March 2004 News Archive

March 31, 2004 -- The Tenement is now available for preorder!!

March 28, 2004 -- To celebrate the debut of The Tenement to DVD/VHS, we will be doing a signing on Saturday, April 17th at Joey's Movies located at 2141 Crompond Road (in Toddville Plaza) in Cortlandt Manor, NY from 12 to 4 PM.  The director, cast and crew will be there.  There will be free prizes and giveaways (while supplies last)!  You will also be able to purchase or rent The Tenement.

Click below for directions.

March 27, 2004 -- Some late breaking news - Flesh for the Beast Director Terry West joined forces with Insane-O-Rama (Strange Things Happen at Sundown from Brain Damage Films) to form Grindhouse Junkies.  The first flick to be turned out will be Satan's School Girls which Terry sees as Satan's School For Lust done the way he wanted it to be.  It's not a sequel, prequel or anything else but a new project.  Gene Mazza of Decay NY FX (who worked on The Tenement and Sins of the Father) will be doing some of the effects for the movie which is currently shooting.

March 26, 2004 -- Check out the Illusion Music Video that I produced and edited a while ago!  Please note that the Art & Photo Gallery has been renamed to Light & Dark Gallery since it now includes video.

March 25, 2004 -- It's been a while since my last update so naturally there is a lot to fill you all in on. For starters, I want to plug a number of people new and old.

        I want to wish Rosemary Gore the best of luck. Her career has taken off so she's moving to LA the end of this month. The Light & Dark universe would never have been the same without her dramatic portrayal of Alice Walker.
Brian Spears and Pete Gerner have been keeping busy. They just wrapped makeup and effects work in North Carolina on The Young Adventures of Van Helsing.

        Sal Sirchia is as busy as ever. He has a big role in a new movie called "Coalition" starring Chuck Zito, Michael Wright and Anthony Chisholm (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0398873/).  Meanwhile he found time to write a theme for Fairview Falls that will shoot this summer. You can check it out at http://www.lightanddark.net/pr90.htm.

        Pete Barker opens April 1st for a five weekend run in "Brando," a new play being presented at the Irish Arts Center in New York (West 51st St., 10/11 Aves.) The gimmick in the play is a phone that was a wedding present to a young couple. It only rings in and when it does, it's Marlon Brando on the other end.  Pete plays the dead father of the young man and can only be seen and heard by him.  And don’t let his cancer-ridden look from Sins of the Father fool you.  Pete is heading to Boston this weekend to compete in the US National Indoor Track & Field Championships where he’ll be throwing the shot-put and weight against men in his age group.

        Mike Lane just wrapped the lead role of Richard Newman in NYC Visions Films' independent short The Edge of Despair.  Check out his web page at www.mikelaneonline.com.

        I also want to welcome some new faces to Light & Dark.  Kerri Taylor is a model and actress that I think we will be seeing a lot more of in the future. Kerri will be playing Tina in Fairview Falls. http://www.onemodelplace.com/model_list.cfm?ID=39743

        Brittney Evans was cast as Alicia in Fairview Falls.  She comes from horror royalty.  Her grandmother is Susanna Foster (Christine) who played opposite Claude Rains in the 1943 Universal Studios Phantom of the Opera.  Recently, both Kerri and Brittney modeled for a "special" project that both Fangoria Managing Editor Michael Gingold and myself put together.  I can't say what it is yet but you'll be the first to know once we can.

        On the movie front, The Tenement comes out FINALLY on April 13th from Brain Damage Films.  It will be hitting a number of online stores including LightandDark.net where we will offer something extra to the fans that buy it from us. The movie will be sold in the Hastings Entertainment, Inc. chain that is composed of 142 stores. Rentrak will be handling some of the rental end of it to the "mom & pops" and smaller chains.  The Tenement has also secured a 5-year distribution deal in Benelux (Belgium) and has a pending deal with Thailand. We will be at the Chiller Theatre show on April 23 - 25. www.chillertheatre.com.

        The Tenement has been receiving great reviews. You can check them out at http://www.lightanddark.net/pr78.htm.  The Tenement has a great review in this month's Hacker's Source magazine. It's also featured in the Video Chopping List of Fangoria Magazine's April issue on sale now.

        Sins of the Father's release has been delayed to Fall/Winter so that we can focus our marketing on The Tenement and gear up for preproduction on Fairview Falls.  I want to spend quality time on Sins of the Father and not rush it.

        Fairview Falls will be my fourth feature length movie and the first movie that steps outside the circle of the Black Rose Killer trilogy that started with Fear of the Dark. It still exists in the same universe though. Special thanks to Mike Gingold, Mike Lane, Gene Mazza, Jude Pucillo and my wife Diana for helping me out with the pretty successful open casting call that we recently held.

        I'm happy to announce that interest in Fear of the Dark has increased since The Tenement has been getting so much attention.  I just had a blast doing an Internet radio broadcast the other day on www.socialcrime.com.

        I just want to plug two more very talented people that I hope to be working with - David Aaron and Brynne Calleran. David (who has worked with Disney) has 2 CDs out which are must haves. Check out some samples at www.davidaaron.net. I had the pleasure of first meeting Brynne this past July. She's seventeen but you would never know it. She has a voice and lyrical styling well beyond her years. Hopefully we'll be able to get a sample of her first CD on our site for you to listen to. In the meantime, you can check her out at www.brynnecalleran.com. That's it for now.

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