JACK SAMSON AND LIZZE BROADWAY TO STAR IN UPCOMING SCI-FI FILM

Los Angeles, CA (June 9, 2017) – Multi-platinum-selling artist and bestselling author TOM DELONGE has cast the lead roles for his upcoming feature film, STRANGE TIMES. Produced by DeLonge’s multi-media company, To the Stars and partners The Cartel and Striker Entertainment, the film is based on DeLonge’s STRANGE TIMES franchise about a group of rebellious San Diego skateboarders who take it upon themselves to investigate their town’s paranormal activity and wind up embarking on the adventure of a lifetime. Jack Samson (‘Zodiac’) has signed on to play the part of Charlie Wilkens and Lizze Broadway (“Bones,” “Chicago PD”) will take the role of Alli.

“There were more than 3000 casting submissions for the film, but Jack and Lizze immediately stood out,” says DeLonge, who will also serve as the film’s director. “They’re incredibly talented actors who each bring a unique energy and perspective to the film. We were blown away watching them bring Charlie and Alli to life.”

Production is slated to begin this fall with Stan Spry and Eric Woods from The Cartel and Russell Binder from Strike Entertainment producing. The film will also feature new, original music written and recorded by DeLonge’s chart-topping band, Angels & Airwaves. DeLonge co-wrote the script with Ben Kull, who he worked with on the 2014 animated short film Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker, which took home Best Animation at the Toronto International Short Film Festival.

DeLonge originally launched Strange Times back in 2011 as a fringe news site reporting on unexplained phenomena. It grew from there, expanding across multiple properties, including a graphic novel, merchandise, and last fall DeLonge’s To The Stars partnered with Simon & Schuster for the release of STRANGE TIMES: THE GHOST IN THE GIRL, the first in a planned trilogy of Young Adult science fiction novels co-penned by DeLonge and award-winning author Geoff Herbach.

Joseph Cohen and Andra Gordon of American Entertainment Investors will executive produce, advise, and assist with the financing and distribution of the project. Casting is currently taking place in Los Angeles, CA.

About Tom DeLonge

Praised as "Alt-Rock's JK Rowling" Tom DeLonge is an award-winning producer, author, multi-platinum-selling recording artist and entrepreneur from San Diego, CA. He’s best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the musical acts Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves. After selling 25 million records and building multiple successful lifestyle and technology companies over the course of 15 years, DeLonge formed To The Stars…, an independent production company and record label that would further his passion for art and storytelling and create multi-media franchises that span music, books and film. His first independent movie, LOVE,received critical acclaim from industry influencers such as Variety, won multiple awards on the festival circuit, and was shown in over 600 theatres across the US in a one-night live event. The full-length feature was accompanied by an original album and graphic novel for fans to fully immerse in an audio-visual experience. In 2014 DeLonge created To The Stars, Inc., a vertically integrated entertainment company that would develop, manufacture and directly distribute transmedia franchises that aim to inspire a newfound appreciation of the profound, yet unresolved, mysteries involving science and the universe. In 2015, DeLonge and New York Times best-selling author Suzanne Young released Poet Anderson …Of Nightmares (To The Stars/Simon & Schuster), which hit No. 1 on Amazon’s Teen & Young Adult Thrillers and Suspense chart and received 5 out 5 stars in Foreword Reviews being hailed as “an epic and sizzling tale of a teen hero struggling to find his destiny. That book was precluded by the animated short film Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker, which took home Best Animation at the Toronto International Short Film Festival. Also released was the critically-acclaimed comic book series of the same name and The Dream Walker album, which hit No. 1 on the and featured the single “Tunnels.” Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows followed, the first in a three-volume series of fiction novels co-written by DeLonge and New York Times bestselling author A.J. Hartley (The Darwen Arkwright series). The book, a hard science-fiction thriller based on true events revolving around Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, was guided by a team of top political and military advisors that keep the essential facts and the science behind the events accurate. He recently teamed with acclaimed author Peter Levenda for the non-fiction investigative series Gods, Man & War, with Volume 1: Gods.

About The Cartel

The Cartel was founded in 2011 by partners Stan Spry, Jeff Holland, and Eric Woods. Since then, it has grown into a full service management & production company that represents top tier writers, directors, producers, and production companies and has offices in Los Angeles, London, and New York. In the last six years, The Cartel has produced forty-five movies as well as multiple television series and digital productions, and has also been involved in the packaging and sales of dozens of television pilots, series and productions.

About Striker Entertainment

Striker Entertainment is a Los Angeles-based full-service global IP/brand extension agency dedicated to maximizing licensing opportunities and building brand equity for its clients across consumer products and all forms of media. Striker represents many of the entertainment industry’s most exciting properties for consumer product licensing including The Walking Dead, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Preacher, Ghost in the Shell, and Candy Crush. Headed by industry veterans Russell Binder and Marc Mostman, Striker’s client roster includes AMC, Amblin Partners, Tom DeLonge’s To The Stars, EuropaCorp, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Television, Scott Games, and several others. For more information, visit www.strikerentertainment.com.