Grindstone Entertainment Group Acquires Western ‘Dead Man’s Hand’ Starring Stephen Dorff, Jack Kilmer & Cole Hauser
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment Group has acquired North American rights to Dead Man’s Hand — a Western starring Stephen Dorff (True Detective), Jack Kilmer (The Nice Guys) and Cole Hauser (Yellowstone), which just recently wrapped production in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In the film from Milestone Studios, the retired gunslinger Reno (Kilmer) joins forces with a new marshal (Hauser) to take on the cruel cattle baron, Mayor Clarence Bishop (Dorff).
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HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM
ALAN AND DAWN BURSTEEN LAUNCH
MILESTONE STUDIOS
Husband and wife Alan B. and Dawn Bursteen are launching a new LA-based production company, Milestone Studios
They plan to create original content and develop film adaptations from fiction and non-fiction novels, articles, autobiographical works, and other source materials to produce up to 12 films over the next two years through private equity financing with budgets ranging from $5M – $15M per title across genres.
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MORGAN FREEMAN, COLE HAUSER & JAIMIE ALEXANDER SET FOR THRILLER
‘THE MINUTE YOU WAKE UP DEAD’
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby), Yellowstone star Cole Hauser and Blindspot and Thor actress Jaimie Alexander have been set to star in under-the-radar thriller The Minute You Wake Up Dead, which is now underway in Mississippi.
Milestone Studios is producing the film, which follows a stockbroker (Hauser) in a small southern town who gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor (Alexander)
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‘LAST SHOOT OUT’ REVIEW: BRUCE DERN’S TURN AS A MEAN GALOOT SETS INDIE WESTERN APART
Milestone Studios obviously studied some classic Westerns and picked up a few lessons before saddling up.
There is a distinct flavor of the brawnily austere Westerns that comprise Budd Boetticher’s cult-favorite Ranown Cycle — and more than a hint of another showcase for the great Randolph Scott, Sam Peckinpah’s “Ride the High Country” — in director Michael Feifer’s “Last Shoot Out,” a small-budget indie that aims to please the currently underserved niche audience for oaters.
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ALL THE MOVIES YOU’LL WANT TO WATCH IN 2022
“Pursuit” (Feb. 18, theaters and on demand): John Cusack stars in the action thriller as the crime-boss dad of a hacker who not only is on the lam from a pair of cops but also dealing with the fact his wife has been kidnapped by a drug cartel.
Milestone Studios
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‘CATCH THE BULLET’ TRAILER: FIRST LOOK AT WESTERN DEDICATED TO MEMORY OF ACTOR JAY PICKETT
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has your first look at Catch the Bullet, a Western dedicated to the memory of the late actor Jay Pickett, which Grindstone will release in select theaters, on digital and VOD September 10.