‘The Bannen Way’ Set Visit: Ironside, Jaguars and REDs

October 9, 2009
I woke up Sunday morning, slid into my skinny jeans, a low-cut, tight black shirt, and stilettos; and slipped on a pair of shades. There’s something about going to visit the set of a series that has been labeled “slick,” “sexy,” and “dangerous” that just makes a gal want to look good…even at 7:00 a.m.

Hollywood’s future is in Bannen’s hands

8th October Lisa Marks
Last Sunday I was lucky enough to be invited onto the set of The Bannen Way, an original web series, funded by Sony for their digital platform, Crackle.

So what, I hear you cry but this series is like no other. The production values are streets ahead of anything else that you’ll have seen on the web and although no-one was prepared to give me an exact figure, I wouldn’t be surprised if the budget hovered somewhere in the region of $1million.

‘The Bannen Way’: Cast Announced, Sultry Set Photos

Sept. 28, 2009
Plenty of juicy tidbits released today from Crackle’s highly anticipated action thriller web series The Bannen Way. It’s no secret we’re hot on this one, and for good reason. It’s one of the rare few web series that landed a major studio deal on just a trailer. Sure it was a slick and sexy teaser shot on the RED One, but still an indie series from the get-go.

‘Prom Queen’, ‘Bannen Way’ Highlight OnFrontNYC

June 11, 2009
Web Television continues to grow up – first its own awards show and now its own version of television industry’s tried and true Upfronts. The first annual OnFrontNYC went down Tuesday in New York, bringing out over twenty different web content studios to showcase their web series wares to media buyers and digital ad agencies in attendance including Ogilvy, Digitas’ The Third Act and Deep Focus.

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.