Tate English’s short film The Ballad of Friday and June is going to have its world premiere at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday, September 26th, and then play the next day at the Charlotte Film Festival in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The “gory” cut of ‘Zombie a Go Go’ (the first video from Captain Clegg & the Night Creatures) is now online. The video premiered at Fangoria.com on July 15th and has been making the rounds on the internet since. The band’s album will be released on August 28th (pre-order it on Amazon), the same day they make their big-screen debut in Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2. An alternate cut of the video will also be debuting sometime this summer, more info soon…
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 introduces the world to a band called Captain Clegg & the Night Creatures, the band (featuring Jesse Dayton of ‘Banjo and Sullivan’ fame) will release their debut album, Rob Zombie Presents Captain Clegg & the Night Creatures (music from Halloween II), on August 28th. I recently directed the video for their first single, ‘Zombie a Go Go’. The video is currently in post-production but, in the meantime, Fangoria.com ran a set report. Read all about it here.
This past weekend Taryn Davis and Nicole Hart were interviewed on CNN about the American Widow Project and their current tour, which you can follow at the official tour website.
The Bright Knight is the new ad from Collection Agency Films and Northwoods Advertising. Watch the ad in high quality here.The ad premiered on Sunday and has already been featured on Politco.
For more information about Charles Wheelan, visit his website.
Film Threat has just released its list of “ indie films from the festival circuit that didn’t suck.” They included Year at Danger and said “Little can prepare you for Steve Metze’s uncensored, unexpurgated account of life on the ground at FOB “Danger” near Tikrit, Iraq. [...] From attempts to frag a superior officer to tearful reunions with family, this may very well be the best documentary of the year. And none of you saw it.” Check out the whole list right here.
While announcing the Houston Film Critics Society’s 2008 award-winners, The Houston Press‘ Pete Vonder Haar decided to share his picks for the best films of the year and said Year at Danger received his vote for Best Documentary of 2008!
You can read Pete’s original, five-star review of the film here.