We are thrilled to announce that the WarHunt movie, starring Mickey Rourke, has been safely proceeding in the post-production process while still attracting a new well-known actress to the movie - Aglaya Tarasova. Aglaya is from Russia and previously is best known for her role in a romantic drama ' The Ice'. She is a winner of the Golden Eagle Award for the best female movie role.
Aglaya was born in Saint Petersburg in the family of famous Russian Actress Kseniya Rappoport. offered a small part in a TV Series "Posle Shkoly" ("After school"). Shortly thereafter her career forced her to move to Moscow, where she was offered one of the main parts in TV Series "Interny". Her big break came when she was cast for the movie "The Ice", produced by Fedor Bondarchuk.
See more about the actress here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8251674/
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It has been recognized at this stage of the movie, that the actress will maximize the revenues from Russian market producers and make the movie pricing negotiations even more competitive. Russian and CIS market is one of the most important distribution market for US movies. Russian/CIS Yearly Box Office is $822,151,007 in 2019; The country remains one of Europe’s biggest film markets and local analysts are predicting a 12.9% year-on-year increase in box-office takings and a similar rise (12.2%) in admissions in 2019.
A well know colorist Andrew Francis has also been attached to the WarHunt movie as the senior digital colorist. Andrew Francis is an A-class digital colorist with a demonstrated history of working in the motion pictures and film production industry. He is known for Looper (2012), The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and many others. The color grading is a process of improving the appearance of an image for presentation in different environments on different devices. Various attributes of an image such as contrast, color, saturation, detail, black level, and white point may be enhanced for motion pictures.
Adding A class digital colorist to the project allows producers to have the same quality of the picture as a $300 million budget movie like Avengers.
This producer's decision however requires an additional production budget, but at the same time allows the project to compete with the film at a different level. With A-Class cologrgading, WarHunt has got a chance to be distributed by major studios theatrically. The theatrical distribution in the USA can increase the sales of the movie above $10M USD.
Watch the Teaser of the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz_7oAJkTPw&feature=youtu.be
Currently, Warhunt is in the post-production period, which is the final and safest stage of the production. All of the processes are being done in the studio, minimizing the delivery risk due to the COVID19.
Now the producers have started on the Visual effects - the process by which the imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking. VFX involves the integration of live-action footage (special effects) and generated imagery (digital or optical effects) to create environments, inanimate objects, animals or creatures which look realistic, but would be dangerous, expensive, impractical, time-consuming or impossible to capture on film. Visual effects using computer-generated imagery (CGI) have recently become accessible to the independent filmmaker with the introduction of affordable and relatively easy-to-use animation and compositing software.
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The current times have had a positive impact on WarHunt. As expected, the global pandemic has created a worldwide lockdown and because of the shortage of content, WarHunt becomes more valuable and the sales price is expected to exceed the one which was initially planned. What it means to CROWDESTOR investors is that the success fee will also be higher.
The respectable online magazine “Variety” writes that Italian director Mauro Borrelli, who has worked in the art department of many Hollywood movies, including two “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, “Captain America: The First Avenger” and “Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi,” describes “WarHunt” as a “wild ride with powerful images; but also a great metaphor about war and its evil, told with powerful iconic characters.” Read more here.
Producers have also informed that they are in the negotiation process with the biggest streaming platforms in the world (such business concept of companies as Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, etc.) to sell WarHunt for the best value, not to mention- to get the biggest audience possible.
In this fundraising campaign, CROWDESTOR investors are offered to contribute the total amount of up to 80 000 EUR, with a loan term of 5 months and an annual interest rate of 24%.
Total Production Budget: 2,150,000 EUR
Producer Contribution: 650,000 EUR
Total investments raised in CROWDESTOR: 1,500,000 EUR
Funding is placed into the special purpose entity (“SPV”) formed by between producer and CROWDESTOR. The SPV will be the sole right holder of the Project to acquire, create, develop, produce, finance and distribute (sale) the content.
Take a look at behind the scenes production and shooting videos, which include exclusive interviews with the leading actors' Mickey Rourke and Robert Knepper.
Janis Timma, CEO of CROWDESTOR, on the left
Mickey Rourke in the middle, Gunars Udris, Co-founder of Crowdestor on the right
On a field visit to the shooting site
Investment raised in Crowdestor platform: 1 500 000 EUR
Pre-sales income: 1 150 000 EUR
Remaining sales: 650 000 EUR
US sales: 742 500 EUR
North America sales: 247 500 EUR
Total income: 2 790 000 EUR
Profit after Principal is paid back: 1 290 000 EUR
As previously explained, the global pandemic has created a worldwide lockdown and because of the shortage of content, WarHunt becomes more valuable and the sales price is expected to exceed the one which was initially planned. What it means to CROWDESTOR investors is that the success fee will also be higher.
The Project has executed Pre-Sales contracts with Shanghai SJS Computer Technology Company, Ltd., to have exclusive distribution rights on the territory of the World excluding the United States of America for a non-refundable guaranteed payment of $1,150,000 EUR which shall coincide upon delivery.
The movie takes you on a journey during World War II, where an American plane on a search and destroy mission lands down in between the enemy lines. Even though the American soldiers are trapped they are fighting through their way of getting out, but they get slowly picked off by the enemies and the dark forces in the woods protecting the fountain of youth and the secret of immortality.
Watch movie production process and behind the scenes here:
A US Army plane flies over Germany’s Black Forest in 1945. It is suddenly being enveloped by a swarm of mysterious feathers and loses control. As the aircraft plummets toward the ground, the AIRMEN see the feathers converging to form a MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN BLACK. Later that night, SERGENT BREWER briefs his SQUAD on their mission to locate and rescue the crew from the downed plane. They are interrupted by MAJOR JOHNSON and his trusted specialist, WALSH – an expert tasked with destroying sensitive intel, which was aboard the aircraft. Walsh and the rest of the squad prepare their gear and set off into the forest.
They navigate the dense foliage, Walsh learns the squad medic, Morgan – the sole African American in the squad of the white man – was just added because of his high skill in battle.
The men soon come across a decrepit, isolated cottage. A solider, RUCKER, peeks inside to see in there 4 BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. One of them, Stria – resembling the woman in the plane – emerges, distracting Rucker – and separating him from the other soldiers.
The specialist Walsh and the others set up camp, Brewer attempts to contact Major Johnson, but a MYSTERIOUS VOICE cries out from the radio, imploring the soldiers to evacuate the forest before they die. Meanwhile, Stria leads Rucker to the plane’s wreckage. But when he attempts to return to the squad, Stria stops him, enticing him with her powers of seduction. When Rucker insists, she reveals her TRUE, NIGHTMARISH FORM. Rucker shoots her and flees back to the others.
When the soldiers try to escape the woods, they discover their initials carved into trees. The air is filled with the cawing of crows. They catch brief glimpses of the mysterious women among the foliage… as the men get picked off one by one.
Walsh and another solider, FREEMAN, are the last survivors. They find the cottage again, and Walsh manages to radio the coordinates to Major Johnson. He then reveals to Freeman he was sent to locate the TREE OF LIFE – which holds the secret of immortality and that the eerie women are its guardians. That’s when the women attack, incapacitating Walsh and killing Freeman.
As the woman prepares to sacrifice the last man standing, Walsh seemingly escapes… but the witches win in the end.
Robert Lyle Knepper
Robert Lyle Knepper is an American actor best known for his roles in “Prison Break”, “Hitman”, “Hunger Games”, “Heroes”, “Twin Peaks”, “Transporter 3” and many others.
Jackson Rathbone
Jackson Rathbone has been internationally recognized for his breakout role as Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga (2008-2012). The Twilight Saga is a series of five romance fantasy films that have grossed over $3.3 billion in worldwide receipts.
Mauro Borelli was born in Italy where he studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice. After a classical formation as. Restorer of paintings from the XVI Century he moved to Rome to deepen his interest in films and worked for Terry Gillam designing storyboards. On THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN and for Francis Coppola on the pre-visualization of the GODFATHER III.Soon after he moved to Los Angeles to work as an art director for Activision and Dreamwork expanding his experience toward digital technology. He won the Best Art Direction Award for the game ZORK NEMESIS and was hired as a production designer on the animation feature film FINAL FANTASY for Square Soft. Among his important contributions to Hollywood productions the most significant are his concept designs for the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN franchise; CAPITAN AMERICA, STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII and his long collaboration with Timm Burton (SLEEPY HOLLOW, PLANET OF THE APES and DARK SHADOWS). Mauro Borelli full experience can be found on IMDB in 2014, WHITE SHOE, a short film written and directed by Mauro and inspired by the life of Salvatore Ferragamo won the Museum Short Award as the “Best short movie hosted. In European Museums. In 2015, China’s Huace Media Group entered into a development deal for MIND GATE, a futuristic thriller to be direct my Mauro. In 2016, China’s Croton Media acquired Mauro’s screenplay, TRIGGER, an action thriller to be shot in Southeast Asia. Recently, Mauro wrote and directed the alien abduction Sci-Fi picture, THE RECALL, starring Wesley Snipe (blade) and RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad) to be released in March. 2017.The film is the second film in the world filmed in BARCO ESCAPE, a new technology for a super-wide panoramic theatrical experience.
Adel Nur is fluent in five languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish and Ethiopian) and conversant in Arabic, Nur is a regular at international film festivals and thrives working in the foreign market.
In 2007, Nur joined forces with current ESPN/ABC Analyst/Broadcaster and former 13-year NBA veteran Jalen Rose to form Three Tier Entertainment (TTE). In 2011 TTE released THE FAB FIVE, the highest-rated ESPN documentary in the network’s history. Nur produced the feature film BLUE CAPRICE starring Isaiah Washington portraying the DC Sniper which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and at Lincoln Center’s New Directors/New Film series. Nur also produced the JEEP 6th Man Campaign for the US Olympic Basketball team.
Under the Halcyon banner Nur produced HOLLOW POINT starring Luke Goss, Bill Duke, Juju Chan, Jay Mohr, Michael Pare, and Roger G Smith which will be distributed by Lionsgate. Under newly formed Atomik Content, Nur brings INVINCIBLE with Johnny Strong, Marko Zaror, Michael Pare, Sally Kirkland, and Vladimir Kulich and is currently in preproduction on AFFINITY and will produce PLAIN SIGHT in 2020.
In his over twenty years’ experience as a talent representative, Nur dedicates himself to maintaining a diverse client roster. He has helped shape the careers of notable talents including Laurence Fishburne, the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Wentworth Miller, Frank Langella, Robert Knepper, Morocco Omari, Peter Stormare, and Adewale Akkinouye-Agbaje to name a few.
Ed Marx is known for his work on Safelight (2015), Jeepers Creepers (2001) and Frozen (2010). Jeepers Creepers worldwide box office is $59,217,789!
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