Here's an exclusive look behind the scenes of The Exquisite Corpse Project, the new movie from sketch group Olde English and the first release by Splitsider Presents. An entirely self-funded film, they had to create a polished finished project on a shoestring budget, which led to some necessary creative choice made during production. Check out the above video to see how it went, and then watch the full movie for only $5!
Here's a new video from IFC's Chris Gethard, explaining how his small speaking role in Iron Man 3 was cut and he made this funny video to prevent himself from losing his mind. The movie's release is still four days away, so it's not too late to start an internet campaign to get the footage put back in, right?
Splitsider's first digital download, The Exquisite Corpse Project, is, I'll admit, a little hard to explain. Here's the premise, derived from the exquisite corpse party game: five writers each wrote 15 pages of a movie, having only seen the previous five pages of the script. The resulting film is a mix of that narrative with documentary footage about the making of the film and behind the scenes dynamics of the writers, all former members of the sketch group Olde English. The relationships of the group are explained more thoroughly in the film, but here's the short version: Ben Popik started the group while a student at Bard College. Members came and [...]
Dan Aykroyd has been talking to the press about his dreams and hopes for Ghostbusters III for the past several years now, and he discussed the movie again in a new interview with ABC News. Aykroyd says he hopes to have filming take place in 2014, but that doesn't really mean anything really considering that the movie's been delayed so much. Filming was previously supposed to take place this summer but was delayed in October of last year. Here's Akyroyd today:
I feel re-encouraged, reinvigorated by the pages that I have seen. I know that we’re expecting half of the screenplay to be completed very [...]
Ben Stiller unveiled 12 minutes from his new movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, at CinemaCon last week, and Deadline reports that it wowed the audience and is generating early Oscar buzz, whatever that means. Based on the 1947 Danny Kaye movie comedy, which itself was based on 1939 James Thurber story, Stiller's version is a comedy-drama that turns Walter Mitty into a photo editor who lives vicariously through others via his wild imagination. Stiller directed, produced, and starred in the movie, which comes out this Christmas and also features Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, Adam Scott, Patton Oswalt, Kathryn Hahn, and Shirley MacLaine. Before Stiller signed on, [...]
