First Anual Onfront NYC is Tomorrow!

June 8, 2009
Crackle will screen a clip from its highly anticipated actioner, The Bannen Way along with scenes from the first season of its hit original female assassin series Angel of Death. Vuguru, the new media studio owned by Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company will world-premiere footage from the upcoming season of its genre-defining Prom Queen franchise, and Illeana Douglas will be on hand to officially announce what’s “in store” for the second season of her critically-acclaimed Web comedy, Easy to Assemble, which follows Douglas and her celebrity friends as they eschew the Hollywood lifestyle for ‘normal lives’ working at the Burbank IKEA.

‘The Bannen Way’ Lands Major deal with Sony’s Crackle

April 30, 2009
Ever since its slick and sexy trailer hit the web last August, The Bannen Way has been a hot property amongst web television buyers. News today is that the action web series has scored a major distribution deal with Sony for release on its digital network Crackle.com later this year.

Sony’s Crackle.com adding series, movies

Kevin James’ ‘Peacock,’ ‘Spider-Man 2’ among new content
By Mike Shields, Mediaweek

April 29, 2009, 05:36 PM ET
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Web video site Crackle.com will launch a pair of original series later this year along with a slew of theatrical movies as the property continues its evolution toward becoming a destination for premium, young-male-targeted content.

Due this summer is the action-comedy series “Dusty Peacock,” which features an inept stuntman looking to perform one memorable stunt. That show was created by “King of Queens” star Kevin James and stars his brother Gary Valentine. Also in the works is the action-drama “The Bannen Way,” which depicts a con man trying to change his ways.

Slick and Sexy, ‘The Bannen Way’ Trailer Released

August 20, 2008
This one could be good, really good. Check out The Bannen Way. The trailer was just posted this week while the show creators Mark Gantt and Jesse Warren lock up a distribution partner for the show. Shot with the new RED camera, which emulates the look and feel of film at a fraction of the cost, the visuals are stunning. The sexy action series stars Gantt as Neal Bannen, a debaucherous thief looking to go straight after years on the wrong side of the law.

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Jesse Warren (left) and Mark Gantt (right) are the director and star—as well as co-writers and co-executive producers—of the upcoming original Web series, The Bannen Way (January 2010). The series was shot exclusively with the RED ONE as a feature film but was designed to be cut into 14 distinct episodes for Crackle.com, Sony’s next-gen video entertainment network. Gantt and Warren will discuss what made this project unique, from the scope of the production to its cast, and how they landed their deal with producer Sony Pictures Television based on a single trailer.

LIVE from the Tubefilter Meetup – Go Pro, Seduce Studios, Right Now!
December 15, 2009

Are you a web series creator who is trying to land a hot distribution deal with a curvy budget, but you lack the PUA stylings to successfully seduce that special studio? And were you not able to grab a ticket to the December Tubefilter Hollywood Web TV Meetup before the event sold out? Well, we have just the live stream for you.

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The Bannen Way is a slick, sexy, fast paced web series with the humor and tone of Ocean’s 11, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Smoking Aces and Out of Sight. For more check out The Bannen Way website!

The Bannen Way is Coming
Exclusive: New info on the Crackle.com webseries featuring Robert Forster, Michael Ironside and Vanessa Marcil.
by IGN TV

September 28, 2009 – Crackle.com continues to offer notable web-original content with The Bannen Way, a new webseries debuting in January.

The Bannen Way stars Mark Gantt as con man/thief Neal Bannen, and boasts an impressive supporting cast, including Michael Ironside (Total Recall / Starship Troopers), Robert Forster (Heroes, Jackie Brown) and Vanessa Marcil (Las Vegas).

The Bannen Way is currently in production, and an early first look at the project is now available from Crackle at http://blog.crackle.com, including interviews with the cast and director Jesse Warren.

Look out The Bannen Way is Coming!

BIG Thanks to Tarynoneillon Twitter as @tarynoneill for pointing this one out to me!

Their trailer has been posted online for 5 months and as of this posting only has 500 views. But look out, it’s TV pilot season, they have an ICM agent and I’m betting that The Bannen Way is coming and one way or another it will be raising the bar for all Web Video Series.

Shot on the RED camera it has a high end feature film look that any movie studio would be happy to release and any TV network would be happy to have on their Fall schedule. I don’t know why it’s taking so long for The Bannen way to hit the Internet but my guess is that this web series is so good it may never make it online. It might just go straight to TV.

From the The Bannen Way website (which is one of the best looking web series websites I have ever seen.) “The Bannen Way is a slick, sexy, fast paced web series about a womanizing thief, Neal Bannen, who wants to start over but can’t manage to escape the criminal lifestyle.

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by Marc Hustvedt on December 30th, 2009

The Bannen Way continues to drum up anticipation with their latest promo video out today. This time it’s all about co-creator Mark Gantt who stars as protag Neal Bannen, aka “The Man.” We are still wondering just what kind of “research” went into this role… [Crackle]