Found Footage Feature ‘The Workout’ Lands Late August Release in Theaters
Filmmaker James Cullen Bressack‘s found footage Fantastic Fest title The Workout has found a theatrical home.
The Workout will arrive in limited release Aug. 27 via Anchor Bay Entertainment, followed by VOD (through Insurgence) and Blu-ray on Oct. 28 via Anchor Bay.
According to the logline, The Workout “chronicles Army Ranger Wyatt Park (Peter Jae) and his pregnant wife Becca (Galadriel Stineman) as they film a workout video in their private gym that becomes violently interrupted by a mob hit. Becca is killed, but their unborn child is miraculously saved. Grief-stricken and enraged, Wyatt and his brother-in-law Levi (Josh Kelly) launch a merciless mission of vengeance, documenting every moment for the child to one day understand what happened.”
The cast also includes Ashlee Evans-Smith, Kristos Andrews, Augie Duke, The Workout co-writer David Josh Lawrence and BJ Hendricks, who co-executive produced the feature.
Bressack co-wrote the script and produced, along with Ben Stobber and Jarrett Furst. Executive producers include Mario Niccolò Messina and Valentina Cau for Insurgence.
Bressack came up as a horror director, and in recent years has shifted to action, working with stars such as Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson and Jean Claude-Van Damme, the latter of whom he directed in the feature Darkness of Man.
The Workout bowed last year at the genre-focused Fantastic Fest.
