Director Jonathan Sobol’s new crime thriller, The Baker, is coming to VOD on August 29 from Vertical Entertainment. The film stars Ron Perlman of Hellboy and FX series “Sons Of Anarchy” fame, from a script by Thomas Michael and Paolo Mancini.
The Baker is now playing in theaters from Falling Forward Films.
Make a note of Willy’s Wonderland and Mandy star Nicolas Cage with upcomers like The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent and Sono Sion’s Prisoners Of The Ghostland, both set to bear down on the masses at some point this year for festivals and commercial audiences. He’s got another on the way that’ll have him in setting foot in the bustling filmmaking environment over at the Cayman Islands for director Tim J. Brown’s (The Cradle, upcoming Buckley’s Chance) new action thriller, The Retirement Plan.
Jonathan Sobol (The Padre, The Art of the Steal, A Beginners Guide to Endings) will direct The Baker, an action drama written by duo Paolo Mancini and Thomas Michael (Hank and Mike). Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Monster Hunter) will headline the cast along with Academy-Award nominee Harvey Keitel (The Irishman, Pulp Fiction), Elias Koteas (The Thin Red Line, Crash), Joel David Moore (Avatar) and 10 year old newcomer Emma Ho (Code 8, Disney’ Jr’s “Pikwik Pack”).
Last week saw the release of the official trailer for Western gangster noir, The Big Ugly, coming this July from Vertical Entertainment.
Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Europe | Brent Lewin/Getty Images AsiaPac | David Livingston/Getty Images North America | Rich Fury/Getty Images North AmericaInserts: Milla Jovovich, Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman and Tip “T.I.” HarrisProduction nears as director Paul W.S. Anderson gears up for live-action video game adaptation, Monster Hunter. On Friday, Capcom Co., Ltd. (Capcom) and Toho Co., Ltd. (Toho) took to the masses to announce a few more details about its new feature film endeavor which Anderson is scripting.
Announcements out of Berlin are hailing Zach Golden’s latest crime comedy, The Escape Of Prisoner 614, as it screens this week at EFM. Film Mode Entertainment has sold the film to Saban Films for its U.S. release with a cast that includes Golden Globe Winner Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Hand of God) and Martin Starr (Knocked Up).
After being fired by their overbearing Sheriff, two well-intentioned but simple-minded Sheriff’s Deputies, decide to go after an escaped prisoner in hopes of getting their jobs back. But when they realize that the supposed murderer they have hunted down is an innocent victim of a racist judicial system, they face a moral dilemma — return the prisoner and be hailed as heroes, or act on their principles in pursuit of true justice.
Golden has several credits behind the lens while The Escape Of Prisoner 614 will serve as his debut. He wrote the script with Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman (Shotgun) and Shaun Sanghani (Blood Heist) producing.
“We are extremely excited to announce the North American sale of THE ESCAPE OF PRISONER 614” Said Clay Epstein, President of Film Mode Entertainment. “Saban Films is the perfect home for this dynamic film with fantastic performances. We look forward to the global marketplace sharing the same enthusiasm once they see the film in Berlin.
“We are so happy that Saban Films is as passionate about this film as we are and will be supporting it with a significant theatrical release,” commented Jordan Yale Levine. “Zach, Ron, Martin and our entire cast and crew created a film that’s unique and exciting, and we can’t wait for audiences around the world to see it.”
The deal was negotiated between Clay Epstein, President of Film Mode Entertainment, Nick Ogiony, Film Finance Agent for Creative Artists Agency and Jonathan Saba, Senior Vice President of Saban Films. Film Mode is holding screenings for buyers on Thursday, February 15, and Sunday, February 18.
He may not be Hellboy anymore beyond two great and memorable films, but Ron Perlman still stands out as one of the cinema’s best actors. Out of Cannes, the news now is he will be starring in the new drama, Asher, which XYZ Films took to Cannes over the week.
Perlman stars in the title role, former member of the Mossad now living an austere life in Brooklyn, New York City as a gun for hire. Upon a job that goes sideways, he breaks an oath he took as a young man when he meets a woman named Sophie, a preamble to Asher’s last ditch effort to kill the man he was in order to become the man he wants to be.
Also starring are Famke Janssen, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Facinelli, Jacqueline Bisset, Richard Schiff, Guy Burnet and Nadine Velazquez with Rob Roy helmer Michael Canton-Jones directing from. Jay Zaretsky’s script.
Perlman will produce via his Wing And A Prayer Pictures with Josh Crook, alongside Adam Folk of Bullet Pictures and Brian Wilkins of LINK Entertainment. Gersh and XYZ are handling domestic rights with the latter also executive producing. (Deadline)
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