Sylvester Stallone Returning To The Wintry Streets Of Philadelphia In Crime Thriller ‘The Epiphany’; AGC & CAA Media Finance Launching Pic For EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Screen icon Sylvester Stallone is set to return to the wintry streets of Philadelphia in The Epiphany.
The movie, which is being launched at EFM this week by AGC Studios, is about a hard-nosed, soon-to-retire police detective (Stallone) who must team up with a younger cop and former priest to stop a serial killer on a murderous crusade through the streets of Philadelphia.
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Will Eubank (Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin) is set to direct based on the screenplay by Katie Lovejoy and Russell Sommer. Production is set to commence this summer in Philadelphia, the location of Stallone’s Rocky (and Creed) movies.
Stallone and Braden Aftergood will produce through Balboa Productions; Stuart Ford will executive produce for AGC Studios.
AGC International represents the film’s international distribution rights and will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming EFM; CAA Media Finance, which arranged financing for the films, represents the domestic rights. Convergence Entertainment is also producing and financing.
Stallone recently starred in Paramount+’s Tulsa King, was producer and writer on Creed III, and is the subject of Netflix doc-biopic Sly.
Stallone is represented by UTA; Eubank is represented by CAA, Anonymous Content and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole. Lovejoy is repped by Kaplan/Perrone, CAA and Myman Greenspan; Sommer is represented by TFC and Myman Greenspan.
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