"Shogun Films, helmed by producer Jonathan Sothcott, (is) a company responsible for some of the UK’s most legendary thriller pictures in recent years"
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Shogun Films is a disruptive independent production company with a global reach that is dedicated to making outstanding, high-octane, filmmaker-driven commercial movies in the action/horror/thriller/crime space for the home entertainment market.
The company was founded by producer/actress Jeanine Sothcott and legendary movie industry veteran Jonathan Sothcott after identifying a gap in the market for high quality, low budget traditional genre movies following the fall of video rental stores and the rise of the streaming services. The Shogun name and branding is inspired by the great home entertainment titans of the 1980s and 1990s such as Carolco, Cannon and New World and while the company embraces and is on the cutting edge of digital technology and delivery we are also passionate about physical and in person media and believe our product should reach the widest audience possible.
Shogun’s films are available all over the world and the company is now a trusted partner for the very best international distribution companies including Trinity, Saban, Vertical Entertainment, 101 Films and Samuel Goldwyn with our films showing on Tubi, Amazon and Sky alongside premium Blu Ray releases and theatrical screenings.
Shogun Films is still a relatively new business with huge aspirations and significant long-term growth prospects built on a foundation of exceptional sector knowledge and experience. Shogun is aiming to be the most prolific provider of quality international genre films in the UK and Western Europe and has already built a significant library of IP. We have a tested formula that works, the absolute cream of the crop of talent and our timing is right. At Shogun we are passionate about our industry and the people in it, and are proud of our incredible British Film heritage, yet our ambition is global and our movies are carefully designed to have genuine international appeal. Shogun is a new breed of film company: one that builds and fosters long-term relationships creatively as well as commercially: that becomes an incubator for the very best creative talent and an immediately identifiable brand that gives its audience that little bit more. In an industry tarnished by a focus on ‘content’ over storytelling, Shogun offers something different.
Our philosophy is to give audiences what they want. We make world-class films using the very best talent and facilities the UK has to offer.
We believe in independence. In an industry overshadowed by billion-dollar behemoths, we offer a counterpoint of true autonomy, authenticity and craftsmanship. Our horror movies feature stunning practical special effects and creature suits inspired by the likes of Stan Winston and Rick Baker in an age dominated by computer generated visuals.
We are fortunate to have worked with some truly amazing actors and, in contrast to the wider industry’s narrow focus on youth, part of our corporate mission is platforming older actors and actresses, giving our films the benefit of familiar, well-loved faces as well as experienced practitioners. We value and celebrate nostalgia.
In the post-coronavirus world there is a genuine gap in the market for high volumes of low-cost entertainment which can be produced and delivered expertly and expediently – and Shogun is well placed to fill it.
In November 2020, as a testament to the huge impact the business made in a very short space of time, Shogun Films won Best Emerging Independent Film Production Company at the prestigious SME Greater London Enterprise Awards. In 2023, Renegades was nominated for two prestigious National Film Awards and triumphed at the NIAFFES festival in Spain, winning three awards including Best Foreign Film, as well as the Oz Indie Film Festival where it won Best Action Film.
And we’re just getting started.
In 2021 we developed Shogun Books and Shogun Records as part of our commitment to physical media, publishing ‘making of’ books and soundtrack albums to compliment our films and grow brand awareness. In March of that year, the theme song for Nemesis hit the number 1 spot on the UK iTunes charts .
Our critically-acclaimed horror thriller Helloween received small theatrical releases in both the USA and the UK and in the future we intend to build on this as audiences seek alternatives to the Hollywood fare championed by the multiplexes. In October 2025 we held a Helloween Blu Ray signing at HMV’s Fopp Covent Garden store in Central London which was a huge, sold out success.
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Looking to the future, in 2026 Shogun is looking to expand into the emerging Vertical Drama market as well as secure it’s first original commission for television and expand it’s publishing interests with comic books and novelisations, building a wider universe for our IP.
In the past two years we have produced six feature films, laying a foundation of productivity on which to build in the coming years as we ramp up production significantly.
Accept no substitutes. We Are Shogun.
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