Image launches Slingshot Pictures

Image Entertainment keeps growing while using launch of Slingshot Pictures, focusing on belief-based game game titles and handled by industry vet Suzette Schafer as senior V . p .. The Slingshot Pictures brand will debut in November while using DVD relieve "Alleged," a romancer set through the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" with Nathan West, Ashley Manley, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Dennehy and Colm Meaney. Future Slingshot game game titles may include theatrical runs. Image Entertainment Chief Purchases Officer Bill Bromiley made the announcement Tuesday. "Getting a present estimate of $4.5 billion yearly, the idea-based market grows and, right now, is underserved," Bromiley mentioned. "By using Suzette and her huge knowledge of the marketplace, we've recognized several films that individuals feel are perfect for audiences and may still boost the films for the label's library." Slingshot has furthermore acquired two game game titles for release next season -- family drama "Decision" and "A person's Heart of Christmas." "Decision" stars singer Natalie Grant just like a widow who struggles to settle the debts following a tragic dying of her firemen husband and begins to eliminate control of her heartbroken teenage boy. "Any Christmas" notifies the story of just one family's mission for two-years of age boy, stricken with leukemia, to determine any magical Christmas. The movies stars Candace Cameron Bure, Jeanne Neilson, and George Newbern. Schafer most recently offered since the mind of belief and family division for your Weinsteins' Genius products and will be a senior V . p . at GT Media. She's labored with Family Christian Stores and attempted belief-based characteristics as "Megiddo: The Omega Code 2." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com