In May 2019, Solstice Studios announced
Russell Crowe would star in
Carl Ellsworth's
thriller film,
Unhinged.
Principal photography took place in
New Orleans from July 15 to August 23, 2019. It was released in the United States on August 21, 2020. The first film to receive a wide theatrical release in the midst of the
COVID-19 pandemic, it grossed $44 million worldwide. Solstice Studios announced a partnership with
Studio 8 in November 2019, with
Robert Rodriguez's
Hypnotic as their first joint-project.
Ben Affleck has been cast to star in the film. Affleck will play a "detective investigating a series of impossible high-end heists who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program". Production was set to begin April 2020, but delayed due to the pandemic. In September 2020, the studio acquired the distribution rights to the
Mark Wahlberg drama film
Joe Bell for $20 million. The distribution rights for the film were sold off to
Roadside Attractions and
Vertical Entertainment in May 2021 along with
Plane to
Lionsgate. In October 2021, it was announced that Solstice had laid off a majority of its key executives, including its CEO, only less than a year after they had fired about twenty people in December 2020. This left only ten people on the Solstice Studios staff, which would oversee the completion of the film
Hypnotic directed by
Robert Rodriguez and starring
Ben Affleck and
Alice Braga, which was confirmed by a spokesperson of the company. The staff would stay on till fall the following year, after which Solstice would possibly shut down. However,
Hypnotic was left without a domestic distributor as a result of the series of mass layoffs and was ultimately acquired by
Ketchup Entertainment in February 2023, possibly meaning that Solstice had shut down in the interim. ==Films==