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EXCLUSIVE: Savannah Lee Smith and Owen Patrick Joyner have been cast in Monarch Media's musical feature Something Here. The film was previously referred to as the Untitled Florida Georgia Line Project. TK McKamy is set to direct, from a screenplay written by Alan Powell (A Week Away), Steve Barnett and David Bush…

EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has optioned Leah Kunnath’s comedy script Foreign and Familiar, and are currently setting it up as a film, which Steve Barnett and Alan Powell will produce for the company. Loosely based on Kunnath’s own teen years, Foreign and Familiar tells the story of a rebellious first-generation…

Saturday Night Live director Paul Briganti will helm Monarch Media’s Chris Pratt indie feature comedy The Black Belt. The 2020 Black List script by Randall Green follows a shy, unassuming teen boy on a quest for an expertise in karate, and the unorthodox uncle who guides him along the way. Pratt, as we previously told…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of seeing her Apple TV+ movie Palmer starring Justin Timberlake becoming the streamer’s most viewed ever in a debut weekend, scribe Cheryl Guerriero is writing I Have Something to Tell You for Monarch Media. The project is inspired by Guerriero's own experience. In 2003, with a video camera…

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Anders, the producer of Netflix's The Prom and the longtime executive music producer of the mutli-award winning series Glee, will make his directorial debut early next year on the Monarch Media, SPACE + ART Entertainment and STORY Collective musical feature Road To Bethlehem. The project is written by…

Chris Pratt has boarded the Monarch Media indie comedy The Black Belt which he will produce through his Indivisible Productions label and star. The Black Belt is a coming-of-age story about a shy, unassuming teen boy on a quest for an expertise in karate, and the unorthodox uncle who guides him along the way. Randall…

EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has teamed with award-winning, record-setting country music duo Florida Georgia Line, made up of Tyler Hubbard and Brian "BK" Kelley, and award-winning director TK McKamy to produce an Untitled Country Musical feature film. Monarch principals Steve Barnett and Alan Powell will produce. …

EXCLUSIVE: Monarch Media has picked up the rights to Ken Scott’s best-selling biography Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell? Black List screenwriter Jayson Rothwell has adapted the biopic into a feature film musical. In Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell, cocky British WWII soldier Jim Greasley has sacrificed himself over…

EXCLUSIVE:  South Korean filmmaker Byung-gil Jung, who wowed audiences at Cannes 2017 with his femme-led action feature The Villainess, has come aboard to direct the action thriller Havoc, written by Eric Tipton, based on an original idea by Steve Barnett and Daniel Myrick. Inspired by actual events, Havoc tells the…

EXCLUSIVE: The trio of investor-philanthropist Vicky L. Patel, producer Steve Barnett and singer-actor-writer Alan Powell have teamed to launch Monarch Media, a new film and TV production company. The plan is to develop and produce 2-3 feature films a year in all genres and budget levels, as well as make a push into…