Arena Cinema Features “A Stranger in Paradise”
Local movie-goers can catch the company’s action love story A Stranger In Paradise at the Arena Cinema in Hollywood between February 14 to 20. The film, which was directed by Corrado Boccia and stars Colin Egglesfield (Something Borrowed), Stuart Townsend (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and Oscar nominated Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), is playing in select theaters throughout the country. The Thai mafia-esque thriller follows the plight of a man, who on the verge of making partner, has his life turned upside down when the SEC investigates the head of his multibillion-dollar hedge fund for insider trading. Forced into a well-timed not-wanted “vacation” he finds himself in Bangkok with a price on his head, a morally ambiguous brother who is knee deep into the Thai mafia, and a propensity for getting shot at. Unfortunately the only way out is to give up information he doesn’t know he has.
Benetone Hillin Entertainment (BHE), a merging of Hillin Entertainment USA and Benetone Films, the largest foreign film production company in Thailand, is poised to become a one-stop-shop for everything production related in the United States and Asia. The newly formed international production and servicing company is a strategic partnering of Santa Monica based Daemon Hillin who serves as President of Production and oversees the domestic arm of the company and brothers Rachvin and Kulthep Narula who remain on site in Thailand.
Benetone Hillin Entertainment President of Production and Producer Daemon Hillin and Writer/Director James Cullen Bresseck on set of Pernicious
Committed to producing beautifully shot, high quality independent films of all genres and budgets, BHE is bursting onto the scene with a burgeoning slate of projects in various stages of production.
Benetone Hillin Entertainment also recently made news by signing multiple Emmy Award winning writer Gordon Bressack (Animaniacs, Pinky and The Brain, WordGirl) on Oliver Storm and the Curse of Sinbad’s Treasure. Bressack who is writing the live action feature film along with son James Cullen Bressack will also executive produce with Rajpal Narula.
On the post-production front, the busy company is finishing Pernicious, a gory fest film, starring Emmy-nominated Emily O’Brien (Young and the Restless), Ciara Hanna (Power Rangers) and Jackie Moore (100 Ghost Street). Both A Stranger In Paradise and Pernicious were shot in Thailand and utilized the company’s extensive global resources and relationships.
“Benetone Hillin Entertainment is a strategic partnership born from a shared passion for producing beautifully shot, high quality independent films of all genres and budgets,” said Santa Monica-based Hillin, who serves as President of Production and oversees the domestic arm of the company. Partners Rachvin and Kulthep Narula of Benetone Films remain on site in Thailand, where they have line produced over 75 feature films and 600 television commercials over the last decade. “We are thrilled to extend our successful creative collaboration beyond our own productions and strive to become a one-stop-shop for everything production related in the United States and Asia including visas, permits, locations and local crew members.”
“Our reach and relationships span the world with an emphasis on the United States and Southeast Asia which includes 11 countries that reach from India to China,” added the Narula brothers who have cemented their positions as leaders of filming in the scenic region, earning a ranking by Thailand Film Commission as the premiere Production Company in Thailand for the past five years in a row. “We look forward to sharing our areas of expertise to further promote filmmaking in these affordable and naturally beautifully locations. In turn, we are proud to refer filmmakers in Southeast Asia wanting to shoot in the United States to the capable hands of our partner Daemon Hillin.”
Prior to forming Benetone Hillin Entertainment, Hillin, who specializes in film financing, GAP financing and film production, produced numerous films including Killing Winston Jones starring Oscar Winner Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Danny Masterson and Jon Heder and Auteurdirected by Cameron Romero.