(Los Angeles, CA) Torfoot Entertainment Group (TEG) an award-winning film, television, and digital content production company, founded by filmmaker Johnathan Brownlee (THREE DAYS IN AUGUST, PUPPETMASTER, THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK and DECODING ANNIE PARKER), and Emmy award-winning producer/casting director Ross Meyerson (DAMAGES, NURSE JACKIE, RESCUE ME, currently working on DEXTER: RESURRECTION); with footprints in LA, NYC, Dallas and Toronto, launches a vast film slate this fall with the first of their incredibly diverse slate of films to be the wickedly delicious horror film THE YETI, with actor Jim Cummings (THUNDER ROAD, LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY), headed into production this winter in New York with Radiant Films selling internationally and a North American set to announce later this year. Tackling the most elite of monsters, indie giant Torfoot Entertainment Group enters the world of epic creatures like Kong and Godzilla in the footsteps of creative pioneers like Toho Studios.
Taking inspiration and influences from classic creature features, THE YETI is a pure genre film, delivering thrilling action with copious amounts of blood and gore. It harnesses the environmental ruggedness of the Arctic and the bloody carnage of a giant monster slaughtering its human prey. Shooting on anamorphic lenses, in full-color widescreen, laying bare the polar Arctic in all its beauty and terrifying rawness. Following a cinematic language that will feel like the crystalline bedrock of those majestic natural tableaus of films like THE REVENANT and INTO THE WILD.
THE YETI is co-written and co-directed by Emmy award winner Gene Gallerano (THE FIRST WAVE, AMERICAN SYMPHONY, National Geographic’s PHOTOGRAPHER), and William Pisciotta (THUNDER ROAD, BEAST BEAST). THE YETI Creature Design is spearhead by the innovative team of industry titans Wayne Anderson & Ali Gordon (THE PREDATOR, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM, STRANGER THINGS, GHOSTBUSTERS, IT, THE NUN, HELLRAISER, THE TOMORROW WAR, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER) with an exclusive first look at this exciting character design here.
TEG‘s team produced the recently released I’LL BE RIGHT THERE (starring Edie Falco (THE SOPRANOS, NURSE JACKIE), Bradley Whitford (GET OUT, THE WEST WING), and Michael Rappaport (TRUE ROMANCE, BEAUTIFUL GIRLS); NAVIGATING CHRISTMAS (Hallmark); is currently in production on THINGS WE SHOULDN’T TALK ABOUT. Their next film slated to go into production will be EYES OF JEFFERSON in pre-production now set to film in early 2025 and in development on FLAGRANT (Michael Rapaport ), JULIET (Jen Richards), MY NAME IS KIRA, MONTSERRAT, THE WILL ROGERS STORY, and several other feature films and episodic series.
“We love the classic horror films FRANKENSTEIN and DRACULA as well as recent films like NOPE and BARBARIAN. Like these films, the Creature is the star of the film. The vast majority of our creature moments and action sequences are practical “in-camera,” leaning on our talented award-winning SFX and stunt teams.” – producer Johnathan Brownlee.
THE YETI is a Torfoot Entertainment Group production (repped by Brillstein), and the team is led by producers Johnathan Brownlee (STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK, PUPPETMASTER, DECODING ANNIE PARKER) and Ross Meyerson (DEXTER: RESURRECTION, FALLOUT, THE EQUALIZER) with SFX/Creature Design by Wayne Anderson and Ali Gordon (THE PREDATOR, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM, STRANGER THINGS, THE NUN, HELLRAISER), Stunt Coordinator/Second Unit Director: Freddie Poole (BIKERIDERS, TULSA KING, THE SAMARITAN), Production Designer Frank Coppola (CABRINI, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, A QUIET PLACE II.)
Oil tycoon, Merriell Sunday Sr. and renowned adventurer, Hollis Bannister have disappeared without a trace. Their last known location is northern Alaska. Ellie Bannister and Merriell Sunday Jr. set out to search for their missing fathers and the truth behind what made them vanish! As the rescue team heads deeper into the heart of this frozen landscape, danger mounts. Something has taken notice of their trespassing expedition…and that prehistoric something is now stalking them… hunting them… THE YETI
This is one of the first projects for the newly formed Torfoot Entertainment Group, a privately financed production company whose model is based on culturing quality content and bringing together creators and financiers, smartly accessing local filming incentives and putting local production teams to work.
About Torfoot Entertainment Group:
Torfoot Entertainment Group (TEG) is an award-winning film, television and digital content production company, founded by filmmaker Johnathan Brownlee and Emmy award winning producer/casting director Ross Meyerson; with footprints in LA, NYC, Dallas and Toronto, Canada. Brownlee is Canadian/American director, producer, writer and actor, known for THREE DAYS IN AUGUST, THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK and DECODING ANNIE PARKER. Meyerson’s credits include DAMAGES, NURSE JACKIE and RESCUE ME. The TEG team recently released, I’LL BE RIGHT THERE (Eddie Falco, Bradley Whitford), NAVIGATING CHRISTMAS (Hallmark); is in production on THINGS WE SHOULDN’T TALK and THE YETI; working on DEXTER: RESURRECTION; in pre-production on THE EYES OF JEFFERSON; and in development on FLAGRANT(Michael Rapaport), JULIET(Jen Richards), MY NAME IS KIRA, MONTSERRAT, THE WILL ROGERS STORY, and several other feature films and episodic series. TEG is represented by Ken Lee at Brillstein Entertainment Partners. For information, visit torfoot.com.
About Radiant Films International:
Founded by industry veteran Mimi Steinbauer, Radiant Films International is a global film sales agency focusing on mainstream and independent theatrical features and specialized television programming in the international marketplace.
Radiant Films’ current slate includes the biographical drama Wildcat directed by Ethan Hawke (Blaze) and starring Maya Hawke (TV’s “Stranger Things”), Laura Linney (three-time Emmy nominee for TV’s “Ozark”), and Liam Neeson (Oscar nominee for Schindler’s List), the Lucky Chap-produced horror comedy Borderline directed by Cocaine Bear scribe Jimmy Warden and starring Samara Weaving (Ready or Not), Ray Nicholson (Promising Young Woman), and Eric Dane (TV’s “Euphoria”), supernatural period drama Queen of Bones directed by Robert Budreau (Stockholm ) and starring Martin Freeman (The Hobbit franchise), Jacob Tremblay (Room), and Julia Butters (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), action thriller Unit 234 directed by Andy Tennant (Fool’s Gold) and starring Don Johnson (Knives Out), Jack Huston (House of Gucci), and Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan franchise), sci-fi mystery Share? directed by Ira Rosenweig and starring Melvin Gregg (), Bradley Whitford (five-time Emmy nominee for TV’s “The West Wing”), and Alice Braga (I Am Legend), and documentary film 76 Days Adrift directed by Joe Wein and from Oscar-winning Executive Producer Ang Lee (Life of Pi).
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