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SPLIT SECOND: Eat Your Heart Out This August With MVD And 101 Films’s Release Of This Rutger Hauer Action Classic

MVD Entertainment is proudly announcing an August 11, 2020 release for the high-definition “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” Blu-Ray debut release of the 1992 cult action horror, Split Second, in association with 101 Films. The film is pretty messy, but very stimulative flick and holds its own, with a cast led by the late Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, The Hitcher), actress Kim Cattrall (Big Trouble in Little China, Sex and the City) and a Alastair Duncan (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo). Tony Malyam (The Burning) took the helm with final act scenes directed by Ian Sharp from a script flexibly written and revised throughout production by Gary Scott Thompson (88 Minutes, The Fast And The Furious), with creature designs by Stephen Norrington (Blade). Split Second takes place in dystopian London in the year 2008, and tells of Harley Stone (Hauer), a stoic, maverick cop on the edge as he battles tenaciously […]

SPLIT SECOND: Mark Gill’s Solstice Announces New Action Thriller Following 2018 Studio Launch

Lee B. Golden III

It was last October when Mark Gill (former president of Warner Independent Pictures, Miramax Films and Millennium Films) launched Solstice Studios. Joined by production heads Andrew Gunn (Freaky Friday, Cruella) and Guy Botham, and Marketing and lead strategist Vincent Bruzzese, the company’s aim, as it stands, is to produce low-to-median budgeted films with global appeal – primarily in the action, thriller and action-comedy genres for wide release next to its other acquisition endeavors. As of Wednesday, the company has officially outlined its first production with cerebral action thriller, Split Second. Mike Fleming Jr. has the exclusive at Deadline: Scripted by former military intelligence officer Mitchell LaFortune, Split Second is an action thriller about an assassin who suffers a psychological break when he is ordered to kill the woman who is his lifeline. The story follows two versions of the same character: one who pulls the trigger and descends into madness, […]