EXCLUSIVE: Australian company Bronte Pictures has signed a sales agreement with Archstone Entertainment for three new projects, which will launch this week EFM in Berlin.
The Greatest Surfing Movie In the universe is starred Luke Hemsworth (Westworld), eleven times world surfing champion Kelly Slater (Baywatch) and three-time world champion surfer and shark attack survivor Mick Fanning as their futuristic alter egos. The offbeat adult comedy will feature stop motion animated characters.
Clayton Watson (Matrix Reloaded) and Jack Ryan (Wyrmwood: Apocalypse) must star in an action movie Kaneabout a man who works for an old school crime boss with multiple personalities who is at war with a notorious mobster.
Polar The cost follows two men who kidnap the man who murdered their wife and sister fifteen years ago and take him to a remote location to mete out their own brutal form of justice. It stars Jordan Fraser-Trumble (Lawless: The Real Bushrangers), Damon Hunter (The party bus) and Kevin Dee (The disappearance of Willie Bingham).
Blake Northfield, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Bronte Pictures, said, “We are absolutely thrilled to take these Australian titles and give them an international platform through this deal with Archstone Entertainment. These three movies are all so unique and special; it is a privilege to have professionals of the caliber of Jack Sheehan and the Archstone team handling global sales on their behalf.
Jack Sheehan, President of Global Sales and Development at Archstone, added: “Blake has not only been a good friend in the markets for years, but also a creative filmmaker who takes risks and a shrewd entrepreneur I die with. to be associated with – to do so with such brilliance as a three-picture deal spanning these diverse but equally engrossing and fun films, is a dream come true.”
Bronte Pictures’ current slate includes nine feature films, three of which are in post-production (including a Greek-language film shot in Athens) and one of which is in pre-production.
Archstone Entertainment recently produced an actor The best man with Luke Wilson and Dolph Lundgren, which Saban Films will release in early summer. They also recently released The Hyperionsthe superhero comedy starring Cary Elwes and Penelope Mitchell.