Dylan Sprouse Among Cast Announced for New Thriller DISMISSED

Mumblecore veteran and recent Emmy-winner Kent Osborne (UNCLE KENT, DIGGING FOR FIRE) and Dylan Sprouse (Disney's "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody," BIG DADDY) have joined the cast of BoulderLight Pictures' thriller DISMISSED, which marks the feature directorial debut of Benjamin Arfmann, who previously directed the acclaimed SXSW short "Random Stop." Rounding out the dynamic cast will be Randall Park (THE INTERVIEW), Chris Bauer ("True Blood") and Alycia Delmore (HUMPDAY).

DISMISSED will be produced by J.D. Lifsz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures (CONTRACTED franchise and the upcoming DEMENTIA for IFC Films) who are teaming up with Sev Ohanian (FRUITVALE STATION). The film was written by Brian McAuley. Executive producing is Pang Ho-Cheung, whose Making Film Limited is financing the entire picture.

The film will shoot this month in Los Angeles with world sales on the film being handled by BoulderLight and Bravos Pictures Limited.

In the film, an idealistic, straight-laced English teacher (Osborne) is drawn down a nightmarish rabbit hole by an honor roll student (Sprouse) who will stop at nothing to get an 'A.'

"We couldn't be more excited about the team assembled here, and cannot wait to unleash this original and gripping story onto audiences worldwide," said Lifsz and Margules.

Sprouse is best known as one half of the Sprouse Brothers sibling team that starred in the Disney Channel hit "The Suite Life of Zach and Cody," as well as the spinoff "The Suite Life on Deck."

Osborne is a well-known television writer, winning an Emmy this year for Outstanding Short-Format Animated program for Cartoon Network's "Adventure Time." He was also nominated for 8 additional primetime Emmys, and has been a screenwriter and actor in a number of films associated with the mumblecore movement. He most recently starred in and wrote the indie feature UNCLE KENT 2 , which just won the Visions Audience Award at SXSW.

BoulderLight's latest projects include the CONTRACTED sequel CONTRACTED: PHASE II, which IFC released last week, as well as DEMENTIA, also an IFC release which stars Gene Jones (THE SACREMENT) and Kristina Klebe (HALLOWEEN, PROXY) and UNCAGED, a werewolf film for the digital age, which Image Entertainment is releasing.

Sprouse is repped by WME and Principato-Young.

BoulderLight is repped by Stutz Law Corp.

About BoulderLight Pictures
BoulderLight Pictures is a film production, financing and sales company that was founded in 2012 by J.D. Lifsz and Raphael Margules. They launched their foreign sales arm in 2014, and have three movies set for release in 2015, including Contracted: Phase II, set for release September 4th through IFC Midnight.