EXCLUSIVE: 13 Films founder Tannaz Anisi is launching boutique sales outfit Filmbug Media and heads to AFM next week with an inaugural slate of titles.
Anisi and 13 Films colleague Ross Marian will present a roster spanning multiple genres featuring titles from The King’s Speech producer Mark Foligno and actors Beau Bridges and Ashley Greene. Filmbug Media will also represent the 13 Fims library.
The slate is led by the upcoming Second World War survival thriller Red Sea produced by Foligno and Gareth Pritchard for Sankara Pictures. Marcus Adams will direct from a screenplay by Piers Ashworth about two enemy pilots stranded in the shark-infested Red Sea after a dogfight. Casting is underway and the producers are targeting a second quarter 2027 start.
Action thriller Kill Him ’Til He’s Dead from Michael Winnick stars Anson Mount, Ashley Greene, Milo Ventimiglia, and Byron Mann and centres on a hitman who wakes up in the body of a different person each day as he tries to save the love of his life from a ruthless tech titan.
Comedy Going There from Arbel Kodesh follows a woman who lands in trouble when she poses as her sister in order to track down a former partner in Israel. Stefanie Yunger, Rachael Harris, Patrick Warburton, Katelyn Nacon, Dylan Sprayberry, Brett Gelman, and Gregg Sulkin star, and Matthew G. Zamias and Jacob Horn produce.
J. Mills Goodloe, who co-wrote The Age Of Adaline, directs the comedy drama Blue Eyed Girl, written by and starring Marisa Coughlan alongside Eliza Coupe, Beau Bridges, Freddy Rodríguez, and Sam Trammell. Coughlan plays an actress who returns to care for her ailing father and gets pulled back into family tensions and a relationship with her first love.
Psychological thriller Half Way Down from director Ryan Patch stars Freya Jones, Alex Price and Zora Bishop. The story of a couple living on an isolated English farm whose fragile marriage is unsettled by a teenage runaway is currently in post-production. Producers are Patch, Fionn Watts, and Toby Watts.
Sci-fi horror thriller Mantis from Justice Hardy stars Ali Stolar, Matthew Pettigrew and Daniel Van Thomas and centres on a detective investigating a serial killer who turns to technology that can stimulate brain activity after death.
Alexander Wraith’s supernatural thriller Tweed stars himself, Francesca Eastwood, Bianca Van Damme, Ammar Nemo, and Nathan Mathers in the story of amateur investigators head who get in over their heads on a haunted mountain. Jesse Dean, Gregory Qualls, Thomas Sullivan, and Wraith produce.
Rounding out the slate is The Reckoning, a psychological horror thriller directed by Alex Breaux about estranged brothers and their mother who uncover dark family secrets after their father’s death. Michael Weaver, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Scott Roskind and Michael Weaver.
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