EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Sean McEwen has wrapped accumulation connected Turnbuckle, an indie dramedy pinch action elements starring Emile Hirsch (Into nan Wild), Kate Beckinsale (Underworld), Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow), Evan Ross (The Hunger Games), Cara Delevingne (Suicide Squad), and more.
Shot successful Arkansas, nan film’s logline is being kept nether wraps. It’s billed arsenic a darkly comic Southern communicative astir redemption, survival, and small-town chaos.
Ross (The Hunger Games) and Greg Carney (Material Girls) led nan producing squad nether their recently formed banner, Film Mafia Entertainment, joined by Daemon Hillin (Into nan Deep) Hillin Entertainment, Ryan R. Johnson (12 Mighty Orphans), Sprockefellar Pictures, and Mia Chang (Ick) Tunnel Post. Mira Pak Howard (Showdown astatine nan Grand), Terrence Howard (Pride), and Alexander Foard (Same Kind of Different arsenic Me) served arsenic exec producers, pinch Freedom United taking constituent connected casting.
Others successful nan formed see Macy Gray (Training Day), Sam Strike (Nightflyers), Lily Mo Sheen (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent), Randall J. Bacon (Hunting Season), and Tammin Sursok (Pretty Little Liars).
“This is 1 of those uncommon films that feels some vulnerable and elevated. The formed is electric, nan reside is fresh, and we judge Turnbuckle will guidelines retired arsenic a prestige movie pinch existent taste impact,” producer-star Ross told Deadline. “None of this would person been imaginable without Christopher Crane and nan Arkansas Film Commission. Arkansas, particularly Hot Springs National Park, is simply a small paradise pinch its lakes, spas, restaurants, casino, and nan cleanable vibe for making a movie.”
A writer-director whose credits see American Otlaws, starring India Eisley, Emory Cohen and Strike, and nan dramedy Braking for Whales pinch Tom Felton, McEwen is repped by Bellevue Productions and Miloknay Weiner.
Hirsch is repped by UTA and Stride Management; Beckinsale by Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo; Howard by Independent Artist Group and Universal Bridges; Ross by Vault Entertainment and Myman Greenspan Fox; and Delevingne by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.