Image launches Slingshot Pictures

Image Entertainment is growing using the launch of Slingshot Pictures, concentrating on belief-based game titles and handled by industry vet Suzette Schafer as senior Vice president. The Slingshot Pictures brand will debut in November using the DVD discharge of "Alleged," a romancer set throughout the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" with Nathan West, Ashley Manley, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Dennehy and Colm Meaney. Future Slingshot game titles can include theatrical runs. Image Entertainment Chief Purchases Officer Bill Bromiley made the announcement Tuesday. "Having a current estimate of $4.5 billion yearly, the belief-based market keeps growing and, at the moment, is underserved," Bromiley stated. "With the help of Suzette and her huge understanding of the market, we now have recognized several films that people feel are ideal for audiences and can still increase the films towards the label's library." Slingshot has additionally acquired two game titles for release the coming year -- family drama "Decision" and "One's Heart of Christmas." "Decision" stars singer Natalie Grant like a widow who struggles to pay the bills following the tragic dying of her firemen husband and starts to get rid of charge of her heartbroken teenage boy. "One Further Christmas" informs the storyline of 1 family's mission for his or her two-years old boy, stricken with leukemia, to see one further magical Christmas. The flicks stars Candace Cameron Bure, Jeanne Neilson, and George Newbern. Schafer most lately offered because the mind of belief and family division for that Weinsteins' Genius items and would be a senior Vice president at GT Media. She's labored with Family Christian Stores and tried belief-based qualities as "Megiddo: The Omega Code 2." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com