Yoram Globus, the former president of the famed Cannon Group and MGM, has secured a $50 million movie slate financing deal for his latest production venture, Rebel Way Entertainment, writes THR.
Globus, who produced Masters of the Universe and Bloodsport, as well as The Delta Force and the Death Wish sequels, is financing Tension, a thriller to be directed by Saw II-IV and forthcoming Saw 9 helmer Darren Lynn Bousman.
Written by Mother’s Day scribe Scott Milam, Tension follows a group of four friends participating in an extreme immersive horror experience on Halloween, as what was supposed to be a twisted game of manipulation turns to a horrific night of terror.
The screenplay for the movie, which is already in preproduction, was the inspiration behind The Tension Experience, a live theater immersive adventure then created by Bousman with Gordon Bijelonic and Clint Sears, who will all serve as Executive Producers on the film project.
With the success of The Tension Experience, Bousman was able to return to the original screenplay.
“I have been very lucky in my career for me to be able to make my passion projects,” Bousman explained. “Tension and its immersive universe is something I am insanely proud of being able to see realized.”
“In 2015, I became obsessed with Immersive Theatre,” he continues. “I wanted to do an immersive show but didn’t know the first thing about how to make that happen. Instead, I got together with Scott Milam and worked out a cool movie set in the world of immersive theatre – a dark and nasty little tale called Tension.”
Black Tulip Asset Management, a Miami-based alternative asset management firm led by financiers Benoit P. Pous Bertran de Balanda and Oliver Gilly, will help fund the Rebel Way slate of thriller and horror films, to be produced as well by Ori Globus, Yoram’s son.
