PALM-STAR BRANCHES WITH S2 ENTERTAINMENT -Development and Casting Office Opens in NYC-

(PRLEAP.COM) LOS ANGELES, CA (May 2007) Palm-Star Entertainment expands to the East Coast with S2 Entertainment, a new development and casting office in New York City (36 East 20th Street, 3rd Fl, NYC 10003). S2 Entertainment co-founders Sig De Miguel and Stephen Vincent will head the new Palm-Star branch and will report to Palm-Star’s co-founder Kevin Frakes.

S2 Entertainment will concentrate on developing new projects for Palm-Star and will also serve as the in-house casting for all their feature film projects. Sig De Miguel and Stephen Vincent formed S2 Entertainment in January 2006 with the mission to cast and produce high quality independent films. Over the past year, the duo has served as casting directors on eight independent films including “The Narrows” starring Kevin Zegers, Vincent D’Onofrio and Sophia Bush, produced by Leslie Urdang (“The Great New Wonderful”, “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”);
“The Ministers” starring John Leguizamo and Harvey Keitel, directed by Franc. Reyes; “The Passage” starring Stephen Dorff, produced by Lynette Howell (“Half Nelson”) and the upcoming Universal Pictures release, “Illegal Tender” directed by Franc. Reyes and produced by John Singleton.

Sig De Miguel of S2 Entertainment worked alongside Amanda Mackey and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond for six years where they cast such feature films as the award winning, critically acclaimed “United 93” directed by Paul Greengrass; “The Good Shepherd”, Robert De Niro’s epic film starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, “The Lost City” starring and directed by Andy Garcia; “The Cooler” starring William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin and Maria Bello; “A Love Song For Bobby Long” starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson; “The Matador” starring Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis; “The Man” starring Samuel L. Jackson and “P.S.” starring Laura Linney and Topher Grace among others. With Mackey Sandrich he also cast the upcoming releases “Chapter 27” starring Jared Leto and Lindsay Lohan; “Fierce People” starring Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland and “Brooklyn Rules” starring Alec Baldwin and Freddie Prinze Jr. Sig’s other recently completed films include “Where God Left His Shoes” starring John Leguizamo and Leonor Varela, “A Crime” starring Harvey Keitel and Emmanuelle Beart and “Premium” starring Zoe Saldana and Dorian Missick.

Stephen Vincent of S2 Entertainment is a casting director who, prior to teaming with Sig, served as casting associate under Bonnie Timmermann. Over six years, he worked on movies such as “Black Hawk Down”, directed by Ridley Scott; “Spy Game” with Brad Pitt and Robert Redford; “Pearl Harbor” with Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett; “Coyote Ugly”; “The Insider” with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, and “Armageddon”. He has cast independent films such as “Once in the Life” directed by Laurence Fishburne; “London” starring Jessica Biel and Jason Statham and a film version of the off-Broadway play, “Bug”, starring Ashley Judd and being directed by William Friedkin. Stephen also served as director of development under Ms. Timmermann who recently produced “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus”, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., “London”; the upcoming film “Georgia Rule” starring Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda and “The Rule of Nines” starring Terrence Howard and to be directed by Bobby Moresco, co-writer of “Crash”.

Palm-Star Entertainment is an independent film company based in New York and Los Angeles, founded in 2004 by Stephan Paternot and Kevin Frakes. Palm-Star is focused on developing literary driven properties and raises independent production financing for its smaller budgeted films. Palm-Star is developing a feature film adaptation of Peter Biskind’s Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film into a feature length comedy. Ken Bowser ("Easy Riders, Raging Bulls") is attached to direct. Additionally, Palm-Star optioned and is developing Bret Easton Ellis’ International bestseller Lunar Park and recently sold and distributed its first two features, "Fifty Pills" and "Premium". For more information, please visit www.palm-star.com.

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