RED SEA MEDIA TO HANDLE INTERNATIONAL SALES ON 10-PICTURE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES REINVENTION FOR CINEDIGM
Connected Universe of Bad Girls, Antiheroes & Monsters Will Begin Principle Photography This Fall
LOS ANGELES/CANNES (May 16, 2015) – Red Sea Media is handling international sales on Cinedigm’s American International Pictures (AIP) reinventions of the 1950s genre classics. Lou Arkoff (THE MESSENGERS, DARKNESS FALLS, INSPECTOR GADGET), Jeff Katz (FREDDY VS. JASON, SNAKES ON A PLANE, WOLVERINE) and Hal Sadoff (THE NICE GUYS, THE BREED, HOTEL RWANDA) are set to produce this ten-picture deal. The AIP reinventions have a September production start earmarked. All ten titles are scheduled to shoot back-to-back. Cast and directors are expected to be announced shortly.
Former New Line and Fox executive Jeff Katz penned each script and the ten individual stories will feed into one epic overarching storyline across all ten films. Arkoff is the son of the late Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-founder of AIP and has previously remade AIP titles for Showtime and HBO. This unique 10 picture project will deliver a complete reinvention of the quirkiest and most memorable movies in the famed American International Pictures portfolio, flipping them into an R-rated comic book style movie universe with multiple interconnecting characters.
The 10 titles will include: GIRLS IN PRISON; VIKING WOMEN & THE SEA SERPENT; THE BRAIN EATERS; SHE-CREATURE; TEENAGE CAVEMAN; REFORM SCHOOL GIRL; THE UNDEAD; HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER; THE COOL & THE CRAZY; and DAY THE WORLD ENDED.
American International Pictures (AIP) was founded in 1954 by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff. After realizing the growth and influence of teenage movie-goers, Nicholson and Arkoff set off over the next 30 years inundating the teen market with action, comedy and horror films. AIP grew very lucrative in the 1960s mainly due to Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Corman was soon dubbed "The King of the Cult Film" and "The Pope of Pop Cinema", and to this day dozens of his films are still considered genuine cult classics, and inspirations for many filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.
ABOUT RED SEA MEDIA
Roman Kopelevich is the CEO and founder of Red Sea Media and its genre label Dead Sea Media which was launched in December 2011 with Vadim Gorainov and Svetlana Snitko.
Red Sea's slate includes BEYOND SKYLINE directed by Liam O'Donnell; THE 7TH TEAR, a science fiction adventure film produced by Brett Ratner, Matthew Chausse and Greg & Colin Strause and John Cheng; SQUIRRELS produced by Timur Bekmambetov (director of BEN HUR, WANTED, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER), and the science fiction supernatural film, CHIMERA, produced by Hydraulx. Completed films include THE ENGLISH TEACHER (starring Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins and Nathan Lane), THE TIMBER, starring Josh Peck and produced by Scott Einbinder; FRANKIE GO BOOM (starring Lizzy Caplan, Ron Perlman & Chris O'Dowd); OFFICER DOWN (starring Stephen Dorff & James Woods); PAWN (starring Forest Whitaker, Nikki Reed & Ray Liotta); FREE SAMPLES (Jesse Eisenberg); 10 RULES FOR SLEEPING AROUND from ThinkFactory; and JULIA X 3D, (starring Kevin Sorbo).
ABOUT AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICUTRES (AIP)
Founded in 1954 by Samuel Arkoff and James H. Nicholson, AIP specialized in low-budget, independent films aimed at the teenage audience. AIP produced or distributed more than 500 films during its existence, including the Beach Party series with Frankie Avalon and the late Annette Funicello as well as the early films of director Roger Corman. In 1979, AIP merged with Filmways, which later was folded into Orion Pictures. Currently, the rest of the library is owned by MGM, Orion’s successor.
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