Cannes 2024 FEATURED TITLES
The Great Salish Heist
Graham Green , Tricia Helfer and Darrell Dennis
The First ever Indigenous Heist Movie When their ancestors’ sacred objects are removed from their burial sites and stored in a museum, bad things happen. No one knows this better than Steve Joe, archaeologist for the Moquahat people. He used to be revered within his community, but his life went downhill after his son died in a car accident. He believes that the bad luck of his community is a result of the displacement of sacred artifacts. The only way to stop the suffering is to return the sacred objects to the people they were taken from. Steve, along with a rag-tag group of rebels from the Rez, hatches a plan to break into the museum and reclaim their stolen artifacts. They need money to bankroll the heist, so Steve contacts a Russian gangster, but the Russians want a piece of the action as well. Through a series of exciting twists and turns, the team sets out to steal the objects from the museum, outsmart the Russians and return the sacred objects to the Moquahat people.
Night Games
USA SVOD Streaming Release March 2024
NIGHT GAMES has the intense violence of humans hunting other humans reminiscent of the HARD WAY with Jean-Claude Van Damme, and the terror and gore of an urban SAW, as the victims of the shadow group Acorn try to escape these “murder games” which are being streamed on the dark web to thousands of rich, decrepit individuals who like to see women getting killed horrifically. Starring Charles Malik Whitfield as the Cleaner (from Chicago Med and Empire) and Vanessa Simmons (Monogamy), NIGHT GAMES intros us to the sadistic Acorn Group as they orchestrate bloody murders for a worldwide audience, and delivers the extreme terror of the victims as they try to escape death and bring down the nefarious killers.
Once In A Valentine
Similar to For Colored Girls and Promising Young Woman, Once In A Valentine tells the story of Celeste who was sexually assaulted by a stranger on Valentines Day. The attack resulted in her becoming pregnant with her daughter, Aila. Years after the brutal attack by the stranger, Celeste still struggles with PTSD. After persistent urging from her friends and family, Celeste finally breaks out of her shell and meets a seemingly perfect man, Noah. Celeste falls instantly in love with him. Noah's heart is also filled by Celeste, and he proposes after only a few dates. No sooner than Celeste agrees to marry him, she discovers the terrible secret that Noah was in fact the stranger who raped her. Devastated, Celeste must decide how to move forward with the knowledge that her fiancé is her rapist and the father of her child.
The In Law Gang!
North American Theatrical Release in June 2023
After 5 years of enduring the insults and disrespect from her in-laws, Cassie decides it’s time for a little revenge in this film reminiscent of MEET THE FOCKERS and MADEA’S FAMILY REUNION. She enlists the help of her best friend, Damion, and they get to work making hell for the in-laws and her cheating husband. It’s all fun and games, until it gets really out of hand and Cassie has kidnapped them and holds them hostage in a basement! Suddenly, Cassie realized she has crossed a line, and must find a way to make the situation right and get back to living her morals.
Our Deadly Vows
North American Theatrical Release in July 2023
In the spirit of Get Out and Nope, OUR DEADLY VOWS tells the story of four couples celebrating a party for Grace and Chance who are moving to Spain. But the other three couples have serious relationship issues, and the fighting evolves into murder when the lifelong friend start getting killed one by one immediately after receiving gift boxes that reveal their past sins. It’s up to the survivors to either escape or find the killer and take them out before they are all dead.
Blossom
BET+ Original - Thiller In the vein of the classic thriller THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, the movie BLOSSOM is an intense modern suburban nightmare. When Clarisse’s family is violently taken hostage by a supposed friend and her killer boyfriend. Clarisse must overcome her fear to fight back and save her family from these deadly intruders.
Why Men Are Clueless
North American Theatrical Release Sept 2023
WHAT WOMEN WANT meets THINK LIKE A MAN in this romantic comedy about Omar Baker, a writer struggling in his long-term relationship with his girlfriend, Diane. Omar finally gets a job offer at a magazine to be a relationship columnist. He is given an assignment to write about “how to understand women.“ To answer these questions, Omar assembles a team: Justin, a struggling actor who gets no respect from his agent or his girlfriend; Brian, who is immature but in an inconceivably happy relationship; and C-Illa, a thuggish, brash dude who hasn’t been in a committed relationship in years. Together, these four clueless men try to figure out why men are clueless about women… and hopefully save Omar’s relationship in the process!
Unfinished
#1 on BET+ Writer Zora Matthews is the daughter of famous author Thomas Morgan Matthews who died a year ago. Both Zora and Thomas suffer from schizophrenia. After a fight with husband Drew, Zora escapes to her father's hideaway house in beautiful Topanga Canyon. There Zora is introduced to bartender Eddie, his wife Lorena, and handyman Amadi. They all talk cryptically about how Zora's father changed their world. The stress triggers Zora's schizophrenia, and her dreams become horrific as she slowly discovers that her father's past included grisly murder and suicide, and the ghosts of his actions are back to haunt her and drive her insane.
Night of The Falling Stars
Starring Chris Greene and Robert Davi Night of the Falling Stars is a Sci-Fi feature similar in tone and in the spirit of Shaun of the Dead. who attempt to save the world from an intergalactic invasion of Aliens who create an army of Aliens by converting humans on earth into man-eating monsters. What starts out as a fun couple’s camping trip, quickly turns into a fight for survival when an asteroid full of alien biostrata collides with earth. Just like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the biostrata gets into a human’s bloodstream, and turns them into bloodthirsty aliens. Our heroes hole up in a cabin in the woods as they concoct a plan to save themselves and the entire world from these evil aliens. All hope will be lost if they can’t find and destroy the Alien Queen before she destroys them… and the planet!
Exposure
Oscar Nominee Eric Roberts In this action thriller akin to THE DEPARTED, a former FBI Agent turned Private Investigator is tasked by an old friend to look into a money laundering scheme, at the same time, he is attempting to get over pain from his past and build a relationship with a past client. He soon discovers that the case he is working on is blending into personal life.
Captors
In the vein of The Invisible Man, CAPTORS is the story of one woman's survival against a captor she was led to believe was dead. Having escaped from him and the sex-trafficking he put her through a decade earlier, Alys was just beginning to feel safe for the first time. However, an apparent windfall inheritance lures her to a cabin in the woods, where she discovers she is anything but safe. Set against the backdrop of a cold, bleak winter, he will test her sanity and force her to fight to survive by putting an end to him once and for all.
BlackJack Christmas
Powerful Christmas Movie on BET+ In the wake of her husband’s death, Delores struggles with her gambling addiction, especially around the holidays. After alienating everyone in her life in Atlanta, she offers to fly to Jamaica to plan her sister's 50th birthday party. However, she hides her true intentions for the trip, which are to participate in a high-stakes blackjack tournament there. After her sister learns the truth, she throws Dolores out of her house and out of her life. Will the Christmas spirit be enough to save Dolores from total self destruction and bring her family back together around her?