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"We are here to live with everything you've got..." Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed an official trailer for To Live and Die and Live, a unique indie film set in Detroit from filmmaker Qasim Basir. This initially premiered in 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival and will finally be released this year - starting in limited theaters this month. Muhammad returns home to Detroit to bury his stepfather and is thrust into settling his accounts, but Muhammad’s struggles with depression and addiction may finish him before he finishes the task. Muhammad has returned for the funeral, but his own battle with addiction, which he hides from the world, drives him to immediately fade away into the sultry, late-night, drug-saturated after-hours of Detroit and an equally intoxicating romantic relationship. One of the most stunning contemporary films shot in Detroit. Starring Amin Joseph as Muhammad, with Skye P. Marshall, Omari Hardwick, Cory Hardrict,...

Exclusive: Qasim Basir’s Sundance Film Festival feature To Live and Die and Live is getting a theatrical release on May 16 in AMC multiplexes from AuthentiQ Films & CinemaStreet Pictures.

Samuel Goldwyn Films picked up digital rights to the movie, which will land in the home later this year.

Basir’s feature, and ode to Detroit, was lauded by top critics at its Sundance Film Festival debut in 2023 with 89% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Hollywood filmmaker Muhammad returns to his home city (Amin Joseph) to bury his stepfather and settle his accounts. But as he is thrust into old and new relationships his struggles with addiction and loss may finish him before he finishes the task.

The pic also stars Skye P. Marshall, Omari Hardwick, Cory Hardrict, Maryam Basir and Dana Gourrier. To Live and Die and Live is a AuthentiQ Films, Significant Productions, CinemaStreet Pictures and Confluential Films production. Producers are Nina Yang Bongiovi,...

For a certain percentage of the country, the best thing that could have happened to them on Election Day 2016 was if they had met someone. At least that’s the idea offered in “A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.,” co-writer (with Samantha Tanner) and director Qasim Basir’s underwritten and often irritating romance that’s like a combative “Before Sunrise.” Forget Republicans versus Democrats; the real conflict is between new loves.

The evening in question begins near a food truck. Cass (Omari Hardwick) is hanging with his friends when he spots Frida (Meagan Good) eating alone and strolls over to chat her up. He invites her to a club, an invitation she initially turns down but then accepts. In the meantime, Cass takes a call from his son, saying that his mom is “screaming at the TV.” He says to the boy, “It doesn’t matter what happens tonight. What did I tell you?...

“Shampoo” meets “Medicine for Melancholy” (or “Before Sunrise”) in Qasim Basir’s two-hander “A Boy. A Girl. A Dream” — though with its protagonists largely lost in their own thoughts, this tale of strangers meeting on the night of the 2016 U.S. presidential election substitutes a poetical moodiness for those earlier films’ bantering garrulousness. One of the smoothest enterprises yet among that select group of features shot in a single take, the film succeeds as more than an accomplished technical stunt, even if neither its political nor character dimensions feel quite fully realized. Samuel Goldwyn plans a release for later this year, and timing it close to the midterm elections might be a wise strategy.

Club promoter Cass (Omari Hardwick) and his friend Roc (Jay Ellis) are partying in downtown L.A. with a half-dozen attractive lady friends when Cass’ eye is caught by passer-by Frida aka Free (Meagan Good) as...

Exclusive: Qasim Basir, the writer-director whose Sundance Film Festival drama A Boy. A Girl. A Dream. starring Omari Hardwick and Meagan Good was just acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films, has signed a rep deal with ICM Partners.

The pic, directed by Basir who co-penned with Samantha Tanner, is set in Los Angeles on Election Night 2016 and centers on a club promoter (Hardwick) who falls for a woman (Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams while he pushes her to discover hers.

Basir’s previous feature film was Destined, the 2016 drama that starred Cory Hardrict as two characters — a rising star in the architectural community and a neighborhood drug dealer — in a story of how even the smallest incident can manifest into a life-changing event.

Basir remains repped by Zero Gravity and attorney Marios Rush.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired worldwide rights to A Boy. A Girl. A Dream, the Qasim Basir-directed movie starring Power‘s Omari Hardwick and Meagan Good that premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. No release date has been set.

The Los Angeles-set drama penned by Basir and Samantha Tanner revolves around a Los Angeles club promoter (Hardwick) who on the night of the 2016 Presidential election meets a woman (Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams. It’s all set against the backdrop of Donald Trump overtaking Hilary Clinton in the course of the evening.

Jay Ellis, Dijon Talton, Wesley Jonathan and Affion Crockett co-star in the pic, produced by Datari Turner. Jash’d Belcher, Louis Steyn, Tj Steyn, Jamal Chilton, Tim Weatherspoon, Phil Thornton, Good and Hardwick are executive producers.

The deal was negotiated by Samuel Goldwyn’s Meg Longo and CAA, Turner, and attorney...

Us election night drama premiered in Sundance.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired worldwide rights to Qasim Basir’s Sundance entry A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.

Basir and Samantha Tanner wrote the film starring Omari Hardwick as a Los Angeles club promoter on the night of the 2016 Us presidential election who meets a woman (Meagan Good) who challenges him to revisit his broken dreams.

Jay Ellis, Dijon Talton, Wesley Jonathan, and Affion Crockett round out the key cast. Datari Turner produced via his Datari Turner Productions. Executive producers on the film are Jash’d Belcher, Louis Steyn, Tj Steyn, Jamal Chilton,...

Buffalo 8 has launched a new marketing division with former entertainment publicist Theo Dumont. Dumont’s new division will oversee marketing and publicity campaigns for projects financed by Buffalo 8 and BondIt Media Capital, as well as for clients of the company’s marketing division. Previously with Miller PR and MGM Studios, Dumont launched his own marketing and publicity company Dumont Marketing in 2011. His previous projects and clients included Netflix’s “She’s Gotta Have It,” “A Boy A Girl ADream” co-writer Samantha Tanner, “What Happened to Monday” writer Kerry Williamson and the Spike Lee film “Black Klansmann.” “I’m honored to be teaming up with the Buffalo...