Los Angeles, CA – Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired the North American, United Kingdom and Australian distribution rights to the Action-Adventure film Diamond Cartel it was announced. Cleopatra will release the film domestically in theaters in the spring of 2017 with a special Blu Ray home entertainment release and iTUNES release shortly thereafter.

 

Featuring the final appearance by the late, eight time Academy Award nominee Peter O’Toole, Diamond Cartel stars Emmy Award-winning actor Armand Assante and includes appearances by Michael Madsen, martial arts superstar Bolo Yeung, Japanese TV and Film veteran Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Japanese-American 11 time professional kickboxing world champion Don “The Dragon” Wilson.

 

Diamond Cartel was executive produced by Gamal Diab, produced by Dauren Mussa, directed by Salamat Mukhammed-Ali and filmed entirely in Kazakhstan with an estimated budget in the high seven figure range. The deal for the film was brokered by Brian Perera and Tim Yasui at Cleopatra Entertainment and by Sam Eisen at Shoreline Entertainment on behalf of the filmmakers.