The Worlds of Speculative Fiction Through the Eyes of Independent Filmmakers.
The Charlotte Film Anarchists will hold first meeting in May.
Welcome back to another weird and wild Monday on the Mutantville Mothership. It should go without saying by now that it’s been a busy weekend for the Mutantville Players. Post-production has been ongoing for several projects including G.H.O.S.T. and Tales From Mutantville and we are set to shoot the final scene for Muticia’s Movie Morgue tonight! Tonight’s shoot will be interesting as it features a live musical performance from Absolute Zero with band members Brent Bowers, Todd A. Britt and Jeremy Mullis. The biggest event of the weekend was the sudden announcement and subsequent launch of the filmmaking mastermind group the Charlotte Film Anarchists.
The Charlotte Film Anarchists is a group founded by Ghost Trek creator Michael Plumides and MVP co-founder J.T.McRoberts. The goal of the group is to provide Charlotte area filmmakers a chance to come together for a mastermind group once a month and talk to like minded individuals in the NC film industry. The Charlotte Film Anarchists is in no way meant to replace the existing group Charlotte Film Community – but rather to supplement it by giving actors and filmmakers that want to be more proactive a chance to meet and talk with others that have the same goals in mind.
What sets this group apart is the fact that there are no membership dues and no meetup fees. We are all struggling filmmakers that have to put so much of our own individual resources into our productions that at the end of the day it doesn’t always work out where we can scrounge up additional fees so we can simply meet and talk with our fellow filmmakers. Kill The Music author and Ghost Trek creator Michael Plumides started the ball rolling by finding a venue that would allow us to meet once a month to do our best to create positive proactive filmmaking partnerships.
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This week Johnny B shares his thoughts on the Mad Monster Party fun and looks forward to the weekend’s shoot of Muticia’s Morgue.
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Streeborama loves you.
Well it’s not exactly twenty questions but it’s the closest we’ve seen in a while. Here at long last is Grant Dean’s interview with the man the myth the internet sensation they call Streebo. J.T.McRoberts is one third of the men behind Mutantville Productions and Mutantville.com along with Geo Swanko and S. Brent Bowers. Here’s everything you wanted to know about MVP but were afraid to ask.
GD:Why the ‘’mutant’’ reference in your company moniker? A big Scifi fan?
JTM: When we first formed what would become Mutantville Productions in 2003, I came up with a long list of potential names for the studio. I wrote out probably fifty different names – almost all of them having something to do with mysticism or martial arts or the samurai or something like that. Almost as an afterthought the very last name I wrote was “Mutantville.” Of course, when we’re going over the names – the one we gravitated towards was Mutantville. My partner in crime Brento (S.Brent Bowers) suggested “Mutantville Studios” but I knew right away that it had to be Mutantville Productions because then we could build the company taglines and myths around the initials “MVP” although that makes no sense because it should really be “M.P.”
Streebo duels Uncanny X-Men & Iron Fist scribe Matt Fraction at Heroes Con.
I am a big sci-fi, fantasy and horror fan but the root of the mutant obsession came straight from the X-Men. Chris Clairmont’s Uncanny X-Men was one of my favorite comics as a kid and doing homage to Marvel’s merry mutants made perfect sense to me. I always envisioned Mutantville as a company dedicated to all works of speculative fiction (as Harlan Ellison would say) – not just horror. Horror is simply the easiest genre to work with when working on a limited budget – or no budget as in our case. I do have scripts in the works for a superhero movie and also a sci-fi horror flick. Despite our tagline of “changing the face of independent horror,” we are dedicated to all the sub-genres of speculative fiction.
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G.H.O.S.T. cast and crew gather for screening.
The Mutantville Players had another crazy weekend as we saw the fruits of two year’s worth of labor come to fruition. Saturday night while MVP was frantically working to complete work on the final cut of G.H.O.S.T. – another MVP project – Scarecrow At Midnight played across town at the Myers House NC Halloween Bash! Working through the night – MVP was able to get G.H.O.S.T. ready for the screening on Sunday.
Sunday all of our friends, filmmakers and fellow Players came out to celebrate the occasion with us by watching a program of horror including Michael Sharpe’s Deviling, Desdemona 6 from Last Call Pictures and MVP’s own G.H.O.S.T. Everyone came in costume and had an amazing time. There was plenty of beer, cheer and screams to go around.
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Welcome back to Fridays with MVP, oh faithful Mutants. It’s been another wild and chaotic week on the Mutantville Mothership where we’ve been hard at work on several projects in various stages of productions including Muticia’s Movie Morgue, Indigo Child, Scarecrow At Midnight, Tales From Mutantville, The Metatron Files and G.H.O.S.T. In world horror news, Fright Night (2011) and Conan The Barbarian performed poorly at the box office while Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is poised to surprise everyone this weekend.
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Scarecrow At Midnight premiered at the 12th Annual Nevermore Film Festival at the Carolina Theatre in Durham on Saturday February 19th. The neo-modern scarecrow slasher flick played to a raucus crowd that seemed to yell and jump at all the right places. The film played as part of the short film block entitled “When the Stars Begin to Fall” and was accompanied by several fantastic shorts such as The Devil’s Toy, Davis, Last Seen on Delores Street, Written By, Murderabilia, and See The Dead.
Attendees of the premiere included writer/director J.T.McRoberts, star Katie Bearden, as well as several other members of the cast and crew such as Robert W. Filion, Julian Safrit, Janice Mitchell Wyatt, Meg Elliot, Lisa Cobb, Todd A. Britt, Meghan King, Brent Bowers, Geo Swanko, Coty Galloway, Jeremy Bonham and associate producer Jason Arispe. Kenny Caperton, proprietor of the Myers House NC, was also in attendance and was as thrilled as the rest of the cast to see the movie and his house on the big screen. According to the Carolina Theatre – attendance for the festival was estimated to have suprassed the previous year’s event.
The cast and crew roamed the halls of the Carolina Theatre talking to the fans and enjoying the Nevermore Festival. The cast raved about how much fun they had working on the film and the hilarity continued as the group goofed around after the premiere. Director J.T.McRoberts led everyone on a slasherthon to follow up on the terrors of Scarecrow At Midnight by then watching Friday the 13th and Silence of the Lambs in 35mm.
One fan stated that Scarecrow At Midnight reminded him of the classic Goosebumps tale The Scarecrow Walks At
Midnight, “except that it (Scarecrow At Midnight) was about a thousand times more terrifying.” Other compliments were passed along to the cast and crew on several aspects of the film from the performances of the cast to the quality of the special make-up effects. Director J.T. McRoberts stated that “having the opportunity to have our movie play at this festival was a dream come true and to have the crowd react in such a positive manner makes it all worth it. This is the only reward a filmmaker needs and I would like to thank the Carolina Theatre for making it possible.”
Scarecrow At Midnight will be available along with the other shorts Indigo Child, Family Fiend, Devil Comes Down, and Respawner the Web Series: Pilot Episode in the Tales from Mutantville anthology collection on DVD and Blu Ray this summer. Be sure to sign up for the Mutantville.com newsletter to keep up to date on the latest MVP News.
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Mutantville.com is proud to bring you this exclusive look at the official one sheet for Mutantville Productions’ first release from the Tales From Mutantville collection – Scarecrow At Midnight. Early versions of the poster were revealed last week.
Writer/director J.T. McRoberts commented that “we worked very hard to come up with a design that would both engage the eye and relay the story of Scarecrow At Midnight all at once. I’m fortunate to work with a designer as talented as Brent Bowers who has the technical ability to bring my ideas to life. Brent enjoyed working on the poster so much that he continued tinkering with the initial design and came up with the mosaic idea that incorporated every single character in the movie in the image.”
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Everyone Needs a Savior
Have you ever wanted to make the face of independent horror a little more familiar? This weekend you can do just that by getting your face in our horror film. This is an open call for extras to appear in the film, “Indigo Child” filming this weekend in Gold Hill at the following address.
850 St. Stephens Church Road
Gold Hill, NC 28071
The scenes involves the local priest addressing the townsfolk after the discovery a several murdered children nearby and it features none other than actor/horror novelist Matthew Ewald, of Galidor fame, in the lead role of Father Connor McLennan. Come get your mug in our movie and meet Matthew and the Mutantville Players.
The rally point for the extras will be the town parking lot at Gold Hill park.
Call time is 10:30 am Saturday October 23rd and the scene should be completed by 11:30 am. For more information please email director Brent Bowers at lord_greybro@yahoo.com with the subject line “Indigo Child Extras Info” for a prompt response.
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Heroes of The North
At 0.04 seconds of Episode 5 “Black Terror-Origins“, of the smash hit web series Heroes of the North, you can hear MVP’s own Brent Bowers as the voice of the Dallas, Texas court judge.
Brent has provided animatics for previous Movie Seals feature film projects and has long considered himself the world’s #1 fan of their sci fi “Recon” franchise. Needless to say he was thrilled to have his voice included in what has easily become the Seals most popular production to date, “Heroes of The North.”
The episode can be viewed for free on Koldcast at the link below.
http://heroesofthenorth.com/heroes-of-the-north-episode-5.html
There’s also an amazing companion comic with some nice content for your gorehounds.
http://heroesofthenorth.com/view-comic-ep5.html
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Get on over to the HOTN fan site and be sure to hit the “Like” button!
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Heroes-of-the-North-Web-Series/169466677234?ref=ts
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We are pleased to announce that “Indigo Child” is Cast
Father Connor McLennan – Matthew Ewald
Matthew Ewald
Matthew Ewald will lead our ensemble cast in the role of Father Connor McLennan. A veteran actor with a great deal of experience and a veritable ton of charisma, MVP is thrilled to once again host Mr. Ewald in a Mutantville production. Experience has shown his professionalism and preparation to be absolutely second to none.
Anna Bartlet – Vanessa Ore
Vanessa Ore
We’re thrilled to have Vanessa Ore portraying Anna Barlet, the nurturing mother of the Indigo Child from the title. Vanessa has appeared in many feature films as well as local and national commercials.
Amelia Bartlet – Kayli M. Tolleson
Kayli Tolleson
It’s a great boon to our project to once again have the talented Kayli Tolleson on board as Amelia Bartlet – The Indigo Child.
Sheriff Carl Kimrey – Steven Tucker
Steven Tucker
Steven Tucker has been a primary Mutantville Player for several years now. He brings a ton of enthusiasm for each role that comes his way and is a real boost to the entire cast. We look forward to another brilliant performance from Mr. Tucker as Carl Kimrey.
We are fortunate to have found an amazing supporting cast in the follow roles:
Judy Bartlet will be portrayed by Tina Short
Russel Bartlet will be portrayed by Eric Cook
Joe Farmer will be portrayed by Jason Wheeley
Beth Farmer will be portrayed by Jackie Wheeley
Zoe Farmer will be portrayed by Cori Wheeley
I am very excited to work with such an incredible group of actors. It’s going to be tremendous fun bringing “Indigo Child” to life with you all in October.
Brent Bowers
Writer/Director
Indigo Child
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