Archive for the 'Production Updates' Category

LADIES crew quizzed + update

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

GenDance.com profiles the (literal) movers and shakers behind the upcoming music-and-dance filled drama LEADING LADIES, filmed earlier this summer in Champaign-Urbana.

CMM meets Tuesday, August 18

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Champaign Movie Makers, a group dedicated to fostering independent and personal filmmaking in the Champaign-Urbana area, will next meet at the Champaign Public Library in Champaign, IL, on Tuesday, August 18, 2009.

Are you a Predestined extra?

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Predestined Arts & Entertainment of Springfield is casting extras for its current short film production, THIS LIFE AIN’T EASY, needed during the next two Saturdays, July 25 and August 1, 2009.

LADIES one last time, part deux

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

If you didn’t show last time, you’ve earned a pass. Make good by volunteering your services as a LEADING LADIES extra tomorrow, Monday, June 22, at Franklin Middle School in Champaign. Don’t be square!

LADIES livin’ large one last time

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Have you yet to give good face to diamond DP Pete Biagi and crew on the set of LEADING LADIES? Extras have one last chance to impress the rest this Saturday, June 20, 2009, at Franklin Middle School in Champaign. Be there!

Dang! France keen on BREEDING

Friday, June 5th, 2009

We can’t read it very well, but everything indicates that a hep Frenchman understood enough of the tomfoolery present in THORAXX II: THE BREEDING to recommend it.

Extras needed pronto for LADIES

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Aching to give good face for a high-energy, Hi-Def feature film project near you? Then look no further than LEADING LADIES!

CERTAIN POINT needs cast, crew

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Chicago-based Premonition Pictures, which produced the student life cable-television drama ONE FINE DAY! in Champaign-Urbana, will return this spring to shoot a feature called A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW.

Serdar gets serious in RAMPAGE

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, has announced that it will release an English-dubbed edition of the 1986 Turkish action epic KORKUSUZ to DVD as RAMPAGE on April 28, 2009.

Web site live for WONDER WORLD

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Tennessee filmmaker Daniel Griffith has finally launched the official Web site for his documentary, THE WONDER WORLD OF K. GORDON MURRAY.

WB leaks first INFORMANT pic

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

If a picture paints a thousand words, then what does the sight of Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) hiding in the shitter with important-looking documents tell us, exactly?

Docu to tell comix auteur’s tale

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Hart D. Fisher plans on stomping the grounds of Champaign-Urbana once again, trailed by a fellow filmmaker hired to document the early Boneyard Press/GARBAGE MAN days and all the murder and mayhem they entailed.

CRAB ORCHARD makes DVD debut

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Champaign, IL, studio Dreamscape Cinema has belatedly released a DVD edition of their family drama CRAB ORCHARD, now known as SO OTHERS MAY LIVE.

Be a REVOLTING extra Nov. 16

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

The makers of the local independent film REVOLTING are looking for extras to fill up the Kathryn Randolph Theater on Sunday, November 16, 2008, for a scene.

APE screams WEREWOLF Oct. 13

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Help the crew of Brainsmart Productions abscond with moolah to beautify WEREWOLF CEMETERY: Issue 4, currently filming in an abandoned movie theater near you, by attending the Brainsmart show at Mike n’ Molly’s in downtown Champaign on Monday, October 13, 2008.