Violent Ends
2025 film by John-Michael Powell
Violent Ends is a 2025 American independent Southern Gothic crime thriller film written and directed by John-Michael Powell. The film stars Billy Magnussen, James Badge Dale, Kate Burton, Ray McKinnon, Nick Stahl, and Alexandra Shipp. Principal photography took place in Northwest Arkansas from October to November 2023, with an estimated production budget of $2 million.
The film was released in select cinemas in the United States on October 31, 2025, by Independent Film Company. The film received mixed reviews and grossed $185,131.
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Writer and director John-Michael Powell, a native of North Little Rock, Arkansas, had "always wanted to set a film in [his] home state". He completed the first draft of the screenplay, originally titled The Killing Kind, in 2013. The film was "a few weeks away from shooting" in 2017 when the production "fell apart", and he subsequently wrote and directed the "microbudget" film The Send-Off (2022) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Send-Off won the Audience Award at the Arkansas Cinema Society's Filmland, which came with a grant from Panavision that he used to partially fund Violent Ends.
Powell previously worked as an editor on the 2012 film The Brass Teapot which co-starred Billy Magnussen, whom he felt had "so much more in his well" while reviewing the production dailies.
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