U.S. distributors Olive Films have revealed that they are planning to add a number of new titles to their catalog in June. Amongst them are Steve Zacharias'
Johnny Be Good, Lee Frost's
The Thing with Two Heads (1972), and Craig R. Baxley's
Stone Cold (1991).
Stone Cold
Fed up with a system that allows criminals to walk free, Joe Huff (Brian Bosworth, Three Kings, The Longest Yard) is a cop on the edge. While on suspension for insubordination, Joe is strong-armed by the FBI to go undercover in the Deep South to infiltrate a dangerous white supremacist biker gang known as The Brotherhood. Taking down The Brotherhood's murderous leader, Chains Cooper (Lance Henriksen, Aliens, Near Dark), and bringing the gang to justice won't be easy. But Joe doesn't do "easy."
Stone Cold stars former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Brian "The Boz" Bosworth in a film that's wall-to-wall, knock down, knock out action. The supporting cast features William Forsythe (Once Upon A Time In America, The Devil's Rejects), Arabella Holzbog (Across The Universe, Bad News Bears) and Sam McMurray (Raising Arizona) in a film directed by Craig R. Baxley (Dark Angel, Action Jackson) from a screenplay by Walter Doniger.
Johnny Be Good
Scrawny and short, high school quarterback Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall, Sixteen Candles) is America's most unlikely football prospect. Johnny finds himself in the enviable position of being courted by the country's top football recruiters. However, he's torn between waiting for a top offer with big bucks, egged on by his best friend Leo (Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man), or joining his girlfriend Georgia (Uma Thurman, Kill Bill) at a college where he can pursue a well-rounded education. The temptation for a big payday coupled with lavish gifts and promises of fame & fortune are just a few of the roadblocks he'll navigate in this comedy with heart, Johnny Be Good.
Directed by Bud Smith from a screenplay written by Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai and David Obst, the supporting cast includes Paul Gleason (The Breakfast Club), Jennifer Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway, Bound), Seymour Cassel (Minnie and Moskowitz, Valentino) and cameos by famed sportscaster Howard Cossell and football quarterback Jim McMahon.
The Thing with Two Heads
The Thing With Two Heads is a film that answers the age-old question: Are two heads better than one?
Despite his deteriorating health, incredibly rich and deeply racist brain surgeon Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend) plans to be around for a very long time. What better way to achieve his goal than to transplant his still cognitive noggin onto the body of a healthy human being? Having performed similar experimental surgeries on animals, Maxwell convinces his colleagues to perform the groundbreaking and unsanctioned medical procedure on him – the first successful head-graft.
With his body in rapid decline, Maxwell's head is transplanted onto the first available body. And that would be death row inmate Jack Moss (Rosey Grier, Skyjacked, Timber Tramps). Did we forget to mention that Jack Moss is black? The Thing With Two Heads, directed by Lee Frost (The Black Gestapo, Private Obsession), from a screenplay by Lee Frost, Wes Bishop and James Gordon White, co-stars Don Marshall (Uptown Saturday Night, Terminal Island), Roger Perry (Count Yorga, Vampire), William Smith (Conan the Barbarian, The Outsiders) and Jerry Butler (A Bronx Tale, La Bamba).
Thrashin'
L.A.'s rival skateboarders - the laid back Ramp Locals and the punk rock Daggers - go to war for skateboard supremacy in the action-packed drama Thrashin'. No sooner has he arrived in Los Angeles to compete in a downhill skating competition, Corey Webster (Josh Brolin, No Country For Old Men, The Goonies) finds himself falling for Chrissy (Pamela Gidley, Liebestraum), a beautiful blonde with close connections to the skating scene. It turns out Chrissy's brother is Tommy Hook (Robert Rusler, Weird Science), the tough-as-nails leader of The Daggers who has his sights set on the skateboard competition prize.
Chrissy's love for Corey will be tested when her overprotective brother and Corey face off in a deadly skate race in Thrashin', directed by David Winters (Code Name Vegeance, Mission Kill), written by Paul Brown and Alan Sacks, and co-starring Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks, Of Mice and Men), Brooke McCarter (The Lost Boys) and Chuck McCann (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter).
The Mean Season
Mean / mēn / Sea·son ˈsēzən/: When inclement conditions with unpredictable and severe storms pummel the coastal areas; the pattern of weather that occurs in Florida during the late summer months.
Nearing burn out, the career of Miami reporter Malcolm Anderson (Kurt Russell, Escape From New York) is rejuvenated after an article detailing the unsolved murder of a local teen brings him notoriety as well as an unexpected and unwanted fan: a man who claims he's the murderer.
Striking an uneasy collaboration with the killer known as the "Numbers Murderer" (Richard Jordan, Interiors, A Flash of Green), Malcolm is provided with deadly details in exchange for ongoing stories. The unorthodox collaboration soon takes a surprising twist when the murderer turns his attention to Malcolm's girlfriend Christine (Muriel Hemmingway, Manhattan). Director Phillip Borsos' nail-biting thriller The Mean Season, from a screenplay by Leon Piedmont based on the novel In The Heat of the Summer by John Katzenbach, co-stars Andy Garcia (Ocean's Eleven, The Untouchables), Richard Masur (Risky Business, The Thing), Joe Pantoliano (Bound, TV's The Sopranos) and Richard Bradford (Night Game).
Fled
Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin are convicts on the run in Fled. Handcuffed together on work detail, prisoners Charles Piper (Fishburne, The Matrix) and Mark Dodge (Baldwin, The Usual Suspects) flee the scene of a massacre by a fellow inmate who has single-handedly eliminated half of the prison guards. In no time the Attorney General's office, with a keen interest in the escaped Dodge, assigns a U.S. Marshal (Robert John Burke, 2 Guns) to track down the prisoners. Dodge, as it turns out, holds a key piece of evidence on a disc which, if discovered, could bring down some very powerful people. All is not as it seems in the action- packed Fled, where double-crosses, dual identities, corrupt officials and a myriad of twists and turns abound.
In a film that pays homage to The Defiant Ones and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, director Kevin Hooks (Passenger 57), working from a screenplay by Preston A. Whitemore II, brings together a talented cast that includes Will Patton (No Way Out, TV's Falling Skies), Salma Hayek (Frida, Bandidas), David Dukes (Date With An Angel) and Michael Nadar (The Trip, TV's Dynasty).
Soul Plane
Forget the train and get on the plane … the Soul Plane. With a $100 million dollar settlement in his pocket from an airline that, among other things, lost his dog mid-flight, Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart, Ride Along, Get Hard) decides to start his own airline that specifically caters to African-Americans and hip-hop artists. You'll be in for the flight of your life with a crew that includes an acrophobic captain (Snoop Dogg, This Is The End); an overly aggressive security guard (Mo'Nique, Precious); plus a passenger (Method Man, The Fast and The Furious) who sets up a mini-casino/strip club on the plane. Directed by Jessy Terrero (Gun, Freelancers) and written by Bo Zenga and Chuck Wilson, Soul Plane co-stars D.L. Hughley (The Original Kings of Comedy), Loni Love (Paul Bart: Mall Cop 2), Missi Pyle (Gone Girl), Terry Crews (Bridesmaids), Gary Anthony Williams (Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle), John Witherspoon (Bulworth), and Dwayne Adway (Into The Blue).
Special Features:
- Two-disc set
- Unrated and Rated versions of Soul Plane
- Cast Audio commentary
- Boarding Pass - The Making of Soul Plane
- Survivor Safety
- Outtakes
- Deleted Scenes
- Frequent Flyer
- The Upgrade – featurette