July 5 - Media 8 Entertainment Inc. announced today that filming is underway on its new feature film project, IRunning Scared/I. Written and directed by up- and-coming director Wayne Kramer (who garnered an Academy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Nominations for his acclaimed debut film IThe Cooler/I), IRunning Scared/I is a gritty and pulse-pounding action film. Paul Walker (star of IThe Fast and the Furious/I and I2 Fast 2 Furious/I) stars in the film as Joey, a low level gangster who has only one night to get back his gun, after a neighbor's boy steals it. IRunning Scared/I will be produced by Michael A. Pierce, Brett Ratner (director of mega-box office hits IRush Hour, Rush Hour 2/I, and IRed Dragon/I), and Sammy Lee. Andrew Pfeffer, Andreas Grosch, and Andreas Schmid will serve as executive producers.
"We are very pleased to be working with Wayne Kramer on this picture," stated Sammy Lee, Vice Chairman of the Board for Media 8 Entertainment. "Wayne made one of last year's strongest and most assured feature film debuts with IThe Cooler/I, and we expect IRunning Scared/I to follow up on this promise by delivering a knockout combination of first-class acting and non-stop action."
Starring alongside Mr. Walker as Joey's wife will be Vera Farmiga, an emerging new talent who won the Special Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival for her role in the film IDown to the Bone/I, and who has a leading role in this summer's big budget remake of IThe Manchurian Candidate/I. Other cast members include Cameron Bright (IThe Butterfly Effect, Godsend/I) and Ivana Milicevic (ILove Actually, Paycheck/I), as the son and mother who live next door to Joey, and Michael Rapaport (IBeautiful Girls/I) as a pimp.
Media 8 Entertainment is currently gearing up production in its strategy of producing, financing and distributing at least six films a year. Production has also recently began on Media 8's ILovewrecked/I, a charming teen comedy film which stars Amanda Bynes (IWhat a Girl Wants/I), Chris Carmack (Fox's "The O.C."), Jamie-Lynn DiScala ("The Sopranos"), and Jonathan Bennett (IMean Girls/I). ILovewrecked/I will be directed by Randal Kleiser (director of IGrease/I and IHoney I Blew Up the Kid/I), from a script written by Stephen Langford.
Media 8's current slate of upcoming releases includes the Mike Binder-directed IThe Upside of Anger/I, a bittersweet comedy which is slated to be released in the US through New Line Cinema, and stars three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell, and Alicia Witt. Also upcoming is ISanta's Slay/I, an action infused horror-comedy that casts everyone's favorite holiday figure, Santa, in an entirely new and sinister light. Media 8 is co-producing Santa's Slay with Brett Ratner, and the film features WWE wrestling star Goldberg as the devilish Santa Claus, alongside up-and-coming young stars Douglas Smith (IState's Evidence, Sleepover/I) and Emilie de Ravin ("Roswell"). Also forthcoming is Havoc, Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan's (ITraffic/I) searing music-driven story of teen culture as it clashes with the real world of urban Latino gangsters, directed by two-time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple, and starring Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips. |
