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Exclusive: Indican Pictures has snapped up the film rights to This Last Lonely Place, a noir thriller executive produced by the Santana film division of the Humphrey Bogart Estate. Pic is eyeing an early 2016 debut on VOD in 180M homes worldwide as well as rental stores and chains. The film will also be opening abroad. Directed and written by Steve Anderson, This Last Lonely Place tells the story of an unsuspecting cab driver (Rhys Coiro) who, on his last night on the…...

Picture it: The gun in the lap of a beautiful dame. A once powerful man hounded by the shadows of his triumphs. The cabbie with a kind heart and worn eyes. A fresh start. That last trick. The final score. And then there's the city; that never ending sprawl, a throbbing vein of head lights and stop lights, boney roadways to nowhere, and nothing... Los Angeles: The ultimate Femme Fatale. Steve Anderson's third feature, This Last Lonely Place, for lack of better phrasing, colorizes classic noir and pulp tropes, bringing them into a time when economic woes, low American morale and a potent melancholy and paranoia rule the day. In other words, desperation itself has rarely felt so desperate. Stoic Sam Taylor (Rhys Coiro), hawk-eyed...

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Humphrey Bogart left an indelible mark on the movie world through his many iconic film performances. Now the actor’s estate is taking his legacy one step further by getting into the film business. The Humphrey Bogart Estate is partnering with filmmaker Steve Anderson to establish Santana Films, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The company will be funded by Los Angeles-based boutique venture capital fund Orange Equity, which has pledged $5 million for the initial slate of films, to be completed over the next three to five years. Santana’s first feature film, This Last Lonely Place, was written and directed

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