Chicago – Chicago filmmaker Danny Rhodes has been tapped to direct his first feature film, “Released,” a thriller which has the potential to grow into a long-running horror franchise. Willow Road Entertainment and Rhodes’s new company, Rhodesclosed Productions, are planning to shoot the film in 2013. According to Rhodes, the budget will be between $750,000 and $1.3 million.
“Released” aims to subvert the iconic “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th” franchises with its female antagonist and its dash of supernatural themes evocative of the current box office champ, “The Possession.” Rhodes has previously served as writer and producer of the web series, “Bad Sides,” and has acted in a number of acclaimed indies including “Audrey the Trainwreck,” “Blackmail Boys” and “Nate & Margaret.” It was Rhodes’s rough cut of his upcoming horror short, “He Ain’t Heavy,” that garnered him the attention of producers and ultimately landed him the directing job.
First poster art for Danny Rhodes’s Released.
“Released” aims to subvert the iconic “Halloween” and “Friday the 13th” franchises with its female antagonist and its dash of supernatural themes evocative of the current box office champ, “The Possession.” Rhodes has previously served as writer and producer of the web series, “Bad Sides,” and has acted in a number of acclaimed indies including “Audrey the Trainwreck,” “Blackmail Boys” and “Nate & Margaret.” It was Rhodes’s rough cut of his upcoming horror short, “He Ain’t Heavy,” that garnered him the attention of producers and ultimately landed him the directing job.
First poster art for Danny Rhodes’s Released.
- 9/9/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
DVD Review
Blackmail Boys
Directed by: Bernard and Richard Shumanski
Cast: Nathan Adloff, Taylor Reed
Running Time: 1 hour 5 min
Rating: Not rated
Due Out: August 30, 2011
Plot: A young couple try to blackmail an anti-gay advocate after learning he has been paying one of them to sleep with him.
Who’S It For? People who like low budget gay romances.
Movie:
Primarily a love story, Blackmail Boys tells the story of a young couple who want to marry despite several obstacles. First they can’t marry legally in Chicago (where the film is set) so they decide to head for Iowa. In order to do that, they need cash which as two young students, they don’t really have. Also Sam (Adloff) works as a prostitute since his parents disowned him when he came out. The film deals with this graphically, there are a couple of full frontal shots of men masturbating that startled me.
Blackmail Boys
Directed by: Bernard and Richard Shumanski
Cast: Nathan Adloff, Taylor Reed
Running Time: 1 hour 5 min
Rating: Not rated
Due Out: August 30, 2011
Plot: A young couple try to blackmail an anti-gay advocate after learning he has been paying one of them to sleep with him.
Who’S It For? People who like low budget gay romances.
Movie:
Primarily a love story, Blackmail Boys tells the story of a young couple who want to marry despite several obstacles. First they can’t marry legally in Chicago (where the film is set) so they decide to head for Iowa. In order to do that, they need cash which as two young students, they don’t really have. Also Sam (Adloff) works as a prostitute since his parents disowned him when he came out. The film deals with this graphically, there are a couple of full frontal shots of men masturbating that startled me.
- 8/30/2011
- by Megan Lehar
- The Scorecard Review
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