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NEW REGENCY FOLLOWS BREAKOUT SERIES EDGE OF SLEEP WITH UPCOMING THRILLER BALESTRA

Series stars Cush Jumbo, Manny Jacinto and James Badge Dale

Left to right: Cush Jumbo - photo cred.: Celeste Sloman; Manny Jacinto - photo cred.: Jonny Marlow; Nicole Dorsey – photo cred: Brendan Calton

LOS ANGELES – September 9, 2025 – New Regency announced today that Balestra, the second of five original titles in its QCODE slate, will premiere on streaming in late September. The psychological thriller follows the successful debut of Edge of Sleep, the firstQCODE release, which launched on Prime Video via Prime Video Direct. The series quickly broke into the platform’s Top 10, where it remained throughout its initial weeks on the platform, and is now also available on Tubi. Edge of Sleep stars and is executive produced by YouTube creator Markiplier.

Balestra stars and is executive produced by Cush Jumbo, currently seen in Apple TV+’s acclaimed Criminal Record, now in production on its second season. Jumbo is known for standout performances in the critically acclaimed New Regency series The Beast Must Die and on stage in Hamlet and Lady Macbeth opposite David Tennant. She rose to prominence as Lucca in The Good Wife and its spinoff The Good Fight. Additional credits include Stay Close and the Sony Music podcast Origins with Cush Jumbo, where she interviews cultural figures such as Anna Wintour and Harlan Coben. Jumbo is represented by Curtis Brown and Anonymous Content.

Joining Jumbo in the series are Manny Jacinto (Freakier Friday, The Acolyte), James Badge Dale (1923, Hightown, Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy) and Christin Park (Surface, Charmed). The series follows a competitive fencer who agrees to test an experimental device that allows her to train inside lucid dreams. As she pushes the limits of her mind and body, she encounters a mysterious stranger who threatens to unravel her marriage, her sense of self, and her pursuit of Olympic gold.

The series is directed by Nicole Dorsey, whose debut feature Black Conflux was nominated for three prizes at the Toronto International Film Festival and named one of TIFF’s Top Ten Canadian Films of the year. The script is by Imran Zaidi, based on an original story by Aron Coleite.

Executive producers include Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan, and Michael Schaefer for New Regency; Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Justin Levy for Automatik; Rob Herting, Noah Segal, Laurie May, Tim Ringuette, Pierre Even, Paul-E Audet, Chris Ferguson, Aron Coleite, Nicole Dorsey, Cush Jumbo, and Imran Zaidi.

Good news for Victory. I hope they use electric Italian epees for the show and that those become the next Labubu craze.

[Greg]

Playdate.  November. 

[Drunk Monk]

The Mighty Nein

Good voice cast...

[Greg]

"We'll do what we do best, make terrible choices" Almost like a Doom motto.