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Ambush Entertainment is a Los Angeles based, artist driven, independent film production company that, with its financing arm Cold Iron Pictures, is dedicated to producing provocative, diverse, and original feature films, television and web content aimed at appealing to a wide audience. [1]
| Year | Films and Documentaries | Cast | Director | |
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| 2004 | Dead and Breakfast | Ever Carradine, Bianca Lawson, Erik Palladino, Gina Phillips, Jeremy Sisto, David Carradine, Diedrich Bader, Portia de Rossi, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Oz Perkins, Brent Fraser, Miranda Bailey | Matthew Leutwyler | |
| 2005 | The Squid and the Whale | Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline | Noah Baumbach | |
| 2006 | The Oh in Ohio | Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito, Mischa Barton, Miranda Bailey, Liza Minnelli | Billy Kent | |
| 2007 | Unearthed | Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Charlie Murphy, Beau Garrett | Matthew Leutwyler | |
| 2008 | Hindsight | Leonor Varela, Jeffrey Donovan, Miranda Bailey, Waylon Payne | Paul Holahan | |
| 2008 | Lower Learning | Jason Biggs, Rob Corddry, Eva Longoria Parker, Monica Potter, Will Sasso, Kyle Gass, Hayes MacArthur, Miranda Bailey | Mark Lafferty | |
| 2009 | Against the Current | Joseph Fiennes, Michelle Trachtenberg, Justin Kirk, Elizabeth Reaser, and Mary Tyler Moore | Peter Callahan | |
| 2009 | Wonderful World | Matthew Broderick, Sanaa Lathan, Philip Baker Hall | Joshua Goldin | |
| 2010 | Super | Rainn Wilson, Elliot Page, [a] Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon and Nathan Fillion | James Gunn | |
| 2010 | Every Day | Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Brian Dennehy, Carla Gugino and Ezra Miller | Richard Levine | |
| 2010 | Greenlit (Documentary) | Miranda Bailey | ||
| 2010 | The River Why | Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, Kathleen Quinlan, and William Hurt | Matthew Leutwyler | |
| 2011 | Unraveled | Marc H. Simon | ||
| 2011 | Answers to Nothing | Dane Cook, Elizabeth Mitchell, Julie Benz, Barbara Hershey, Zach Gilford, Erik Palladino, Kali Hawk, Miranda Bailey | Matthew Leutwyler |
2012 looks to be a busy year for Ambush Entertainment. They signed on to produce the adaptation of Martha O' Connor's novel "The Bitch Posse" to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke who also directed "Twilight" and "Red Riding Hood" among others. [2] Also on tap is the sci-fi thriller "Below The Surface" based on a John Kelly script and to be directed by "The Eye" and "Them" director Xavier Palud [3] Other Projects slated for 2012 include:
The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes, with Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell. Two cowboys arrive in a Western town, when news arrives that a local rancher has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the two cowboys and cowboys from other ranches, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a 2002 American animated Western film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The film was directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook from a screenplay by John Fusco, based on an idea by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who produced the film alongside Mireille Soria. The film combines traditional animation and computer animation.
Helen Catherine Hardwicke is an American film director, production designer, and screenwriter. Her directorial work includes Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, Lords of Dogtown (2005), The Nativity Story (2006), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Plush (2013), Miss You Already (2015), Miss Bala (2019), and Prisoner's Daughter (2022).
The Pendulum is a 12-issue miniseries of comic books based upon the Dark Carnival universe, a mythology detailed in the music of the Insane Clown Posse. Distributed by Chaos! Comics, the series was published from January 2000 until December 2001. A graphic novel containing all 12 issues was released on August 20, 2002 along with an album featuring most of the Pendulum singles. It is the group's 5th compilation album, and their 17th overall release. Prologue and Spin-Off Comics, #1 The Upz & Downz of the Wicked Clownz (1999). #2 The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999). #3 Raze the Desertz of Glass (1999). Hallowicked (2001). Halls of Illusion (2002).
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