Sentient Entertainment founder and CEO Renee Tab and producer Christopher Tuffin are launching a new foreign sales, finance and production outfit dubbed Sentient Pictures International (SPI), which they will oversee alongside former Relativity COO Andrew Marcus and Taken helmer Pierre Morel.The first projects on the company’s sales slate include drama Last Meals, from director Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje and Morel’s sci-fi thriller D.O.A.Last Meals stars Delroy Lindo and Boyd Holbrook and follows a disgraced and misunderstood White House chef who finds himself many years later working in a maximum security prison cooking last meals for inmates on death row.
There, he forms an unlikely bond with an inmate who launches a hunger strike as his day of execution quickly approaches.Justin Piasecki writes the script, which is based on his Nicholls Award-winning screenplay Death Of An Ortolan.
Shooting is expected to begin in January 2023. It’s produced by Revelations Entertainment’s Lori McCreary, Gary Luccesi, Morgan Freeman and Michael Kay alongside Sentient’s Tab and Tuffin.
UTA Independent Film Group will be co-repping domestic rights with SPI.D.O.A., which is written by Ben Magid and directed by Morel, follows John Porter, who has dedicated his life to hunting down ghosts after the death of his family.
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