HELLPHONE

An amazing thing happens when you stare at footage long enough – you miss amazingly obvious problems. Like people in the shot.
I think there were 5 shots I edited in that had someone in there that shouldn’t have been there. 3 times it was me.

That’s why it is valuable to show other people your work. They’ll catch stuff you’ll miss.

-JMP

That’s the “industry term” for more shooting. We need to add a couple scenes to help the flow of the movie, and will reshoot part of one scene to make it better.

More later, but we will need minions for one scene. Details will be sent out next week.

-JMP

Check out our closing credits song.

Very talented band called Stratocruiser.

-JMP

That’s when I first came up with the idea for “Hellphone”. Around 1am one night, trying to fall asleep and it popped into my head. I jotted down the opening (which stayed remarkably the same through 18 rewrites) and plot notes, and also recorded some ideas onto my cell phone, which had a voice recorder [...]

I remember how hot it was when we were shooting Hellphone. Well, except the freezing night we had the actors jump in the lake.
But, anyway, the cold and snow are a good indicator of how much time has passed since the shoot. We’ve gotten a lot accomplished, but still have a lot to do.
It’s going [...]

Here’s a shot of Yanni Batsios out at the Sundance Film Festival wearing his official Hellphone Crew shirt (which are available for sale in our online store!).
Yanni was an invaluable member of the production crew, and will be an invaluable member of the post-production crew shortly.
No word on any offers from major studios, but I’m [...]

Matt Moore, the stunt coordinator and also an actor in Hellphone, is premiering his feature film Children of the Hunt this Sunday at the Carousel Cinema in Greensboro.
Info is here.
If you can make it, get out there. We want to grow local films, and support a great theater (which will most likely be where we [...]

1) Post-production is proceeding at a good pace. We’re pretty excited about how things stand!

2) Our new expected release date is “Spring 2010″ which is a nice 3 month window to give us flexibility as people work on post production around their paying gigs.

3) We are pre-selling DVDs! This is how we plan to make [...]

Now that you’re all excited about the monster in Hellphone, why not buy a t-shirt or pre-order a DVD?

Remember – everyone who pre-orders a DVD will get their name in the credits!

-JMP

We have a short clip of the Hellphone monster in all its CGI glory!

And you can see it!

All you have to do is sign up to be a registered user on this (www.hellphonefilm.com) website. We will email you the link and password to the movie once you sign up.
And, while you’re at it, get some [...]