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Gravitas Ventures have announced the acquisition of director Miles Doleac’s macabre riff on the Cernunnos myth, Demigod, which stars Rachel Nichols. The distributor plans for a late-October, day-and-date streaming and theatrical release.

Directed and co-written by Doleac (alongside Michael Donovan Horn), Demigod was produced by Doleac, James Victor Bulian, Lindsay Anne Williams, and Wesley O’Mary, the same team behind 2020’s The Dinner Party. Demigod’s supporting cast includes Doleac, Williams, Elena Sanchez, and Jeremy London.

Says Doleac:

I’m extremely grateful to Jeff Cooper and to Gravitas for their belief in this film’s potential. From its infancy, I knew this was a film that I wanted seen on the big screen. I’m heartened that audiences will have the opportunity to see it in movie theaters, an increasing rarity, of course, for true indie films.

Star Rachel Nichols says she believed in the script enough to make it...

The emotions that stampede through the 23 tracks on Stop the War should be familiar to anyone who’s heard songs objecting to the Vietnam fiasco of the Sixties and Seventies. Soldiers yearn to see their lovers or families again or beg those partners to stay faithful; protesting voices call out for troops to be brought home or simply never be sent into battle at all. Some of the voices are angry; others are dipped in anguish.

What sets this anthology apart from nearly every other collection of anti-war songs, though,...

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios company, has acquired North American rights to distribute writer/director Juan Martinez Vera’s Spiked. The pic will be produced by Per Melita. Aidan Quinn, Deirdre Lovejoy, Carlos Gomez, Danay Garcia, Wendy Makkena, Lovensky Jean-Baptiste, Walter Belenky. Sal Lopez, and Christopher Rich star in this indie feature drama. Joe Soldwedel and Brett Soldwedel serve as executive producers.

On March 26th, Gravitas will launch the film across multiple VOD platforms, including Amazon Prime, Apple iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, Vimeo, Gravitas Movies, and release on SVOD platforms to follow later this year.

Spiked is a dramatic story rooted in the injustices that immigrant workers experience along the U.S./Mexico border. Principal photography on the indie feature was completed in 2019 on location in and around southern Arizona.

“Anchored by an outstanding performance by Aidan Quinn, Juan’s film integrates issues around immigration, law enforcement, and...

Marketing problems are to be tackled live on stage in a quickfire session at Mumbrella360.

The session, called Stump the Strategist, will see five industry heavyweights field problems from the audience, which they will try to solve against a clock.

The strategists will have nine minutes to crack whatever problems they are given.

The format is the brainchild of Ashton Bishop, a strategist at Step Change Marketing, a consultancy that has been running the event before audiences of between 40 to 80 people.

The format has yet to be tested before a much bigger audience, and will take place on the main stage at Mumbrella360.

The strategists on stage will be Bishop, Slingshot Digital boss Simon Corbett, the MD of Darren Woolley Trinity3, Step Change futurist Craig Rispin and the consultancy’s Gm Jeff Cooper.

Problems tackled on previous Stump the Strategist sessions have included ‘How to sell ice to eskimos’ and...

Producer Paul Maslansky is moving forward on "The Silent Flute", a reworked version of a film treatment martial arts legend Bruce Lee wrote before his death, for B&E Productions reports Variety.

Maslansky's son Sasha is writing a script off of Lee's treatment described as an "epic martial arts adventure film". The producer previously adapted the treatment into the 1978 film "Circle of Iron".

That film followed a young martial artist (Jeff Cooper) on a quest for the Book of All Knowlege held by a wizard (Christopher Lee), along the way facing several challenges.

Maslansky promises this new one will not only honour Lee's original artistic integrity but will "reach new levels of action and adventure never before seen in martial arts filmmaking."...

Martial arts icon Bruce Lee is staying productive, despite having died in 1973: a treatment called The Silent Flute that he wrote shortly before his death is being turned into a film by producer Paul Malansky.It’s not actually the first time that the tale has been aimed for the screen – Malansky has previous turned it into 1978’s Circle Of Iron, which saw Jeff Cooper as young warrior Cord the Seeker questing for a fabled Book Of All Knowledge. The movie also feature Christopher Lee playing, not for the first or last time in his career, a wizard."The Silent Flute will be an epic martial arts adventure film that promises to honour Bruce Lee's original artistic and philosophical conception," Malansky tells Variety. "It also promises to reach new levels of action and adventure never before seen in martial arts filmmaking."It’s got financing and a script,...