Fast & Furious 9's Tyrese Gibson to Star in Wonderfilm's Thriller, The Inside Game
July 25 2019 - 10:01AM
via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- The Wonderfilm Media Corporation (TSXV: WNDR)
(OTC: WDRFF), (“Wonderfilm” or the “Company”) is pleased to
announce Fast & Furious 9 actor and R&B
crooner Tyrese Gibson is signed to star in the Wonderfilm
feature film, The Inside Game.
This action-thriller follows Jamal Smith (Gibson),
a suspended Miami police officer with a penchant for not doing
things by the book. Sent home to the urban streets of Atlanta, he
soon finds himself thrown into a dark underworld of high stakes
blackmail and extortion that has ensnared his brother, a pro
football star.
Kirk Shaw, Jeff Bowler and Bret Saxon are the
Wonderfilm producers, while Dan Grodnik will serve as executive
producer. Tyrese Gibson will also produce under his company,
Voltron Pictures.
Production is slated for this November with
Wonderfilm’s sister distribution company, Wonderfilm Global, fully
financing the project.
Kirk Shaw, Wonderfilm CEO, states, “As
Wonderfilm's profile in the industry increases, more and more A
List talent are coming to us to partner on projects. For everyone
at Wonderfilm it's exciting to be sharing our producing expertise
with a great talent like Tyrese Gibson and working with his
production company. We view The Inside Game as the first of many
similar opportunities since it's a win/win. Tyrese combines his
network of connections with our long-established industry
relationships and gains the support of our packaging, financing and
production expertise."
Gibson, known for R&B hits like “Sweet Lady”,
“How You Gonna Act Like That”, and “Signs of Love Makin'”, made a
name for himself in the film space since his breakout role in John
Singleton’s Baby Boy. He has starred in the Fast and the
Furious films as well as the Transformers series and
up next has, in addition to Fast & Furious
9, Morbius, the Marvel film from Sony, Black and Blue, a
cop thriller also from Sony, and is set to play Teddy Pendergrass
in a biopic set up at WB.
The Inside Game is one of 17 movies set for this
year with an anticipated combined production budget of $75-$90
million.
About Wonderfilm MediaWonderfilm
is a leading publicly traded (TSX Venture Exchange) entertainment
company with offices in Beverly Hills, Vancouver, Canada and Seoul,
South Korea. Wonderfilm’s main business is the production of
high-quality feature films and episodic television that offer
international appeal through the Company’s guiding philosophy of
bringing new financing solutions to an entertainment industry
increasingly looking for funding and co-production alternatives.
Wonderfilm is a producer and distributor only for the projects
disclosed. The legal ownership of movie productions is held in a
special purpose legal entity held at arm’s length to the Company to
facilitate for the qualification of various levels of domestic and
foreign government tax credit incentives that are customary in the
film and production business.Cautionary
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