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AFM Spotlight: Lightning Entertainment

November 1, 2013 World Screen Top Stories

SANTA MONICA: Lightning Entertainment has been focused on the worldwide distribution and licensing of indie films, mainly for the theatrical market, and now the company is looking to enter into the TV-movie arena and will be at the AFM this year.

Lightning Entertainment is heading to the event with Storm Rider, a family drama featuring Kevin Sorbo, Kristy Swanson, C. Thomas Howell and Danielle Chuchran, and Gus, a dramatic comedy that stars Michelle Monaghan, Radha Mitchell, Jon Dore, Michael Weston and Mimi Kennedy. Ken DuBow, the executive VP and general manager of Lightning Entertainment, also has high hopes for Freezer, an action thriller with a cast led by Dylan McDermott, Peter Facinelli and Yuliya Snigir.

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