{"id":36,"date":"2006-03-19T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2016-03-10T22:35:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T04:35:43","slug":"crab-orchard-draws-1300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"CRAB ORCHARD draws 1,300"},"content":{"rendered":"

From March 15, 2006:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Almost three years after being filmed in various locales in Champaign County, CRAB ORCHARD<\/strong> finally made its public debut on Wednesday<\/strong>, March 15<\/strong>, to a near sell-out crowd at Champaign’s Virginia Theatre.<\/p>\n

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\"Balcony<\/p>\n

Originally opening in 1921, the Virignia Theatre<\/strong>\u00a0has survived the transition from vaudeville house to a modern program of movies, musicals, concerts, and special events.<\/a> For film buffs, the 1,525-seat Virginia offers a regular schedule of second-run, contemporary Hollywood efforts as well as classics, while hosting the popular Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival<\/strong> every April.<\/p>\n

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\"Robin<\/p>\n

(Above left<\/em>) CRAB ORCHARD<\/strong> writer\/producer Robin Christian Peters<\/strong> entertains the crowd before the show. (Above right<\/em>) Peters poses for photos underneath the Virginia Theatre marquee. Standing behind him is MICRO-FILM<\/strong> pal Bill Kephart<\/strong>, who miraculously timed his appearance just right. Was it mere coincidence or a coordinated plot? Hmm…<\/p>\n

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\"Robin<\/p>\n

After an introduction by Ronda Proctor<\/strong>, Peters thanked those in the audience (and there were many) for helping make CRAB ORCHARD<\/strong>, a production of his Champaign-based company, Dreamscape Cinema<\/strong>. Preceding the feature presentation was a series of trailers for other Dreamscape Cinema productions<\/a>, including LINK<\/strong>, DISCONNECT<\/strong>, ANGST<\/strong>, and TOXIN<\/strong>, which have yet to see release.<\/p>\n

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\"Ruby<\/p>\n

CRAB ORCHARD<\/strong> is directed by Michael J. Jacobs<\/strong> and stars Ruby Handler<\/strong> (above left<\/em>) as career woman Kim Thomas, who leaves New York City with her son Clay (Dylan Patton<\/strong>) to move back home with her father (Edward Asner<\/strong>, above right<\/em>) in small-town Crab Orchard, Illinois. Left behind is her husband Jim (Judge Reinhold<\/strong>), a NYC firefighter who has had trouble relating to his family after battling a building collapse during 9\/11 that claimed the life of Kim’s brother, Dwayne (Robin Peters). The family drama, which also stars Betsy Zajko<\/strong>, Sierra Peters<\/strong>, Kumars Salehi<\/strong>, and Kyle Tolliver<\/strong>, has recently been picked up for distribution by Candlelight Media Group<\/strong> in the United States and Artist View Entertainment<\/strong> in international territories.<\/p>\n

– Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

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Virginia Theatre photos by JaPan<\/em><\/p>\n

CRAB ORCHARD photo courtesy of Dreamscape Cinema<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost three years after being filmed in Champaign County, CRAB ORCHARD made its public debut on Wednesday, March 13, 2006, at Champaign’s Virginia Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-public-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}