EXCLUSIVE: Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine) and Brandon Menchen (The Vanished) are producing indie feature Neon Candy, which is aiming to begin photography in California this fall.
Actress-turned-filmmaker Courtney Paige is writer-director-producer on the neo-western psychological thriller about “two sisters who flee an abusive home and travel through the desert on a dream-like road trip that ends in a series of puzzling events”.
Paige produces for Perlino Pictures, which was formerly known as Yeehaw Films. Yeehaw produced Paige’s sophomore feature as writer-director, the 2024 thriller Chapel, starring Jeremy Sumpter and Lochlyn Munro and distributed by Tubi.
Cinematographer on Neon Candy will be Darren Miller, founder of The Film Hive, which is also producing the picture. Casting is underway from Farrah West.
Executive producers include Lochlyn Munro, Courtenay Semel, Alison Urquhart, Stirling Bancroft, Cory James Jacobsen, Rick Licht, Kyler Fisher, and Madison Bontempo. Deva Holliday and Maria Avilez will associate produce.
Yellowstone actor and cutting horse trainer Jake Ream will make his directorial debut on the second picture on the Perlino Pictures slate, The Color of Winter, which is due to film in Utah in the new year. Perlino will be producing their third picture, Moccasin, with Lochlyn Munro, The McDonough Company and Sound Of Freedom outfit Angel Studios.
Actress and producer King, whose credits include Netflix series Black Summer and movies My Bloody Valentine and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, leads banner Hooligan Dreamers with Emma Comley and Sola Fasehun. Recent credits include The Resurrection of Charles Manson.
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