40th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival<\/p>\n
Opening Night<\/p>\n
\u201cMiami Nights\u201d <\/p>\n
Saturday, Feb. 21, 6:00pm (Reception) \/ 7:00pm pm Screening, Q & A, After party at Savor Cinema<\/p>\n
Special Guests: Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven, Jeremy Sumpter, Danay Garcia, Sydelle Noel and John Lewis. World Premiere, Action-Thriller. Tickets $40 for FLIFF Members \/ $50 non-members. <\/p>\n
Miami Nights follows two decorated war heroes who are dishonorably discharged after saving a high-profile American journalist overseas. As they attempt to rebuild their lives, they become ensnared in a deadly scheme with local criminals, culminating in a high-stakes plot to steal a priceless diamond. <\/p>\n
Fronting the ensemble cast are Oscar-nominated Terrence Howard (Empire, Crash, Iron Man), Emmy Award-winning Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Jeremy Sumpter (Peter Pan), and Sydelle Noel (GLOW), joined by Sophia Pernas (Blood & Treasure), John Lewis (Den of Thieves), Danay Garcia (Fear the Walking Dead), Manu Bennett (Spartacus), and Thomas Jane (The Punisher) with original score by Serj Tankian, the Grammy-Winning frontman of System of a Down. The film is directed by Justin Steele (Death and Cremation, Gutshot Straight), written by Amanda Konis and Steven Lloyd Bennett, and produced by Darryll C. Scott (Bosco), Natalie Kline (The Fall), and John Lewis (Lullaby). <\/p>\n
The Thriller was shot on location in Miami and features adrenaline-fueled action while exploring the complexity of US veterans’ reintegration into civilian life. It serves as the flagship release for the Los Angeles-based production company Drama Free Films. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"40th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Opening Night \u201cMiami Nights\u201d Saturday, Feb. 21, 6:00pm (Reception) \/ 7:00pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-141443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}