Discover the ’10 Rules for Sleeping Around’ in a new clip, featuring Wendi McLendon-Covey and Michael McKean, titled ‘Emma Cooney, here I come.’ The clip was released in support of the theatrical release of the romantic comedy, which Screen Media Films will distribute on April 4. Besides McLendon-Covey and McKean, ’10 Rules for Sleeping Around’ also features Jesse Bradford, Tammin Sursok, Chris Marquette and Virginia Williams. The film was written and directed by Leslie Greif, who also produced it with Harry Basil, Vince Maggio and Herb Nanas. Screen Media Films has released the following synopsis for ’10 Rules for Sleeping Around’: 10 Rules for Sleeping Around tells the wildly amusing [ Read More ]
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- 3/15/2014
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Year: 2006
Directors: Harry Basil
Writers: Jason Cleveland & Brian Clevelenad
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 5 out of 10
On the plus side, I went to a brand new horror festival on the very massive and still spooky Queen Mary cruise liner, dry docked in Long Beach, California. It’s the perfect venue for a blood fest. They even do ghost tours because the place is so haunted. On the down side, the predicable and clichéd film I watched, Fingerprints. The premise is pretty cool: urban legend has it that in the one town of Emerald, if you stop your car on the train tracks, the ghosts of dead children who got splattered there, will push your car off and leave their fingerprints. It’s all to do with dead children who play around train tracks because sometime during the 1950s a whole bunch apparently was hit by a train.
Directors: Harry Basil
Writers: Jason Cleveland & Brian Clevelenad
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: cyberhal
Rating: 5 out of 10
On the plus side, I went to a brand new horror festival on the very massive and still spooky Queen Mary cruise liner, dry docked in Long Beach, California. It’s the perfect venue for a blood fest. They even do ghost tours because the place is so haunted. On the down side, the predicable and clichéd film I watched, Fingerprints. The premise is pretty cool: urban legend has it that in the one town of Emerald, if you stop your car on the train tracks, the ghosts of dead children who got splattered there, will push your car off and leave their fingerprints. It’s all to do with dead children who play around train tracks because sometime during the 1950s a whole bunch apparently was hit by a train.
- 3/15/2009
- QuietEarth.us
A solid schedule of independent horror features will screen at the first annual Paranoia Horror Film Festival, running Friday-Sunday, March 13-15. Hosted by Miss Behavin’, the “Princess of Paranoia,” the event takes place aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA.
Among the films to be shown are such new and promising chillers as Michael Stokes’ The Beacon (pictured; see our last item here), Jason Stephens’ Necrosis (see item here), Robbie Bryan’s Imurders (see item here) and Joshua Butler’s Vlog. Also terrorizing the Paranoia Fest’s screens are recent releases like Jack Messitt’s superior Midnight Movie (see review here), Josh Eisenstadt’s Dark Reel, Harry Basil’s Fingerprints and Soul’S Midnight and David A. Prior’s Zombie Wars, along with midnight presentations of the original Friday The 13th and Evil Dead II. Christopher P. Garetano’s documentary Horror Business is also in the lineup, and scary...
Among the films to be shown are such new and promising chillers as Michael Stokes’ The Beacon (pictured; see our last item here), Jason Stephens’ Necrosis (see item here), Robbie Bryan’s Imurders (see item here) and Joshua Butler’s Vlog. Also terrorizing the Paranoia Fest’s screens are recent releases like Jack Messitt’s superior Midnight Movie (see review here), Josh Eisenstadt’s Dark Reel, Harry Basil’s Fingerprints and Soul’S Midnight and David A. Prior’s Zombie Wars, along with midnight presentations of the original Friday The 13th and Evil Dead II. Christopher P. Garetano’s documentary Horror Business is also in the lineup, and scary...
- 3/5/2009
- Fangoria
Chevy Chase returns to center screen and Bucharest backlots play Hoboken, N.J., in "Funny Money". The laugher about a meek middle manager who finds a life-changing fortune takes a while to hit its stride, but in its best stretches, it offers deliriously spirited farce. The cast, along with the promotional efforts of timeshare operator Consolidated Resorts, could entice older audiences to theaters, but the film, which never quite shakes off a flat, low-budget look, will find its true payday in video.
The animated credits that open "Money" set the tone of retro silliness for this comedy without an agenda. Chase still is game, and a perfect fit, as milquetoast Henry Perkins, a longtime employee of the Feldman Wax Fruit Co. Henry's not bitter that Feldman himself (Robert Loggia) shot down his visionary bruised-banana concept a decade earlier. He's not angry that his wife, Carol Penelope Ann Miller), mocks him in couples therapy for being a creature of habit. A sharper shrink might note a bit of projecting on her part: Repressed and proper, Carol's the sculptor of voluptuous, oversize nudes that she's afraid to submit to galleries. But however uncomplaining Henry may be, after a subway jostle with a Romanian thug makes him the possessor of a briefcase containing $5 million in cash, he doesn't hesitate for a second to plan his and Carol's getaway to distant shores.
Besides Carol's reluctance to break the rules, Henry's imminent birthday celebration complicates their would-be escape. The couple and their best friends, Vic and Gina (the well-cast Christopher McDonald, Alex Meneses), attempt to pass themselves off in fictional configurations to a couple of comical cops nipping at their heels. The ultra-slow-dawning Slater (a very funny Kevin Sussman) arrives on behalf of the NYPD to tell the inebriated Carol that her dead husband and his briefcase have been found in the East River. Armand Assante, who should do more comedy, all but steals the show as the toothpick-chewing Genero, a crooked Hoboken detective who thinks the cash-rich Henry is a male prostitute.
The comedy of errors grows more tangled as dozens of party guests pour into the Perkins townhouse, a palatial pad whose size is more a function of genre requirements than a reflection of real estate reality. There's plenty of fine comic timing and deliciously deadpan delivery on display, but not all the supporting performances are up to par. Among the central roles, Miller's drunk ditz would have been far funnier if she had started off on a quieter note. But helmer Leslie Greif lets her mug it up well before her character starts boozing it up.
Adapting Ray Cooney's London stage hit, Greif ("Keys to Tulsa") and his co-scripter, Harry Basil, keep the action light and swift-moving. But the most inspired notion here -- the idea of covering up the convoluted charade as a murder-mystery party game -- could have been mined for more laughs.
FUNNY MONEY
ThinkFilm
An FWE Picture Co. production in association with Tobebo Film Produktion GmbH & Co. KG
Credits:
Director: Leslie Greif
Screenwriters: Harry Basil, Leslie Greif
Based on the play by: Ray Cooney
Producers: Herb Nanas, Brad Siegel, Leslie Greif
Executive producers: Jeff Franklin, Philip von Alvensleben, Harry Basil, Ray Cooney
Director of photography: Bill Butler
Production designer: Stephen J. Lineweaver
Music: Andrea Morricone
Co-producers: Pat McCorkle, Peter Perotta
Costume designer: Donna Zakowska
Editors: Stephen Adrianson, Terry Kelley, Stephen Lovejoy
Cast:
Henry Perkins: Chevy Chase
Carol Perkins: Penelope Ann Miller
Genero: Armand Assante
Sol Feldman: Robert Loggia
Vic: Christopher McDonald
Gina: Alex Meneses
Detective Slater: Kevin Sussman
Angel: Guy Torry
MM Virginia: Rebecca Wisocky.
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The animated credits that open "Money" set the tone of retro silliness for this comedy without an agenda. Chase still is game, and a perfect fit, as milquetoast Henry Perkins, a longtime employee of the Feldman Wax Fruit Co. Henry's not bitter that Feldman himself (Robert Loggia) shot down his visionary bruised-banana concept a decade earlier. He's not angry that his wife, Carol Penelope Ann Miller), mocks him in couples therapy for being a creature of habit. A sharper shrink might note a bit of projecting on her part: Repressed and proper, Carol's the sculptor of voluptuous, oversize nudes that she's afraid to submit to galleries. But however uncomplaining Henry may be, after a subway jostle with a Romanian thug makes him the possessor of a briefcase containing $5 million in cash, he doesn't hesitate for a second to plan his and Carol's getaway to distant shores.
Besides Carol's reluctance to break the rules, Henry's imminent birthday celebration complicates their would-be escape. The couple and their best friends, Vic and Gina (the well-cast Christopher McDonald, Alex Meneses), attempt to pass themselves off in fictional configurations to a couple of comical cops nipping at their heels. The ultra-slow-dawning Slater (a very funny Kevin Sussman) arrives on behalf of the NYPD to tell the inebriated Carol that her dead husband and his briefcase have been found in the East River. Armand Assante, who should do more comedy, all but steals the show as the toothpick-chewing Genero, a crooked Hoboken detective who thinks the cash-rich Henry is a male prostitute.
The comedy of errors grows more tangled as dozens of party guests pour into the Perkins townhouse, a palatial pad whose size is more a function of genre requirements than a reflection of real estate reality. There's plenty of fine comic timing and deliciously deadpan delivery on display, but not all the supporting performances are up to par. Among the central roles, Miller's drunk ditz would have been far funnier if she had started off on a quieter note. But helmer Leslie Greif lets her mug it up well before her character starts boozing it up.
Adapting Ray Cooney's London stage hit, Greif ("Keys to Tulsa") and his co-scripter, Harry Basil, keep the action light and swift-moving. But the most inspired notion here -- the idea of covering up the convoluted charade as a murder-mystery party game -- could have been mined for more laughs.
FUNNY MONEY
ThinkFilm
An FWE Picture Co. production in association with Tobebo Film Produktion GmbH & Co. KG
Credits:
Director: Leslie Greif
Screenwriters: Harry Basil, Leslie Greif
Based on the play by: Ray Cooney
Producers: Herb Nanas, Brad Siegel, Leslie Greif
Executive producers: Jeff Franklin, Philip von Alvensleben, Harry Basil, Ray Cooney
Director of photography: Bill Butler
Production designer: Stephen J. Lineweaver
Music: Andrea Morricone
Co-producers: Pat McCorkle, Peter Perotta
Costume designer: Donna Zakowska
Editors: Stephen Adrianson, Terry Kelley, Stephen Lovejoy
Cast:
Henry Perkins: Chevy Chase
Carol Perkins: Penelope Ann Miller
Genero: Armand Assante
Sol Feldman: Robert Loggia
Vic: Christopher McDonald
Gina: Alex Meneses
Detective Slater: Kevin Sussman
Angel: Guy Torry
MM Virginia: Rebecca Wisocky.
Running time -- 95 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Albert S. Ruddy has a new project, Cloud Nine, about a has-been coach (Burt Reynolds) who launches a women's volleyball team with a difference: It's for strippers. Described as a "labor of love" for the Godfather producer, Cloud was co-written by Ruddy after encountering a volleyball poster during a trip to New York. Cloud will be directed by Hairy Tale helmer Harry Basil. Ruddy is reteaming with Godfather associate producer Gray Fredrickson for Cloud, with Fredrickson executive producing together with Graymark Prods. partner John Simonelli. The film will be a Graymark presentation in association with Ruddy Morgan and Frozen Films. Brett Hudson and Burt Kearns of Frozen are producing with Ruddy. The duo also co-scripted the project.
- 3/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
He's lewd, crude and rude, and he's got viewers glued to the tube. Meet Rodney Dangerfield as a trash TV icon, beloved by the masses but a bane to sponsors and his bosses. Fights, nudity and bad taste abound on his show, but this Trimark release doesn't capitalize well on the sleazy milieu.
The masses will stay away from the libidinous farce "Meet Wally Sparks". With only Dangerfield's waning appeal to recommend it, first-time feature director Peter Baldwin's unremarkable comedy is not salvaged by the few genuinely hilarious lines and routines.
"Meet Wally Sparks" is notable for the many cameos and bit players -- from Burt Reynolds to Michael Bolton to Tim Allen -- who appear as backup to 75-year-old Dangerfield, playing his familiar character, a goofy, randy, blunt jerk who drinks a lot and causes much unintentional destruction of property.
More substantial supporting chores are handled by David Ogden Stiers as the governor of Georgia, an Old Boy conservative who despises Sparks; and the governor's wife (Cindy Williams).
The threadbare plot revolves around a young fan of Sparks' inviting him to a formal party given by his father, the governor.
In need of new material and facing cancellation of his show, Sparks approaches Stiers' character under false assumptions, and comically Dangerfield gives him his best shot, including a truly inspired dance sequence.
Behind the major players, Sparks' vampish producer Debi Mazar manipulates the smitten assistant of the governor.
It's hard to imagine a film with more penis jokes and salacious banter, but the pace is slowed down by subplots that go nowhere and more than a few limp gags.
MEET WALLY SPARKS
Trimark Pictures
A Leslie Greif production
A Peter Baldwin film
Director Peter Baldwin
Producer Leslie Greif
Writers Rodney Dangerfield, Harry Basil
Co-producers Harry Basil, Elliot Rosenblatt
Production designer Bryan Jones
Costume designer Alexandra Welker
Editor Raul Davalos
Director of photography Richard Kline
Music Michel Colombier
Casting Fern Champion, Mark Paladini
Color/stereo
Cast:
Wally Sparks Rodney Dangerfield
Gov. Preston David Ogden Stiers
Sandy Debi Mazar
Emily Preston Cindy Williams
Spencer Burt Reynolds
Judge Williams Alan Rachins
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
The masses will stay away from the libidinous farce "Meet Wally Sparks". With only Dangerfield's waning appeal to recommend it, first-time feature director Peter Baldwin's unremarkable comedy is not salvaged by the few genuinely hilarious lines and routines.
"Meet Wally Sparks" is notable for the many cameos and bit players -- from Burt Reynolds to Michael Bolton to Tim Allen -- who appear as backup to 75-year-old Dangerfield, playing his familiar character, a goofy, randy, blunt jerk who drinks a lot and causes much unintentional destruction of property.
More substantial supporting chores are handled by David Ogden Stiers as the governor of Georgia, an Old Boy conservative who despises Sparks; and the governor's wife (Cindy Williams).
The threadbare plot revolves around a young fan of Sparks' inviting him to a formal party given by his father, the governor.
In need of new material and facing cancellation of his show, Sparks approaches Stiers' character under false assumptions, and comically Dangerfield gives him his best shot, including a truly inspired dance sequence.
Behind the major players, Sparks' vampish producer Debi Mazar manipulates the smitten assistant of the governor.
It's hard to imagine a film with more penis jokes and salacious banter, but the pace is slowed down by subplots that go nowhere and more than a few limp gags.
MEET WALLY SPARKS
Trimark Pictures
A Leslie Greif production
A Peter Baldwin film
Director Peter Baldwin
Producer Leslie Greif
Writers Rodney Dangerfield, Harry Basil
Co-producers Harry Basil, Elliot Rosenblatt
Production designer Bryan Jones
Costume designer Alexandra Welker
Editor Raul Davalos
Director of photography Richard Kline
Music Michel Colombier
Casting Fern Champion, Mark Paladini
Color/stereo
Cast:
Wally Sparks Rodney Dangerfield
Gov. Preston David Ogden Stiers
Sandy Debi Mazar
Emily Preston Cindy Williams
Spencer Burt Reynolds
Judge Williams Alan Rachins
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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