Welcome back to another edition of Streeborama here on Mutantville.com. I’m still drowning in an endless stream of editing in a race to get the final cut of G.H.O.S.T. locked in so the visual FX and score can be completed – so I had to shoot another v-log to serve as my blog entry. I shot that so I wouldn’t have to type too much – so why don’t you go check it out now.
(Learn the secrets of the universe after the leap!)
Welcome to the first edition of Streeborama here on the MVP Blog! This week, we’re experimented with making actual personal blog posts for a change to give you all a feel for the individual voices here on the Mutantville Mothership. I decided that I’m a bit tired of writing up articles all the time so I figured I’d just shoot a v-log and post that instead – so that’s exactly what I did.
The next thing I know, it’s approaching midnight and I’m doing fine edits on G.H.O.S.T. at the same time that I’m editing this v-log. How that happened I have no idea but it had to be done. So sit back – turn on the old Youtube and fire up Streebo’s V-log to learn all the latest happenings with Tales From Mutantville, G.H.O.S.T. and the MVP Blog – here on Mutantville.com.
(Watch Streebo’s V-log after the leap!)
Rock star turned filmmaker Rob Zombie shared a look back at some of his filmmaking roots by sharing a link to a video he directed back in the 90′s. Rob posted a link to the Prong video on his official blog this morning.
“Here’s one I directed from way back in the day. This sucker is fifteen years ago. Crap, where does the time go. Prong were a great band and did a whole bunch of shows with White Zombie. I think this was their best line-up with Paul Raven on bass. Wacky low budget video. Enjoy.”
Visit Rob Zombie’s official blog here.
From NYTimes.com: Frank Frazetta, an illustrator whose vivid colors and striking brushstrokes conjured up fantastic worlds of musclebound heroes fighting with broad swords and battle axes to defend helpless women from horrible beasts, died on Monday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 82.
The death, caused by a stroke, was confirmed by Rob Pistella and Steve Ferzoco, his business managers. In a telephone interview, Mr. Pistella said that Mr. Frazetta, who had a history of strokes, had returned from a Mother’s Day dinner with his family on Sunday night and fell ill. Emergency medical services were called and Mr. Frazetta was rushed to the hospital, where he died.
Read the rest of the article at the link below.
via Frank Frazetta, Fantasy Illustrator, Dies at 82 – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com.
From Geoff Klock’s blog Remarkable:
[Major spoilers for Remember Me, and light spoilers on Kick-Ass, but the ending is not discussed. Lane does spoil it, so look out if you click through to his review.]Dear Anthony Lane,Nearly a year ago I wrote on this blog a response to your colleague David Denby for his review of Inglourious Basterds, in part because he felt the need to spoil the ending of a movie he did not like. In that open letter I mentioned something you did that bothered me: you spoiled the ending of the movie Watchmen, a movie you did not like. I have heard arguments that movie reviewers should be able to spoil movies, because now they are too straightjacketed by “rules.” I am sympathetic to this. The ending of the movie is part of the movie, and as a reader I might need to know about it to understand if it is any good. I never really got into Seinfeld until the brilliant final episode, and it was a wrongly mailed to me copy of Entertainment Weekly that spoiled the season 2 ending of Alias for me and got me into that show — and from there to LOST, a show I love. And a lot of times I want the review instead of the movie. I am never going to see Remember Me, but I totally wanted to hear about the absurd ending in which it turns out this dumb love story — surprise! — does not take place in the present day, but in 2001, and ends with our guy going up the Twin Towers the morning of September 11. So if you guys decided to open reviews up to discussing the endings, this could be a neat thing. It would put you ahead of the game maybe.But the New Yorker has not done this. I know, because after your review of Watchmen your magazine printed a letter to the editor from a reader who was bothered that you spoiled the ending. This was, I think, a gentle rebuke from your editor surely. In printing the letter the New Yorker was saying “hey, we think this guy has a valid point.” That may seem like a dumb thing to point out to someone like you, but the fact that you later spoiled the ending of Kick-Ass shows that you were unable to see that. And I don't think that you want to have a spoiler-ific discussion of movies anyway. I think you believe that movies should NOT be spoiled. That is why you only spoil movies like Kick-Ass and Watchmen — movies you hate. You are spoiling these not for discussion, but for spite.
Read the rest of Geoff’s letter over at his website Remarkable.
via Remarkable: An Open Letter to Anthony Lane, in Response to his New Yorker Kick-Ass Review.
It’s time to pause for this week’s Mutantville.com station identification. Just in case you’re new to Mutantville.com – we would like to share links to our various presences across the world wide web.
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It’s time to pause for this week’s Mutantville.com station identification. Just in case you’re new to Mutantville.com – we would like to share links to our various presences across the world wide web.
Keep checking the MVP Blog here at Mutantville.com for your up to the minute MVP news!
Join the Streebo’s Majic Friends fanpage on Facebook for a constant stream of up to the minute horror news and information.
Join the fanpage for “G.H.O.S.T.” and keep up with the ongoing production of the movie!
Tweet along with the Mutantville Players on the Twitter machine!
Be sure to stop by Youtube for the home of Mutant TV!
Link yourself into the worldwide web with a Friendfeed account and follow the zany adventures of the Mutantville Players.
For those of you still on Myspace – you can find us there as well!
And if you want to contact us directly – please use the “contact us” form here on the site – or just email us at MUTANTVILLE [AT] HOTMAIL.COM.
Join the fun. Find our accounts and you too can become a Mutantville Player.
Work for G.H.O.S.T. started back in January with the launch of the MVP Blog here at Mutantville.com and the beginning of intense pre-production on G.H.O.S.T.. The cast and crew put in many a long day and night throughout production during October and November and we’ve carried that level of intensity into post-production by shooting pick ups all through December. We started editing during the second week of filming and are finally nearing completion of the first assembly of G.H.O.S.T..
There is so much going on behind the scenes that’s it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep producing timely updates in addition to doing the actual work. This has been an amazing adventure so far. The footage looks great. The performances were fantastic and the special make-up FX are spectacular. Just as it seems we’re nearing the end – we are in fact reaching a new beginning. It’s not official yet – but we are working on ideas for new scenes to shoot for the movie – to expand it from it’s intended half hour format into a full length feature! That’s right – we will still be able to cut G.H.O.S.T. down to a very tight half hour TV pilot s intended – but there is enough material there that with a few smart additions – we can expand the story a touch and turn G.H.O.S.T. into a full movie.
I’m so excited that I can hardly contain myself. While this is good news for us – it also means that this non-stop rollercoaster of work that we’ve been on since July will continue for the foreseeable future! Thank you all for your help in making this dream a reality. Everyone in MVP plays an important role and we couldn’t have made our movie without you! Keep checking the MVP Blog for more updates as they happen!
**Streebo
MVP Mutant TV Presents Editor’s Video Log: G.H.O.S.T. Week Seven.
MVP Presents Editor’s VIdeo Log: G.H.O.S.T. Week Seven. Shoot summary. Brento gives you a sneak peak behind the scenes for latest G.H.O.S.T. shoot.
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How to Start: Punch Drunk Love, Night Ripper, and Kill Bill
The first 2 minutes and 40 seconds of Punch Drunk Love are pretty well amazing.
You learn everything you need to know about the movie’s universe in those first 2 minutes and 40 seconds: This man is lonely (the shot puts him in the corner, and nothing adorns the empty space), smart (he figures out this company has a coupon reward thing that rewards more than the product is worth), and he lives in this world where no one cares (the guy on the other end of the phone is apathetic), and where violence can come out of nowhere (at the crack of dawn this weirdly peaceful moment is broken as an SUV just flips over disastrously, careening off camera and it is never returned to). But his salvation is there as well: out of nowhere, in this cold and violent place, this quirky funny old beautiful instrument just APPEARS, a herald of the salvation, the old fashioned old testament GRACE (which you do not do anything to get but which is simply thrust upon you) that he will find in quirky Emily Watson. Before the movie starts you get the whole thing in micro.
Read the rest over at Geoff’s Blog: Remarkable.
