Grainger Hines Cannes

Film finance and sales company Concourse Media has acquired international rights to the psychological period thriller Long Shadows and will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes market.

The film stars Dermot Mulroney (Anyone But You), Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt), and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings franchise), who lead alongside Blaine Maye (Joe Bell), Sarah Cortez (Life by Ella), and Grainger Hines (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs).

Veteran actor William Shockley (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) is directing the pic as his first feature, having penned the script with Shelley Reid and Hines. We understand the story is a tale of love and vengeance. Synopsis reads: Mulroney plays Dallas Garrett, a former outlaw gunslinger with the wisdom of regret, who serves as a mentor to a young man trying to find his way in the world.

Peter Stormare, Steven Berkoff and Matt Hookings have signed on to star in Matt Routledge’s thriller The Awakening for UK producers Camelot Media.

Julian Glover and Justin Tinto are also among the cast of the film, in which Tinto plays a man who discovers a global conspiracy and sets out to awaken the world.

Tinto wrote the original script; the film is currently in pre-production ahead of a shoot at Pinewood Studios.

Hookings and Tim Kent will produce the title for Camelot. It is fully financed through independent sources. Tinto says the film is aiming to convey a “message about the importance of critical thinking and the dangers of believing everything you read or hear.”

It is the second Camelot Media production to come together this year after action-adventure The Lost Book Of Creation, which will shoot in autumn as the first of an intended three-film franchise. The company previously produced Daniel Graham’s Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher starring Russell Crowe alongside Hookings.