“Storytelling and preventing aren’t so completely different. Each are about battle, battle, and coronary heart.”
So says actor and MMA alum Michael Bisping in a press launch about his new mission, Punch It Movies. The studio, set to launch at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition, guarantees environment friendly film making with model (and fisticuffs).
The L.A.-based Punch It Movies, based by writer-director Nika Agiashvili, producer John Edward Lee, actor George Finn and Bisping, guarantees shut ties to the “international MMA neighborhood.”
The studio’s first mission, “Atlas King,” begins manufacturing in Los Angeles this summer time.
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The movie stars Bisping as an ex-fighter who returns residence to bury his finest buddy and settle previous money owed. He reunites together with his godson (Finn), now a part of a felony enterprise, to defeat a neighborhood mob boss. The movie co-stars Sarah Wayne Callies of “The Strolling Useless” fame together with “13 Causes Why” alum Anne Winters.
Punch It Movies has two key elements which may assist it succeed. The MMA connection issues. Struggle followers carry a ardour to the game that might translate into ticket gross sales. Numerous MMA fighters, in flip, may lean on their social media flocks to attract consideration to the initiatives.
It’s additionally a great time to be within the style movie enterprise. Platforms want content material. Audiences crave escapism from the day by day headlines. Hollywood can’t appear to get out of its personal means in terms of bloated budgets.
The upcoming “Mission: Unimaginable – The Closing Reckoning” has little hope of turning a revenue because of its gargantuan price range – a reported $400 million.
If Punch It Movies produces lean, imply fight-friendly films, it may discover success in a bother business.