Hellphone at Sundance

Here’s a shot of Yanni Batsios out at the Sundance Film Festival wearing his official Hellphone Crew shirt (which are available for sale in our online store!). Yanni was an invaluable member of the production crew, and will be an…

Children of the Hunt

Matt Moore, the stunt coordinator and also an actor in Hellphone, is premiering his feature film Children of the Hunt this Sunday at the Carousel Cinema in Greensboro. Info is here. If you can make it, get out there. We…

Let me clarify a few things

1) Post-production is proceeding at a good pace. We’re pretty excited about how things stand! 2) Our new expected release date is “Spring 2010″ which is a nice 3 month window to give us flexibility as people work on post…

Check out our store!

Now that you’re all excited about the monster in Hellphone, why not buy a t-shirt or pre-order a DVD? Remember – everyone who pre-orders a DVD will get their name in the credits! -JMP

First clip of the monster!!!

We have a short clip of the Hellphone monster in all its CGI glory! And you can see it! All you have to do is sign up to be a registered user on this (www.hellphonefilm.com) website. We will email you…

Who you gonna call?

Yesterday/last night Lisa Lopez and Marie van Vuuren shot a documentary on the ghost that allegedly hangs out at the Dan River Coffeehouse. A group of us hung out there after hours trying to catch “Otis” in action on camera….

Something special

We got a great sample sequence of CGI today from Mark. Really cool shot of the monster. We may just post it online in the near future… -JMP

The horror

Yesterday I managed to gash my leg up pretty good. Had a nice visit to the ER to get 8 stitches. The grossest thing I’ve ever seen, I think. Maybe I’ll be inspired for a future movie… On the mend…

Payback

Today some of the Hellphone crew shot some commercials to pay back the catering budget of Hellphone. Stephen came up with 2 brilliant ideas, Marie produced it and Brett and I assisted, with help from Matt and Lisa. Somehow I…

“This is probably the best low-budget movie I’ve ever seen.”

We screened “Hellphone” for a select handful of local filmmakers we know, to get feedback and notes on the rough cut. I’d like to thank Ike Quigley, Blake Faucette, Matt Sumner Sheila Duell and Marie van Vuuren for taking the…