29/05/2013 - All rights company strikes purple patch in Cannes

Stealth Media Group (SMG), the all rights UK film distributor and international film and TV sales company has had a busy Cannes. SMG has set up production arm Stealth Indie to focus on commercially driven films by up and coming British and European talent. The films that are in pre-production will start filming end of July and be delivered for quarter two next year. Stealth Indie will produce, co-produce, finance and/or acquire and sell 3-4 films per year.

Stealth Indie projects include: The Hatchling, marking the feature film debut of veteran commercials and documentary director, Michael Anderson, is a creature horror centring on man-eating crocodiles and stars Greg Davies (The Inbetweeners Movie) and Thomas Turgoose (This Is England [+see also:
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SMG has also teamed with Australian outfit Cathartic Pictures to co-produce films and set up a sales branch there. First up is $2 million zombie western, Bullets for the Dead by writer/directors Joshua C. Birch & Michael Du-Shane that will film in July in Queensland. Bite, a $5 million vampire film by Alberto Sciamma films in October.

Meanwhile, SMG has boarded The Tank (photo), a WW2 action thriller by British director Howard J. Ford (The Dead) and produced by Mugshot Films that will shoot by the year-end.