Three industry veterans have come together to announce the launch of Queensbury Pictures, a production company specializing in the development and production of world-class Film and TV/Digital Series for traditional and emerging distribution and exhibition platforms. The new company has a core executive team consisting of distribution and production executive Greg Newman, producer Travis Stevens, and veteran acquisitions specialist, Giles Edwards.
Queensbury Pictures already has several projects in development – a mix of features and episodic and digital short-form series, both original and based on some of MPI’s acclaimed library of titles.
The initial slate includes Demon, a remake of the acclaimed international festival hit is that will be reimagined amid the nightmare that is the American Dream. It will be written and directed by award-winning director, Michael Thelin, who saw his incredible Emelie released by MPI’s Dark Sky Films.
In the original film, directed by Marcin Wrona, who tragically passed away before the premiere, a bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
Other films included in the slate:
- Broadcast Signal Intrusion – A terrifying and mind-shredding conspiracy thriller based on an original screenplay from exciting new British writers. The film will be directed by Jacob Gentry (The Signal)
- The Girl in the Third Floor Window – The writing & directing debut of Travis Stevens, the project is being referred to as a factually based horror film.
- Red Cloud – Classic American horror returns in the blood-curdling new vision from writer-director Chris Sivertson (Heartthrob, I Know Who Killed Me) and Producer Michael Moran of MarVista Entertainment (critically acclaimed Bitch and the recent Tribeca feature, 7 Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss).
- Gas & Ammo – Drawn from the extreme motor sport scene, a new adrenaline-fueled long form series written by Erik Bergquist, (The Fast and the Furious).
- A Slow Cooked Heart – Drawing on decades of stylish, decadent horror cinema, filmmaker Can Evrenol (Toronto International Film Festival 2015 opening-night film Baskin) brings to life a bizarre, enthralling new neo-giallo short form digital detective series set at a remote elite culinary school.
