First footage screening from ’Dominique’, ’My Divorce Comedy’ on November 1.
Film Mode Entertainment has announced at AFM a raft of deals on supernatural horror thriller The Devil Conspiracy, action thriller Dominique, and revenge thriller Outrage in a series of transactions concluded since Cannes.
Nathan Frankowski’s The Devil Conspiracy stars Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle, Peter Mensah, and Joe Anderson in the story of a Satanic cult which steals the Shroud of Turin.
Deals have closed in Middle East (Eagle Films Middle East), Australia/New Zealand (Eagle Entertainment), the UK (Amcomri Productions), Scandinavia (NonStop), South Korea (Lumix Media Contents Group), Germany...
Film Mode Entertainment has announced at AFM a raft of deals on supernatural horror thriller The Devil Conspiracy, action thriller Dominique, and revenge thriller Outrage in a series of transactions concluded since Cannes.
Nathan Frankowski’s The Devil Conspiracy stars Alice Orr-Ewing, Joe Doyle, Peter Mensah, and Joe Anderson in the story of a Satanic cult which steals the Shroud of Turin.
Deals have closed in Middle East (Eagle Films Middle East), Australia/New Zealand (Eagle Entertainment), the UK (Amcomri Productions), Scandinavia (NonStop), South Korea (Lumix Media Contents Group), Germany...
- 11/1/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Oksana Orlan (The Russian Bride) and Maurice Compte (Narcos) have teamed up to kick ass in action-thriller Dominique, set to make its Cannes market debut.
The film, from Film Mode Entertainment, Green Dog Films/Agora Entertainment and Reigning Entertainment, was written and directed by Michael S. Ojeda (Avenged, The Russian Bride) and is currently in post-production.
Dominique sees Orlan play a well-trained Ukrainian assassin who flees from her troubled past in an attempt to begin a new life in South America. However, she soon finds herself in a town plagued with violence and corruption. Facing brutal attacks from the police and mafia, she must decide whether to protect herself or stay to help an innocent family.
“Bringing Dominique to life has been a massive undertaking and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with Clay and the whole Film Mode family to introduce the film and our star,...
The film, from Film Mode Entertainment, Green Dog Films/Agora Entertainment and Reigning Entertainment, was written and directed by Michael S. Ojeda (Avenged, The Russian Bride) and is currently in post-production.
Dominique sees Orlan play a well-trained Ukrainian assassin who flees from her troubled past in an attempt to begin a new life in South America. However, she soon finds herself in a town plagued with violence and corruption. Facing brutal attacks from the police and mafia, she must decide whether to protect herself or stay to help an innocent family.
“Bringing Dominique to life has been a massive undertaking and we couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with Clay and the whole Film Mode family to introduce the film and our star,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of my favorite independent films from the past few years in Michael S. Ojeda‘s Crow-esque Avenged, which featured stunning camerawork, cinematography, and excellent choreography. Ojeda’s next is The Russian Bride (read our review), about a Russian woman (Oksana Orlan) who travels to America with her daughter (Kristina Pimenova) to marry a reclusive billionaire (Corbin Bernsen), who turns out to be a […]...
- 3/14/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
One of my favorite independent films from the past few years in Michael S. Ojeda‘s Crow-esque Avenged, which featured stunning camerawork, cinematography, and excellent choreography. Ojeda’s next is The Russian Bride (read our review), about a Russian woman (Oksana Orlan) who travels to America with her daughter (Kristina Pimenova) to marry a reclusive billionaire (Corbin Bernsen), who turns out to be […]...
- 2/8/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Russian Bride, Michael S. Ojeda’s follow-up to his 2015 cult film Avenged (aka Savaged), has been picked up by Vertical Entertainment for North American distribution, with plans to release the movie this year.
Vmi is repping international sales of the film, which stars Corbin Bernsen, Oksana Orlan and child supermodel Kristina Pimenova.
In the pic, a beautiful Russian woman moves to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire. They live in an extravagant estate, with servants and riches at their fingertips. But things aren’t quite what they seem, as soon nefarious plans come to light and the ...
Vmi is repping international sales of the film, which stars Corbin Bernsen, Oksana Orlan and child supermodel Kristina Pimenova.
In the pic, a beautiful Russian woman moves to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire. They live in an extravagant estate, with servants and riches at their fingertips. But things aren’t quite what they seem, as soon nefarious plans come to light and the ...
The Russian Bride, Michael S. Ojeda’s follow-up to his 2015 cult film Avenged (aka Savaged), has been picked up by Vertical Entertainment for North American distribution, with plans to release the movie this year.
Vmi is repping international sales of the film, which stars Corbin Bernsen, Oksana Orlan and child supermodel Kristina Pimenova.
In the pic, a beautiful Russian woman moves to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire. They live in an extravagant estate, with servants and riches at their fingertips. But things aren’t quite what they seem, as soon nefarious plans come to light and the ...
Vmi is repping international sales of the film, which stars Corbin Bernsen, Oksana Orlan and child supermodel Kristina Pimenova.
In the pic, a beautiful Russian woman moves to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire. They live in an extravagant estate, with servants and riches at their fingertips. But things aren’t quite what they seem, as soon nefarious plans come to light and the ...
One of my favorite independent films from the past few years in Michael S. Ojeda‘s Crow-esque Avenged, which featured stunning camerawork, cinematography, and excellent choreography. Ojeda’s next is The Russian Bride, about a Russian woman (Oksana Orlan) who travels to America with her daughter (Kristina Pimenova) to marry a reclusive billionaire (Corbin Bernsen), who turns out to be a madman and […]...
- 5/14/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
One of my favorite independent films from the past few years in Michael S. Ojeda‘s Crow-esque Avenged, which featured stunning camerawork, cinematography, and excellent choreography. Ojeda’s next is The Russian Bride, about a Russian woman (Oksana Orlan) who travels to America with her daughter (Kristina Pimenova) to marry a reclusive billionaire (Corbin Bernsen), who turns out to be a madman and […]...
- 5/9/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
One of my favorite independent films from the past few years in Michael S. Ojeda‘s Crow-esque Avenged, which featured stunning camerawork, cinematography, and excellent choreography. Ojeda’s next is The Russian Bride, about a Russian woman (Oksana Orlan) who travels to America with her daughter (Kristina Pimenova) to marry a reclusive billionaire (Corbin Bernsen), who turns out to be a madman and […]...
- 2/16/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
A new film is on its way from Michael S. Ojeda (Avenged) entitled The Russian Bride starring Corbin Bernsen, Oksana Orlan, and 11-year-old supermodel(!) Kristina Pimenova. Right now we have the trailer for you and more! Check it out! Jeff Miller (Clowntown, Inoperable) produced with two-time Emmy winner Philip Day, Kimberley T. Zulkowski, Stephen Gregory Curtis, […]
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- 12/6/2017
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
One of my favorite independent films from the past few years in Michael S. Ojeda‘s Crow-esque Avenged, which featured stunning camerawork, cinematography, and excellent choreography. Ojeda’s next is The Russian Bride, about a Russian woman (Oksana Orlan) who travels to America with her daughter (Kristina Pimenova) to marry a reclusive billionaire (Corbin Bernsen), who turns out to be a madman and […]...
- 12/4/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
One of my favorite independent films from the past few years in Michael S. Ojeda‘s Crow-esque Avenged, which featured stunning camerawork, cinematography and excellent choreography. According to the film’s Facebook page, filming is underway in Flint, Michigan on Ojeda’s The Russian Bride, about a Russian woman (Oksana Orlan) who travels to America with her daughter (Kristina Pimenova) to marry […]...
- 3/22/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Filming has begun on the dark ghost story thriller The Russian Bride, which is being directed by Michael S. Ojeda (Avenged). The film, which stars Corbin Bernsen (“Psycho”, The Dentist), Oksana Orlan, and Kristina Pimenova, tackles the concept of overseas… Continue Reading →
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- 3/22/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Corbin Bernsen is set to star in suspense thriller The Russian Bride, co-starring with Russian actress Oksana Orlan and 11-year-old model Kristina Pimenova. Michael Ojeda will direct from his own original script, with production scheduled to begin next month outside Detroit. The indie follows a reclusive billionaire (Bernsen) who brings a young woman and her daughter to the U.S. from Moscow with the promise of giving them both a better life. They soon discover his motives…...
- 2/22/2017
- Deadline
ISA Prods.
Ukrainian-born actress Oksana Orlenko's performance as an illegal immigrant from Croatia has brilliant, shifting movements between hope and despair. Her character is stripped of all her values, including that of language and culture, but she perseveres, her demeanor toughened and resolve strengthened by each indignity. You wish this performance came in a less schizophrenic movie, but it does contain an emotional honesty that cuts through the melodramatic hokum that surrounds Orlenko. The movie opens Friday in Los Angeles following a February release in Chicago.
"Lana's Rain" starts off as an engrossing tale about the dark side of the American immigrant experience. A brother and sister escape the war-torn Balkans in the mid-1990s only to find themselves desperate for money in Chicago, thus falling into a drowning pool of exploitation and prostitution. On the fringe are other characters like a Chinese immigrant sculptor, fighting his own battles of self-worth, that hint at the interesting picture writer-director Michael S. Ojeda could have made.
But at roughly the halfway point, the movie turns into a low-budget gangster picture, which sacrifices character and themes to the kind of action mayhem all too commonplace in studio thrillers. Most troubling is Ojeda's inability or unwillingness to introduce greater ambivalence into his brother-sister relationship. The degradation of the innocent Lana (Orlenko) would play better if Darko (Nickolai Stoilov) was not such an unrepentant monster. He suffers no conflict whatsoever turning his own sister into a whore.
The world of immigrants who cannot escape the physical and emotional violence of their homeland even by leaving it is a morally murky one, ripe for examination by an adventurous filmmaker. Turning it into a routine gangster film with requisite double-crosses and retribution slayings throws away that opportunity.
Gennaldi Balitski's camerawork is quite good as he uses Chicago to express Lana's emotions and moods. William Brown's music subtly and sometimes not so subtly underscores the story's emotions. But it is Orlenko's Lana that you take away from the film, a woman bravely struggling to get her footing and regain the moral strength to escape her most evil oppressor -- her own brother.
Ukrainian-born actress Oksana Orlenko's performance as an illegal immigrant from Croatia has brilliant, shifting movements between hope and despair. Her character is stripped of all her values, including that of language and culture, but she perseveres, her demeanor toughened and resolve strengthened by each indignity. You wish this performance came in a less schizophrenic movie, but it does contain an emotional honesty that cuts through the melodramatic hokum that surrounds Orlenko. The movie opens Friday in Los Angeles following a February release in Chicago.
"Lana's Rain" starts off as an engrossing tale about the dark side of the American immigrant experience. A brother and sister escape the war-torn Balkans in the mid-1990s only to find themselves desperate for money in Chicago, thus falling into a drowning pool of exploitation and prostitution. On the fringe are other characters like a Chinese immigrant sculptor, fighting his own battles of self-worth, that hint at the interesting picture writer-director Michael S. Ojeda could have made.
But at roughly the halfway point, the movie turns into a low-budget gangster picture, which sacrifices character and themes to the kind of action mayhem all too commonplace in studio thrillers. Most troubling is Ojeda's inability or unwillingness to introduce greater ambivalence into his brother-sister relationship. The degradation of the innocent Lana (Orlenko) would play better if Darko (Nickolai Stoilov) was not such an unrepentant monster. He suffers no conflict whatsoever turning his own sister into a whore.
The world of immigrants who cannot escape the physical and emotional violence of their homeland even by leaving it is a morally murky one, ripe for examination by an adventurous filmmaker. Turning it into a routine gangster film with requisite double-crosses and retribution slayings throws away that opportunity.
Gennaldi Balitski's camerawork is quite good as he uses Chicago to express Lana's emotions and moods. William Brown's music subtly and sometimes not so subtly underscores the story's emotions. But it is Orlenko's Lana that you take away from the film, a woman bravely struggling to get her footing and regain the moral strength to escape her most evil oppressor -- her own brother.
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