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Cinestate
Company type
Private
Industry
Motion picture
Founded
2016; 8 years ago (2016)
Founder
Dallas Sonnier
Defunct
June 2020[1]
Fate
Shut down[2]
Successor
Bonfire Legend[3]
Headquarters
Dallas, TX
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Services
Movie Production
Movie Distribution
Book Publishing
Owner
Dallas Sonnier
Divisions
Fangoria (2018-2020); Rebeller (2019-2020)
Website
cinestate.com
Cinestate was a Dallas-based movie studio founded in 2016 by Dallas Sonnier.[4] The company produced ten films under a variety of production labels, in addition to retroactively claiming the 2014 film Bone Tomahawk, produced independently by Sonnier, as a Cinestate movie.[5] In 2017, the company acquired Fangoria magazine, relaunching it in 2018 as a print-only collectible under the editorial oversight of Phil Nobile Jr.[6] In 2019, the company announced the launch of Rebeller Media, an action label that would have encompassed a production company and lifestyle website to be managed by Washington Free Beacon journalist Sonny Bunch. In 2020, following the arrest of producer Adam Donaghey for sexual assault and a Daily Beast article alleging misconduct on Cinestate sets,[7] Rebeller was shut down[8] and Fangoria sold,[9][10] all Cinestate social media and websites went dormant, the company was closed and its entire staff laid off.[citation needed]
Two films produced by Cinestate under the "Fangoria Presents" and "Rebeller" labels, The Seventh Day and South of Heaven, respectively, were sold to distributors and released following the company's closure under the ad hoc label "Swiss Avenue Productions," named for the street where the company headquarters were once located.[11][12]
A successor company,[13]Bonfire Legend, was launched by Sonnier in early 2021 to carry on the company mission of the Rebeller Media label,[14] in partnership with the Daily Wire.[15]
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^"Swiss Avenue Pictures Production Company Box Office History". The Numbers. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
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^"Did Bonfire Legend Go Too Far by Shooting a Live Deer for Run Hide Fight?".
^"The Daily Wire Makes First Foray into Film & TV with School Shooting Movie 'Run Hide Fight'; Right-Wing Site Developing Two TV Series". 4 January 2021.
Cinestate was a Dallas-based movie studio founded in 2016 by Dallas Sonnier. The company produced ten films under a variety of production labels, in addition...
throughout 2017. In February 2018, Dallas-based entertainment company Cinestate bought Fangoria and, under new editor-in-chief Phil Nobile Jr., relaunched...
producer, publisher and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Cinestate and, from 2018 to 2020, the publisher of Fangoria magazine. He has producing...
Unified Pictures produced the film along with Zahler and Dallas Sonnier of Cinestate, Assemble Media's Jack Heller, and Sefton Fincham of Look to the Sky Films...
by Jeff Herriott S. Craig Zahler Production companies Assemble Media Cinestate Caliber Media Company Realmbuilders Productions XYZ Films Distributed...
Ehrlich, David (September 10, 2020). "'Run Hide Fight' Review: Glib Cinestate Thriller Turns a School Shooting into a Clichéd Action Movie". IndieWire...
Thriller 'Till Death' For 'Big Bad Wolves' Director Aharon Keshales, Cinestate". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 4 June 2022. Retrieved...
Haunted House genre offering." On April 15, 2018, it was announced that Cinestate and Charles Band would be producing a remake/reboot of Castle Freak, along...
Cinematography Jackson Hunt Edited by Josh Ethier Production companies Cinestate XYZ Films Look to the Sky Films Distributed by RLJ Entertainment Release...
entertainment industry. The sale of Birth.Movies.Death to Dallas Sonnier's Cinestate film studio was announced in May 2020 concurrently with the stepping down...
Wiklund RLJE Films uncredited; co-production with Buffalo 8 Productions, Cinestate, Fangoria, Ghost Horse and Zero Trans Fat Productions The Meg Jon Turteltaub...
here's the 2017 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Nominees Ballot!". Fangoria. Cinestate. Archived from the original on August 6, 2017. Retrieved February 14,...
U.S. distribution only; produced by Unified Pictures, Assemble Media, Cinestate, Endeavor Content, Look to the Sky Films, and Moot Point Productions April...
2019). "Guy Pearce Starring In Exorcism Horror 'The Seventh Day' For Cinestate, Fangoria, Voltage – AFM". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 21,...
2019 distribution only; produced by Unified Pictures, Assemble Media, Cinestate, Look to the Sky Films, Moot Point Productions Isabelle July 24, 2019...
2021. "Guy Pearce Starring In Exorcism Horror 'The Seventh Day' For Cinestate, Fangoria, Voltage – AFM". 6 November 2019. Archived from the original...
Sophie Nélisse, Indira Varma, Eoin Macken The Standoff at Sparrow Creek Cinestate Henry Dunham (director/screenplay); James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty 22...
employment in this way.” Amidst the controversy, Texas multimedia company Cinestate acquired the book to be the first title launched under their new Rebeller...
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