New Zealand-based sales company Black Mandala has picked up all international rights to “Lake Jesup: Bonecrusher’s Revenge,” a now-completed creature feature set in the most-alligator-infested lake in the U.S.
In 2003, Lake Jesup became the setting for real-life horror story when a huge alligator, known as Bonecrusher, escaped captivity at an animal theme park Gator Galaxy and started killing people in the lake. As the body count increased it became clear that stopping the monster would require a massive hunting effort.
The film revolves around the 13-day hunt and the persistent terror caused by a vicious, trained and angry predator. The expert hunter Bubba Coggins develops a strategy to neutralize the beast. But as he does so he realizes that both he and Bonecrusher have been wronged by the greedy park owner Angus Sullivan. Bubba is required to face up to his demons and ask how far he is willing...
In 2003, Lake Jesup became the setting for real-life horror story when a huge alligator, known as Bonecrusher, escaped captivity at an animal theme park Gator Galaxy and started killing people in the lake. As the body count increased it became clear that stopping the monster would require a massive hunting effort.
The film revolves around the 13-day hunt and the persistent terror caused by a vicious, trained and angry predator. The expert hunter Bubba Coggins develops a strategy to neutralize the beast. But as he does so he realizes that both he and Bonecrusher have been wronged by the greedy park owner Angus Sullivan. Bubba is required to face up to his demons and ask how far he is willing...
- 10/10/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Iranian-born TV Legend Badiyi Dies
TV industry legend Reza Badiyi has died after a prolific career of directing top shows.
The 81 year old died on Saturday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Iranian-born Badiyi, whose credits include Get Smart, Mission: Impossible, Falcon Crest, Baywatch and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, set a Directors Guild of America record in 1998 for directing the most hours of episodic series television after completing his 400th TV episode, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He launched his filmmaking career in his native Iran, where he was also a celebrated actor, before moving to the U.S. in 1955.
His last credit as a director was for the 2006 film The Way Back Home.
Badiyi was once married to actress and writer Barbara Turner and he was stepfather to actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
The 81 year old died on Saturday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Iranian-born Badiyi, whose credits include Get Smart, Mission: Impossible, Falcon Crest, Baywatch and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, set a Directors Guild of America record in 1998 for directing the most hours of episodic series television after completing his 400th TV episode, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He launched his filmmaking career in his native Iran, where he was also a celebrated actor, before moving to the U.S. in 1955.
His last credit as a director was for the 2006 film The Way Back Home.
Badiyi was once married to actress and writer Barbara Turner and he was stepfather to actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
- 8/22/2011
- WENN
Reza Badiyi, who holds the Directors Guild of America record for helming more television episodes than anybody in the history of the medium, died Saturday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He was 81. Badiyi was an award-winning documentary filmmaker and actor in his native Iran before moving to the U.S. in 1955; he eventually became a cinematographer and worked with directors including Robert Altman. Badiyi started his TV-helming career in the late ’60s. Among his massive list of credits — which features more than 400 hours of series and movies of the week — are such iconic shows as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mission: Impossible, The Rockford Files, The Six Million Dollar Man, Cagney & Lacey, Falcon Crest, Baywatch, the original Hawaii Five-0 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Last year, he was honored for his 60 years in the entertainment industry with an 80th-birthday celebration at UCLA’s Royce Hall. His last directing credit...
- 8/22/2011
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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