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South African born SAG Award nominee Stelio Savante, also known as ‘Ajax’ in the Call Of Duty video game series and ‘Moses’ in the historical world-wide hit biblical series The Chosen, is starring in key roles in three upcoming films, all based on true stories. Sarah’s Oil, Between Borders, and Hazel.

Sarah’s Oil, is an Amazon MGM drama starring Zachary Levi, Naya Desir Johnson, Sonequa Martin Green, Garret Dillahunt, Bridget Regan, Kenric Green, Adyan Copes, Stelio Savante and Mel Rodriguez. Sarah’s Oil is inspired by Tonya Bolden’s book Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America, and tells the true story of Sarah Rector, an African American born in Oklahoma in the early 1900s. Filmed in Oklahoma, the drama chronicles Sarah’s journey to becoming the first African American teenage millionaire. Cyrus Nowrasteh (who also directed Savante in the action thriller Infidel) directed Sarah’s Oil from...

In April 2023, the independent horror flick Nefarious earned just over a million dollars and placed tenth at the box office on its opening weekend. The movie hit theaters around the same time as other horror movies like The Pope's Exorcist, Evil Dead Rise, Scream IV, and Renfield; and with such stiff competition, it's impressive that this low-budget indie movie did so well. The picture, which is currently in Amzone Prime Video's Top 10 most popular movies, is based on a two-book series by Steve Deace and was written and directed by Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon (the duo behind God's Not Dead and Unplanned). But despite the film's distinctly Christian label, Nefarious rises above the general clichés associated with faith-based productions and stands out as something increasingly more interesting than its religious contemporaries.

‘Nefarious’ Now Streaming on Prime Supernatural horror indie box office hit Nefarious is finally available & streaming on Amazon Prime (free with subscription). Written & Directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the film stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Nefarious, Jordan Belfi as Doctor James Martin, and the supporting cast includes Tom Ohmer, Stelio Savante, Cameron Arnett, Eric Hanson, James Healy Jr., and Robert Peters. The synopsis reads …

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Supernatural horror indie box office hit Nefarious is finally available & streaming on Amazon Prime (free with subscription).

Written and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the film stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Nefarious, Jordan Belfi as Doctor James Martin, and the supporting cast includes Tom Ohmer, Stelio Savante, Cameron Arnett, Eric Hanson, James Healy Jr., and Robert Peters.

The synopsis reads as follows: “On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.”

Believe Entertainment’s Nefarious ultimately grossed over $5 million at the domestic box office through Soli Deo Gloria Releasing. Check out the trailer for Nefarious below:

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Supernatural Thriller ‘Nefarious’ DVD Arrives Aug 15th After Successful Theatrical Release: "Supernatural thriller Nefarious was released in theaters on April 14 through Soli Deo Gloria Releasing, and it ultimately grossed over $5 million at the domestic box office. Nefarious will now be released on DVD Aug. 15 from Mill Creek Entertainment.

Written & Directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the film stars Sean Patrick Flanery as Nefarious, Jordan Belfi as Doctor James Martin, Tom Ohmer as Warden Moss, Stelio Savante as Detective Russo, Cameron Arnett as Trustee Styles, and Eric Hanson as Assistant Warden Anderson, among many others.

The synopsis reads as follows: “On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.”

Believe Entertainment’s Nefarious can now be rented or purchased on Amazon,...

God made man in his own image, and then man defied His orders, so man was cast out from His garden—or so the story goes in the Bible. Directors Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon made a movie based on this, and it’s the 2023 supernatural horror Nefarious. Jordan Belfi plays psychiatrist Dr. James Martin, who goes into a prison to decide whether a criminal (Sean Patrick Flannery) is mentally fit to be executed, but realizes he’s gotten much more than he bargained for. Shot almost entirely inside one room, the movie raises questions about man’s choices and actions with references to heaven and hell, but it quickly starts reeking of propaganda and not so much horror. Here’s what happens in Nefarious.

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Who Is Nefarious?

After reputed psychiatrist Dr. Fischer throws himself off his multistory office, young and confident Dr. James Martin walks into a...

Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi, James Healy Jr., Eric Hanson, Tom Ohmer, Stelio Savante, Cameron Arnett, Sarah Hernandez, Jarret LeMaster, Robert Peters | Written and Directed by Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon

Nefarious tells the tale of a convicted serial killer waiting on the day of his execution. On that day he has a last minute, court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. The doctor then needs to decide if this man is who he claims to be – a demon, Nefarious, who quite happily wants the execution to go ahead.

Much of the movie, possibly about 70% of it, is just the serial killer, played by Sean Patrick Flanery and the doctor (James Martin), played by Jordan Belfi, talking to each other across a table in an otherwise empty room. It’s a battle of wits and character, as the doctor believes he can’t be fooled into calling this man crazy, until he’s not...

Beau Is Afraid posted the top per-screen average of the year so far and the best limited opening for distributor A24 since Uncut Gems, grossing an estimated $320,396 at four locations in New York and LA for a hefty per-screen average of $80K+ in sold-out shows on both coasts. (Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler had a $105k PSA on five screens in 2019 — a limited-opening record at the time.)

In Ari Aster’s surrealist black comedy-horror Beau, Joaquin Phoenix is a mild-mannered man riddled by paranoia, who confronts his worst fears on an epic journey to his hometown for his mother’s funeral. Presales had been looking strong and the numbers certainly came through for the distrib and the director beloved by fans of his previous films Hereditary and Midsommar. The ensemble cast includes Nathan Lane, Amy, Ryan, Parker Posey and Patti LuPone. Expanding in a regional Imax event on 4/18 ahead of...

Supernatural horror film ‘Nefarious’ is based on the New York Times best-selling novel ‘A Nefarious Plot’ by Steve Deace, and it opens in theaters on April 14th. From filmmakers Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the film is set on the day of his scheduled execution; a convicted serial killer gets a last-minute court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. …

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Starring Luke Corcoran, Tadhg Devery, Marybeth Herron, and Luke Collins. Indie Rights presents a Wild Stag Productions, written, produced, and directed by Adam William Cahill.

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Nefarious: "Supernatural horror film ‘Nefarious’ is based on the New York Times best-selling novel ‘A Nefarious Plot’ by Steve Deace, and it opens in theaters on April 14th.

From filmmakers Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman,...

Supernatural horror film ‘Nefarious’ is based on the New York Times best-selling novel ‘A Nefarious Plot’ by Steve Deace, and it opens in theaters on April 14th.

From filmmakers Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the film is set on the day of his scheduled execution; a convicted serial killer gets a last-minute court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. The killer surprises the psychiatrist with his claim that instead of trying to avoid his fate, he is a demon who wants the execution to go forward… and further claims that before their brief time together is over, the doctor will have committed three murders of his own.

Nefarious stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi, Tom Ohmer, Cameron Arnett, Stelio Savante, Robert Peters, and Daniel Martin Berkey.

Nefarious is produced by Chris Jones with Cary Solomon, Chuck Konzelman, and Sheila Hart. Executive producers include Steve Deace, Robert Cramer, Lori Cramer, Dave Kutscher, Bob Vander Plaats,...

Nefarious Trailer — Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon‘s Nefarious (2023) movie trailer has been released by Believe Entertainment. The Nefarious trailer stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi, James Healy Jr., Eric Hanson, and Stelio Savante. Crew Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon wrote the screenplay for Nefarious. “Produced by Sheila Hart, Chris Jones, Chuck Konzelman, and Cary [...]

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“Unplanned” is exactly the movie you expect it to be, which is why it’s making healthy profits despite minimal advertising and overwhelmingly negative reviews. Like other faith-based films before it — the “God’s Not Dead” series, “Heaven Is for Real,” and “I Can Only Imagine” all come to mind — Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman’s anti-abortion drama is preaching to the choir. Pure Flix Entertainment knows that its self-selecting audience would rather have its existing views affirmed rather than challenged, a strategy they’re far from the first to employ. Christian moviegoers are hardly the only demographic guilty of wanting to see their ideals reflected back at them, as evidenced by the reception to any number of toothless prestige pictures.

But what about when viewers like a movie or TV series despite its values, not because of them? Do conservative “Game of Thrones” obsessives resent the fact that it...

Dedicated to every woman who ever had an abortion and regretted it for the rest of her life, "Unplanned" is the new dramatic feature written, directed by Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, based on a memoir by Abby Johnson, a former 'Planned Parenthood' employee, starring Ashley Bratcher, Brooks Ryan, Robia Scott, Jared Lotz and Emma Elle Roberts, now playing:

"...'Abby Johnson' one of the youngest 'Planned Parenthood' clinic directors in the Us, where baby body parts are routinely harvested, is asked to assist in an ultrasound-guided abortion at thirteen weeks gestation. 

"After witnessing the gruesome procedure, Johnson becomes an anti-abortion activist and founds a group to assist former Planned Parenthood employees who turned against abortion after similar experiences..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Unplanned"...

Us crosses $100m in second weekend; Captain Marvel reaches $350m; How To Train Your Dragon 3 hits $150m.

April 1 Update: Disney’s live-action Dumbo took off at the North American box office however the confirmed $45.9m number one debut would have been below what executives were looking for on a starry, effects-laden film that reportedly cost $170m to produce.

Tim Burton’s take on the family property stars Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell, Eva Green and Danny DeVito and opened in 4,259 theatres. The $71m international debut will help the studio on the road to recoupment and after three days the global running total stands at $116m.

Us crosses $100m in second weekend; Captain Marvel reaches $350m; How To Train Your Dragon 3 hits $150m.

Disney’s live-action Dumbo took off at the North American box office however the estimated $45m number one debut would have been below what executives were looking for on a starry, effects-laden film that reportedly cost $170m to produce.

Tim Burton’s take on the family property stars Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell, Eva Green and Danny DeVito and opened in 4,259 theatres. The $71m international debut will help the studio on the road to recoupment and after three days the global running total stands at $116m.

After having its TV spots shut out by my most mainstream cable networks and its Twitter account frozen for two-three hours yesterday, PureFlix’s anti-abortion feature Unplanned, which was slapped with an R rating by the MPAA, opened to $6.1M at 1,059 theaters, making it the second-best opening for the faith-based studio’s self-distributed titles after God’s Not Dead 2 ($7.6M).

While not a huge win by major studio standards, for the indie label which produced the $5M-$6M with co-financer Mike Lindell (the inventor of MyPillow), it’s an achievement, given the controversy the pic has weathered. Arguably, there hasn’t be an R-rated, faith-based movie since Mel Gibson’s 2004 The Passion of the Christ. Typically, faith-based movies do 2-3 times their domestic box office in TV and home ancillaries. It’s Lent, so it wouldn’t be a shocker if Unplanned legs out. God’s Not Dead, which PureFlix released through FreeStyle,...

“Unplanned” isn’t a good movie, but it’s effective propaganda — or, at least, it is if you belong to the group it’s targeting: those who believe that abortion in America, though a legal right, is really a crime. It’s hard to imagine the movie drawing many viewers outside that self-selected demographic. “Unplanned” preaches to the pro-life choir, and it does so by making a case against abortion that’s absolutist and extreme, at certain points twisting “facts” into a narrative of conspiracy. (Planned Parenthood is portrayed as a corporation as profit-driven as Standard Oil.)

But “Unplanned” also does a skillful job of using religious piety to conceal its underlying political agenda. The film is based on a memoir by Abby Johnson, an anti-abortion activist who worked for eight years in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas. She started off as a volunteer, ushering women from their...

A new anti-abortion movie that will center on the organization Planned Parenthood has been shot in secret and will arrive in theaters next year. The movie, titled Unplanned, comes from filmmakers Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, who serve as the project's writers and directors. They previously collaborated on the very successful faith-based movies God's Not Dead and I Can Only Imagine which, working from tiny budgets, went on to become big successes at the box office.

Unplanned was shot for a budget of $6 million and recently wrapped filming in Oklahoma. The movie will tell the story of Abby Johnson. She served as clinic director at Planned Parenthood and claims to have helped facilitate 22,000 abortions before leaving the organization in 2009. Johnson's decision to leave came after watching via ultrasound as an abortion was performed. Co-director Chuck Konzelman had this to say about the movie.

"No matter which side you come down on,...

Robert Schwentke’s The Divergent Series: Insurgent, the second entry in the Divergent franchise adaptation of Veronica Roth’s novels, took home $54 million to rise to the top of the box office on its opening weekend. The opening roughly matches the first weekend total of the film’s prequel, which bowed with $54.6 million. Last week’s box office champion Cinderella saw a drop of nearly 50 percent to end up with $34.5 million over the weekend, landing it in second place, while Jaume Collet-Serra’s newest feature Run All Night saw a similar drop in revenue from last weekend to round out the top three.

Taken director Pierre Morel’s newest action feature The Gunman also made its debut by landing in the top ten, as the Sean Penn-starring film’s $5 million total landed it in fourth place. The other opening weekend film to land in the top ten was Do You Believe?...

Exclusive: Follow-up to Us box office hit God’s Not Dead is set to open in Us on March 20.

Pure Flix kicks off sales at the Efm on Do You Believe?, the company’s follow-up to the faith-based Us box office hit God’s Not Dead.

Vice-president of international sales and distribution Ron Gell will be talking up the project, which explores how faith transforms a number of intersecting lives and is set to open in the Us via Pure Flix on March 20 on more than 1,000 screens.

Do You Believe? reunites the same creative team behind God’s Not Dead. Michael Scott, David Ar White, Russell Wolfe and Elizabeth Travis produced and Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon wrote the screenplay.

Gell will also be screening Hope Bridge, Dancer And The Dame, which recently sold in Turkey (Sinema TV), Australia (Crossroads) and Germany (MoreFilms), and The Black Rider, which went to Sinema TV in Turkey.

God’s Not Dead...

The company behind 2014’s top independent faith-based film God’s Not Dead has announced the release for its follow-up.

Do You Believe? will open theatrically on March 20. Ron Gell, Pure Flix vice-president of international sales and distribution, will screen the film in Berlin for the first time.

The film explores the notion of faith and features an ensemble cast that includes Mira Sorvino, Cybill Shepherd, Sean Astin, Alexa PenaVega, Ted McGinley, Brian Bosworth, Andrea Logan White, Delroy Lindo, Madison Pettis and Lee Majors.

Jonathan M Gunn directed the story of 12 people in search of meaning whose lives overlap.

God’s Not Dead producers Michael Scott, David Ar White and Russell Wolfe reunite on the film, as do writers Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon.

Take the very first look at Harold Cronk‘s upcoming God’s Not Dead, a feature film that revolves around the lives of several individuals who are challenged by a world that believes God doesn’t exist. In case this sounds interesting enough for you (and it should be, ’cause some pretty cool cast is on board!), head inside to find the official trailer, images and poster for the whole thing! Cronk directed the movie from a script written by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, but the whole thing is actually based on Rice Broocks‘ book of the same name. As we mentioned at the beginning, this family...

West Coast Film Partners has struck a deal with Numenorean Films to finance as many as five features over three years, beginning in 2009.

The pics, in the $2 million-$4 million range, will kick off with dramatic actioner "The King," written and to be directed by Numenorean co-chairmen Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman.

Solomon and Konzelman announced the deal with West Coast CEO Klay Shroedel.

20th Century Fox has acquired screenwriters Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon's Tokyo Ghost Story for Davis Entertainment to produce. The supernatural thriller is based on a Japanese myth about a Yurei, or the ghost of a jilted lover who commits suicide but returns to lead the offending lover to destruction and/or death. Peter Kang is the executive on the project. Davis Entertainment's executive vp production Brian Manis brought the script to Davis president Wyck Godfrey, who took it to Kang.