Fifth Season & HarbourView Enter Multi-Picture Financing Deal; Dev Patel & Mila Kunis Pics Up First With A24 Actioner ‘The Peasant’ Now Underway

EXCLUSIVE: Fifth Season has entered a multi-picture financing deal with HarbourView Equity Partners (HarbourView), the New York investment firm with a significant music portfolio and growing investments in film and TV.

The first films under the deal are The Peasant, the Fifth Season co-production directed, co-written, and led by Dev Patel, and set for release by A24; and Nightwatching, the Fifth Season production starring Mila Kunis and Clancy Brown, with Picturestart and Scott Free Productions.

The Peasant, which has begun filming, is co-written by Oscar nominee Patel and Will Dunn, whose credits include the Emmy winner Ms. Marvel. Fifth Season is producing the film alongside India Take One Productions, Minor Realm, and Thunder Road. The film, which will combine medieval knights with feudal India, follows a 14th-century shepherd as he pursues revenge against mercenaries who ravaged his community, bringing his true nature to light as he hunts them down.
 
Nightwatching, adapted from the debut novel by Tracy Sierra, stars Kunis and Brown alongside Emmy nominee Corey Hawkins. In addition to Fifth Season, producers include Ridley Scott via Scott Free Productions, Picturestart, and Kunis’ newly launched banner Brick for Sheep. The “tense, atmospheric thriller follows Lee, a mother who, during a relentless winter storm, wakes to an intruder in her home and struggles to protect her children in a harrowing game of doubt and danger.”

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