Piranha 3DD & FEAST on this week's MVP Mutant Radio!
Mutants, Assemble! That doesn’t quite have the same ring to it – but it sounds better than “Mutants, mutate!” You have just enough time for your weekly MVP update before rushing off to the theaters to see The Avengers tonight! It’s been a non-stop rollercoaster ride for the Mutantville Players as we’ve continued post-production on everything from Muticia’s Movie Morgue to G.H.O.S.T. over the past week. We also released the latest edition of the MVP Mutant Radio show which features a nice discussion on John Gulgar including his work on FEAST, his time on Project Greenlight 3 and his upcoming Piranha 3DD. We’re busy making our own movies, doing endless promotion and conquering the genre world one medium at a time – and we somehow still found time to help found the Charlotte Film Anarchists mastermind group. Can you say “carpe diem”? Sure you can.
MVP Mutant Radio hit iTunes last week to a rather warm reception. We’ve been thrilled to sit back on the Mothership and watch the shows get downloaded to the four corners of the world. Of coruse our largest following is in the United States and the UK, but we’re also garnering listeners from Canada, Norway, New Zeland, Bulgaria, Pakistan, Malaysia, Germany and on and on! It’s quite humbling to know that our little radio show is going out to so many homes.
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The Charlotte Film Anarchists want you to show us what you're made of!
CHARLOTTE, NC — It’s hard to believe that the Charlotte Film Anarchists mastermind group has come together so quickly in the span of one week. The brainchild of Ghost Trek creator Michael Plumides and MVP maestro J.T.McRoberts, the CFA open group on Facebook already boasts over 750 members consisting of actors, directors, musicians, writers, and artists. The swell in support shows that the filmmakers in the area want to get together with others that are being proactive about making movies in the Charlotte area and beyond. This mastermind group will give everyone a chance to not only learn from others who have had success in the industry but to talk to their fellow filmmakers who are currently struggling to see how we can all help each other. The best part is that it won’t cost anyone a dime to attend.
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.
This week on Trailer Park Tuesday we are featuring another indie gem the sexy black comedy Spades written and directed by the multi-talented Vanelle. Spades was conceived and shot for the Made In Charlotte Short Film Contest hosted by the Charlotte Film Community in the fall of 2010. Spades stars the lovely and talented Jodi Essex opposite the always charming Michael Sharpe fresh off his directorial debut with Monomaniacal as a couple that loves each other so much it hurts.
Check out the full trailer for Spades below and visit the official website for Magic Tribe Pictures by clicking here.
Welcome back to another edition of Mutantville Mondays, my faithful droogies! We had another wild and productive long weekend in the editing suites of the Mutantville Mothership. Brento and I were locked inside the Editing Thunderdome for the entire weekend to battle it out with L-cuts, overlays and more after effects work than you can shake a boomstick at! Post-production is wrapping up nicely on G.H.O.S.T. in anticipation of a special screening for the cast and crew for Halloween.
It’s Fridaaaaayyyyyyyyy with MVP!!! We’ve had another wild week here on the Mutantville Mothership! Take a minute to get caught up on the MVP blog entries from Geo, Brento and myself or stop by Trailer Park Tuesday to see what is playing this weekend. Hitting theaters this weekend is the long awaited Kevin Smith horror film Red State which has been playing on VOD for the past few weeks.
Welcome back to another edition of Mutantville Monday, oh faithful Mutants! We’ve come through another long and productive weekend aboard the Mutantville Mothership so it’s time to give you a rundown on the latest happenings in the worlds of speculative fiction – as seen through the eyes of independent filmmakers. We have a steaming hot load of MVP News for you this morning followed by the Box Office Report with Contagion topping the charts and crazy rumors from around the web – so let’s get started!
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Welcome back to Mutantville Mondays my lovely mutants! We’re still terribly busy aboard the Mutantville Mothership so there’s little time for updates. In case you have been under a rock on the moon for the past week, the Mutantville Players just returned from the Fright Night Film Fest and Fandom Fest in Louisville, Kentucky. To celebrate we’ve decided to launch the new Mutantville Productions fanpage on Facebook.
Facebook changed the rules on groups over the past few months so we’ve decided that the fanpage is the best operation model for Facebook. To that end, we’re giving you one place to go on Facebook when you need to know about MVP. We’re doing our best to give you one stop horror and science fiction shopping no matter where you are on the worldwide-web. Be sure to “like” the new fanpage because we’re going to be loading it with more videos and exclusive interviews than a bantha can carry!
NC CHARLOTTE FILM COMMUNITY NEWS!!!
Last weekend at the Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky with guest of honor John Carpenter in attendance, North Carolina’s own Ghost Trek won the Corman Award for Best Comedy 2011. MVP would like to send out a round of congratulations to the Ghost Trek crew helmed by Michael Plumides, Robert W. Filion and Anne Saunders. For more information on Ghost Trek please visit the official Facebook fanpage.
Happy Independence Day, my fellow Mutants! It’s been a hot weekend aboard the Mutantville Mothership as we’ve fired up the grill, threw on some steaks, and shot off some fireworks to celebrate the very awesomeness of the United States. We have a really big announcement coming for the Mutantville Players very soon but until then we’ll have to leave you guessing.
Fret not – for we have some cinema magic to sooth your soul. This July Fourth pop in that seminal shark classic that made everyone afraid to go into the water – Steven Spielberg’s JAWS! It’s the premiere summer holiday movie about a small town sheriff who tries to keep the populace under control as a great white shark intends to use the vacationers of Amity as his personal Fourth of July buffet!
