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Bennett Robbins Productions Completes “Playback,” Featuring Christian Slater

Bennett Robbins Productions has completed post-production of “Playback,” an independent horror thriller starring Toby Hemingway (“Black Swan,” “The Covenant,” “Feast of Love”), Johnny Pacar (“Love Hurts,” “Make It or Break It”), Ambyr Childers (“All My Children,”  “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star”), Jonathan Keltz (“Entourage,” “Prom”), Alessandra Torresani (“Caprica”), Jennifer Missoni (“Royal Pains,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order”) and featuring Christian Slater (“Heathers,” “True Romance”). The producers are currently seeking distribution of the film.
Bennett Robbins developed “Playback” and produced it in conjunction with Emmett/Furla Films. Bennett Robbins was previously involved with “The Betrayed,” starring Melissa George, and was co-executive producer of the romantic comedy “Coming and Going,” directed by Edoardo Ponti and starring Rhys Darby and Sasha Alexander. Echo Bridge recently acquired the North American rights to that film.
Shot in Grand Rapids, Michigan, “Playback” was written and directed by Michael A. Nickles, whose credits include the award-winning films “Desert Winds,” starring Heather Graham, and the horror-thriller “XII” (a.k.a. “Twelve”).
The film features music from The Sounds, Shiny Toy Guns, AWOLNation, innerpartysystem, My Passion, Kill Hannah, High Tension Wires, K.Flay, Guadalupe Plata, Carol Bui, Youth Mass and “Playback” star Johnny Pacar’s own band Forever the Day.
Synopsis
While digging into their town’s infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened to possess and destroy its victims through video playback, stopping at nothing to find his true heir.
Inspired by a True Story
The mythos of “Playback” is rooted in the mysterious disappearance of Louis Le Prince, a French inventor considered by many film historians to be the true father of motion pictures.
Louis Le Prince was a French inventor considered by many film historians to be the true father of motion pictures. In October 1888, Le Prince captured “Roundhay Garden Scene” and “Leeds Bridge Scene” on paper film using a single-lens camera, several years before competitors Auguste and Louis Lumière and Thomas Edison released their inventions.
Louis Le Prince was planning a public exposition for his films at Jumel Mansion in New York City when he vanished without a trace. He was last seen in Dijon on Friday, Sept. 16, 1890, boarding the 2:42 p.m. train for Paris.
Theories about his disappearance abound. Some believe he committed suicide. Some say he was assassinated by henchmen working for Thomas Edison. Some say he succumbed to financial and social pressure from his family and “disappeared” to live his life in obscurity in the US. Still others believe his disappearance was due to darker, even more nefarious reasons.

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