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Exclusive: Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films has acquired worldwide rights to Breaker Studios’ Down with the King, which had its world premiere in the Acid lineup that runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival and just scored the Grand Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival.

Written and directed by Diego Ongaro (Bob and the Trees), the movie stars 2021 Grammy-nominated rapper and songwriter Freddie Gibbs in his debut feature film role, alongside Jamie Neumann (Lovecraft Country), David Krumholtz (The Deuce), Sharon Washington (Joker) and Bob Tarasuk (Bob and the Trees).

Written by Xabi Molia and Ongaro, the film follows rap star Money Merc (Gibbs), whose disillusionment with the music industry and the pressures of being a celebrity sends him away from the city to re-evaluate his career and finds himself in a small-town farming community.

Rob Cristiano (The Miseducation of Cameron Post), Kim Jackson (Blue Caprice) and Zach LeBeau (Trust Machine:...

Exclusive: Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Down With The King starring Grammy-nominated rapper Freddie Gibbs.

The film, produced by Breaker Studios, will have its world premiere in the Acid lineup which runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival.

In his feature debut, Gibbs plays Mercury Maxwell aka “Money Merc,” a famous rapper who has been sent by his manager to a rural house in the Berkshires to focus on his next album. Unbeknownst to his manager, however, Mercury has neither the desire nor the intention to record any music. Disenchanted with his rap career and the 24/7 upkeep that such fame entails, Mercury spends his time on his neighbor’s farm and pours his energy into learning about farming and country living. After Mercury abruptly announces his retirement over social media and his decision to focus on farming, his manager tries everything he can to lure his most...

La Fortaleza’s sales agent is using Breaker’s blockchain technology to track its revenues.

Us-based blockchain-powered streaming platform Breaker, the company behind Alex Winter’s Trust Machine, The Happy Worker, executive-produced by David Lynch, and Rotterdam Tiger title La Fortaleza, has unveiled a slew of new projects.

It has boarded Keith Bearden’s completed Us-set suburban coming of age drama, Antarctica, starring Chloë Levine and Kimie Muroya, backing low-budget Guatemalan drama Luz, and investing in Chinese director Shujun Wei’s Striding In The Wind.

Owned by SingularDTV, Breaker is also involved in a long-gestating TV drama called San Pedro,...

First event set for New York on April 26-27.

Breaker is partnering with Screen International on a series of conferences called Screenbreaker, set to start in New York this April. Further locations will be announced later.

The series will explore business opportunities created by the intersection of blockchain and entertainment and look at how the technology is disrupting sectors including film, media, music, and gaming.

The first event, Screenbreaker NY, will take place in New York from April 26-27 at The Mezzanine (pictured) when more than 300 individuals and exhibitors are expected to attend a series of panels, fireside chats, keynotes and networking sessions.

Breaker, the blockchain content distributor formerly known as SingularDTV, launched its beta version Thursday with a slew of projects, such as FilmRise’s feature “Manifesto” starring Cate Blanchett.

The platform seeks to empower artists and owners through the peer-to-peer distribution network. It was founded in 2016 by author and music producer Zach LeBeau, movie producer Kim Jackson, and entrepreneur Joseph Lubin (Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder and CEO).

Largely used to record transparency in financial transactions, the tech will help Breaker offer a slate of movies and music to consumers worldwide through an application called DApp. Projects from Oscilloscope Laboratories, Dread via Epic Pictures Releasing, and Vertical Entertainment will be available.

“I’m always looking for new ways to increase the transparency of the business while also trying to simplify it. If this what the future’s going to look like, I want to be in on it early,” said Steven Soderbergh,...

New venture aims to nurture low and mid-budget independent films in Japan.

New York-based blockchain company SingularDTV is launching an outpost in Japan to be headed by leading local independent producer and sales agent Yuko Shiomaki.

The new venture aims to nurture low and mid-budget Japanese films, focusing on original stories that might otherwise never get produced, and then bring that content and the filmmakers behind it onto the international stage.

SingularDTV will also begin acquiring content libraries for distribution through a dedicated Japanese channel on its upcoming distribution portal to be launched next year.

“We currently have a significant presence in Hong Kong,...

‘Bitcoin matters, but blockchain is really where the changes are going to come.’

SingularDTV has set an October 26 New York release for Alex Winter’s Trust Machine: The Story Of Blockchain its first feature-length documentary.

Kim Jackson of SingularDTV is producing alongside Geoff Clark of Futurism Studios, and Winter’s Trouper Productions. SingularDTV finances the feature and executive producers are Zach LeBeau, Arie Levy-Cohen, Alex Klokus and Joseph Lubin.

Trust Machine: The Story Of Blockchain explores blockchain, the decentralised technology that supports among other things cryptocurrencies.

The documentary asks why banks appears so wary of blockchain while it has been...

Poldark and Valley Girl star Josh Whitehouse will lead cast in blockchain outfit SingularDTV’s The Happy Worker alongside Thomas Haden Church, Colm Meaney and Meagan Holder.

Production is under way in Utah on the movie, which is executive-produced by David Lynch and is being directed by Lynch’s long-time collaborator Duwayne Dunham (Twin Peaks). Rhys Mitchell, J.R. Starr and Amy Shiels round out the cast.

The film follows Joe (Whitehouse) who lives in a utopian community. A reluctant hero eager to please his wife (Holder) and his boss (Haden Church), he unexpectedly finds himself thrust into a position of power by ‘Clete’ (Meaney) and must battle to save what he and others have spent years building.

Pic is based on S.E. Feinberg’s play, which was first performed in 1982 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. The play was adapted for the screen by Feinberg, Jerold Pearson and director Dunham.

Exclusive: Want to know more about blockchain? Alex Winter might be able to help. Here’s the first teaser trailer for the actor-turned-filmmaker’s documentary Trust Machine: The Story Of Blockchain.

Produced by SingularDTV and Futurism and narrated by Rosario Dawson, the film explores the global evolution of blockchain technology and questions why it is both condemned and lauded by different major organizations and whether it is merely a bubble about to burst. The film also shines a light on Brit ‘hacktivist and blockchain expert’ Lauri Love as he fights extradition to the U.S. for hacking into U.S. Government computers.

Pic was financed and produced by Kim Jackson of SingularDTV, Geoff Clark of Futurism Studios and Alex Winter, with Zach LeBeau, Arie Levy-Cohen, Alex Klokus and Joseph Lubin as executive producers.

It will show on Oct 26, 2018 at Cinema Village, New York and on Nov 16, 2018 at Laemmle Monica, Los Angeles...

You know, I can’t tell if Zach LeBeau’s “The Scientist” is a horror movie dressed up as sci-fi, or a drama dressed up as sci-fi, or if it is indeed a sci-fi concoction. Regardless of what it truly is, the trailer and clip (via Apple) have intrigued me. LeBeau has a pretty interesting resume himself. According to IMDb, “The Scientist” is his feature-film debut, but before that he was an actor on a couple of “Star Trek: Voyager” episodes. The Scientist follows a brilliant physicist, Dr. Marcus Ryan (Bill Sage), who anguishes over the tragic death of his wife and daughter while secretly constructing a mysterious energy generator in his basement. The multi—dimensional energy unleashed by the machine triggers a series of events that propels Ryan toward a higher level of consciousness. Starring Bill Sage, Adam LeFevre, Jamie Elman, Brittany Benjamin, Daniela Lavender, and directed by Zach LeBeau.