New Price Is Right Documentary "Perfect Bid" Announced!

We are pleased to announce a feature documentary that has been quietly in the works for over 5 years now called Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much which tells the story of game show legend and compulsive contestant Ted Slauson's unbelievable history with The Price Is Right.

The show has just given us permission to use the broadcast footage from Ted's appearances so the film is now officially in production and will debut in festivals in the winter of 2017.

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Dope Boys Debuts On BET Jams!

Our animated visual for the Curren$y & Rick Ross song "Dope Boys" has premiered on BET Jams this morning, as evidence from these Instagram videos from the man himself!

Good lookin @bet_jams @fortyfps #jlrworkin

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BB Named 10 Most Anticipated Films

MoviePilot has included BB Movie in it's "10 Indie Horror Films Coming Out In 2017 You Don't Want To Miss!" penned by Rachel Rumancek. The quote about the project:

Truly a twisted gem, BB is a reluctantly fabulous and insightful thriller from director C.J. Wallis that probes uncomfortably deep into life of a webcam worker and the mind of her unknown and violently obsessive No. 1 voyeur. The cast of BB are previously unknown actors and the movie itself was shot with a two person crew and financed from the very pockets of director Wallis himself.

Recommended for fans of Creep and Megan is Missing, BB draws its fear from the very taboo reality the film showcases. It's nothing far fetched, from not only the dangers of working in adult entertainment but the underestimated strength of a jaded woman.

Check out the rest of the list and the original article by clicking here.
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BB Wins Best Actress Of The Year

BloodGuts UK Horror was one of the first website's to review BB back in August, and they have just nominated the film "Best Independent Film Of The Year" and awarded first-timer Jennifer Mae "Best Actor In An Independent Film". In their words:

When a stalker latches onto an internet stripper, the results are uncomfortable to watch. From a self funded film by director/writer CJ Wallis this could have been a forgettable entry to a genre that has been done better on bigger budgets yet it is the central role of "Candy Cummings", played by Jennifer Mae, that really shines. Delivering a raw performance and barring all, her role is much more than to stand and look good. The emotion in her character and the drive that funds her career choice become all too real and it is Mae who brings this heartbreaking character to life.

Click Here to view all the awards & nominees on their site.
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BB Named Top 3 Film Of The Year

The film review site "Far Sighted" has released their top films of the year and BB cracked the Top 3. In an article named "Mondo Counts Down Year’s Best Exploitation Films," Blaine McLaren had this to say:

This was the biggest surprise of 2016 for me. A simple, self financed movie about camgirls became one of my favorite films of the year. It is bold, chaotic fun that eventually shows the downfall of mental illness and self medication. Besides all of that high mindedness, it is also a story about a woman on the edge who is being stalked by an unhinged veteran.

You can check out Blaine's original BB Review here.
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Dope Boys "Video Of The Week"

Hip-hop staple OnSmash has named our animated clip "Dope Boys" as a Top Video Of The Week alongside French Montana, Drake & Kanye West's "Wolves." Their review:

We always love checking out animated videos. The visual for Curren$y and Rick Ross’s “Dope Boys” has more detail than we’re used to seeing or can remember at this time, but it doesn’t go unnoticed throughout the clip. 

Their two artists raps are brought to life through a gritty street tale that reference to another Jet Life film we enjoyed. And that’s Spitta’s Revolver short film.

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FORTYFPS NOMINATED BEST DIRECTOR & VIDEO OF THE YEAR

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The NOLA Hip Hop Awards have nominated CJ Wallis in the categories of 'Best Director Of The Year' and 'Music Video of The Year' for "Round My Way" by TY!

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BB Movie is "Something Entirely Different" Twitch Film

Todd Brown and the fine people over at Twitch Film have always been very good to us around here, and with the release of the promotional trailer for BB, the support continued yesterday with a headlining story about the film:

VOYEURISM IS A DEADLY GAME IN FIRST TEASER FOR CJ WALLIS' BB

Newcomer Jennifer Mae takes the lead role as Leah and if the synopsis and Wallis' involvement in Dead Hooker have you thinking this is going to be some sort of grindhouse throwback the first teaser is here to put the lie to that assumption

You can read the rest of the article here and more updates will be coming in the next days/weeks.

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Sisters Of Mercy Film Mused By Morleysaurus, LittleSlean

Shortly after we announced the initial details surrounding our third collaboration with Lucy Rupert, a feature film called The Sisters Of Mercy, a few people who have been very kind to us in the past took the time to help spread the word. Jennifer Cooper's way-more-popular-than-your-blog Musings Of A Morleysaurus was the first. In part:

C.J. Wallis is one helluva talented young man. Not only is he an absolute darling within the independent horror industry, he is also an award winning music video director! His video for the absolutely gorgeous song The Rose, by Sarah Slean got him Best Music Video of the Year at the 2011 Leo Awards. I'm sure you will agree, this is impressive work but an impressive man who Heidi Honeycutt once also described as Canada's Best Kept Secret Weapon!

You can check out the entire article here and shortly there will be another article featuring the lurvly Ms. Cooper herself surfacing here which will have an interesting twist. Cameron over at littleslean also wrote up an article on the film (which included an additional Elective plug!).

Celluloid Social Club To Honor The Rose, Leo Awards

Celluloid Social Club @ The Anza Club on W. 8th, Vancouver BC

Paul Armstrong, co-founder of the long-running and immensely popular Celluloid Social Club, messaged us and asked if The Rose would like to attend a Q&A screening with other recent Leo Award recipients at the next CSC event on Tuesday, June 21st. Which is a silly question that was instantly agreed to.

Paul is one of few people in this city who seems to be consistently pioneering every major development or successful event our branch of the industry has to offer. Entry starts at $5 and doors open at 7:30pm. This event is only once a month and always sells out fast making early arrival crucial.

Empire Magazine Print Ad For Dead Hooker In A Trunk

Someone sent along photos to The Twins from the June 2011 issue of popular UK film publication Empire Magazine which features a half page ad dedicated to the DVD release of Dead Hooker In A Trunk. Bounty Films have done an amazing job supporting their region's release of the film and have been a delight to deal with.

American Mary now has an IMDB page with a cast & crew listings page that is filling up nicely. On top of producing and post production/marketing work, as previously mentioned, I will direct a 9 minute sequence of the film. The last nine months two weeks of producing this film have been overwhelming but, assuming all goes according to plan in the next x amount of days, you will soon understand why. Stay sickkk.

The Rose Nominated Best Music Video Of 2010

Adding a significant amount of extra icing onto our sappy story cupcake, our Sarah Slean video for The Rose has been nominated for a Leo Award in the Best Music Video category - the fourth nomination in as many years. The Leo Awards, in the words of Wikipedia, are...

...the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry, celebrating excellence in artistic achievement. Held each May or June, the Leo Awards honour nominees and winners in 13 program categories and up to 19 craft categories. The Leo Awards Red Carpet continues to be the largest red carpet event in Western Canada attracting the glitterati of the BC film and television industry, including stars and celebrities from US-based productions.

The awards will be handed out at The Fairmont Hotel on Saturday, June 11th. If you have not seen the video, you can view it below or get the whole story by clicking here.

CJ Wallis: "Canada's Best Kept Secret Weapon"

Theron Neel has always been a loyal supporter of Dead Hooker In A Trunk. We featured a quote from his review for the online promotional trailer called "Mayhem."

Theron, who currently writes for Fangirltastic one of the largest horror websites online (formerly "Pretty Scary,"), sent me an e-mail about doing an interview with me. The resulting article was so unexpectedly glowing that a few messages similar to the one below were passed along to us in various ways. An excerpt:

Some people are just so talented that it really isn't fair. CJ Wallis is one of those people. You probably haven't heard of him, but Wallis is an enormously gifted director, actor, cinematographer, producer, editor, writer and musician...Totally not fair.

I first became of aware of Wallis when I saw Jen and Sylvia Soska's Dead Hooker in a Trunk. As the character called Goody Two-Shoes, Wallis has a starring role in the Twisted Twins' exploitation sensation, but he also shot and edited the flick, composed the score and worked on the effects team. It could be said that while the Soska sisters built the Dead Hooker car, Wallis was clearly the motor that made it run as well as it does.

You can check out the entire article here and sincere thanks to Theron for the wonderful gesture.  Join FortyFPS on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

American Mary Triggers Twitch Film Trailer Alert

Todd Brown, head programmer of the world-famous Fantastic Fest genre festival, has always been very kind and supportive of Dead Hooker In A Trunk. Continuing in the same gracious fashion, Todd wrote a piece about the American Mary trailer on Twitch Film:

Titled American Mary the first teaser for the new film has arrived and while it's very clear that these are the same film makers it's also clear that they're pushing into some new territory here. 

You can check out the entire article by clicking here.

Dead Hooker In A Trunk Wins 3 Awards At Pollygrind

the pollygrind film festival had the las vegas premiere of "dead hooker in a trunk" last friday which, the festival reports, was the most successful night of the five days - completely selling out with standing room only.

the awards were announced earlier today and the film was awarded "best feature - audience choice", "best screenplay," and everette hartsoe's "bad girl award" was co-awarded to jen & sylvia soska. everette is the creator of razor, a comic series noted worldwide for pioneering the "bad girl comic genre."

click here to read the full press release and rundown from the festival.

Argentinian Article on "Please Subscribe"

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