Production start earmarked for November in El Salvador.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) will kick off worldwide sales at AFM on Salvadoran Civil War drama Fireflies At El Mozote as Mena Suvari (American Beauty) joins Paz Vega on the cast ahead of an anticipated production start this month in El Salvador.
Peg and Yari Film Group are producing the drama and Ernesto Melara will direct the 1980s El Salvador-set story about a ten-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and embarks on a quest to find justice for his murdered family. Melara’s screenplay is inspired by actual events.
Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) will kick off worldwide sales at AFM on Salvadoran Civil War drama Fireflies At El Mozote as Mena Suvari (American Beauty) joins Paz Vega on the cast ahead of an anticipated production start this month in El Salvador.
Peg and Yari Film Group are producing the drama and Ernesto Melara will direct the 1980s El Salvador-set story about a ten-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and embarks on a quest to find justice for his murdered family. Melara’s screenplay is inspired by actual events.
- 11/1/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jeff Fahey has signed on to star in the Salvadoran civil war drama Fireflies at El Mozote, which starts principal photography on location in El Salvador in November.
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is set in 1980s El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and his quest to bring justice to his dead family in the middle of a bloody civil war.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza, and Bob Yari. Premiere’s Carlos Rincon is an executive producer. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
Fahey is best known for roles in films like Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter Black Heart. He has also been a regular fixture in Robert Rodriguez’s films, including Planet Terror, Machete,...
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is set in 1980s El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and his quest to bring justice to his dead family in the middle of a bloody civil war.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza, and Bob Yari. Premiere’s Carlos Rincon is an executive producer. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
Fahey is best known for roles in films like Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter Black Heart. He has also been a regular fixture in Robert Rodriguez’s films, including Planet Terror, Machete,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Paz Vega has signed on to star in the Salvadoran civil war drama Fireflies at El Mozote, which starts principal photography on location in El Salvador in November.
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is set in 1980s El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and his quest to bring justice to his dead family in the middle of a bloody civil war.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza. Bob Yari serves as executive producer alongside Premiere’s Carlos Rincon. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
“We are excited to add Paz to the Fireflies project. She’s an amazing actress and was our top choice for the character that she’ll be portraying,” said Premiere CEO Elias Axume.
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is set in 1980s El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the massacre of his village and his quest to bring justice to his dead family in the middle of a bloody civil war.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Entertainment, which handles worldwide sales, with Moctesuma Esparza. Bob Yari serves as executive producer alongside Premiere’s Carlos Rincon. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
“We are excited to add Paz to the Fireflies project. She’s an amazing actress and was our top choice for the character that she’ll be portraying,” said Premiere CEO Elias Axume.
- 9/2/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Bob Yari, whose credits include “Crash” and “Yellowstone,” will serve as executive producer on “Fireflies at El Mozote,” one of three films set in El Salvador greenlit by Premiere Entertainment, alongside “Toque de Queda” and “The Incredible Journey of Elba.”
Moctesuma Esparza and Premiere CEO Elias Axume are producing all three movies, whose primary language will be English.
Esparza’s credits include “Selena,” starring Jennifer López, “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortéz,” with Edward James Olmos, and “The Milagro Beanfield War,” directed by Robert Redford.
“Fireflies,” set in 1980s El Salvador, follows a rebel group fighting to expose its government’s genocidal policies. The group rescues a 10-year-old boy, and seek to end their government’s reign of terror with the help of an American journalist. The director/writer is U.S.-Salvadoran Ernesto Melara.
“Fireflies,” a co-production between Premiere and the Yari Film Group, is in pre-production. It has a...
Moctesuma Esparza and Premiere CEO Elias Axume are producing all three movies, whose primary language will be English.
Esparza’s credits include “Selena,” starring Jennifer López, “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortéz,” with Edward James Olmos, and “The Milagro Beanfield War,” directed by Robert Redford.
“Fireflies,” set in 1980s El Salvador, follows a rebel group fighting to expose its government’s genocidal policies. The group rescues a 10-year-old boy, and seek to end their government’s reign of terror with the help of an American journalist. The director/writer is U.S.-Salvadoran Ernesto Melara.
“Fireflies,” a co-production between Premiere and the Yari Film Group, is in pre-production. It has a...
- 7/1/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Manny Perez, Costas Mandylor, Addison Kendall, Roberto ‘Sanz’ Sanchez, Juan Carlos Diaz, Carol Florence, Dan Kern, Jerry Carrier, Robert Torres, Jann Ellis, Chengusoyane Kargbo, Martin Peña, Amanda Diaz, Trevor E. Dickerson | Written by Ernesto Melara, Matthew Eason | Directed by Joth Riggs
Don’t you just love false advertising? I went into Night of the Sicario expecting Die Hard in an old-people’s home and you know what? That’s not exactly what I got!
Night of the Sicario, no relation to Any other of the Sicario films – in fact this also goes by the title Blindsided, tells the story of Taylor Ward (Natasha Henstridge) who runs an old peoples home/senior centre that’s under lockdown thanks to an incoming hurricane. In the middle of the night DEA agent Cole Bennett knocks on the door asking for shelter for his wards – a shot Francisco Fuentes and his daughter Amelia.
Don’t you just love false advertising? I went into Night of the Sicario expecting Die Hard in an old-people’s home and you know what? That’s not exactly what I got!
Night of the Sicario, no relation to Any other of the Sicario films – in fact this also goes by the title Blindsided, tells the story of Taylor Ward (Natasha Henstridge) who runs an old peoples home/senior centre that’s under lockdown thanks to an incoming hurricane. In the middle of the night DEA agent Cole Bennett knocks on the door asking for shelter for his wards – a shot Francisco Fuentes and his daughter Amelia.
- 4/26/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Thriller on fast-track for July start in Pennsylvania, Us.
Species star Natasha Henstridge will play the lead in the thriller Blindsided, which Premiere Entertainment Group has packaged in Cannes and fact-tracked for a July production start in Pennsylvania.
Joth Riggs will direct from a screenplay by Ernesto Melara about a woman who hides the daughter of a witness who is about to testify against a Colombian drug cartel, while two sicarios try to hunt them down.
Grant Bradley of Inspiring Films and Premiere Entertainment Group chief Elias Axume are producing alongside executive producer Robert Eager of Buckhead Film Group.
Henstridge...
Species star Natasha Henstridge will play the lead in the thriller Blindsided, which Premiere Entertainment Group has packaged in Cannes and fact-tracked for a July production start in Pennsylvania.
Joth Riggs will direct from a screenplay by Ernesto Melara about a woman who hides the daughter of a witness who is about to testify against a Colombian drug cartel, while two sicarios try to hunt them down.
Grant Bradley of Inspiring Films and Premiere Entertainment Group chief Elias Axume are producing alongside executive producer Robert Eager of Buckhead Film Group.
Henstridge...
- 5/21/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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