Tense New Crime Thriller JUST BREATHE Debuts On Demand And Digital September 16, 2025

Written and Directed by PAUL P. POMPA III
Starring Kyle Gallner, Shawn Ashmore, E’myri Crutchfield, and William Forsythe

Shout! Studios, a Radial Entertainment Company, in association with MPX Films and Rockwood Champ Production, announced that Paul P. Pompa III’s adrenaline-fueled crime thriller JUST BREATHE will hit on-demand & digital on September 16, 2025. Written and directed by Paul P. Pompa III, this fast-paced film stars Kyle Gallner (Smile, Strange Darling), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, Darkness Falls), E’myri Crutchfield (Dark Harvest, Fargo), and William Forsythe (The Devil’s Rejects, The Man in the High Castle).

JUST BREATHE is a tense thriller that combines raw intensity with profound emotional depth, resulting in a compelling narrative that lingers long after the credits roll. The film follows Nick Bianco (Gallner), who plans to rebuild his life and win back the love of his life after a year spent in prison for assault. Upon his release, Nick learns that the target of his affections has another admirer, Chester (Ashmore), his no-nonsense parole officer. Nick soon finds himself caught in a gripping rivalry that threatens not only his second chance at love but also his chance to stay out of prison.

A Rockwood Champ Production in association with MPX Films, JUST BREATHE is produced by Paul P. Pompa III, James Agnew, Cam Cannon, and Rick Dugdale with David Hillary and Aaron Collins as co-producers. Executive producers are Wendy Benge, Ryan Bury, and James Andrew Felts.

JUST BREATHE | Shout! Studios
Arrives On-Demand & Digital September 16, 2025
AppleTV, Amazon, GooglePlay, YouTube, Fandango At Home, and other digital platforms

JUST BREATHE
Directed by Paul P. Pompa III
Written by Paul P. Pompa III
Produced by Paul P. Pompa III, James Agnew, Cam Cannon, and Rick Dugdale
Co-Producers, David Hillary and Aaron Collins 
Executive Producers, Wendy Benge, Ryan Bury, and James Andrew Felts
Music Supervisor, Cody Partridge
Director of Photography, Andrew Chen
CDG Production Designer, Burns Burns
Costume Designer, Bonnie Stauch
Editor, Phil Norden
Music by Jose Manuel Cancela

About Motion Picture Exchange
Motion Picture Exchange (MPX) is a global film sales and distribution firm co-founded by James Andrew Felts and Ryan Bury. Our primary mission is to execute winning relationships between content and distribution by pairing quality films with powerful marketing. By managing global rights of our slate, MPX can provide distributors with profitability focused deals and efficient acquisition pipelines. The company offers a full suite of services across production, packaging, marketing, sales, and multi-platform distribution. With a curated catalog that includes narrative titles such as Percy vs Goliath (Christopher Walken, Zach Braff, Christina Ricci), Aftermath (Ashley Greene, Shawn Ashmore), Chantilly Bridge (Talia Shire, Lindsay Crouse, JoBeth Williams) and It Feeds (Ashley Green, Shawn Ashmore) and Documentary films Cat Daddies and Closed For Storm. For more information on Motion Picture Exchange, visit mpxfilms.com

About Shout! Studios 
Shout! Studios, a Radial Entertainment Company, specializes in film and TV distribution, development, and production. The company has evolved with the changing entertainment landscape to excel in all forms of content distribution, including theatrical, digital streaming, broadcast and in-flight licensing, physical media, and more. Shout! Studios owns Gravitas Ventures and manages a portfolio of thousands of feature films, series, anime, animation, and documentaries. The company’s creative acquisition mandate has established it as a leading independent distributor, with partners and properties including Aardman Animations, The Carol Burnett Show, GKIDS and Studio Ghibli (including the latest Academy Award® -winning masterpiece from Miyazaki, The Boy And The Heron), LAIKA Studios, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Golden Princess movie library, alongside many others. Shout! Studios operates two successful imprints – Shout! Kids for family animation and live-action entertainment and Scream Factory for genre horror films and TV. Shout! Studios also operates the acclaimed streaming service Shout! TV and its family of FAST channels. Shout! Studios produces, acquires, and distributes new films, including Shout! Studios’ original film Old Henry (Tim Blake Nelson), acclaimed Western The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen, Vicky Krieps), Linoleum (Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn), Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got To Do With It (Lily James, Emma Thompson), family comedy A Sudden Case of Christmas (Danny DeVito, Andie MacDowell), and the upcoming Western thriller Killing Faith (Guy Pearce, DeWanda Wise, Bill Pullman). Shout! Studios is based in Los Angeles, California. For more on Shout! Studios, visit ShoutStudios.com.

About Radial Entertainment
Radial Entertainment is a newly formed global entertainment company operating the FilmRise and Shout! Studios brands, backed by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management. As a premier content distribution studio, Radial Entertainment boasts a diverse library of over 70,000 movies and episodes, making it the largest independent catalog in the industry. The company delivers high-quality entertainment across all major consumer platforms including FAST channels, AVOD, SVOD, TVOD, physical product, theatrical film and more. Its programming spans a wide range of genres, including true crime, reality, animation, action, westerns, award-winning titles, classics, medical, food, U.K. content, cult classics, and horror.