{"id":112,"date":"2006-12-22T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:01:19","slug":"press-start-update-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"PRESS START update 2.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Champaign-based micro-budget outfit\u00a0<strong>Dark Maze Studios<\/strong> issued a newsletter earlier this week that provides an update on their upcoming action\/fantasy, <strong>PRESS START<\/strong>. &#8220;According to the latest estimates, all but 3% of the movie is filmed at this point,&#8221; writes Marketing\/PR Assistant <strong>Meagan Benz<\/strong>. &#8220;We&#8217;ve gotten some pretty big scenes done lately, and yours truly even got to be an evil minion! Yep, I donned a few weird outfits and ran around attacking the cast &#8230; <strong>Ed<\/strong> [<strong>Glaser<\/strong>, the director of <strong>PRESS START<\/strong>] is locked up editing like a mad fiend and has a large chunk put together in a rough cut form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>PRESS START<\/strong>, a yarn about a man named Zack Nimbus (<strong>Joshua Stafford<\/strong>)\u00a0who is convinced to help save\u00a0a videogame-inspired world <em>a la<\/em> <strong>THE LAST STARFIGHTER<\/strong>, should be completed in 2007. To whet\u00a0the general public&#8217;s\u00a0appetite, Dark Maze has been posting Web cartoons featuring space siren Sam and ninja Lin-Ku, played by <strong>Lauren Chambers<\/strong> and <strong>Al Morrison<\/strong> in the movie; you can find them <a title=\"Bonus Level animations @ PressStartMovie.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pressstartmovie.com\/bonuslevels\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"Bonus Levels @ Newgrounds.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/350759\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for your viewing pleasure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Maze Studios of Champaign, IL, reveals that the videogame-inspired movie PRESS START is deep in post-production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}