Nick Stocker – Saban Films

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025Nick Stocker

Saban Films Takes North America On Western ‘The Unholy Trinity’

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired North American rights to The Unholy Trinity, a Western actioner starring Pierce Brosnan (Golden Eye) and Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight) alongside Brandon Lessard (Classified). In partnership with Roadside Attractions, the film will be released in theaters nationwide on June 13. Read the Article

May 9, 2025Nick Stocker

Opioid Action-Thriller ‘King Ivory’ Lands U.S. Theatrical Release With Saban and Roadside Attractions

Saban Films has acquired North American rights to the film — written and directed by John Swab (“Ida Red,” “Candy Land”) and starring Ben Foster and Melissa Leo — and teamed with Roadside Attractions for a national theatrical release later in 2025. Universal Pictures will handle all other territories. Read the Article

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025Nick Stocker

Saban Films Lands North American Rights to McManus Brothers’ ‘Redux Redux’

Saban Films has taken North American rights to the sci-fi revenge thriller “Redux Redux,” written and directed by brothers Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus (“American Vandal,” “The Block Island Sound”). The film, which had its world premiere in the Midnighter section at SXSW this year, is set for a nationwide theatrical release later this year by Saban. Read the Article

May 9, 2025Nick Stocker

Genre-Blending Horror Film ‘Traumatika’ to See North American Theatrical Release from Saban Films

“Traumatika,’ an experimental and visually bold new horror film, has sold to Saban Films for North American distribution. The project hails from co-writer and director Pierre Tsigaridis (“Two Witches”) and co-writer and producer Maxime Rancon. Saban is plotting a theatrical release for 2025. Rancon also serves as executive producer. Read the Article

May 9, 2025Nick Stocker

Saban Films Acquires Stuart Ortiz’s Gruesome Horror Film ‘Strange Harvest’

Saban Films has acquired the North American rights to director Stuart Ortiz’s (“Grave Encounters”) newest horror film “Strange Harvest,” set to release later this summer, Variety can report exclusively. Read the Article

July 19, 2022August 25, 2022Nick Stocker

Saban Films Acquires U.S. And Canadian Rights To AMERICAN MURDERER Starring Ryan Phillippe

Saban Films announced today that they have secured the U.S. and Canadian rights to award-winning director and writer Matthew Gentile’s debut feature film American Murderer. The film stars Tom Pelphrey, Ryan Phillippe, Idina Menzel, and Jacki Weaver. Paul Schneider, Shantel VanSanten, Moises Arias and Kevin Corrigan round out the cast. Saban Films is planning an October 2022 release. Read the Article

March 1, 2022May 20, 2022Nick Stocker

Saban Films Buys Action-Comedy ‘High Heat’ Starring Olga Kurylenko & Don Johnson

EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has picked up world rights on Zach Golden’s action-comedy High Heat and will release later this year. The pic stars Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). It takes place over a single night and follows Ana (Kurylenko), a meticulous chef with a hidden past, and her husband Ray (Johnson), a schmoozy serial restaurateur. When the local mafia shows up to burn down her restaurant as part of an insurance scam, Ana defends her turf and proves her knife skills both in and out of the kitchen. Read the Article

February 28, 2022May 20, 2022Nick Stocker

Top 20 Indie Power Players 2022: The Movers and Shakers in Independent Film Distribution

Welcome to Media Play News’ Top 20 Indie Power Players list, our first-ever salute to distributors of independent film, series and niche content. We’re looking beyond the big-budget theatrical blockbusters and streaming originals,and focusing on what for years been the backbone of the film industry, particularly from a creative perspective. Read the Article

February 23, 2022May 20, 2022Nick Stocker

Saban Films Acquires John Malkovich Dark Comedy ‘Chariot’ (Exclusive)

Saban Films has nabbed North American and select international rights to writer and director Adam Sigal’s reincarnation dark comedy, Chariot. The genre pic, starring Thomas Mann, Rosa Salazar, John Malkovich and Scout Taylor-Compton, portrays a corporation and a doctor (Malkovich) that oversees the process of reincarnation, and a young man, played by Mann, who becomes a glitch in the system when he encounters a woman (Salazar) he loved in a previous life. Read the Article

February 16, 2022May 20, 2022Nick Stocker

Saban Films President Bill Bromiley Talks Company’s Global Ambitions As It Signs Distribution Deals In Switzerland & Benelux

Saban Films is continuing to expand its international footprint, having recently inked a deal with distribution partners in Switzerland and Benelux. The L.A.-based company has signed with WW Entertainment in Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) and Ascot Elite in Switzerland, which it will add to deals it already has in place in the UK and Ireland (Altitude), Germany and Austria (Splendid), France (ACE Entertainment), Spain (Key2Media), Scandinavia (Mis.Label) and Australia and New Zealand (Defiant Screen Entertainment). Read the Article