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Friday Nov 06, 2015
Friday Nov 06, 2015
Phantom
Troublemaker talks to Daniel Griffith of Ballyhoo
Motion Pictures
about his newest project, a documentary on Empire Pictures, the
revolutionary movie studio that produced such genre classics as
Re-Animator,
Ghoulies,
TerrorVision,
Zone
Troopers,
and many more!
On October
14th, Daniel launched a monstrous Kickstarter Campaign to
complete the official feature documentary about the rise and fall of
Empire Pictures. This exciting production, entitled Celluloid
Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures,
follows the life of producer Charles
Band (The
Puppet Master
series) leading up to the creation of the most ambitious B-movie
studio of the 1980's. While other independent film companies were
targeting the growing home video market, Band was releasing
low-budget horror and fantasy features to drive-ins and multiplexes
around the world.
The
thrilling saga of Empire Pictures will be told through the eyes of
the innovative team of filmmakers and film professionals who worked
together to reinvent and reinvigorate the independent film industry
in the 1980s. Thus far, Daniel has interviewed more than 40
individuals to tell this epic story, including director Stuart
Gordon (Re-Animator,
Robot
Jox),
director/effect artist John
Carl Buechler (Troll),
editor/director Ted
Nicolaou (TerrorVision),
actress Barbara
Crampton (Re-Animator),
actor Richard
Moll (Metalstorm,
The
Dungeonmaster),
and director/producer Charles
Band. He
has also unearthed over 500 behind the scenes photographs,
as well as 20 hours of rare archival video footage.
Visit the official Empire Pictures website for
more details!
Daniel
is inviting you to JOIN
THE ADVENTURE and
help bring this electrifying story to life. With this
Kickstarter Campaign, he hopes to raise $25,000 to cover all the
final production and post-production expenses. This includes
filming additional interviews, digitally transferring rare 35mm film
elements and trailers, covering any legal
fees, and contracting award-winning illustrator Paul
Shipper to
create an original theatrical one-sheet campaign for the documentary.
The funds will also be used to commission an original film score by
renowned Empire Pictures composer Richard
Band.
Listen
in as Phantom and Daniel discuss the impact that Empire had on their
lives and taste in movies, as well as the process of creating
documentaries and special features!
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sure to join the new Needless
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and get in on the conversation for this week’s episode! Let us know
what you
think!
“Re-Animator Main Title”
by Richard Band
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