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Gravitas Ventures has picked up North American rights to upcoming gangland thriller MobKing, which it will release in select theaters and on demand May 26.

The deal was completed by Danielle Gasher, senior director of acquisitions at Gravitas Ventures, and Anthony Caliendo of Button Man Films.

Button Man Films has also signed with Adler & Associates Entertainment for international rights on MobKing, which will make its world market debut in Cannes.

MobKing, which first screened at the 2022 American Film Market, is based on the award-winning web series of the same name, created by and starring Ciro Dapagio (Suitcasing, Silent Partners) who reprises his role as Mike White, a gangster who has distinguished himself as a man of honor, a stand-up guy, but after being released from a lengthy prison sentence finds himself the target of Miami’s most notorious criminal organization. James Russo (Donnie Brasco) steps into the role of Dominick “Dom” Sasso,...

"Do you really think he's going to keep looking for you after this?" Gravitas has revealed an official trailer for MobKing, a trashy crime thriller from Florida made by a Cuban-American filmmaker known as Jorge "Jokes" Yanes. You might be surprised to learn that the film is about a mob king. Ciro Dapagio plays Mike White, who returns from a lengthy prison sentence to a world changed drastically by tech, with a mindset of just trying to live a normal life running his club and taking care of his family. However, this dogmatically loyal crime family soldier quickly realizes that he's the target of the very organization he's remained blindly devoted to all of his life. Now, thrust into a kill or be killed situation, he faces a dilemma: get out and stay out or fight and reclaim what's rightfully his. The film's ensemble cast includes Robert Lasardo, Oksana Lada,...

Screen Rant is thrilled to announce Button Man Films' newest mob thriller MobKing is making having its first-ever screening at the AFM World Market Premiere in Santa Monica. An exclusive clip from the fascinating new clip highlights Ciro Dapagio's return as Mike White, the character from his award-winning web series of the same name. White is a rehabilitated gangster who has turned over a new leaf and become a stand-up citizen after his prison sentence, but all of that changes when he finds himself in the crosshairs of Miami’s most notorious criminal organization.

Joining Dapagio is James Russo (Donnie Brasco), who plays Dominick “Dom” Sasso, the head of South Florida's Sasso Crime Family and a Capo di Tutti Capi who will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting his loved ones. MobKing boasts an impressive set of actors who previously starred in classic mob series like The Sopranos...

Exclusive: Josh McDermitt (The Walking Dead) has joined Oscar nominee Patricia Clarkson, Tony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski and Josh Lucas in the cast of Lilly, the political thriller co-written and directed by Rachel Feldman, which is currently in production in Georgia.

Based on the life of Lilly Ledbetter, the Alabama woman for whom President Obama named his first piece of legislation—The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009—the film explores the psychological cost of putting one’s life on the line for justice. At the heart of the social justice drama is a love story between Lilly (Clarkson) and her husband Charles (Lucas), a man who stood by his wife despite life-threatening challenges and significant family strife.

McDermitt will play the ambitious and unethical Alabama Congressman Dan McGinty. As previously announced, Sadoski is portraying Jon Goldfarb, the Birmingham civil rights attorney who navigated Ledbetter’s legal battles.

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Tony Sokol Jan 8, 2020

Genovese capo Fat Dave Iacovetti flew south and fleeced Florida in mob series Silent Partners

Martin Scorsese’s mobster movie swan song The Irishman will not spell the death knoll for gangster films as long as independents continue to mine lesser known criminals. The film Mob Town told the story of the 1958 mafia summit in Apalachin, N.Y., which brought organized crime to national attention. The upcoming series Silent Partners brings a Genovese family unit to series on the same service that brought Robert De Niro and Al Pacino's mob pairing. "Netflix is excited about the project and the addition of Nick Villalonga," Gary Pastore (The Sopranos) told Den of Geek.

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Pastore, who played Genovese Crime family boss Matty "The Horse" Ianniello in HBO’s The Deuce and Albert "the Lord High Executioner" Anastasia in both The Irishman and Mob Town,...

internationally recognized and renowned martial artists Action star Paul Mormando has been cast as Benny Blades in Silent Partners, an exciting new pilot based on real-life mafia boss Dave Iacovetti. Mormando, a Brooklyn native and rising action star, will portray the heavy-hitting street enforcer for the Gambino crime family, offering ample opportunity for the skilled martial artist to showcase his well-rounded and distinctive set of fighting skills. Ciro Dapagio, Co- creator of the thrilling series will also star in the Lead role of Valentine. Set in 1980’s South Florida, Silent Partners tells the unbelievable and compelling true story of Good E-Boy Insurance, which served as a front for a Mob-run operation, and how the business went...

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