Cinestate

Cinestate was a Dallas-based movie studio founded in 2016 by Dallas Sonnier. The company produced ten films under a variety of production labels, in addition to retroactively claiming the 2014 film Bone Tomahawk, produced independently by Sonnier, as a Cinestate movie. In 2017, the company acquired Fangoria magazine, relaunching it in 2018 as a print-only collectible under the editorial oversight of Phil Nobile Jr. In 2019, the company announced the launch of Rebeller Media, an action label that would have encompassed a production company and lifestyle website to be managed by Washington Free Beacon journalist Sonny Bunch. In 2020, following the arrest of producer Adam Donaghey for sexual assault and a Daily Beast article alleging misconduct on Cinestate sets, Rebeller was shut down and Fangoria sold, all Cinestate social media and websites went dormant, the company was closed and its entire staff laid off.

Cinestate
Company typePrivate
IndustryMotion picture
Founded2016 (2016)
FounderDallas Sonnier
DefunctJune 2020
FateShut down
SuccessorBonfire Legend
Headquarters
Dallas, TX
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Services
OwnerDallas Sonnier
DivisionsFangoria (2018-2020); Rebeller (2019-2020)
Websitecinestate.com

Two films produced by Cinestate under the "Fangoria Presents" and "Rebeller" labels, The Seventh Day and South of Heaven, respectively, were sold to distributors and released following the company's closure under the ad hoc label "Swiss Avenue Productions," named for the street where the company headquarters were once located.

A successor company, Bonfire Legend, was launched by Sonnier in early 2021 to carry on the company mission of the Rebeller Media label, in partnership with the Daily Wire.

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