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.
Welcome back to another edition of Mutantville Mondays here at Mutantville.com. We’re lucky to even be here for another Mutantville Monday as the idiots that run our hosting service nuked the website over the weekend losing half of our data and media in the process. I’m sure that was a nice surprise for the the filmmakers coming to the website hoping to find submission information for the Mad Monster Party Film Festival at the last minute. Fortunately everything is back up and running and we’ve minimized the damage done over the past few days.
Thanks to the miracle of modern social media we were able to keep everyone informed as to the status of Mutantville.com and the Mad Monster Party Film Festival. As we received many messages from filmmakers that somehow managed to miss the Friday deadline for the festival – we’ve decided to extend the deadline until Monday at midnight. That means when Tuesday arrives – the deadline has passed!
MVP working around the clock in the name of horror.
Welcome back to another bombastic edition of Fridays With MVP!!! Horror is alive and well as Underworld Awakening and The Grey hit the box office last week with The Woman In Black hitting theaters today. Retro Classics is showing a double feature of The Wolfman and Dracula tonight at the Carolina Theatre in Durham and their annual Nevermore Film Festival is just around the corner.
After a long week suffering under the thumb of a bad cold, Streebo is back in the land of the living to fill his Friday typing quotient with news, rumor, gossip and gospel. Video production has lagged just a hair as we’ve hit the wall of late. I’ve been working on getting more video and article content out to you all but haven’t had the energy to work late at night as per my usual modus operandi. I am hopeful that a long weekend of rest will see a return to form.
Not to be left alone to hog the suffering spotlight, Brento’s wife Nancee stepped up to the plate this week when she horribly burned her leg in an accident requiring brief hospitalization. She’s doing better now and is being given around the clock TLC by Brento. Please join MVP in sending her a collective “get well” via Facebook, Twitter, or even in person if you like.
Unless you’ve been living under an internet rock you should have heard the official announcement about the Mad Monster Party Film Festival this March. Since you come here for some insider info I may as well give you a few tidbits. I’ve been in talks with the promoters of Mad Monster Party for a couple months now about the possibility of hosting a film festival at the Mad Monster Party so I am very happy to see it come to fruition.
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 Fridays With MVP! There’s so much going on that it’s hard to figure out where to begin. There are more horror films hitting theaters this weekend, Turner Classic Movies has posted their Halloween schedule and The Carolina Theatre is gearing up for the Escapism Festival.
(Get your weekly MVP and horror news fix after the leap or go leap off a cliff!)
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!
(Get your mind and your noses blown after the leap!)
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!
