A documentary about Eddie Hall, the strongman and “Expendables 4” actor, has been acquired for worldwide theatrical release and streaming by sports media company Generation Iron.
“Taming The Beast – The Emptiness Within” is a feature-length doc from Switzerland-based Jeridoo Universe about British strongman Hall.
“The film follows Hall, the world’s strongest man, as he learns how to embrace his mental health challenges by confronting his inner demons and dealing with his biggest failure to date, which ultimately changes his life,” reads the logline. “The film explores Hall’s struggles with depression and mental health and brings to light how famous athletes and celebrities struggle with these challenges.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone make cameos in the documentary as they offer Hall both mentorship and friendship. Actor Gabriel Luna (“The Last of Us”) and boxer Katie Luna also appear in the film.
Hall, who set a world record dead lift in 2016, lifting 500 kg,...
“Taming The Beast – The Emptiness Within” is a feature-length doc from Switzerland-based Jeridoo Universe about British strongman Hall.
“The film follows Hall, the world’s strongest man, as he learns how to embrace his mental health challenges by confronting his inner demons and dealing with his biggest failure to date, which ultimately changes his life,” reads the logline. “The film explores Hall’s struggles with depression and mental health and brings to light how famous athletes and celebrities struggle with these challenges.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone make cameos in the documentary as they offer Hall both mentorship and friendship. Actor Gabriel Luna (“The Last of Us”) and boxer Katie Luna also appear in the film.
Hall, who set a world record dead lift in 2016, lifting 500 kg,...
- 11/20/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Iron Sky 2: The Coming Race, a sequel to the cult sci-fi parody that returns director Timo Vuorensola and those Nazis in space that so buzzed the Berlin Film Festival when the original bowed there in 2012.
The new pic stars Lara Rossi, Tom Green, Vladimir Burlakov, Kit Dale and the return of Udo Kier, and will feature the mix of B-movie plot and A-list effects that made the first one work so well. Myriad Pictures is aboard to hande worldwide sales and will screen the film for buyers beginning next week at the Cannes film market. Vertical plans a July 19 day-and-date theatrical and digital release in the U.S.
The first Iron Sky started out with the unknown fact that at the end of 1945 as the war was ending a group of Nazi scientists in the Antarctic escaped in space...
The new pic stars Lara Rossi, Tom Green, Vladimir Burlakov, Kit Dale and the return of Udo Kier, and will feature the mix of B-movie plot and A-list effects that made the first one work so well. Myriad Pictures is aboard to hande worldwide sales and will screen the film for buyers beginning next week at the Cannes film market. Vertical plans a July 19 day-and-date theatrical and digital release in the U.S.
The first Iron Sky started out with the unknown fact that at the end of 1945 as the war was ending a group of Nazi scientists in the Antarctic escaped in space...
- 5/10/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
It sounds impossible: The founder of an obscure Swiss film festival used Amazon, Vimeo, and other streaming sites to sell Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” Pedro Almodovar’s “The Skin I Live In,” as well as dozens of films that played his Lucerne International Film Festival (LiFF). And, according to filmmakers and distributors, he did all of this without their permission or the proper copyright.
However, what’s just as improbable is the current landscape for digital distribution and copyright is what allowed someone like LiFF founder and director Guido Baechler to sell these films in plain sight.
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Ethan Steinman screened his documentary, “Glacial Balance,” in competition at LiFF in 2014. A month later, he was stunned to receive a Google Alert: His film was available for sale via LiFF’s Vimeo store.
However, what’s just as improbable is the current landscape for digital distribution and copyright is what allowed someone like LiFF founder and director Guido Baechler to sell these films in plain sight.
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Ethan Steinman screened his documentary, “Glacial Balance,” in competition at LiFF in 2014. A month later, he was stunned to receive a Google Alert: His film was available for sale via LiFF’s Vimeo store.
- 3/7/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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