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Worst movies based on video games

Hollywood seems to think that if it's good enough to be a video game, it's good enough to be a film. The rest of us beg... more

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Sundance Announces Eight City Fest Screenings

New for SUNDANCETWENTYTEN this year's festival will dispatch eight filmmakers with their films to eight cities, January 28,... more

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The Mike & Ike Show Episode VIII "SURPRISE!"

An exceptional short. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdn7nNOQC0M&aia=true

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The Messenger reviewed by The Rotten Tomatoes Show

Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "The Messenger."... more

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INDIE FILM INK PIRATED, FILMMAKERS PLEASED. Filmmaker Magazine: Web Exclusives

By Mike Johnston This week, when I saw Jamin and Kiowa Winans of Double Edge Films sending out excited messages on Twitter to... more

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Double Edge Films: A 360 Degree View of Internet Piracy (From the filmmakers)

The last few days have felt like Jamin and I took a trip to an industrial-sized clothes dryer and jumped inside. Exciting,... more

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Kick-Ass Teaser Trailer

Straight from Comic Con comes the leaked teaser trailer for Matthew Vaugh's Kick-Ass. According to slashfilm, it's the... more

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TIRING OF SEQUELS & REMAKES, LOW-BUDGET FILMMAKERS SET OUT TO PRODUCE AN ORIGINAL FEATURE

Mobile, Alabama based independent filmmaking group Fighting Owl Films is set to produce an independent feature in the city utilizing local talent. The feature, titled “The Night Shift”, is based on Fighting Owl Films' short film of the same name which proved an online hit, was positively reviewed in "Fangoria" magazine's online edition earlier in 2009 and has screened in several festivals across the United States.

A supernatural adventure-comedy, “The Night Shift” centers on Rue Morgan, the undead night watchman at Pinewood Oaks Cemetery. Rue, along with his buddy Herb, a limbless corpse, spends his nights trying to keep the cemetery’s cantankerous residents in, and his days dreaming of a date with hard-nosed day-shifter, Claire. It’s an okay afterlife until a scourge of supernatural occurrences leave Rue not only watching the cemetery, but also watching his back!

The short film’s positive reception coupled with the disillusionment with Hollywood’s current output of remakes and reboots encouraged the filmmakers to pursue their dream of turning the original “The Night Shift” into a feature length adventure film. Thomas Smith, the film’s writer/director and co-producer, is hoping to recapture some of the cinematic magic of the 80s Amblin films he grew up with that had a lasting influence.

“Growing up as a child of the 80s, the world depicted on film had a completely different atmosphere,” Smith says. “The films possessed a graininess and lived-in look that added an extra dimension of realism. There also seemed to be a greater emphasis on character and storytelling and less of the headache-inducing flash and sensory overload that’s become so commonplace today. It was the era of ‘Gremlins’, ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Indiana Jones’, films everyone could enjoy, not just children or adult audiences. That’s what we’re hoping to recapture with ‘The Night Shift’.”

The independent feature has secured its cast. Returning from the short to reprise their roles of Rue Morgan, Claire Rennfield and Herbie West are Khristian Fulmer, Erin Lilley and Soren Odom, respectively. New additions to the cast include Andrew Crider as Adramalech, the villainous vengence demon with an affinity for western wear, Jordan Woodall as Curly and Jonathan Pruitt as the mysterious Captain Roderick Blake. The film, currently in pre-production, is expected to begin shooting in May 2010.

For more information on Fighting Owl Films and “The Night Shift”, visit them online at www.fightingowlfilms.com and www.thenightshiftmovie.com.

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