Lionsgate has acquired North American and UK distribution rights to Wayne Beach's "Slow Burn" reports the trades, and plans to release the film this August.
The big-city suspense thriller marks Beach's directorial debut and centers on an ambitious district attorney (Ray Liotta) who finds himself in a bad situation when his assistant district attorney (Jolene Blalock) confesses to killing a man in self-defense.
Her story is contradicted by a stranger named Luther Pinks (LL Cool J) and becomes further complicated by record store clerk (Mekhi Phifer) and a gang lord Taye Diggs and Chiwetel Ejiofor also star.
Lionsgate Feels The "Burn"
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