying Bandit in 1987. Duhmael takes on the moniker of the man himself who successfully got away with 63 bank and jewelry heists during his notorious crime spree. After escaping from a US prison and crossing the border into Canada under a new identity. He falls in love and marries Andrea (Cuthbert), […]

DOOR MOUSE: Avan Jogia’s Debut Noir Finishes Filming For Highland Ahead Of World Sales

Lee B. Golden III

Actor Avan Jogia is ready for his close-up in the director’s chair following the April 12 production launch of his feature debut, Door Mouse. Highland Film Group is announcing the film’s completion and acquisition for world sales ahead of the Marche du Film. Door Mouse stars Hayley Law (Echo Boomers, Netflix’s Altered Carbon) and Keith Powers (Straight Outta Compton, What/If). Billed as a stylish neo-noir thriller, the film centers on Mouse (Law), an aspiring comic book artist stuck in a dead-end job working all-nighters at Mama’s Burlesque Club, doing nothing with her life and going nowhere. When a friend from work goes missing and the cops do nothing about it, Mouse and her sidekick, Ugly (Powers) take it upon themselves to find out what happened to her. What they discover is that corruption runs deep, monsters are real, and that sometimes, justice is meant to be taken into your own […]

WARHUNT: Mauro Borelli’s Supernatural War Thriller Gets A First Look Ahead Of Cannes

Lee B. Golden III

Highland Film Group has revealed a first look photo from The Recall helmer Mauro Borrelli’s supernatural war thriller, Warhunt. Borrelli reteamed with The Recall co-scribe Reggie Keyohara III to pen the script for an all-star cast that lists Mickey Rourke (Sin City, Immortals, The Expendables, Iron Man 2) Robert Knepper (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and 2, Fox’s “Prison Break”), and Jackson Rathbone (The Twilight Saga, Paramount Pictures The Last Airbender, and MTV’s “Finding Carter”). In Warhunt, when Ruthless Major Johnson (Rourke) sends out a squad of his bravest soldiers (Rathbone, Knepper) on a dangerous rescue mission after the violent crash of a World War 2 cargo plane, they are soon attacked by a powerful, supernatural force. Fighting for their sanity and struggling to survive profound horrors, they must uncover the shocking truth behind the force before the Nazis, and remove all evidence that it ever existed, even at the […]

SUPERCELL: Alec Baldwin Disaster Adventure Now Underway, Adds Four To Cast

Lee B. Golden III

Production is officially underway with thriller, Supercell, following its announcement back in March. Cameras began rolling on May 7 for the Alec Baldwin-led disaster thriller, and now more names are being added to the roster including Skeet Ulrich (The CW’s “Riverdale,” “#Freerayshawn”), and Emmy-award winner and Tony-nominated Anne Heche (Donny Brasco, The Vanished), with Daniel Diemer (Tribeca Film Festival winner The Half of It) and newcomer Jordan Kristine Seamón (HBO’s “We Are Who We Are”) rounding out the cast. Herbert James Winterstern (NBC’s “Siberia”) is directing Supercell from a script he penned with Anna Elizabeth James (Deadly Illusions), and with . In the film, Diemer headlines the thrilling tale of William, a good-hearted teenager, who lives in hope of following in his father’s footsteps, the legendary storm chaser Bill Brody who was killed in action. His father’s legacy has been turned into a storm chasing tour business managed by the greedy and reckless owner Zane […]

ONE WAY: Highland Scores Multiple World Sales On New Action Crime Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

Zone 414 helmer Andrew Baird’s new action thriller, One Way, landed multiple deals on Tuesdsy. Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales rights on the film which stars Colson Baker, Kevin Bacon and Storm Reid. The latest round of international sales includes deals with Splendid Film (Germany and German-speaking Switzerland), Cinemundo (Portugal), Rialto Distribution (Australia and New Zealand), Blue Swan Entertainment (Italy), MCF (Ex-Yugoslavia), Just Media (Benelux), Monolith Films (Poland), MGN (Russia and Baltics), Eagle Films (Middle East), Moviecloud (Taiwan) and FilmFinity (South Africa). Thomasville Pictures is producing One Way which sees Baker in the role of Freddy, fatally wounded and on the run from his former employer’s cash after a robbery gone awry and managing to slip onto a one-way bus route. Betrayed by his father after a phone call for help and with very few options to survive, Freddy is forced to realize there is only “one way”. […]

THE MISFITS: Highland’s The Avenue Partners With Paramount For Summer 2021 For Renny Harlin-Directed Action Heist Pic

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Highland Film Group’s U.S. distribution offshoot, The Avenue, is slating a summer theatrical 2021 joint release with Paramount Pictures handling Blu-Ray, DVD, VoD and Digital rights for action heist thriller, The Misfits. Highland also reps international sales on the pic which wrapped principal photography in Abu Dhabi prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. Golden Globe nominee Pierce Brosnan (007 franchise, Mamma Mia!) stars as Richard Pace, a world-renowned thief who only steals from those who have insurance. After breaking out of a high-security prison built by a rogue businessman Schultz (Academy Award nominee Tim Roth – The Hateful Eight, Selma), he’s on the radar of a band of modern-day Robin Hoods, The Misfits, led by the eccentric and charismatic Ringo (Nick Cannon – Drumline, Bobby), who offer him a plan to get rid of Schultz by performing an incredible heist that will not only change Pace’s destiny but also save thousands […]

ONE WAY: First Look At Colson Baker And Kevin Bacon As Father And Son In The New Action Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

Currently in post-production is One Way, the new action thriller from Andrew Baird (Zone 414) and currently part of the package being presented to buyers at EFM. Highland Film Group is handling worldwide sales for the pic for which they’ve now released a first look photo which you can above, featuring Colson Baker (The Dirt), and Kevin Bacon (Death Sentence). Baird directs from a script by Ben Conway One Way centers on Freddy (Baker), on the run with a bag full of cash after a robbery of his former crime boss goes awry. With a potentially fatal wound, he slips onto a bus with a one way ticket. After a call for help, Freddy’s estranged father (Bacon) betrays him, notifying the crime boss where he is. With his life slipping through his fingers, Freddy is left with very few choices to survive. There is only ONE WAY. One Way also stars […]

GASOLINE ALLEY: Bruce Willis Reteams With ‘Cosmic Sin’ Director For New Crime Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

Edward Drake is set to reunite with Cosmic Sin star, Golden Globe winner Bruce Willis (Red, Red 2, Unbreakable, Glass) for Gasoline Alley, a new crime action-thriller shooting this month across the U.S.. Willis will be joined by Luke Wilson (Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, MGM’s Legally Blonde, DC’s Stargirl) and Devon Sawa (Hunter Hunter, upcoming Black Friday), with a script by Tom Sierchio (New York City International Film Festival winner The Girl Who Invented Kissing). Sawa will play Jimmy Jayne, a bruised-fisted rockabilly boss-type sucked into a triple murder of three Hollywood starlets drowned in a luxury hotel pool. As the prime suspect for Homicide Detectives Freeman (Willis) and Vargas (Wilson), Jimmy takes up his own rogue investigation, bending the law in ways the police can’t in order to clear his name. With the killer skating through Jimmy’s shadow, he bands together with the two Detectives to dangerously expose […]

SUPERCELL: Alec Baldwin Heads Disaster Action Thriller From Highland, Short Porch At EFM

Lee B. Golden III

Alec Baldwin (The Departed, Mission: Impossible franchise) is attached to star in Supercell, a new disaster action thriller that Herbert James Winterstern (NBC’s “Siberia”) will direct from a script by Winterstern & Anna Elizabeth James (Deadly Illusions). The film will serve as the launchpad for a non-exclusive first look output deal for Highland Film Group with Ryan Winterstern (Most Wanted, Inheritance) and Nathan Klingher (Zone 414, Becky) with their new startup, Short Porch Pictures. Supercell is an epic disaster movie that tells the tale of William, a good-hearted teenager, who always lived in hope of following in his father’s footsteps, the legendary storm chaser Bill Brody, killed by a massive super tornado. His father’s legacy has now been turned into a storm-chasing tourist business, managed by the greedy and reckless Zane Rogers (Alec Baldwin), who is now using William as the main attraction to lead a group of unsuspecting adventurers […]