IFC Releases Dead Hooker In A Trunk Trailer

Here is the first official trailer released by IFC Films for Dead Hooker In A Trunk. It is the first bit of marketing that has not been produced by us, which is a very strange thing to see after spending a lifetime with this film. Let us know your thoughts on our Facebook and Twitter pages with the hashtag #deadhookerinatrunk.

Amazon & IFC Films Rent Dead Hookers For $3.99

 

Amazon and IFC Films have recently begun offering HD rentals of Dead Hooker In A Trunk for $3.99. The film is available to you streaming, for download or in a letterboxed format on your TivoBox. Their rules:

This is a 48-hour rental. You will have 30 days to complete watching this rental online or to download it. If you choose to watch this rental online, you can watch on a PC, Mac or compatible device. If you choose to download this rental, you can download it to one TiVo or one Windows PC and you will have 30 days from the date of purchase to begin watching your rental. Once you start to watch online or begin a download you cannot change your viewing choice. Rentals can't be transferred to a portable device or downloaded to a Mac.

There you have it. So, for about 2% of the film's total budget, you can watch the finished product. Let us know your thoughts on our Facebook or Twitter pages with the hashtag #deadhookerinatrunk. Perhaps you will end up on a future one of these from the Twisted Twins.

Goody Scolded On Dead Hooker DVD For Language

 

Twitter-er @vee_eff posted these two photos on her account of the Region 2 DVD release of Dead Hooker In A Trunk. Apparently the UK ratings board is cool with an exposed, forked penis and suggested sex but took exception to Goody's monologue in the middle of the film. This is a delight. Click the images to see larger versions.

Scarlet Ending Kickstarter DVD Artwork Uploaded

All 8 menus from last year's exclusive Scarlet Ending Kickstarter donation DVD we designed have made their way up onto our Flickr account. Click any of the thumbnails below to view the full sized images.

Nokia 'Direct & Project' Gala Screening Photos

Last year, Nokia found us to create a 1 minute short film using their brand-new HD cel-phone which eventually became Runaway featuring Connor Stanhope and Sierra Pitkin. A decent chunk of photos from the gala screening, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, have made their way onto our Flickr account. Click the photo above or right here to view them all.

Trust Fall - Curren$y Breaks Foot In California

Trust Fall - Curren$y @ Rock The Bells 2011
Edited & Photographed by CJ Wallis, @fortyfps
released via Jet Life Recordings

Just a few weeks away from a 60 day North American Tour, Curren$y breaks his ankle at 'Rock The Bells' festival in San Bernandino, CA. This event was the first time CJ Wallis had been hired to work with Curren$y & Jetlife.

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'Please Subscribe' YouTube Film To Be Released Soon

Fresh off of the recent announcement that Dead Hooker In A Trunk had been sold to IFC, we can also announce that our YouTube documentary Please Subscribe, another co-production with the Twisted Twins, is nearly through it's final polish and now has distribution deals in place upon delivery of the film and, of course, after our 4 friends finally get to watch it. Here are a few stills in advance:

Please Subscribe follows four of the original four Youtube celebrities (David Choi, Daxflame, Tay Zonday & Happyslip) whose home made, lo-fi videos went viral and made them household names on the same level as any Hollywood star. The film explores “Celebrity 2.0” and the perks and darkness surrounding the effects of net success on their lives and the entertainment industry overall.

The film features music by Sean Hayes, The Belle Game, Tay Zonday, David Choi and the film's signature track called 'Half As Much' written and performed by Kaleena Goldsworthy of The Scarlet Ending.

Elliott Smith's Birthday Today, Photos From 2008

Today is the former birthday of Elliott Smith whose discography is only shortly behind food and water on a list of what my body requires to function. As some of you may know, quoted from DailySwarm:

Shortly after Elliott Smith’s suicide was announced in 2003, the singer’s Los Angeles fans began to gather at Solutions, an electronics store in Silver Lake on Sunset Boulevard where Smith had once posed for the cover of his 2000 album Figure 8. The mural became a makeshift memorial, with many people writing notes, poems, and rememberances on top of the black and red painting. Ever since, the store has become a L.A. fixture, with thousands adding to the ever-changing collection of thoughts and tributes added to what became known around the world as the Elliott Smith Memorial Wall.

But [in the summer of 2007], the wall was defaced with a large graffiti tag. While many local residents were horrified by the vandalism, the tag remained a part of the Silver Lake scenery. Recently, the wall was hit yet again, with an even larger bubble-letter tag covering most of the memorial.

This latest affront to the wall inspired some local artists and Elliott Smith fans – who had already set-up a MySpace page devoted to restoring the wall – into action, and earlier this week the original mural was restored to its pristine state. The thousands of memorial tributes are gone, though the blank canvas is sure to be covered with words of love for Smith and his music again soon.

We happened to be in Los Angeles with the Twisted Twins shortly after the recreation and we stopped by Solutions to briefly look at the new wall (which has been vandalized a few times since, once famously by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.)

If you have not seen this Elliott Smith book by Autumn De Wilde, longtime friend of Elliotts and the photographer who took the original cover photo, it is an absolute required purchase and one of our favorite things easily.

The book contains hundreds of photos and candid conversations with those around him. Stories like this from the dress rehearsal the day of the Oscars broadcast where Elliott was nominated for his original song.

LARGO OWNER MARK FLANAGAN AND AUTUMN DE WILDE, FROM THE BOOK "ELLIOTT SMITH"

After confessing to Mark that he was terrified people would "call him out," Elliott stumbled out of Largo at 5am and re-surfaced later that night in a white suit on the Oscars singing Miss Misery.

Dead Hooker Is Better Than Evil Dead & Dead Alive

It still hasn't fully kicked in that having Dead Hooker In A Trunk released on VOD means thanow anyone at any time could be watching or posting their thoughts on the film. Some have come to our attention via the #deadhookerinatrunk hash tag that have been circulating around Twitter.

As with Assly, we will re-post reviews of the film that catch our attention. Most recently, co-host of the podcast I Hate/Love Remakes, Noel Thingvall/@NoelCT - a self-described 'Minnesotan who collects copious amounts of books, films, comics, and screenplays,' - posted an extremely impressive, thorough/thoughtful review of the film.

At one point, Noel goes on to compare Dead Hooker In A Trunk contextually to the impact and cult statuses of like-spirited films Evil Dead (1981) and Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (1992). Noel feels we have taken it one step farther and, when partially taken out of context, it makes a hell of a quote and keyword laced, Google-friendly headline!