Indie Film Company Red Guerrilla Entertainment Collaborating With OC Consulting On Seven Picture Deal
Red Guerrilla Entertainment (RGE) announces the signing of a multi-million dollar slate deal with OC Consulting. The deal covers seven films over the next four years with $20 million dollars covering the first three features. Production begins on the first film, North of The 10, in Chicago in January. As a proud black-and-brown-owned business, RGE follows in the tradition of Chicago natives such as Common, Chance The Rapper, Lena Waithe, and many others in shining a positive light upon the city. Even the global pandemic can’t stop RGE from delivering quality films and music.
“It’s humbling to know that all the hard work we put into the RGE empire over the past decade on the film and music side is finally paying off and that we’re being recognized for our work,” says RGE President & Founder Rhyan LaMarr. “We have studied companies like Tyler Perry Studios, Franklin Entertainment, Apatow Productions, Amplify/Reflection Music Group, Rapzilla and Plan B. to name a few. We learned that successful entrepreneurs today build their doors into the industry on a solid foundation.”
Entertainment Attorney Jalene Mack is the liaison between RGE and OC Consulting and was responsible for brokering the deal. She states, “It was a no-brainer. Red Guerrilla Entertainment pitched a vision of their legacy: faith-driven, unconventional cinema and Christian hip-hop with realism and heart. It was refreshing to meet a team with a solid plan of how to tackle their mission in entertainment.”
Says RGE CEO & Co-owner, Bishop Eric D. Garnes, "While joining my business partner studying the craft of others, I finally found the way to braid ministry and business together as I followed mentors like Bishop T.D. Jakes, a multi-vocational minister who inspired me to dream beyond the norm. RGE’s standard is to color outside the lines while exhibiting artistry and business acumen. We are prepared to unveil our projects and our skill set for entertainment.”
North of The 10 will be produced by Rhyan LaMarr (Canal Street, Restored Me), Elijah Long (Rambo: Last Blood, Tesla), Chris Jennings (The Challenge, Terrordactyl), LaRoyce Hawkins (Chicago PD, South Side) and Erika Jacobsen (Canal Street, Wanda Sykes: Not Normal) and Executive Produced by Don Benjamin (America’s Next Top Model, Scared Famous), Rhyan LaMarr, Bishop Eric D. Garnes (Canal Street), Jabari Rayford and Andre Burgess (Devotion of Suspect X). Marisa Ross of Karge & Ross Casting (The Chi, Chicago Med, Canal Street, How I Met Your Mother) will be the casting director appointed.