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Orion Classics Returns With ‘The Domestics’, World Premiering at Cinepocalypse!
It was just announced that Orion Classics is relaunching with the post-apocalyptic thriller The Domestics on June 28 in theaters, followed by a video on demand release the next day. The film’s world premiere is set for opening night at the Cinepocalypse film festival in Chicago on June 21st, in which Bloody Disgusting is the premier sponsor!
Mike P. Nelson directed The Domestics, starring Kate Bosworth and Tyler Hoechlin.
The story, written by Nelson, is set in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by murderous gangs divided into deadly factions as Bosworth and Hoechlin’s characters race desperately across the lawless countryside in search of safety.
The Domestics also stars Lance Reddick, Sonoya Mizuno, Dana Gourrier, Thomas Francis Murphy, and David Dastmalchian.
The movie was produced by Gianni Nunnari and Shannon Gaulding and executive produced by Kurt Johnstad and Adam Krentzman.
In regards to the return of Orion Classics, MGM made the announcement Monday, saying the MGM label will focus on multiplatform and specialized releases as well as acquisitions utilizing “emerging and innovative” alternative distribution strategies worldwide. The label will release between eight and 10 films per year across genres.
Variety, who broke the news, details the brand’s history:
Orion was created in 1978 and had a mixed record for the next two decades. Its releases included Hoosiers and The Terminator, and it won four Academy Awards for best picture with Amadeus in 1984, Platoon in 1986, Dances With Wolves in 1990, and The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. It also declared bankruptcy that year and was bought by MGM in 1997, then brought back as a distributor in 2013, Orion which teamed with Samuel Goldwyn Films as a co-distributor on several titles.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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