Shout! Studios Takes North America On Burghart Brothers’ Thriller ‘Head Rely’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired all North American distribution rights to the neo-Western thriller Head Count, from Continuance Footage and Technique Media. Filmmakers Jacob and Ben Burghart — collectively often known as The Burghart Brothers — are directing of their function debut, from their script written with Josh Doke, with Aaron Jakubenko (Tidelands), Melanie Zanetti (Raven’s Hole) and Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) set to star. Shout! Studios and the filmmakers are planning a strategic launch of the film subsequent yr, starting with main movie festivals and movie markets in 2023.

Based mostly on the Burgharts’ 2014 in need of the identical title, the movie billed as Blood Easy meets Memento follows Kat (Jakubenko), who, after escaping jail, finds his personal revolver pointed to his head by an unknown assailant. Because the empty rounds click on away, Kat tries to recollect what occurred to every bullet, as impulsive officer Sawyer (Kwanten) is scorching on his tail, and his ex-lover Jo (Zanetti) reappears in his life. However he should bear in mind, one bullet at a time.

A manufacturing of The Burghart Brothers, Continuance Footage, and Technique Media, Head Rely additionally stars Chris Bylsma (El Camino: A Breaking Dangerous Film), Addam Bramich (Poker Face), Polaris Banks (Reklaw) and Cinnamon Shultz (Winter’s Bone). Austin Wagoner, Tristan Barr and David Gim are producing the movie, with Chris Knitter, Jordan Rioux, Josh Winnington, Ken Kimura, Ari Harrison, Mike Barr, Jason Bunn, Addam Bramich, Simon Barrett and Jordan Fields serving as EPs.

“After 20 years of filmmaking—from capturing yard motion pictures as youngsters to premiering our newest brief at Fantasia in 2020—we’re excited to be in manufacturing on our first function movie, Head Rely,” stated Ben Burghart. “Having Continuance Footage, Technique Media, Shout! Studios, and our professional producing staff behind us, this undertaking is each thrilling and humbling.”

“Head Rely is an opportunity for us to indicate off our love of fashionable neo-noir, westerns and sharp thrillers,” stated Jacob Burghart. “Our favourite movies have deeply flawed, however charming lead characters, and distinctive worlds constructed out of the director’s imaginations. We wished to make a movie that revs up fast and doesn’t let its foot off the gasoline.”

“After Government Producing their trendy spectacle of a brief movie Suspense that performed on the Fantasia Worldwide Movie Pageant amongst many, we’re excited to have arrange “The Burghart Brothers” equally enthralling first function Head Rely with some unbelievable expertise and distribution associate in Shout! Studios,” remarked Continuance Footage Co-Founder, Tristan Barr, “notably after the latest success of Previous Henry internationally.”

“The Burghart brothers have written a taut, trendy western that delivers a narrative and characters each savage and darkly charming,” added Shout! Studios’ Vice President of Acquisitions, Jordan Fields. “They’ve a novel voice, and we’re excited to assist launch what is going to absolutely be a protracted, profitable profession in options, starting with their thrilling Head Rely.”

Along with 2014’s Head Rely, Jacob and Ben Burghart have collectively co-written and directed brief movies together with ++++: Plus 4, Neon Veins: Hemmohrage and Suspense, with the latter being chosen by 20+ high style festivals earlier than being distributed on Alter.

Jakubenko started his profession on the extensively recognized Australian sequence, Neighbours, discovering his first U.S. break when he landed the position of Sabinus within the Starz sequence, Spartacus. He then went on to painting Commodus, the brutal Emperor of Rome, within the Netflix sequence Roman Empire: Reign Of Blood. In 2015 he secured a number one position reverse Austin Butler in MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles, enjoying the emotionally tortured Prince Ander Elessedil. He then went on to star as Augie McTeer within the Netflix supernatural drama, Tidelands, and was most not too long ago seen starring alongside Katrina Bowden within the horror-thriller, Nice White.

Zanetti is thought for voicing Chilli within the hit Australian youngsters’s present, Bluey. She can subsequent be seen because the lead reverse William Moseley and Kate Dickie within the gothic supernatural thriller Raven’s Hole, which was not too long ago acquired by Shudder. The movie reunited her with director Chris Hatton, who directed her in her first function, Battle of the Damned. Different function credit embrace The Leisure Class for HBO’s Mission Greenlight reverse Ed Weeks; a cameo in Tracks with Adam Driver; and the lead within the Gabriel’s trilogy, from the books by Sylvain Reynard, for Tosca Musk’s Passionflix. Zanetti may also be seen in twin roles in Paramount’s Love and Monsters reverse Dylan O’Brien.

Maybe finest recognized for his efficiency as Jason Stackhouse on HBO’s True Blood, Kwanten is slated to star within the upcoming FX drama sequence Kindred, directed by Janicza Bravo and produced by Darren Aronofsky. He can even be seen reverse Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke within the upcoming function Part 8 for AMC+. Prior to those initiatives, he starred within the Blumhouse/Fb Watch sequence Sacred Lies, reverse Juliette Lewis, and the Amazon anthology sequence Them from Lena Waithe, which debuted at SXSW to win the Viewers Award. On the function aspect, he starred within the comedy-actioner Supercon for Sony with John Malkovich, in addition to the historic drama Northmen: A Viking Saga with Ed Skrein. Different notable credit embrace Kidnapping Mr. Heineken with Anthony Hopkins and Sam Worthington, Blunt Drive Trauma reverse Frieda Pinto and Mickey Rourke, and the crime sequence The Oath for Sony’s Crackle.

The filmed leisure manufacturing and distribution arm of Shout! Manufacturing unit, Shout! Studios focuses on all elements of distribution, together with theatrical, VOD, digital, DVD/Blu-ray and broadcast. The corporate’s upcoming releases embrace the action-thriller Operation Seawolf, starring Hiram A. Murray, Andrew Stecker, Dolph Lundgren and Frank Grillo; the topical drama On Sacred Floor, starring William Mapother and David Arquette; the sci-fi dramedy Linoleum, starring Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn; the fantasy journey pic The Magic Flute, starring Jack Wolfe and F. Murray Abraham; the fantasy journey Three Needs for Cinderella, starring Scandinavian pop star Astrid Smeplass; the medieval action-adventure Kingslayer, starring Ryan Gage, David Hayman and John Rhys-Davies; and the animated options Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon.

Fields negotiated the deal for Head Rely on behalf of Shout! Studios, with Joseph Lanius of LANIUS Legislation & Associates on behalf of the filmmakers. Jakubenko is repped by Australia’s Lively Artists Administration and Fourward; Zanetti by Kubler Auckland Administration in Australia and Inventive Companions Group; and Kwanten by RGM Artists in Australia, The Artists Partnership within the UK, Verve and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.