The company produced ten films under a variety of production labels, in addition to retroactively claiming the 2015 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,
Fangoria In 2018, Cinestate acquired
Fangoria magazine from the Brooklyn Company for an undisclosed price, with plans to re-launch the publication as a quarterly edition and additionally develop
Fangoria into a brand for producing movies, books and podcasts. As part of the deal, Cinestate controlled all material from over 300 issues of
Fangoria magazine over 39 years. Following the 2020 Daily Beast article about misconduct on Cinestate sets, the staff of
Fangoria staged a
walkout in protest, resulting in the brand being sold.
Books Cinestate released its first book,
S. Craig Zahler's
Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child, alongside the announcement that Zahler would work with the
Jim Henson Company to bring the title protagonist to life in an upcoming feature film. Additionally, Cinestate published
The Megarothke, the debut novel from Robert Ashcroft. Its most recent novel released under the Cinestate label was
Headcheese by Jess Hagemann. In 2020, a new
Rebeller literary imprint was launched; a single title,
Natasha Tynes'
They Called Me Wyatt, was released shortly before the brand shut down. == Bonfire Legend ==