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Noah Centineo on Launching His Production Company With ‘Our Hero, Balthazar,’ a Black Comedy About Gun Violence: ‘It’s the Artist’s Job to Accurately Show the World’


Noah Centineo and his Arkhum Productions partner Enzo Marc launch their first film 'Our Hero, Balthazar' at Tribeca Festival.

Centineo broke out on the small screen in “The Fosters” before winning over a generation of girls as Peter Kavinsky in the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” movies, then moving on to superhero fare in DC’s “Black Adam” series and recently appearing in the harrowing true story “Warfare.” Written and directed by Oscar Boyson, the film is a black comedy about a wealthy New York City teen named Balthazar “Balthy” Malone (Jaeden Martell), who makes dramatic social media videos pleading for stricter gun laws. The reason why it’s a struggle to go to a big financier and say, “Hey, we want to do this movie for $7 million and it’s an indie film, and it’s a first-time, up-and-coming filmmaker, and the subject matter is intense and niche,” is they’re going to go, “Well, how are we going to make money?

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