At the time, Sonnier told the Daily Beast he didn’t understand the severity of earlier allegations against Donaghey and failed to fully investigate it, but alleged that those with “personal vendettas” wanted to take down Cinestate. In 2020, Cinestate producer Adam Donaghey was arrested on a charge of sexual assault of a child. That year, he set up the project at New Line Cinema with Jason Bateman attached to direct. While promoting his company’s 2018 Lionsgate release “Dragged Across Concrete” (unemployed mechanic Vince Vaughn kills drug dealers to protect his wife from a forced abortion), Sonnier told the Wall Street Journal he made “populist entertainment” that declined to treat Trump voters “as losers.” In 2019, he discovered Melanie Toast script “Shut In” on the Black List. Sonnier left LA and headed back to his hometown of Dallas, founding Cinestate there in 2016. Absolute win-win for a producer like me who refuses to fall in line with the rewarded conformity of modern Hollywood.” I get to make movies with folks who I respect and trust, all for an audience I care deeply about. They trusted me to pick the director I wanted, and shoot the original script as I always intended in my system. “They didn’t insist on neutering the script by replacing Gallo’s controversial character with something lame, like an evil dog. “We were greenlit in one afternoon and in production in less than two months,” Sonnier said in an email. Qualley’s character remarks to her toddler daughter, “I don’t have any money for taxes - or anything else.” To escape the high costs of her home state, she’s planning to move to Texas. The dialogue offers lines sure to yield both conservative cheers and liberal eyerolls. Most importantly, Boreing said Daily Wire’s films will be without the “left-wing sucker punch.” Some examples he cited: Ted Lasso referring to God as “she” or how the eighth season of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” responded to George Floyd’s killing: A cop quits to become a PI who investigates police-brutality cases.īoreing describes the protagonist of “Shut In” as a person who sees herself as a victim of circumstance as she recovers from addiction and who, over the course of the film, learns to become self-reliant. We’re not making Hillary’s hard-drive story, and we’re not making rag-tag football players find Jesus in the third act.” “We’re making entertainment-first content, challenging content, adult content,” said Daily Wire co-founder and -CEO Jeremy Boreing.” The two things that will distinguish is the fact that it broadly speaks to values that conservatives are aligned on - not strictly conservative values.
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Sonnier’s next movie for The Daily Wire stars Gina Carano, infamously fired by Disney from the “Star Wars” universe after a social media post that compared the current U.S.
Gallo spent his nine-year break from acting selling $666 T-shirts with slogans like “Fuck Black Lives Matter.” And producer Dallas Sonnier, who fled lefty Los Angeles years ago, is finding his second act as a key architect of the Daily Wire film strategy after his last company dissolved in scandal.
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Lucy Lawless Says 'Mandalorian' Fan Campaign to Replace Gina Carano Hurt Chances of 'Star Wars' Gigĭisney CEO Says Gina Carano Firing Is Not Political: Company Isn't 'Left-Leaning or Right-Leaning'Įmmy Predictions: Outstanding Comedy Series - 'Ted Lasso' Takes Lead, but There's a New People's Champ Key to the film’s right-wing appeal is embracing those who have fallen out of Hollywood’s favor. Rainey Qualley stars as a single mother who, after being locked in her pantry by her violent ex (Jake Horowitz) and his friend (Vincent Gallo), must escape to save her children. Today the site premieres its first original feature, “ Shut In,” a thriller from “Disturbia” director DJ Caruso.
The right-wing publication sells Leftist Tears travel mugs and hosts a podcaster who believes doctors who perform gender-affirmation surgeries are “treating kids like Frankenstein’s monster.” However, it might be able to succeed where Dinesh D’Souza, Steve Bannon, and other conservative filmmakers failed: Adapt a red-state approach to movies that sublimates politics into the story rather than turning it into obvious propaganda. But today it’s releasing a movie based on a Black List screenplay with a compelling genre hook that almost looks commercial - and just happens to sneak conservative values into the heart of its story. The Daily Wire wants to make conservative movies to take on liberal Hollywood, which might sound like a lost cause from the start.
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